Roseanne Barr Breaks Down While Explaining Her Racist Tweet: 'I've Lost Everything'

[babylonsister]

Two words: womp womp

Roseanne Barr Breaks Down While Explaining Her Racist Tweet: 'I've Lost Everything'
[Entertainment Tonight]
Tina Smithers Peckham?
Entertainment TonightJune 24, 2018


Roseanne Barr broke down in tears during a podcast interview posted on Saturday, as she apologized for her racist tweet that resulted in the cancellation of her hit television show, Roseanne.

Calling in to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast, the 65-year-old comedian reflected on her Jewish values and expressed deep remorse over her damaging social media post regarding former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

“God, it’s really hard to say all of this,” Barr started.. “I didn’t mean what they think I meant, and that’s what’s so painful. But I have to face that this hurt people -- and when you hurt people, even unwittingly, there’s no excuse, so I don’t want to blabber off on excuses. I apologize to anyone who felt offended and thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean to my own ignorance.”

The former Roseanne star stated that she definitely feels "remorse" for her post that likened Jarrett to a child of “Muslim brotherhood” and “Planet of the Apes,” before audibly breaking down in tears. She also said she didn't know Jarrett was a black woman.

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[muntrv]

1. Thoughts and prayers.

[snacker]

16. LOL

Perfect!

[TheBlackAdder]

48. Roseanne, where's your GOP buddies now, bailing you out, like they did with Ayn Rand?

.

Oh, that's right!

While you coddled and sucked up to them, they'll cut you loose the second you become a burden to them.

To the New Conservatives, it's dog eat dog. So it means you're fucked, just like they bailed on helping Ayn Rand!

.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

60. Lorona! [Damn cry baby!] ..and tne refugees they have nothing,,risk their lives

...their children taken from them...cry about that!

[bearsfootball516]

2. Womp womp.

[uponit7771]

22. +1

[LenaBaby61]

26. "Womp womp."

THIS ^^^^

[Glimmer of Hope]

45. It is the never ending gift.

Womp womp.

[ProudLib72]

3. You must have compassion!

There but for the grace of God (and not taking lots of Ambien and not having a racist predilection)...

[DURHAM D]

4. She is still lying.

What a total shit head.

[RKP5637]

5. Ohhhh, I'm so sad for her!

NOT!!! She strikes out and makes stupid racist remarks, she's getting what she deserves. She needs to feel it on herself for a change. How's it feel, Roseanne ... to get your own shit thrown in your face. She probably misses the $$$$$'s too. Hopefully, she's going to experience a lot of missed future opportunities. I also see her sadness and regrets as total BS.

[brush]

47. She's toast and is starting to realize it. In a couple of years it'll be...

Roseanne who?

She's in Michael Richards territory now.

[Croney]

6. I really don't care, do U?

[LenaBaby61]

29. "I really don't care, do U?"

[llmart]

82. That meme is going to be used against the trump lovers.

Thanks, Melanie! In the upcoming elections, this will be one hell of a line in TV ads.

[sheshe2]

7. Ah Rose, ya meant all you said.

You just havin' a sad for being called out for it. Not your first time spewing your shit. Sad.

[Wounded Bear]

8. "I apologize to those who felt offended"...

Some real empathy there, little miss victim.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Please accept my sincere condolences,

now *uck off

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Roseanne needs mental health

intervention in a major way.

[hlthe2b]

13. Agree... It is hard to feel anything but contempt, but I do think she has mental health issues.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Aronold mentioned posible Bi-Polar issues.

[marylandblue]

54. Ambien is used for anxiety and sleep

But if she is taking enough to affect her judgement and still tweeting at 2:00 AM, she is likely abusing it.

[mucifer]

11. Wait 5 minutes and she will change her tune. She does that.

[JI7]

12. How about all the other things ?

[RockRaven]

14. This is some Grade-A bulls*t... she didn't know Jarrett was black? Give me a break.

How is a reference to Planet of the Apes anything but a purely incoherent non sequitur *unless the speaker knows Jarrett is black*? Am I supposed to believe that Roseanne's tweets are written by a random text generator? Nope. Or maybe Planet of the Apes contains some particularly relevant sociopolitical message which makes a mashup with the Muslim Brotherhood a very wonky and incisive joke? I think not. Gimme a break.

She's doing a Trump -- throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. On the off chance that something DOES stick, run with that one as if it was your story all along, ignoring the other stories you also provided.

[msongs]

15. she still has breath. isnt that worth something? nt

[flibbitygiblets]

39. And a bunch of $$$. Oh, and the momentary support of one Tronald J. Dump.

Although now that she doesn't have a hit show, he'll forget her name like all his other disposable acolytes, eventually.

[Different Drummer]

18. My violin is so small, I'm having trouble finding it. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

19. Whatever Roseanne. You've been tweeting crap like this for awhile now.

So give it up. Supporting Trump is hazardous to your career, as it should be.

[Voltaire2]

20. Lying sack of shit.

She went right back on Twitter after her first ambien made may say fascist shit non apology and dove right back into the fascist talking points.

She is caught up in the qanon conspiracy horseshit and spews their nonsense. Plus didn’t she attack Jarrett before? Oh wait no- she called Susan Rice an ape.

Sorry. She’s sorry she lost her show.

[NY_20th]

21. She still doesn't get it.

That's still not an apology, but an excuse.

[stonecutter357]

23. Roseanne Barr is a racist for ∞ ∞ ∞ !

[gulliver]

24. She seems to be doing all the right things to deserve forgiveness.

She apologized, expressed what appears to be sincere remorse, and has tried to make up for it. For one thing, she didn't stand in the way of ABC rebooting the Roseanne show as "The Conners" without her financial or creative involvement. That was big of her, in my opinion. It saved a lot of people's jobs.

[NY_20th]

32. I can't give her credit for not standing in the way of the reboot.

Why would she? It would make her look even worse than she does now.

[tavernier]

66. Let's say for the sake of argument

that she was sincere, isn’t racist, was misunderstood. But she also said that she is not stupid. So she has to understand that by supporting the most corrupt administration ever, by emulating a man who IS a racist, a liar, a thief, she will also be judged.

I love your gulliver user name... I just hope it isn’t mistaken as gullible. Trump supporters know damn well who he is and what he stands for. They don’t all live in a Fox News vacuum. They don’t mind that thousands of brown children will be orphans, or that our planet won’t be livable in fifty years, or that America is no longer the most admired and respected country in the world. They only want a white nation led by a big mouth bully, because that makes them feel tough.

[bigtree]

76. she still doesn't understand what she did wrong

...or worse, just refuses to acknowledge it.

The excuse she's shopping around - I didn't think it was offensive, I still don't think what I said was offensive - is designed to keep a cushion between her ass and the floor.

It's clearly not contrition, and it leans on another unbelievable dodge - she didn't know the person she called a member of the Muslim Brotherhood was black. It strains credulity to the point of insult.

[Initech]

25. Should have thought of that before you sent it. Womp womp.

[tenderfoot]

27. What I don't get about her is how you go from Green Party/Bernie to Trumpism

How does a 180° happen like that?

[DURHAM D]

31. Horseshoe Theory

[Dawson Leery]

28. Thoughts and Prayers.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

30. Better you than us

on losing everything.

[liberal N proud]

33. I really don't care

[WhiteTara]

34. womp womp

boo hoo you nasty racist. You deserve your karma.

[oasis]

35. Take a deep breath Rose, and take another sip of Kool-Aid.

That'll snap you back into action.

[Gothmog]

36. This idiot has been a racist for a very long time

This was not an isolated incident

[JustAnotherGen]

37. Ha!

[Grassy Knoll]

38. Awe, Poor Thing...

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

40. COULD SOMEONE PLS EXPLAIN THE JOKE TO ME - whatwas supposed to be funny? I mean lets assume that RB

really didnt know that Jarrett was black - what does "Planet of the Apes" represent except.... apes? Im just not getting what the reference to apes is supposed to mean.... unless she was in fact referring to a black person????

"I didnt mean what they think I meant." Well then, what DID you mean??? If she would explain it in any way that makes sense maybe Id listen.

[BumRushDaShow]

71. The only bizarre convoluted twisted possibility might be

that if you recall, Kim Hunter played the chimp character "Zira" who was a scientist & vet who studied humans -



(oh geez, can't believe it's the 50th anniversary of that original film - I remember seeing it in the movies )

I expect her reference is to the original set vs the reboots, given her age... but it's a common RW meme to reference that movie and blacks in general - although one undercurrent of that series was that it suggested racial analogies with the 3 "common" races using 3 "common" primates - i.e., "chimps = whites", "gorillas = blacks", "orangutans = asians".

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

72. Thanks that helps ("common rw meme" re: blacks -aha I thought so) nt

[LiberalFighter]

41. Boo Hoo on her breaking down -- Bullshit not knowing Jarrett a black woman.

[Kittycow]

42. I'm pretty sure she's still a millionaire, so there's that.

Also if her Tweets are archived from years back, I bet one could dig up remarks racially demeaning Valerie Jarrett. If they haven't seen wiped clean, that is.

at her credibility.

[Raster]

43. Oh, Roseanne... you're a lying sack of shit...

...you knew very well what you were inferring. And your Jewish values??? Seriously, weren't you the one dressed in Adolph Hitler drag -swastikas and a Hitler mustache- putting gingerbread men in the oven?

Bye, Roseanne.

[lindysalsagal]

44. I'm sure all 4 people who heard that podcast are tremendously relieved to hear she's remorseful.

How brave of her.....not.

[KentuckyWoman]

46. Cry me a river.

And find me a violin.

She can go sit in the corner with the other haters.

[frogmarch]

49. "I didn't mean..."

Yeah, right. Liar.

[dalton99a]

50. Her net worth in 2018 is approximately $80 million.

Cry me a fucking river

[Blue Owl]

51. Tough shit, Toots

n/t

[lpbk2713]

52. Accountability can be a real pisser.

I can't wait till Trump gets his.

[nolabear]

53. She didn't lose it. She threw it away.

[struggle4progress]

55. Roseanne Barr ... Roseanne Barr ... Trying to remember who she is ...

Isn't she that lady who calls the police whenever she sees a black family barbecuing or a black kid selling lemonade?

[ooky]

56. Good Roseanne, now go away

into retirement, forever, never to be heard from again. The world is not about you.

[Heartstrings]

57. A bigly womp womp!

[Goodheart]

58. This podcast shows that despite her Planet of the Apes fiasco she can actually be funny at times!

[Wednesdays]

59. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Now, please move on to your well-deserved obscurity.

[Renew Deal]

61. The problem with the Rosanne story is that she is a well known public racist

It was her shtick. She’s been a crank for years.

[Thekaspervote]

62. She qualified her apology so eloquently!

She’s only remorseful because she”lost everything” she’d still be out there blow blowing her fat chops with hateful rhetoric if she had gotten away with it. trumpers .. never change

[Tarheel_Dem]

63. A Hollywood "actress" managed to cry on cue. Bravo!

[VOX]

64. Why the fu** are liberals stuck with the "snowflake" label?

#45 does nothing but complain, yell and whine; his devotees all perpetually cry that they're victims of some kind. Fox talking heads ALL DAY EVERY DAY regurgitate a foul but addictive soup of "your rights are being taken away" and "the real criminals are: the Clintons, the Obamas, and (GASP!) George Soros," etc., etc., ad nauseam.

So why are liberals/progressives/Democrats called "snowflakes"? We're ENRAGED, not crying about every goddamned thing. It's not our fault that the Republican president is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic, incredibly self-absorbed, culturally tone-deaf moron. The Trumpists wanted him, and more by crook than by hook, they got him. And they cry that the mean-old-Marxist-socialist-Democrat (sic) Party is ruining "their" feckless leader's chance for a transformational presidency. Which is precisely what HAS to be stopped. It's killing us already.

And once again, the Democrats have to come in as the clean-up detail, and straighten out all the Republican mess, which takes years. But "snowflakes"? Since fucking WHEN?

[Vinca]

65. Great post! You're exactly right.

[Initech]

75. I've been wondering that as well.

Did you see yesterday when conservatives got their underwear in a wad over Maxine Waters suggesting that the Trump administration is going to see more of what happened to Sarah Sanders in the future? And we're the snowflakes? Give me a fucking break!

[vercetti2021]

67. Karma sucks

[JHB]

68. Deeds not words, Rosanne

Let's see what the next year brings, then we'll talk.

[Tarc]

69. I ALMOST feel sympathy and think/hope she's coming around, but not quite

It would be entirely dependent on what her future actions are. Her twitter feed at the moment is full of Clinton Derangement Syndrome screeching and anti-immigrant memes, so it's not encouraging.

[Dave Starsky]

70. I haven't seen anything remotely sincere from her.

When she formally renounces the Orange Demon and his infernal policies in a national forum, I'll consider feeling some sympathy for her. In the meantime, she shares the opinions of a substantial percentage of this country who wants me and several million other people in this country either deported or dead.

Roseanne can continue to fuck right off, as far as I'm concerned. Her tens of millions of dollars will provide her a lifetime of bon-bons that she eat in bed all day while enjoying Fox News.

[Initech]

73. This is why Twitter needs an "are you sure?" button before posting.

[bigtree]

74. it's the exact same thing she got canned for

...she just can't believe there's a permanent stain on her reputation.

She wants MAGA. She would, if she could, turn back the clock to an era where you could talk this way with impunity.

She should be forgiven for thinking she could slur and skate as well as our president.

[MontanaMama]

77. Boooohooooooo

The nazii is having a sad. 😭

[Civic Justice]

78. They only apologize to try and stop the "hurt to their pocketbook"...

if there was no financial loss, they'd not apologize for anything, we know that to be true from the long history of what they said and did during Jim Crow Segregation, when there was no financial penalty or financial loss.

[ecstatic]

79. Bad acting. Maybe FOX "news" will hire her. And it will

be evident, fairly quickly, that she meant every word she said.

[LyndaG]

80. Not the first time

She also made a racist crack about Susan Rice.

[Orsino]

81. (She's keeping the money.) n/t