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Roseanne Barr claims she was fired by ABC because she voted for Donald Trump
SPOILER ALERT! Rosie, you were fired because no one asked for a reboot of your show and you brought negative attention to the network for your public racist antics.
Roseanne Barr announced earlier this month that, rather than risk a potentially “stressful” exchange with a member of the press, she intended on starting a YouTube channel to broadcast her views.
The 65-year-old has now delivered on that promise, releasing an “official statement” on being fired from the American sitcom Roseanne by the network ABC.
Barr claims that her racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, was not the reason she was fired. Instead, she blames her own outspoken support of Donald Trump, adding that she initially thought Jarrett was a white woman.
“When ABC called and asked me to explain my ‘egregious and unforgivable tweet,’ I told them I thought Valerie Jarrett was white,” the actor claims.
“I also said, ‘I am willing to go on The View, Jimmy Kimmel, or whatever other show you want me to go on and explain that to my audience’.
“Now, instead what happened was, about 40 minutes after that, my show was cancelled before even one advertiser pulled out and I was labelled a racist.
The actor also claims that she previously believed Valerie Jarrett ‘was white’Article via: Roseanne Barr claims she was fired by ABC because she voted for Donald Trump
Different Strokes For Different Folk: Roseanne Barr Teases TV Return
Racist Roseanne Teases TV Return: ‘I’ve Already Been Offered So Many Things’
Roseanne Barr told Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on his podcast over the weekend that she is considering a return to television and has already received several offers.
“Inside every bad thing is a good thing waiting to happen and I feel very excited because I’ve already been offered so many things and I almost already accepted one really good offer to go back on TV and I might do it. But we’ll see,” Barr said.
Roseanne Barrs sitcom “Roseanne” returned in March after a two-decade absence to enormous ratings on ABC. However, ABC abruptly canceled “Roseanne” hours after Ms. Barr, the show’s star and co-creator, posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency and considered one of his most influential aides. Ms. Barr wrote if the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
It is interesting how Barr was hired to resurrect a show I am sure not many asked for, despite her history of insensitive comments. After the racist tweets about Valerie surfaced the show was promptly snatched off the air. And after three months the entertainment industry is itching to hire her again, right after we all brutally crucified her for being racist. It seems that you can get fired on Friday for being racist and get hired again by Monday’s lunch.
Barr is friendly with the media savvy Boteach and made an emotional appearance with him shortly after being fired. Battling through tears, the comedian said she could not be more remorseful.
“I never would have wittingly called any black person . . . a monkey. I just wouldn’t do that. I didn’t do that. And people think that I did that, and it just kills me,” she said. “I’ve made myself a hate magnet.”
ABC has announced that they will keep Roseanne’s show going with the program’s main attraction and will rebrand the series as “The Conners.”
Listen to the podcast below:
https://soundcloud.com/user-642636263/episode2
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