Roseanne Barr blames God for career-ending tweet about Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett

[Michie]

Comedian Roseanne Barr recently claimed that her career-ending tweetfrom 2018 likening former Obama presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape was an idea that came to her from God.

"The way I feel about it is that God told me to do what I did, and it was a nuclear bomb," Barr said during an interview with Variety published last week.

"The day of my tweet, over 2 million Americans Googled Valerie Jarrett and the Iran deal. And that was my intent. So, whatever."

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Roseanne Barr blames God for career-ending tweet about Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett

Comedian Roseanne Barr recently claimed that her career-ending tweet from 2018 likening former Obama presidential adviser Valerie Jarret to an ape was an idea that came to her from God

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[RileyG]

Odd. I thought she was a secular Jewish woman? Oh well. She dug her own grave.

 

[Michie]

Odd. I thought she was a secular Jewish woman? Oh well. She dug her own grave.

She is but she says this here:


Barr has also been outspoken about her relationship with God, telling Tucker Carlson last year that she has been talking to him since she was a young child.

"Since I was 3 years old [...], I've had a conversation going with God," said Barr, who grew up in a Jewish home in Utah. "I wrote it in my book. You know how little kids have an imaginary friend? Well, mine was God."

Barr claimed she once confronted God with the problem of suffering, but said He responded by giving her the sense that it was her responsibility to help others.

 

[RileyG]

She is but she says this here:


Barr has also been outspoken about her relationship with God, telling Tucker Carlson last year that she has been talking to him since she was a young child.

"Since I was 3 years old [...], I've had a conversation going with God," said Barr, who grew up in a Jewish home in Utah. "I wrote it in my book. You know how little kids have an imaginary friend? Well, mine was God."

Barr claimed she once confronted God with the problem of suffering, but said He responded by giving her the sense that it was her responsibility to help others.

Why, that’s nice! Thanks for sharing

 

[Michie]

She also said this:


"I was already having nightmares about never going back to that show, and God woke me up," Barr said. "I had my laptop there in bed, as always, and I opened it, and there was [an X post with] a picture of Valerie Jarrett next to Helena Bonham Carter in full makeup as Ari in 'Planet of the Apes,' and they looked like Xerox copies of each other, so I captioned it."

"This was in the middle of my three-month conversations with journalists in Iran who were telling me about the loss of women's rights there due to the Iran deal. And I was irate," Barr added, referencing the Iranian-born Jarrett's role in the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal, of which President Donald Trump has been heavily critical.

Barr quote-tweeted the meme that night, writing, "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj." She was inundated with accusations of racism but has denied allegations that she was likening black people to monkeys with her tweet.

Barr apologized at the time and said she was unaware Jarrett was black; she maintained to Variety that she was trying to make a political point. She also pushed back against Disney CEO Bob Iger, who reportedly approved of her firing.

"They were so racist that they thought my tweet said black people look like monkeys when it was about 'Planet of the Apes,' which is a movie about fascism," Barr said of her critics. "[Planet of the Apes writer] Rod Serling himself said it's about the Jews in Germany. It is not a movie about black people, Bob [Iger]."

 

[RileyG]

I remember that. I think she stated she was on ambien at the time.

 

[ozso]

I remember that. I think she stated she was on ambien at the time.

Yep and the response from the makers was something like 'racism is not a side effect of Ambien'.