It’s clear, though, that Barr’s social media habits were a sore point. Her social media past includes a racist tweet about former national security adviser Susan Rice and support for conspiracy theories like "pizzagate.” On the same night as her Jarrett tweet, she posted a false claim about Chelsea Clinton that Clinton refuted.ĪBC executives were not discussing their thought processes on Wednesday. Questionable actions date back to a cringe-worthy, crotch-grabbing rendition of the national anthem in 1990 a claim, later recanted, that she was an incest survivor and the 2009 picture reprinted on the Daily News. Yet many saw a disturbing pattern being followed instead of a joke. "One stupid joke in a lifetime of fighting 4 civil rights 4 all minorities, against networks, studios, at the expense of my nervous system/family/wealth will NEVER be taken from me.”
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"I’m not a racist, I never was & I never will be,” she wrote Wednesday. She apologized to those who had lost their jobs because of her action, but also condemned cast members who threw her under the bus, in her words.
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On social media, Barr wrote that what she said was indefensible, then retweeted several statements others made supporting her. President Donald Trump, noting in a tweet that Robert Iger, chief executive of ABC’s parent Walt Disney Co., had called Jarrett to apologize, wondered why ABC hadn’t apologized for "HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC.” That led the drug maker Sanofi to say on social media that "racism is not a known side effect” of their product. ABC canceled its successful reboot of "Roseanne” on Tuesday following her racist tweet likening former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Planet of the Apes” actor.īarr continued tweeting on Wednesday, at one point saying the offending tweet was composed at 2 a.m.
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Given Barr’s past incidents of bad behavior and questionable social media posts, ABC faced questions Wednesday about why it went back into business with her before it all blew apart. Roseanne Barr has a lengthy list of questionable actions, other racist remarks and downright lies.Īn old picture of Roseanne Barr dressed as Adolf Hitler, wearing a swastika and pulling burnt cookies from an oven, splashed on the front of the New York Daily News Wednesday like a neon sign asking ABC executives: What were you thinking?