Roseanne Barr is a despicable human being. She is an unapologetic Trumpanzee who seems to believe that Israel can do no wrong, no matter how brutally it treats Palestinians. She has posted virulently Islamphobic and anti-Palestinian tweets in the past, though one of her recent television shows hinted that that she may have somewhat modified her extremist views. However, those expecting Barr to be a decent human being based on that show were shocked when she showed her true racism by tweeting that Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama who is Black, was the love child between the Muslim Brotherhood and an ape from the Planet of the Apes.
One despicable smear in one day was not enough for Roseanne. She then libeled George Soros by tweeting that he was a Nazi who helped murder Jews during World War II. This heinous lie would cause revulsion in any decent person, so naturally Donald Trump Jr. retweeted it. As Mikel Jollett notes in his tweet, Soros was only 2 when Dachau opened. And he was only 15 when the Germans were defeated.
Here is the President's son retweeting Roseanne Barr's *debunked conspiracy theory about George Soros and Nazis.
*Soros was 2 when Dachau opened. pic.twitter.com/jWaKbLKWFR— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May 29, 2018
Fortunately, ABC responded quickly to her outrageous tweets by canceling her show and her agent, ICM Partners, dropped her as a client. But this is not the first time Roseanne has acted despicably. Roseanne blocked me on Twitter in 2015 when I called her out for another outrageous tweet.
Why Roseanne Blocked Me On Twitter
On February 10, 2015 after two Jewish groups were targeted with hate crimes at UC Davis and after UC Davis students voted to join the BDS movement, Roseanne Barr tweeted "I hope all the jews leave UC Davis & then it gets nuked!" She deleted the tweet, but you can see reports about it here and here and here.
The next day she tweeted her (rightful) shock and disgust at the shooting of three Muslims at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I noticed the discrepancy of the tweets and gently prodded her about the inconsistency in her logic. It looks like she deleted most of her tweets from around this time. Fortunately, I had saved a snapshot of my exchange with her.
And that is all it took for her to ban me.
There is one other incident involving Roseanne worth mentioning now that Donald Trump has called on the NFL to fire football players who protest police brutality by kneeling during the National Anthem. Trump hates these players so much that he has even suggested that be deported. Yet Trump didn't seem to hold the fact that Roseanne Barr spat on the ground after she butchered the National Anthem in 1990 against her when he praised her television show and its high ratings. To be fair to Roseanne, the Star Spangled Banner is an almost impossible song to sing and I couldn't sing it much better than she did. But spitting on the ground immediately after her debacle showed nothing but contempt for the flag.
Update: 2/1/2022: I did not include a snapshot of my exchange with Barr in the original article. I found the snapshot when reviewing my files and revised this article accordingly.
