Roseanne Barr Thinks ABC Fired Her Because She Voted For Trump
Roseanne Barr posted a bizarre pair of videos to her personal YouTube channel Friday, both addressing the controversy surrounding her racist tweet about Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett. Her cancelled ABC show will return without Barr in the fall, now titled The Conners.
In the first video, a fed-up seeming Barr talks to a member of her off-camera crew, interrupting him to shout, "I’m trying to talk about Iran, Valerie Jarrett wrote the Iran deal!"
"That’s what my tweet was about," she huffs, before screaming, "I thought the bitch was white, goddammit!"
The video's caption reads that Barr "cuts through the bullshit and gets the heart of the matter," which is certainly one way to describe her outburst.
Barr posted a second video later in the day in which she reiterated her official statement on the incident. She says that she recorded the videos in her own studio in order to circumvent the "filter of the biased media."
Barr complains that her show was "cancelled before even one advertiser pulled out," and that she was "labeled a racist." Barr has a history of racist statements that predates her comment on Jarret, including a 2013 tweet in which she called Obama official Susan Rice a "a man with big swinging ape balls." Still, in the video Barr insists that she was fired because she "voted for Donald Trump, and that is not allowed in Hollywood."
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