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- Roseanne Barr went on a tweet storm Tuesday night after ABC canceled the "Roseanne" reboot.
- Barr said Tuesday morning she was leaving Twitter, but continued to tweet and retweet throughout the night.
- The retweets included right-wing Twitter pages and pundits defending her after her racist remark.
ABC may have canceled its "Roseanne" reboot on Tuesday, after its star Roseanne Barr tweeted a racist remark, but that didn't stop Barr from tweeting throughout the night.
Barr's original offensive tweet compared Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, to an ape: "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj." Jarrett is a black woman born in Iran.
Barr tweeted an apology Tuesday morning that said "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste."
But by Wednesday morning, after ABC had pulled the plug on her show, Barr's Twitter was littered with retweets from fans, far-right Twitter pages, and conservative pundits defending her after the remark. Barr herself tweeted "losing my show is 0 compared 2 being labelled a racist over one tweet-that I regret even more" - showing a level of misunderstanding of why her tweet about a black woman was deemed racist in the first place.
Barr retweeted the following tweets defending her remarks:
She replied to television and radio host David Pakman and called him a "bully," and defended her claim that Ambien caused her racist tweet.
She also referred to several people as "bigots" for calling her out.
She responded to co-star Sara Gilbert's tweet that Barr's racist remark was "abhorrent."
But then said that she understood Gilbert's position, and was just "shocked."
She also called out Wanda Sykes for quitting the show before ABC canceled it, and co-star Michael Fishman, who she said threw her under the bus.
Barr tweeted a defense of Trump, though, saying she "feels bad" for him in response to a tweet that called Gilbert "ungrateful" and "disloyal."
Barr also retweeted a claim by Fox Business anchor Trish Regan that ABC was "looking for a reason to cancel" the show because they "didn't like the fact that her conservative defense of certain things was so popular."
ABC executives have said that the "Roseanne" revival was actually a direct result of President Trump's election, and part of the network's strategy to attract conservatives. And while ratings slightly decreased since the reboot's premiere in March, it was still the most popular scripted show of the year. For ABC to cancel it means Barr's comments finally crossed a line.
Barr also seemed to be deflecting attention from her own remarks with a series of retweets that called out other personalities.
Barr got into politics during her tweet storm as well, such as the controversy surrounding photos of locked-up immigrant children.
Former Obama staffer Jon Favreau accidentally attributed photos of the children to Trump's administration, but the photos were actually from 2014. Favreau apologized on Twitter for the mistake.
That didn't stop Barr from retweeting a Breitbart article on the topic.
And she took part in the NFL controversy by retweeting conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
She also retweeted numerous tweets about the Palestinian bombing of Israel on Tuesday.
To cap it off, she retweeted Charlie Sheen, who joked that "Two and a Half Men" should make a comeback.
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