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Roseanne Spinoff Coming to ABC, Without Roseanne Barr, of Course
Looks like ABC is not about to let the Roseanne revival die, even after its titular star, in a state of allegedly Ambien-fueled racism, sent out a tweet describing former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes. According to the Associated Press, the canceled…
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Roseanne Barr Says She Begged ABC to Let Her ‘Make Amends’
Roseanne Barr just can’t stay away from Twitter, but it makes sense that she has to find something to spend her time on nowadays since she’s out of a job. In a series of now-deleted tweets, Barr explained how she was in full grovel mode with ABC executives when it came to trying to keep…
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I’d Feel Bad for Those Fired Because of Roseanne’s Racism if They Didn’t Get Hired Because of Roseanne’s Racism
For the past few days I have been searching throughout my house for a fuck to give about the people who lost their jobs because of Roseanne Barr’s antics. I looked in each of the closets in each of our bedrooms. I looked in the fridge. I looked in the basement. I looked in between…
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Roseanne Train Wreck Raises Issues of Race in TV Coverage
In the fallout over ABC’s cancellation of “Rosanne” over star Rosanne Barr’s racist tweet, much of the commentary congratulatory, some critics raised a challenging question: How can the media cater to red-state voters without mainstreaming the racism that too many of them embrace? “What is America going to do about the normalization of racism?” (video)…
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Valerie Jarrett Was Called an Ape and Roseanne Barr Lost Her Job, but the Real Victim Here Is Trump
It took Roseanne Barr a little more than 60 days to destroy the reboot of her ABC show by simply being herself. Roseanne has been, and continues to be, a riled-up, white-supremacist-leaning, conspiracy-theorist-loving, “Make America Great America”-hat-wearing troll on Twitter. We all know the drill by now: Roseanne tweeted some really vile and racist shit…
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Ambien Manufacturer Responds to Roseanne Barr for Blaming Her Racism on Its Drug [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 10:15 a.m. EDT: Earlier this morning, The Root reached out to drug manufacturer Sanofi, the company behind Ambien, to ask what it thought about the fact that Roseanne Barr blamed her racism on its sleep aid. Ashleigh Koss, head of media relations, had this to say: People of all races,…
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ABC Cancels Roseanne After Racist Tweet [Updated]
Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 3:08 p.m. EDT: And Roseanne Barr has been dropped by her talent agency! Earlier: Looks like Roseanne Barr is out of a job after getting the boot from ABC. The network canceled her show, Roseanne, after Barr send out a tweet comparing former presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape.…
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Wanda Sykes Says She’s Not Returning to Roseanne After Roseanne Barr Racist Twitter Tirade
On the heels of yet another racist rant from Roseanne Barr, comedian Wanda Sykes, a consulting producer on Roseanne, says that she will not be returning. On Tuesday, Barr compared former presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes monkey and someone from the Muslim Brotherhood; she eventually issued an apology after facing…
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