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Comedian Roseanne Barr has apologised to a former Barack Obama aide for a tweet comparing her to an ape and to her colleagues who lost their jobs following the cancellation of her sitcom. US TV network ABC cancelled Barr's show, Roseanne, after she sent a tweet referring to Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes.
Roseanne Barr says losing her television show is nothing compared to being labelled a racist "over one tweet", as the fallout from her social media comments and subsequent sitcom cancellation continued. Hours after saying she was leaving Twitter, Barr returned to the social media platform to share posts both supporting her comments made about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and praising American television network ABC's decision to cancel her show Roseanne.
Celebrities have taken to Twitter to celebrate the axing of ABC's Roseanne revival after the star posted a racist remark about Valerie Jarrett, one of former President Barack Obama's closest advisers. In the now-deleted tweet, she called Jarrett the offspring of the "Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes".
ABC called Roseanne Barr's tweet about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett "abhorrent" and "repugnant" when canceling Barr's show on Tuesday, but the network did not use another word: "racist." Danielle Campoamor, a Romper editor and Bustle columnist, captured the sentiments of many Twitter users when she cast avoidance of the term "racist" against the backdrop of other, ongoing debates about word choices in the press.
In this March 23, 2018 file photo, John Goodman, left, and Roseanne Barr arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "Roseanne" in Burbank, Calif. ABC has cancelled its hit reboot of "Roseanne" following her racially insensitive tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, Tuesday, May 29. ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said the comment "is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsisten with our values, and we have decided to cancel the show."
Since the government acknowledged last month that the Trump administration had lost track of nearly 1,500 immigrant children, the debate over what that means and who is to blame has roiled Twitter. Here's a look at the partisan claims and a reality check behind the latest immigration fight: -"Speechless.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when President Barack Obama was in office.
A photo of "caged migrant children" went viral among liberals critical of President Donald Trump last week, that is until the image got an Obama-era date stamp, RT.com reported . The photo of two children sleeping in a detention facility run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started making its rounds late last week, the news website reported.
In this June 18, 2014, file photo, young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz.
Military veterans who were discharged for relatively minor offenses say they often can't get jobs, and they hope a recent warning to employers by the state of Connecticut will change that. The state's human rights commission told employers last month they could be breaking the law if they discriminate against veterans with some types of less-than-honorable discharges.
Despite teeing off on President Barack Obama for spending too much time golfing, President Donald Trump has hit the links more frequently than his predecessor, according to an ABC News analysis. Trump's trips to a golf course have topped 102 through his first 493 days in office, according to an ABC News tally of the president's activities.
The biggest story of the weekend appears to be the Trump Administration's move to separate immigrant children from their families, holding them on military bases. This particular story comes after a recent admission from the Department of Health and Human Services, that the U.S. has lost track of roughly 1,500 immigrant children who entered the country without an accompanying adult.
President Trump committed to the "rotten apple" motif in his latest attack lodged against former President Barack Obama and the FBI. In a tweet Sunday afternoon, Trump echoed past accusations about his predecessor wittingly choosing to do "nothing" to stop Russian meddling in the 2016 election because he thought Hillary Clinton was destined to win the contest.
Valor, stubborn conviction and sacrifice are themes repeated throughout "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls," HBO's documentary memorializing the life and career of the Vietnam War hero and six-term senator from Arizona. McCain, 81, who revealed this year that he had terminal brain cancer, is interviewed throughout the film, as are his family and some of his bitterest political rivals.
President Trump accused former President Barack Obama Sunday of playing politics with Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential race, saying Mr. Obama didn't stop Moscow's interference because he expected Hillary Clinton to win anyway. "Why didn't President Obama do something about the so-called Russian Meddling when he was told about it by the FBI before the Election?" Mr. Trump tweeted.
" F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims ," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal . So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump's campaign as paranoid fantasy.
That call to arms was delivered by Barry Goldwater at the 1960 Republican convention to implore members of the then-youthful conservative movement to hold their noses and rally around Richard Nixon's candidacy. Neal Freeman, a battle-scarred veteran of the conservative movement - he was a correspondent for National Review and the producer of William F. Buckley's TV show, "Firing Line," among other tours of duty - recently echoed Goldwater's clarion call for a different cause.
Deliveries of new refueling tankers to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst would proceed as planned and the base itself would be protected from any efforts to close military facilities under legislation that passed the House Thursday. The annual National Defense Authorization Act , which sets Congress' defense priorities for the 12 months beginning Oct. 1, passed, 351-66, in the final House vote before the week-long Memorial Day recess.
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, said Friday that former President Barack Obama had "no knowledge" of an FBI informant in the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. "I am sure President Obama had no knowledge whatsoever of an informant," Clapper said, adding that the FBI has many informants who play various roles within the department "who provide very valuable information and do so in a legitimate way."
In this July 21, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands with Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., second left, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., second right, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., after he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection financial reform bill in Washington.