Roseanne: “It cost me everything.”
A defiant and sometimes rambling Roseanne Barr has given a US TV interview.
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.@therealroseanne on her initial reaction to the blowback from her controversial tweet: "The first thing was shock that they were saying it was racial, when it's political." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/gGv06LsmLO
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2018
A defiant and sometimes rambling Roseanne Barr has been interviewed on Sean Hannity’s program on FOX News in the US, proving defiant and humbled in equal parts, and said the controversial tweet that led to the cancellation of her popular ABC program was a “mistake” and “it cost me everything, my life’s work.”
But she also said the tweet was meant to express a political view, not a racial one, and insisted her intentions had been misunderstood. She offered a difficult-to-follow explanation that involved her feelings regarding former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett’s role in devising a nuclear deal with Iran. “That is a tweet asking for accountability from the previous administration about the Iran deal, which Valerie Jarrett is the author of,” she said.
.@therealroseanne on her controversial tweet: "That is a tweet about asking for accountability from the previous administration about the Iran deal, which Valerie Jarrett is the author of, and that was what was in my head.'" #Hannity pic.twitter.com/8LYOUottp0
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2018
.@therealroseanne: "Now I feel like both the left and the right have marginalized the middle, and it's just too crazy." #Hannity https://t.co/elzaLqjkzV pic.twitter.com/RLGk6Vz2Dq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2018
.@therealroseanne: "To me comedy is very personal. That's what makes it funny." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/E6PuN17Mlh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2018
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7 Responses
Sad thing is that this leads to self-censoring. Loads of people will not ever speak their own truth because they can be crucified by the media and lose everything. Barr’s comment was ill-advised and unpopular, but the penalty has been way out of proportion. Her show’s producers made it worse by pandering to the noisy twitterverse and canning the show.
You’d think 7 weeks was plenty of time to come up with a more believable excuse.
But hey, if nasty unpleasant RWNJs want to keep shooting themselves in their feet, I’m happy to let them…
I agree @star1
As a show i never liked it but i think she is a victim of the leftist Hollywood clique
No, she is a victim of her own loud mouthed racist rants. There is no way on Earth that her comments weren’t race related.
I think people are sick up and fed with people in power in Hollywood who think they can get away with doing (Weinstein) and saying (Barr) whatever they like with impunity.
1. Racism is racism. Her controversial tweet made zero mention of Iran or the nuclear deal.
2. Kathy Griffin’s career was almost killed after her political statement, and Hollywood people across the political spectrum shunned her. No different here, so the Roseanne backlash can’t simply put down to a ‘leftist’ Hollywood.
2. ABC in the US intentionally set about a Roseanne reboot to tap into the Trump-supporter audience. They clearly wanted it to work, and were delighted when it did. The fallout is all on Roseanne.