Roseanne Barr yells about Valerie Jarrett tweet in bizarre interview
ROSEANNE Barr spoke out relatively unapologetically about the vile Valerie Jarrett tweet that got her Roseanne reboot cancelled, saying, “I thought the b**ch was white!”
In a video posted to Barr’s YouTube page, a slightly dishevelled Barr, 65, smokes a cigarette while talking to a producer about a previous video that was thoroughly edited.
WARNING: Explicit language
After a loud groan, an agitated Barr lashes out at her interviewer when asked about her now-notorious tweet in which she claimed the former Barack Obama adviser was a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.
“I’m trying to talk about Iran! I’m trying to talk about Valerie Jarrett about the Iran deal,” Barr roars in the clip.
“That’s what my tweet was about. I thought the b**ch was white, goddammit. I thought the b**ch was white. F**k!”
The tweet got the Roseanne reboot cancelled on May 29, after which Barr was initially extremely contrite and blamed Ambien for her scathing commentary.
Barr previously claimed that her tweet was a commentary on anti-Semitism, writing, “Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes. It was about anti-Semitism. That is what my tweet referred to — the anti Semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want.”
She also said her tweet was “insensitive” but “not racist.”
In late June, Barr told Rabbi Shmuley Boteach that she made herself into a “hate magnet” with her unhinged tweets, which also included calling George Soros a Nazi.
She’s since apologised to Soros.
“I said to God, ‘I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I’ve done wrong. I’m going to accept what the consequences are,’ and I do, and I have.’ But they don’t ever stop. They don’t accept my apology, or explanation. And I’ve made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it’s just horrible. It’s horrible,” she said on the podcast.
She added that her tweets “didn’t mean what they think I meant … But I have to face that it hurt people. When you hurt people even unwillingly there’s no excuse. I don’t want to run off and blather on with excuses”.
“But I apologise to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean,” Roseanne said.
“It was my own ignorance, and there’s no excuse for that ignorance.”
“I’ve lost everything,” Barr lamented at the time.
“And I regretted it before I lost everything.”
After the outrage, ABC greenlit a 10-episode Conner family sitcom without Barr in it. The show is set to air within months.
