The Latest: Barr unleashes new tweetstorm hours after firing

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Source: AP/Yahoo

Roseanne Barr has returned to Twitter and told people not to feel sorry for her while also highlighting supporters' tweets that attacked ABC and others.

Barr's tweetstorm late Tuesday evening came hours after ABC announced it was canceling the reboot of her show "Roseanne" over a racist tweet that referred to former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes."

In the post-firing tweet, Barr apologized to "all the wonderful writers (all liberal) and talented actors who lost jobs on my show due to my stupid tweet."

She then retweeted supporters' statements attacking ABC's hiring of Keith Olbermann, who has harshly criticized President Donald Trump, and a meme that placed Jarrett's photo side-by-side with a "Planet of the Apes" actor.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-abc-cancels-roseanne-stars-racist-tweet-181203463.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Thus sealing the franchise into a tomb of its own making

forever. We don’t miss you, and sorry the door hit ya on the way out, but maybe you shouldn’t have been backing up as it closed.

[jmowreader]

2. Didn't she say she was "leaving" Twitter?

[syringis]

15. Hi Jmowreader

Did you really take her words at face value ?

Dumbassette is like her master : untrustworthy

[jmowreader]

23. It reminds me of a Rotten Johnny joke...

...in which it seems Rotten Johnny wanted some paper to write a letter to Santa, and his mom told him the truth:

"Johnny, you've been so bad this year Santa is going to fly right by. You'd be better off writing to Baby Jesus."

With paper and pencil in hand, Johnny sits down at the kitchen table and writes:

"Dear Baby Jesus, I want lots of presents for Christmas and I promise to be good all year."

You can't lie to Baby Jesus and there's no way Johnny would make it a year without being bad, so he starts again:

"Dear Baby Jesus, I want lots of presents for Christmas and I promise to be good for a whole month."

He started again several more times. Johnny realized "I promise to be good for a whole minute" wasn't going to get him many presents, so he took a different tack.

Johnny went to the living room, where his mom had the Nativity scene set up on an end table. He carefully picked up the Madonna and took her to his room. He packed the little figurine in t-shirts, put it in a box, and buried the box under all the stuff in his closet. Then he went back to the kitchen table...

"Dear Baby Jesus, if you ever want to see your mother again..."

One has to forget that Roseanne got WORSE after her self-imposed three-hour exile from Twitter. I'm kinda expecting her to tweet the Mrs. Hitler the Happy Homefuehrer picture.

[Docreed2003]

34. Such a great joke and totally appropriate!!

[SeattleVet]

16. Well, yes, she did...

but now she has a LOT more free time, so it looks like she started again.

[jcgoldie]

30. She meant...

...until she got drunk.

[LuvNewcastle]

36. That's what I think.

She's loaded, just like she probably was when she made that first comment. She might have been on Ambien, but she was washing it down with a double martini. We might see her in rehab soon, although I doubt rehab would do her much good.

[Achilleaze]

31. She's a whiney repube, so of course she lied about Twitter

as everyone has learned to expect of republicans, she goes no where near truth

[flibbitygiblets]

3. She's a walking advertisement for anti-psychotic medication.

New pharmaceutical TV ad:

"Do you have frequent mood swings and launch into racist tirades for absolutely no reason? Maybe it's time you talked to your doctor about Dumbassa. Side effects may include cohesive, non-racist speech patterns, and support for Democratic candidates."

[orleans]

9. love it! :) n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. Incoming lawsuits

She may want to keep her racist mouth shut.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Now she is saying that Ambien fueled her Twitter rant.

It is supposed to make you sleep and is some instances can cause you to "sleep walk" and not remember your actions. This did happen to me the first time I took it but I doubt this was the case with Roseanne. She obviously remembers exactly what she did and was completely aware of what she was doing.

"Guys I did something unforgiveable so do not defend me. It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible [sic]. I made a mistake I wish I hadn’t but…don’t defend it please,” she also tweeted.
https://people.com/tv/roseanne-barr-breaks-silence-after-shows-cancellation-ambien/

[.99center]

6. What's her excuse for defending her racist comment

Moments before she tweeted the apology you quoted? Is she still intoxicated?

[BigmanPigman]

7. If she took Ambien she would be snoozing right now, not tweeting.

Total BS and no one is buying it.

[thesquanderer]

32. Twitter Tourette's? Roseanne Barr Syndrome? (n/t)

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Suuuurre you racist POS.

[Honeycombe8]

8. ABC didn't hire Olbermann. ESPN hired him. ABC owns ESPN, but not the same thing.

ESPN is independent in management, I would think. AND Olbermann is in a guest sportscaster position. AND Olbermann never called a black woman the offspring of an ape, which is taken out of the old book of the KKK.

Conservatives are always stretching the truth to liken their horrible behavior with that of those on the left. Sure, there are wacky, inappropriately behaving lefties. But for the most part, they stick to truth (truth favors them), and the funny pics and statements aren't like the ones like Roseanne used. Dems' funny pics are just, well, funny pics...making fun of Trump hair, double chins, weight, and such. Nothing serious that strikes at the heart of an entire race.

[orleans]

10. yeah, that's what i thought

so i just googled.

sports.

figures.

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/05/keith_olbermann_espn_sportscenter.html

[Honeycombe8]

11. Yeah. Not the same thing. Altho he CAN be controversial...but his job is not to

make political opinion statements. But we'll see how long that lasts...he may be able to do it.

[grantcart]

13. Seinfeld and Patton had a funny exchange about it on Comedians/Coffee/Cars

SEINFELD: Let me ask you this question: When you watch Keith Olbermann now, doing a wrap up of a baseball game, after being this insane political demagogue. And I like Olbermann, but this career move is a pretty funny one to me.”

OSWALT: It’s beyond lateral — it’s sideways reversal. He was all but calling out the commander-in-chief to step down, and now he’s saying --

SEINFELD: You can’t take a lead that big off of second in the seventh inning, with the same energy.

OSWALT: Imagine driving a car 90 mph, then just throwing it in reverse to see what happens. That's what he's doing. (via Mediaite)

[Throck]

14. You want the bad news?

Now she has the time to run for Congress. David Duke as her campaign manager.

[John Fante]

17. My goodness.

"She then retweeted... a meme that placed Jarrett's photo side-by-side with a "Planet of the Apes" actor."

[Cha]

19. And, I give you this pic..

Link to tweet

[Scarsdale]

27. What a great photo!

Two highly intelligent, responsible people relaxing for a few moments. How I miss having SMART people in government. If tRump tried this, it would take at least 4 men to hoist his fat orange arse up of the steps.

[onetexan]

18. Must've not taken her meds

If I recall correctly she is bipolar and has multiple personality disorder. She's as crazy as the idiot is.

[BigmanPigman]

20. She said that smoking pot remedies those disorders/issues.

I doubt any legit doctor would suggest that smoking weed would improve her moods and actions if she really does have these issues. She is spewing more BS, like Ambien fueled her racist tweets.

"I'm bipolar and have ADHD and multiple-personality disorder - but they're all now in remission due to the powerful drugs I smoke."

http://www.bostonherald.com/inside_track/celebrity_news/2014/11/25_things_you_dont_know_about_me_roseanne_barr

[SunSeeker]

24. She sounds like a garden variety racist asshole to me.

[Scarsdale]

28. It was just a matter

of time before the real Roseanne showed up. Once the orange mistake was placed into the WH by Russia, then she felt free to "be herself" I doubt any of this came as a shock to the people who have worked with her over the years. Racism this ingrained can not be hidden.

[cannabis_flower]

33. Smoking marijuana

does not make you racist!

[olddad56]

21. She hasn't been relevant since, well, forever.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. I thought she was gonna "quit Twitter".

Just like her baby-crap-colored hero, she has to compulsively spew what's in her addled brain.

[sakabatou]

25. Cry me a river, Barr

[Sam McGee]

26. Not only was her show canceled . . .

I read on several sources that her re-runs have been dropped from the cable channels that were showing her old shows.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Yes - all original series syndicated re-runs are pulled.

Depending on how the original contract was written up, she may have been getting a share of residuals for their broadcast and if they are pulled, there goes that money.

[Flaleftist]

35. I must have missed something. What did Olbermann do

that was comparable to comparing a black person to an ape?