Roseanne Barr is set to produce and then star in a new comedy special for Fox Nation — her first comedy stand-up special in 16 years.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roseanne-barr">69-year-old</a> actress and comedian&#8217;s show will be titled, &#8220;A Roseanne Comedy Special&#8221; and it is set to debut early in 2023 on the Fox News subscription streaming platform, <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/roseanne-barr-fox-nation-comedy-special-1235378023/">Variety reported</a> in a piece published Tuesday.
&#8220;Roseanne is a comedy icon whose humor connects with the American audience like no other,&#8221; Jason Klarman, president of Fox Nation, shared in a statement. &#8220;Her ability to channel the challenges of everyday people and find the humor in it all has earned her the passionate following of millions of dedicated fans.&#8221;
&#8220;We are thrilled to add her comedy special exclusively to the Fox Nation catalog,&#8221; the statement added.
A statement from Fox Nation to <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/09/roseanne-barr-fox-nation-special-1235122921/">Deadline magazine</a> about the special read that it, &#8220;will feature Ms. Barr&#8217;s signature comedic take on a variety of topics, with no subject off limits.&#8221;
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Roseanne Barr has announced her comeback special, “A Roseanne Comedy Special,” will debut in early 2023 on Fox News&#39; subscription streaming platform Fox Nation. <a href="https://t.co/ROqZYJmwjU">https://t.co/ROqZYJmwjU</a>
&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1572259617975025665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In 2018, Barr was fired from the reboot of her incredibly popular ABC series &#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; following a tweet that was quickly labeled racist. The show was canceled and the series later came back to the network without her, retitled &#8220;The Conners.&#8221;
She recently spoke about that tweet — which read, &#8220;muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby&#8221; — and was aimed at former White House senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/any-tweet-that-was-not-i-love-hillary-clinton-i-got-a-call-for-roseanne-barr-documentary-explores-how-she-was-canceled">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;I shoulda not did it, but by God, I was really pissed that day,&#8221; Barr explained. &#8220;I did something I wouldn&#8217;t do if I hadn&#8217;t been on that Ambien. It makes you do a lot of crazy s***.&#8221;
She later issued an apology on Twitter, but the show was still taken off the air.
&#8220;I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,&#8221; Barr tweeted at the time. &#8220;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.&#8221;
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/any-tweet-that-was-not-i-love-hillary-clinton-i-got-a-call-for-roseanne-barr-documentary-explores-how-she-was-canceled">&#8216;Any Tweet That Was Not &#8216;I Love Hillary Clinton,&#8217; I Got A Call For&#8217;: Roseanne Barr Documentary Explores How She Was Canceled</a>

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Roseanne Barr is back, and she has some strong feelings about getting canceled from Hollywood.
The 69-year-old comedian is promoting a new documentary explaining her fall from public favor called &#8220;Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood.” It debuts on <a href="https://www.reelz.com/show/kicked-out-of-hollywood/">Reelz</a> on April 24.
&#8220;Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,&#8217; I got a call for,&#8221; Barr claimed in the expose, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-abc-fired-show-documentary">Fox News</a>.
The “Roseanne” alum also discussed how her family begged her to stop tweeting, but she refused because she loved it too much. 
&#8220;Everyone was begging me to give up my Twitter. Everyone,&#8221; the comedian said. &#8220;My kids were trying to lock me out, but I wouldn&#8217;t because it&#8217;s like I just couldn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a g**damn American and I&#8217;m not going to do it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m a comic. I&#8217;m a bad girl. I&#8217;m too rock and roll. I&#8217;m going to say f*** it and f*** you until I take my last breath.&#8221;
Barr also addressed the tweet that led to her getting fired. The tweet read, “muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby” and was aimed at former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
“I shoulda not did it, but by God, I was really pissed that day,” Barr said of the incident. “I did something I wouldn’t do if I hadn’t been on that Ambien. It makes you do a lot of crazy sh**.”
Barr released an apology on Twitter at the time. “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” the actress wrote. “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.”
However, her words weren’t enough to keep ABC from canceling “Roseanne” in response to the original comment, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/roseanne-apologizes-for-planet-of-the-apes-tweet-about-obama-aide-jarrett.html">CNBC</a>. They called Barr’s “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
In the new documentary, Barr says she wasn’t given a chance to properly apologize and try to redeem herself. 
&#8220;When they called me up they were like, ‘What possible excuse have you got for why you did this? Why you did such an egregious, unforgivable thing?’ And I said, &#8216;I have no excuse. The only thing is, I thought she was white. And they said nothing back,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;And then I said, ‘Let me go on &#8216;The View&#8217; tomorrow and explain it and apologize. I made a mistake.’&#8221;
Ultimately, Barr sees herself being unfairly targeted for making a mistake.
&#8220;Witch-burning is what it is,&#8221; Barr said of getting fired and canceled. &#8220;Intellectual witch-burning. And arrogance and ignorance. All of the press of the United States, and the world and how they interpreted my tweet without any knowledge of the fact that I was sending it to a journalist in Iran about what was happening to the people in Iran. We were under such terrible censorship and it&#8217;s just terrible and frightening.&#8221;
The documentary includes statements from Mo’Nique, Howie Mandel, and &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; executive producer Allan Stephan, who all insist Barr is not actually racist.

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‘Any Tweet That Was Not ‘I Love Hillary Clinton,’ I Got A Call For’: Roseanne Barr Documentary Explores How She Was Canceled

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After a Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, who was attempting to stab two other girls on Tuesday, leftists and Democrats, including the chief advisor to former President Obama, slammed the police officer, intimating that he was in the wrong for saving the other girls from being stabbed.
The day before, just 100 miles away, in Winton Hills, Ohio, a 13-year-old girl was <a href="https://www.wlwt.com/article/family-devastated-after-13-year-old-stabbed-by-former-friend-during-fight-dies/36180426#">stabbed in the neck</a> by another 13-year-old girl and died that night in her father’s arms. No police were there to prevent the violent incident and save the victim’s life.
After Bryant was shot and killed, former President Barack Obama’s top advisor, Valerie Jarrett, chimed in, “A Black teenage girl named Ma’Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability. Fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter.”
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A Black teenage girl named Ma’Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability.   Fight for justice. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a>.
&mdash; Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1384888056621174786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Activist and filmmaker Bree Newsome echoed, &#8220;Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene &amp; using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.&#8221;
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Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene &amp; using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.
&mdash; DEFUND &amp; ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) <a href="https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1384725341550305281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rutgers University associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brittney Cooper joined in, too: &#8220;A Black girl is dead because the cops brought a gun to a damn knife fight. If you don’t know how to de-escalate teen girls who are fighting, you should not be a police officer. I said what I said. #MakhiaBryant.&#8221;
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A Black girl is dead because the cops brought a gun to a damn knife fight. If you don’t know how to de-escalate teen girls who are fighting, you should not be a police officer. I said what I said. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MakhiaBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MakhiaBryant</a>
&mdash; Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1384848106727133184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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But the night before, 13-year-old Nyaira Givens died at Cincinnati Children&#8217;s Hospital after she was stabbed during a fight near her family&#8217;s home. Both girls attended Aiken High School, where they were in seventh grade.
Givens’ father, Maurice Jackson, said, &#8220;I held her. I watched her as she died. I watched her, you know. All I could do was just hold her, hold her. I tried. I tried to stop the bleeding.”
&#8220;Just tried my best to protect her and be the father I could be, you know?” Jackson added. “I guess I didn&#8217;t pay attention to all the other stuff that was going on around her.”
“She was a great daughter. A great friend. All of the above. Until the end,” Jackson <a href="https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/winton-hills/friends-family-gather-to-remember-13-year-old-stabbed-to-death-in-winton-hills">said</a>.
Heather Chura Smith of the Hamilton County Juvenile Court said, &#8220;I would say that what we&#8217;ve seen in the last couple weeks falls in line with that trend that we&#8217;ve seen locally — that uptick of violent offenses,” <a href="https://local12.com/news/local/13-year-old-girl-stabbed-to-death-in-winton-hills-cincinnati-nyaira-givens-page">Local 12</a> reported.
Cincinnati Public Schools <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2021/04/20/update-year-old-girl-charged-fatal-stabbing-another-teen-winton-hills-police-say/">stated</a>, &#8220;We are devastated by this tragedy. Our mental health support teams are actively supporting our school community at this time. We also have additional crisis teams in place to support our students and staff, if needed.”
Jackson concluded, &#8220;The pain I&#8217;m feeling right now, it&#8217;s just, I can&#8217;t explain it. It&#8217;s very unexplainable. She should be burying me. I shouldn&#8217;t be burying her.”

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Teen Girl Stabs Another Teen To Death Day Before Dems, Leftists Slam Cop For Preventing Stabbing Death

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On Wednesday, <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=299485%3C%22%3E">speaking</a> to Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, attacking President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus crisis, claimed that the Obama administration had handed the Trump administration a “Pandemic for Dummies” playbook and snapped that the blame for 150,000 Americans dying “is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic.”
Hostin prompted, “Ambassador, I do want to talk to you then about the coronavirus because President Trump says nobody could have predicted this pandemic.”
Rice responded with a smirk.
Hostin continued, “But the Obama administration did predict a pandemic, and you personally tried to prepare the incoming administration for something just like this, leaving essentially a pandemic playbook that warned of this type of virus happening. So, who is really to blame for the abysmal response here and the death of 150,000 Americans?”
“Well, Sunny, yes, everybody who knew anything about national security, global health, understood that a pandemic was inevitable,” Rice answered. “I write about it in my book that we were just talking about briefly at the outset. We prepared the incoming administration with a ‘Pandemic for Dummies’ playbook and a tabletop exercise and so many other briefings.”
“So the fault here, the tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic,” Rice continued. “He said it would go away; he likened it to the flu. He said, you know, that it would be fine to reopen our states prematurely. He’s encouraged kids to go back to school in communities where the virus is raging. Every step of the way, Donald Trump has put his own personal political interests ahead of the health and well-being and the economic security of Americans. That is why this tragedy has been as bad as it has been. And if anybody has any doubt about that, look at many other competent countries in the rest of the world – in Europe, in Asia, and elsewhere – that have handled this in such a way that their kids are going back to school, their economies are reopening, and the numbers continue to go down. That is not what’s happening here.”
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Rice is not the only former Obama administration official to attack Trump for his handling of the coronavirus. In April, Valerie Jarrett, the senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, who was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/us/politics/valerie-jarrett-is-the-other-power-in-the-west-wing.html">credited with wielding enormous power</a> behind the scenes, took a shot at President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus crisis while offering a &#8220;much better&#8221; portrayal of Obama, tweeting, “Someone asked me today how would @Barack Obama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word – better. Ok, two words. Much better.”
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Someone asked me today how would <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> have handled this crisis? Answer in one word &#8211; Better. Ok, two words. Much better.
&mdash; Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1245489466837532675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Despite Rice and Jarrett&#8217;s glowing assessments of the Obama administration, the administration has come under criticism for its response to a 2009 epidemic. After the swine flu epidemic of 2009, medical masks were depleted, and the Obama administration did not act to replenish supply.
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-20/disaster-foretold-shortages-ventilators-medical-supplies-warned-about">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported:
<blockquote>After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks, which filter out airborne particles, be replenished by the stockpile, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That didn’t happen, according to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Assn.</blockquote>
Additionally, the first U.S. case of swine flu, which occurred in California, was identified on April 15, 2009. On April 25, the World Health Organization declared H1N1 a public health emergency, echoed by Obama one day later.
The World Health Organization <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/who/">declared</a> H1N1 a pandemic on June 11 but it took Obama <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/swineflu/16606">until October </a>to declare a national emergency. Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency two days after WHO declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic.
After Jarrett posted her criticism in April, Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — a U.S. veteran and Navy Seal for 10 years who lost his right eye after an explosive device hit him in Afghanistan in 2012 and who earned two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor — expressed disbelief that in the present moment, Democrats were seizing the opportunity while people are dying in droves to put partisan politics above coming together as Americans.
Crenshaw tweeted, “Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected — but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why?”
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Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected &#8211; but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why? <a href="https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV">https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1245555145414492162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice Interview

WATCH: Susan Rice: ‘Loss Of 150,000 Americans And Counting Is On Donald Trump’

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Hillary Clinton famously tried to move past the Obama administration’s mistakes in Benghazi by claiming, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Now another former Obama official wants to pretend nothing happened just because a few years have passed. Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett suggested Tuesday we all move on from how the previous administration used the FBI to spy on its opponent, then-candidate Donald Trump, in 2016.
Appearing on Fox Business with host Maria Bartiromo, Jarrett tried to absolve the FBI investigators who looked into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election – an investigation that resulted in a two-year special counsel investigation that found no collusion.
&#8220;Well, Maria, look, I have a high degree of confidence that our of intelligence community, our investigators comported themselves responsibly,” Jarrett said. “Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI.”
McCain was involved in jumpstarting the allegations that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia, but Jarrett ignores the major role the Obama FBI played in inappropriately surveilling campaign adviser Carter Page. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">reported</a>, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found 17 “inaccuracies and omissions” in FISA warrant applications to spy on Page. The FBI blatantly ignored information from a U.S. government agency that said it had a prior relationship with Page involving contacts with Russian intelligence officers. An FBI agent went so far as to alter an email to make it look like this agency said Page did not work with them.
The FBI hid this information from the FISA court in order to obtain another warrant to continue investigating Page, even though it knew there was nothing to investigate. By spying on Page, the FBI gained access to other Trump associates to spy on in order to find some evidence that could be used against Trump.
Jarrett then pushed the blame for the dubious investigation onto former FBI Director James Comey, who was a major player in the whole situation, but she again pushes the blame from the Obama administration.
“So, I can’t tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation. Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle. But I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I would like to see going on,&#8221; Jarrett said.
Jarrett is essentially demanding we move on from the biggest scandal in political history since Watergate because it happened four years ago. She neglects that two years were spent investigating Trump, while DOJ-appointed investigators are continuing to work on how that dubious investigation began. Newly declassified documents continue to paint a picture of an FBI that knew there was no evidence of collusion, but continued to investigate and leak information to the press to create a narrative that Trump stole the election. The real scandal is the investigation itself, which started at the behest of the Obama administration.

Former Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett Wants To Move On From Origins Of Trump-Russia Investigation: ‘It Was Four Years Ago’

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Valerie Jarrett rebuked left-wing activists calling to strip funding from police departments in reaction to George Floyd’s death.
Jarrett, who served former President Barack Obama as his senior White House advisor, broke with the “Defund the Police” movement in an interview with <a href="https://time.com/5850011/valerie-jarrett-police-time-100-talks/">Time</a> on Tuesday. Jarrett pointed out that a functioning society depends on police officers enforcing laws.
“Democracy depends upon having law enforcement. The challenge here is that much of our law enforcement we know is not just,” Jarrett said. “I might argue you might need more money for law enforcement — in recruitment, and training, adding equipment, maybe body cameras, other types of resources that are available so that the public can see what’s going on.”
“The question is are we really using our law enforcement in a way that is fair and just, and that builds this bond of trust?” Jarrett continued. “And I think that’s a much more complicated question than simply should we cut their funding or not.”
Jarrett’s comments echo some made by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). While Sanders explicitly did not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-key-dems-pushing-back-on-defund-the-police-as-progressives-press-forward">call</a> for providing more funds to police departments, he also did not say their budgets should be cut like local officials in some of the largest cities in the United States are suggesting.
“Do I think we should not have police departments in America? No, I don’t,” Sanders told The New Yorker in an interview published Tuesday. “There’s no city in the world that does not have police departments. What you need are — I didn’t call for more money for police departments. I called for police departments that have well-educated, well-trained, well-paid professionals.”
Officials in Los Angeles and New York City are pushing forward with legislation that would cut funding to local police forces. The Minneapolis city council has taken the movement a step further as Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-police-department">announced</a> on Sunday that the council had a veto-proof majority in favor of disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department.
“Our commitment is to do what is necessary to keep every single member of our community safe and to tell the truth that the Minneapolis Police are not doing that,” Bender said on CNN. “Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it, and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/la-officials-push-to-cut-police-budget-by-up-to-150m-after-riots">announced</a> last week that the city would cut roughly $100-$150 million from the police department’s budget and redirect that money to social programs targeting minority neighborhoods.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that his administration would follow a similar strategy, though some doubt that the mayor will follow through. De Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defund-the-police-de-blasio-vows-to-shift-funds-away-from-nypd-after-violent-riots">announced</a> on Sunday that he was “committed” to redirecting some funds from the city’s police department to social programs.
“We’re committed to seeing a shift of funding to youth services, to social services, that will happen literally in the course of the next three weeks, but I’m not going to go into detail because it is subject to negotiation and we want to figure out what makes sense,” the mayor said without saying how deep the cuts would be.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Valerie Jarrett, the senior advisor to former President Barack Obama who was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/us/politics/valerie-jarrett-is-the-other-power-in-the-west-wing.html">credited with wielding enormous power</a> behind the scenes, took a shot at President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus crisis while offering her own hagiographic portrayal of Obama, tweeting, “Someone asked me today how would @Barack Obama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word – better. Ok, two words. Much better.”
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Someone asked me today how would <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> have handled this crisis? Answer in one word &#8211; Better. Ok, two words. Much better.
&mdash; Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1245489466837532675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Representative Dan Crenshaw, a U.S. veteran and Navy Seal for 10 years who lost his right eye and required surgery to save the vision in his left eye after an explosive device hit him in Afghanistan in 2012, and earned two Bronze stars, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor, was clearly disturbed that in the present moment, Democrats have seized the opportunity while people are dying in droves to put partisan politics above coming together as Americans.
Crenshaw tweeted, “Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected — but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why?”
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Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected &#8211; but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why? <a href="https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV">https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1245555145414492162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After the swine flu epidemic of 2009, medical masks were depleted, and the Obama administration did not act to replenish supply. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-20/disaster-foretold-shortages-ventilators-medical-supplies-warned-about">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported:
<blockquote>After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks, which filter out airborne particles, be replenished by the stockpile, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That didn’t happen, according to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Assn.</blockquote>
Additionally, the first U.S. case of swine flu, which occurred in California, was identified on April 15, 2009. On April 25, the World Health Organization declared H1N1 a public health emergency, echoed by Obama one day later.
The World Health Organization <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/who/">declared</a> H1N1 a pandemic on June 11 but it took Obama <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/swineflu/16606">until October  </a>to declare a national emergency;  Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency two days after WHO declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic.
Last Saturday, after the New York Times published an article titled “The U.S. Now Leads The World In Confirmed Coronavirus Cases” and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mocked President Trump by tweeting, “He did promise ‘America First,’&#8221; Crenshaw told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LipcDhI5kWo">Fox News</a>:
<blockquote>Somebody like Hillary Clinton is so used to taking political jabs at the president or her political opponents anytime there is an outcome that is unfortunate, but this isn’t the time. This is a tragedy for all Americans, for the entire world. This newfound issue where we find the worst in each other, and we question each other&#8217;s intentions, and that happens all the time in politics, but now is not the time to do that. There is a pandemic going on.</blockquote>
Crenshaw continued, “This is what worries me about the future. We have difficult conversations about how to move to risk containment, to risk mitigation, to risk management, opening up society along with the threat of the pandemic. It’s going to be easy to have very disingenuous criticisms of each other and moralize against each other, but we can’t do that; we have to do this together.”

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Obama’s Senior Advisor: Obama Would Have Handled This ‘Much Better.’ Dan Crenshaw Blasts Her Partisan Attack.

Dan Crenshaw

On Thursday, Valerie Jarrett, the top advisor to former President Barack Obama, ridiculed President Trump for meeting with rapper Kanye West, defending CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon for attacking the visit and huffing that her former boss would never have invited someone who used language like West&#8217;s to the White House:
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&#8220;Imagine if <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> invited someone in the Oval Office who said M.F.&#8221; Preach, <a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donlemon</a>!
&#8212; Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1050518277057904640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Jarrett conveniently forgot Obama&#8217;s #2 guy, former vice-president Joe Biden, who celebrated the Obama Administration&#8217;s success with Obamacare this way:
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Biden apparently wasn&#8217;t the only high-ranking member of Obama&#8217;s White House to have a way with words; at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2009, Obama<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/05/transcript-obamas-full-remarks-022334"> joked</a> about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, &#8220;I do have to say, though, that this is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he&#8217;s not used to saying the word &#8216;day&#8217; after &#8216;mother.&#8217; That&#8217;s true.&#8221;
Oh, and wasn&#8217;t Barack Obama the one who invited rappers like <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/rapper-commons-white-house-visit-called-controversial-critics/story?id=13572464">Common</a>, who had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/12/fox-swooned-over-kanye-west-white-house-heres-how-it-covered-rappers-visiting-obama/?utm_term=.538c47711d06">lyrics</a> such as &#8220;black strap to make the cops run,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/30/now-you-can-see-who-visited-the-white-house-with-jay-z-spoiler-beyonce/?utm_term=.59942bbab53f">Jay-Z</a>, who had referred to women as &#8220;<a href="https://genius.com/Jay-z-bitches-and-sisters-lyrics">bitches</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://genius.com/Jay-z-money-cash-hoes-lyrics">hoes</a>,&#8221; and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/rick-ross-ankle-bracelete-white-house-article-1.2607186">Rick Ross</a>, who wore a court-mandated ankle monitor to the White House and had <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rick-ross-settles-kidnapping-assault-case-129648/">pled no contest to charges of misdemeanor kidnapping and assault</a>, to the White House?

Top Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Mocks Trump For Hosting Kanye. That’s A Big Mistake.

Kanye West

&#8203;When the Roseanne-free new version of the literally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35107/john-goodman-breaks-silence-hints-roseanne-conners-paul-bois">DOA</a> reboot of the reboot of &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; (&#8220;The Connors&#8221;) airs, the former star of the show will not be in the country to witness it, she says. She&#8217;ll be half a world away in Israel working on some spiritual and emotional issues with one of her favorite rabbis.
The comment, highlighted by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roseanne-barr-says-shes-moving-israel-conners-airs-1139134">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, came during Barr&#8217;s interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for his <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-642636263/promised-land">podcast</a> in which she mentioned recently cutting a record in Nashville and expressed some regret about publicly apologizing to Valerie Jarrett for calling her the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221;
&#8220;My friends told me at the beginning, &#8216;Oh my god, you made a fatal mistake, and that is you apologized to the Left and once you apologize they never forgive, they just try to beat you down until you don&#8217;t exist.&#8217; It&#8217;s just sad,&#8221; Barr told Boteach. &#8220;I should never have said I&#8217;m sorry in their world. In my world, I had to because I was sorry. For crying out loud, I was sorry.&#8221;
She continued: &#8220;People were so angry and, I have to say, a little bit ill-informed about me that they would put me in the same box where they have people who call for the death of all Jews and want to enslave all black people &#8212; real racists that actually exist.&#8221; In this &#8220;unprecedented period in American history,&#8221; she said, people need to arm themselves with facts rather than acting on their emotions.
As for clearing out of the country before &#8220;The Connors&#8221; airs this fall, Barr said she has the opportunity to study for a few months under one of her favorite teachers, something she described as &#8220;my great joy and privilege to be a Jewish woman.&#8221;
Barr said that while she holds no ill will for the show or those making it, she doesn&#8217;t plan on watching it, nor does she want to suffer through hearing commentary about it &#8212; which she predicted would inevitably involve trashing her.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to curse it or bless it,&#8221; she told the rabbi. &#8220;I&#8217;m staying neutral. That&#8217;s what I do. I&#8217;m staying neutral. I&#8217;m staying away from it. Not wishing bad on anyone and I don&#8217;t wish good for my enemies. I don&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t. I just stay neutral. That&#8217;s what I gotta do.&#8221;
Barr also brought up her &#8220;mental health issues,&#8221; which she has suggested at times were to blame for some of her controversial comments in the past. Saying she suffers from depression, she said she must &#8220;stay in the middle or I&#8217;ll go dark.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like Hollywood,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving California because I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s going to fall into the sea soon.&#8221;
Speaking with The U.K. Times last week, John Goodman, who plays Roseanne&#8217;s husband on the show, broke his silence over the firing of Barr, presenting a partial defense of her and hinting at how &#8220;The Connors&#8221; would explain the glaring absence of the show&#8217;s former star.
&#8220;I know for a fact that she&#8217;s not a racist. I&#8217;ll put it this way, I was surprised at the response. And that&#8217;s probably all I should say about it,&#8221; Goodman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35107/john-goodman-breaks-silence-hints-roseanne-conners-paul-bois">said</a>. He also hinted that Barr&#8217;s character would be killed off. &#8220;I guess he&#8217;ll be mopey and sad because his wife&#8217;s dead,&#8221; said Goodman of his character.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33683/wild-interview-roseanne-tells-hannity-what-shed-james-barrett">In Wild Interview, Roseanne Tells Hannity What She&#8217;d Say To Valerie Jarrett</a>
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roseanne-barr-says-shes-moving-israel-conners-airs-1139134">THR</a>.

Roseanne: I’m Moving To Israel

In a characteristically unpredictable and rambling one-hour interview with Sean Hannity Thursday night, Roseanne Barr discussed the infamous tweet that got her fired by ABC and told Hannity what she&#8217;d say to Valerie Jarrett if given a chance to talk to her in person.
The interview is Barr&#8217;s first sit-down since being fired by ABC for describing Jarrett, who was born in Iran and is part African-American, as a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221; Barr has apologized repeatedly for the tweet and insists she didn&#8217;t even realize that Jarrett is black.
&#8220;You could have knocked me over with a feather when they said she was African-American. I thought she was Middle Eastern,&#8221; said Barr, adding, &#8220;Her skin tone is like mine, and I&#8217;m brown. I didn&#8217;t know she was African-American.&#8221;
The tweet was meant to be political rather than racial, she <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/roseanne-barrs-first-interview-since-her-firing-went-as">insisted</a>. &#8220;I assumed because she was from Iran and lived in Iran for such a long time, and writes about how she and Barack Obama hung out for a long time, and the reason they were so tight and such friends is because they don&#8217;t like the idea of American exceptionalism.&#8221;
Her reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, she suggested, partly stems from her defense of Israel. &#8220;I will always be friends with Israel,&#8221; she said she told studio execs, citing the fact that she is a Jew and has family who lives there.
In response to Hannity asking her what she&#8217;d say to Jarrett if given the chance, Barr gave the definition of a non-apology.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry that you thought that I was racist and you thought that my tweet was racist, because it wasn&#8217;t, it was political,&#8221; <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/roseanne-barrs-first-interview-since-her-firing-went-as">said</a> Barr. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that you feel harmed and hurt. I never meant that and for that I apologize. I never meant to hurt anybody or say anything negative about an entire race of people.&#8221; She added later, &#8220;Plus, I&#8217;d tell her she needs a new haircut.&#8221;
Barr also addressed a wild <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrteSAu5ys">video</a> on the Jarrett tweet she posted on YouTube last week in which she screams, &#8220;I THOUGHT THE B**** WAS WHITE!&#8221; She told Hannity that she was genuinely frustrated and thought the whole thing was funny, so she posted it.
At one point in the interview, Barr got emotional when describing her initial fear of going outside because she thought everyone believed she was a racist. &#8220;I live on an island where it&#8217;s all brown people,&#8221; she quipped. &#8220;To be misunderstood is the worst thing,&#8221; she said.
But when she did finally start to go out in public again, she found far more support from people than she&#8217;d felt before. Many, she said, rushed up to her to tell her they felt what had happened to her was &#8220;not balanced&#8221; compared to others who had done similar things. Here&#8217;s a clip of the moment from BuzzFeed:
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This interview is all a ramble <a href="https://t.co/3f6pPpWTk5">pic.twitter.com/3f6pPpWTk5</a>
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She also stressed that her life demonstrates that she&#8217;s not racist, including her mixed family and her presidential run in 2012 representing the Socialist Party&#8217;s black caucus.
Barr also addressed her much-publicized &#8220;mental health&#8221; issues, saying that she&#8217;d been able to integrate her &#8220;multiple personalities&#8221; in the past through therapy. Asked about the alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a child, she said she has a &#8220;different view&#8221; now of it. As for whether any of that has influenced some of her more &#8220;crazy&#8221; moments, she suggested that it has.
H/T <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/roseanne-barrs-first-interview-since-her-firing-went-as">BuzzFeed</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/632921834/roseanne-barr-tells-foxs-hannity-racist-tweet-was-a-big-misunderstanding">NPR</a>.

In Wild Interview, Roseanne Tells Hannity What She’d Say To Valerie Jarrett

Fox News

Racism

Sean Hannity

WARNING: PROFANITY
That&#8217;s how many stories about Roseanne Barr begin, with a warning about the explicit language from the TV star.
But this one hits a whole new level &#8212; especially in volume.
In a new video posted on Thursday to her YouTube channel, Barr is seen as she talks to a producer. She looks a bit disheveled and is smoking a cigarette. The two have an increasingly heated discussion, with Barr eventually growing exasperated.
&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to talk about Iran! I&#8217;m trying to talk about Valerie Jarrett, about the Iran deal!&#8221; Barr yells. &#8220;That&#8217;s what my tweet was about! I thought the b**** was white, god**** it! I thought the b**** was white! F***!&#8221; [Ed. note &#8212; the asterisks are ours.]
Barr was addressing a tweet she posted on Twitter in May in which she said the Former Obama official was the product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes. &#8220;muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby=vj,&#8221; she said, referring to Jarrett.
The tweet led to the cancellation of her popular (and highly rated) TV show, &#8220;Roseanne.&#8221; Barr at first said &#8220;it&#8217;s a joke,&#8221; then said she didn&#8217;t know Jarrett was black, then apologized profusely. She later blamed the tweet on Ambien.
Barr, who is Jewish, also said her tweet was a commentary on anti-Semitism. &#8220;Rod Serling wrote &#8216;Planet of The Apes.&#8217; It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to &#8212; the anti semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want.&#8221;
She later said she &#8220;didn&#8217;t mean what they think I meant &#8230; But I have to face that it hurt people. When you hurt people even unwillingly there&#8217;s no excuse. I don&#8217;t want to run off and blather on with excuses. But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean. It was my own ignorance, and there&#8217;s no excuse for that ignorance.&#8221;
See the video below.
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Roseanne Barr On Valerie Jarrett Tweet: ‘I Thought The B**** Was White!’

Fresh off of ABC firing pro-Trump Roseanne Barr for a racially charged tweet about a former Obama adviser, TBS defended comedian Samantha Bee for her vile comments about Trump&#8217;s daughter. While the two fireable offenses are not the same &#8212; Barr&#8217;s had racist implications while Bee&#8217;s was just plain tasteless; Barr&#8217;s was off-the-cuff while Bee&#8217;s was scripted &#8212; many have drawn comparisons for obvious reasons: Two networks were faced with a decision about what to do with two female stars who made repugnant comments.
One of the striking differences between the circumstances of the two infamous remarks is the state of the two stars&#8217; shows. After starting off with record-breaking ratings, Barr&#8217;s show had leveled off but was still bringing in strong numbers. Bee&#8217;s, however, has been struggling mightily for months. In fact, her ratings declines are so dramatic, one might ask why exactly TBS still has her on, vile Ivanka comment aside.
In a report Thursday, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/samantha-bee-sponsors-full-frontal-tv-ratings/">The Wrap</a> details just how badly Bee&#8217;s show was struggling long before her &#8220;feckless&#8221; c**t&#8221; comment. Noting that Autotrader just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31305/breaking-advertisers-begin-leaving-samantha-bees-ryan-saavedra">pulled its ads</a> from Bee&#8217;s &#8220;Full Frontal,&#8221; The Wrap&#8217;s Tony Maglio underscores that TBS really can&#8217;t afford for her to lose any more ad revenue because it&#8217;s &#8220;already absorbed a blow in ad revenue generated by her weekly time slot&#8221;:
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Year-to-date, Bee&#8217;s Nielsen ratings are down 34 percent among adults ages 18-49, which is the demographic most-coveted by primetime advertisers. Isolating just millennials, a label assigned to adults ages 18-34, she&#8217;s shed a whopping 47 percent &#8212; or nearly half &#8212; of her 2017 viewership.
In terms of total viewers, &#8220;Full Frontal&#8221; is down 29 percent year over year.
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Maglio notes that her &#8220;really bad&#8221; numbers are also &#8220;about the same when isolating Q2 2018 vs. Q2 2017 and the entire fall/spring season-to-date.&#8221; Bee&#8217;s decline, he theorizes, is likely connected to anti-Trump fatigue. &#8220;She had a lot of buzz when the show first began &#8212; this is now Season 3. And the further we get into Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, the less liberals are turning to dissenting TV programs to find an ally,&#8221; he suggests.
As Maglio highlights, Bee has deliberately shaped her show as anti-Trump. Here&#8217;s Bee admitting as much in a glowing interview with a clearly sympathetic <a href="https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/qa-free-to-bee-samantha/">AdWeek</a> in early May. &#8220;The show has been called &#8216;a tragicomic feminist primal scream in the Trump era.&#8217; Do you agree with that characterization?&#8221; the interviewer asked. 
&#8220;I accept that description of myself,&#8221; said Bee. &#8220;I mean listen, this isn&#8217;t the administration that we thought we were getting, not that the show would be supremely different. We would still be doing the same types of stories somewhat; it&#8217;s not like all the problems of the world were going to suddenly evaporate if we had a different president. But I definitely feel like we would be on a more stable footing, which would be nice. You might imagine in a Hillary Clinton world that you could take your foot off the pedal for one second and not key yourself into the news.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31328/heres-proof-samantha-bees-apology-was-utterly-fake-ben-shapiro">Here&#8217;s The Proof Samantha Bee&#8217;s Apology Was Utterly Fake</a>

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