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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump acolyte Roseanne Barr regrets apologizing to Valerie Jarrett for saying she looks like an ape
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On Thursday evening, the renowned comedienne addressed the tweet seen round the world during a live podcast taping with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at Stand Up NY, an intimate comedy club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
When Boteach, a friend of Barrs, asked her, You apologized to [Jarrett] because youd recognized that you had wronged her. Is that right? the comic refused to play along.
Well, I recognize that she thinks I wronged her, replied Barr. Im sorry that anyone thought that that was a racist and not a political tweet, because it was in fact a political tweet and not a racist tweet whatsoever. I can talk about it till Im blue in the face and theyre never going to accept it, and I accept that.
She continued, All my friends said, your mistake was to apologize to the Left because when they see blood in the water, theyre going to come until youre dead. And I think thats kind of true.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/roseanne-barr-regrets-apologizing-to-valerie-jarrett-it-was-not-a-racist-tweet
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)In case anyone was wondering if Roseanne had been treated too harshly, I think this clears it up nicely. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
brush
(53,764 posts)She's had multiple chances in life.
She blew the last one.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Her lil show was like a pebble in the ocean to their bottom line. She crossed the Mouse and lost bigly.
Initech
(100,061 posts)helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)so she said what she thought people wanted her to say.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Gotten so you can't even compare black people to apes. What a world, huh? And if you were to hang them from a tree for being uppity, the police would arrest YOU!
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)Which I would venture a guess is trump'd and one other "person", who knows she can't have many.
James Wood?
Dennis Miller?
Kelsey Grammer?
Who knows, or who F'ing cares!
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)She wouldn't know sincerity if it bit her in her ample ass.
Which is why she can change her POV at the drop of a hat.
delisen
(6,042 posts)A "political" tweet about people looking like apes??? Well I guess that is what substitutes for political discourse if one does not know anything about political facts and can't communicate anything meaningful.
I think Roseanne feels that she herself is unattractive, which is sad. That, combined with need to stay in the news and save a career and a strange tweet is born.