ABC Cancels ‘Roseanne’ After Barr Sends Racist Tweet About Obama Staffer

on March 27, 2018 in New York City.
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 27: Actress Roseanne Barr speaks during SiriusXM's Town Hall with the cast of Roseanne on March 27, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
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Hours after Roseanne Barr issued a Twitter apology for making racist comments about an ex-Obama administration official, Valerie Jarrett, ABC announced Tuesday it was canceling her self-titled reboot show, “Roseanne.”

In a statement tweeted by ABC News, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey called the tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”

On Tuesday morning, Barr apologized for “making a bad joke about (Jarrett’s) politics and her looks,” after responding to a conspiracy-laden Twitter thread claiming Jarrett and the Obama administration spied on the French president.

“Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr tweeted early Tuesday morning, a clear attack on Jarrett’s race as an African-American.

The relaunch of “Roseanne,” a sitcom originally aired in the 1980s about a working class family in Illinois, was met with high ratings and criticism. The reboot episodes have been primarily focused on the tension between Roseanne, a Trump supporter, and her family. The relaunch even earned a tweet from the President.

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  1. Oh whatever will I watch in place of Roseanne whenever that show was on? Donnie tweet storm begins in 5,4,3,…

  2. Now if Barr will only disappear.

  3. Now she can become the host of Fox & Friends, which is where she belongs with the other ignorant, racist, conspiracy nuts.

  4. Hey Deplorables! If you are going to spew racist filth about a powerful black woman on your twitter account, you should probably also be aware that your boss is a powerful black woman.

  5. Sadly, lots of folks are now also out of jobs because of her racism.

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