Author: Eric Deggans / Source: NPR.org
Roseanne Barr has just given a masterclass on how not to apologize for a massive public flameout.
Appearing on Fox News pundit Sean Hannity’s show Thursday, Barr claimed the backlash over the widely condemned racist tweet which led to ABC canceling her show was a huge misunderstanding.
The tweet implied senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and an ape. Barr’s defense? She didn’t know Jarrett — who was born in Iran to American parents — was an African-American woman.
“You could have knocked me over with a feather when they said she was African-American,” Barr told Hannity of the moment when executives from ABC asked her to explain the posting. “I thought she was Middle Eastern.”
Which implies she did think it was ok to compare a person from a country in the Middle East to the offspring of an ape — another serious stereotype.
There was no discussion of the other time she called a black Obama official an ape: a 2013 tweet where she said former national security adviser Susan Rice was a man with the genitalia of an ape.
Barr insisted the Jarrett tweet was “political” not “racial” and was connected to Barr’s advocacy for Israel. But her clumsy explanations didn’t really address why she used such loaded language in the first place. The comic also claimed a recent video she released on YouTube, saying of Jarrett, “I thought…
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