When a Twitter user told Barr that her tweet was offensive and racist – Jarrett is African American – Barr responded by writing: “Muslims r NOT a race.” Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.- Roseanne Barr 29, 2018 I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. Roseanne Barr: A disaster waiting to happen.‘Roseanne’ spinoff show created – without Roseanne Barr.Roseanne Barr goes on YouTube rant, says support for Trump led to dismissal.Forgive me – my joke was in bad taste.”īarr said she would quit Twitter and also deleted the tweet.īarr was replying to a post from a user that accused Jarrett, a long-serving adviser to the president, of covering up the Obama administration’s alleged “misdeeds”. “I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. The sitcom actor said: ”I apologise to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” Barr tweeted. Barr wrote “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” using Jarrett’s initials.īarr (65) earlier apologised after she had attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement.īarr provoked online outrage after she said former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, who was born in Iran to American parents, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and compared her to an ape. ABC television network in the US has cancelled comedian Roseanne Barr’s show after she posted a racist tweet comparing a former Obama adviser to an ape.