Roseanne Barr is under fire for appearing to promote a conspiracy theory about a Parkland student ac

[iscooterliberally]

Source: Business Insider

Roseanne Barr sparked controversy this week for appearing to promote a far-right conspiracy theory about the Parkland shooting student-activist David Hogg.

On Tuesday evening, just before the revival of her ABC sitcom "Roseanne" premiered, Barr tweeted the words "NAZI SALUTE" in response to a Twitter user who tagged Hogg in a tweet. She later deleted her tweet.

Barr, a vocal Trump supporter with a history of promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, seemed to be referencing a far-right conspiracy theory that Hogg raised a Nazi salute at a March for Our Lives rally on Saturday.

As Mic noted, a number of Twitter users, including Chrissy Teigen, criticized Barr for the tweet, while some called out ABC for giving Barr a platform with her revived sitcom.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/roseanne-barr-under-fire-for-nazi-salute-tweet-conspiracy-theory-parkland-student-david-hogg-2018-3

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I was never a big TV watcher when I was young, so I didn't follow this show. I'll be sure to not watch it now again too.

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Wasn't her fifteen minutes up like fifteen years ago?

Shaddap, Roseanne!

[marble falls]

10. Thirty years ago. When Reagan was king.

[Still In Wisconsin]

36. My God, I really AM that old...

Thanks.

[marble falls]

40. I read a post on DU about a kid who went to Army boot camp and learned a concept called...

"embrace the suck". It works especially well with getting old. If they want to carry my dead auto battery for me across the Napa parking lot regardless of my being completely capable on some 100F July day, well I embrace the suck of being old and get the benefit of some kid doing my schlepping.

Getting older wasn't anywhere as tough as "they" said. Now I finally am old and so far life is still good.

[Bradshaw3]

2. DUers have been chastised for making too much of her

and for not giving the show a chance. Wonder what will be made of this.

[iscooterliberally]

3. I've always thought of her as a troll.

I remember her 'singing' the national anthem at some sporting event years ago and it was awful. Anyway, I guess 'trolls of a feather flock together'.

[Bradshaw3]

4. When Nazis are marching proudly and have a kindred spirit in the WH

Trolling like that ain't funny. But she was never very funny.

[iscooterliberally]

6. I agree. This is definitely not funny.

I'm hoping they go after her advertisers as well.

[sdfernando]

9. Yep..that was here in San Diego.

Why the Padres asked her is beyond me.

[magicarpet]

29. Here... Roseanne Barr mangles the national anthem....

This idiot has the mind of a ten year old.

Surprise, surprise, tRdump thinks she is adorable and smart and will connect nicely with his brain dead base.

[njhoneybadger]

27. I Know, You couldn't pay me to watch anything with her in it.

[GusBob]

38. Hell to the fucking ya I know

I also know which side I stand on in the culture war

If you watch her show, you support Trump

There I said it again

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

51. Meanwhile the right is milking her show

Trump is bringing her up in speeches and calling her (unlike many of the Parkland families, for whom he had no time), and Hannity is begging her to come on his show.

Her extremism and batshit history needs to be focused on, as they're trying to use her to normalize Trumpism and push the old "economic anxiety" canard.
In her new show, she claimed Trump won, because he "talked about jobs," as if Hillary wasn't doing that at nearly every speech and getting ignored by the media in favor of "but her emails."
The real reason Roseanne backed Trump can be found in her Pizzageterism, birtherism, Seth Rich trooferism, etc. A large number of Americans have fallen into believing whackadoodle conspiracy propaganda when it adheres to their racist worldview.

[Bradshaw3]

53. Good point about normalizing conspiracists

[whopis01]

5. Just to clarify - we are talking about this Roseanne Barr, right?

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting her confused with a different Roseanne Barr that didn't dress up like Hitler putting people shaped cookies into the oven.

[iscooterliberally]

7. Yep...that's her alright. n/t

[TranssexualKaren]

14. Thats real???

It’s not photoshopped or anything?!?!

[forgotmylogin]

16. Apparently real.

Link to tweet

[Dave Starsky]

33. It's completely real.

She's an edgy comedienne. She thought it was funny. Your mileage may vary.I

[njhoneybadger]

26. The picture needs to be plastered all over news casts

[louis-t]

8. Well, so much for her great 'ratings'.

I suspect next week's show will have very disappointing numbers.

[vkkv]

11. Fat, stupid and LOUD !! The perfect GOP voter... nt

[KT2000]

12. I feel sorry for her co-stars

they are being held hostage by her behavior. This is, after all, their work and employment she is messing around with.

[jrthin]

31. I don't. They willingly signed on knowing who she is. It's the same

disgust I feel for tRUMP voters who voted for a man they knew to be a turd.

[JI7]

32. They knew what she was when they decided to do the show again and they all are

Doing well in their careers so it wasn't like they were desperate for anything to come up.

In fact Roseanne is the only who didn't have much going on.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

52. Fuck them - they own this, especially Sarah Gilbert

who serves as her executive producer and has been going out of her way to softpeddle Roseanne's racism and conspiracy theories.

And it's not like Goodman needed the work.

They chose to be involved. They are enablers.

[Hav]

13. Are people that ignorant?

Maybe it is too obvious but what I miss in these articles is someone pointing out that raising your first is not the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute was with an open hand. These stories always leave some doubt as if raising your fist was used by the Nazis as well.

[Fullduplexxx]

15. Did you see Roseanne dressed as Hitler cooking Little People cookies in ovens

But hey ahe has a show on tv right

[Archae]

17. Roseanne also is a fan of "Pizzagate," and the Seth Rich murder CT.

Roseanne and ABC are frantically trying to cover it up, but it's too late.

The old tweets are archived.

[Cryptoad]

18. Roseanne Who?????

[iscooterliberally]

20. Now that's what I'm talking about.

[Liberalagogo]

19. The original Show was very LEFT

Barr even supported Hillary for President at one point. But some sort of disease has taken her over. That or she's just decided to be as big of an attention whore as the Shithole. I feel bad for the Left cast that have to work with her in this mode (I.e. Goodman, Metcalf, Chalke, Gilbert...etc.)

[Cryptoad]

22. It only seems like Yesterday that,,,,,,,,,

The GOP was claiming Roseanne was the incarnate of Lucifer !!!! Oh how a little money can change ur political views!

[Liberalagogo]

23. My late mother (2013)

absolutely HATED her. She was a huge evangelical tea party wingnut and if I happend to have the TV tuned to a Roseanne repeat while she was in the room, she'd go apeshit. Meanwhile I had to put up with her constant viewing of False Noise.

[dubyadiprecession]

28. Roseanne couldn't beat them, so she joined them.

She's weak, just like Dennis Miller.

[MountCleaners]

35. Thanks for pointing this out!

I grew up working class in the Midwest and was really grateful for the show. She used to be left. There's no excuse for her behavior now, and I'm wondering if I should bother watching the new show, but I do wonder about some people who claim to have "always" hated her. I think they probably have class issues. I mean all of the pearl clutching about the national anthem and stuff is really illiberal.

[Liberalagogo]

41. Thanks for pointing that out!

About wondering about some people that claim they "always" hated her.

There are several celebrities whose work I enjoyed, even though they turned out to be wingnuts or at least conservatives. Most are relatively quiet about it, but some get in your face with it. And left, or right, I'm not fond of that.

It's a sort of okay-ish sitcom, but it makes no sense. Suddenly she's the right-wing working class woman, but still has this very diverse and liberal family. I just hope they drop the politics off the show, not as much because of the right-wing nuttiness support, but because it just makes no sense, continuity-wise.

It's only eight episodes. I hope ABC doesn't renew it, but chances are they will.

It's the new thing in Hollywood----sitcom revivals. Fuller House, Will & Grace, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, and now, Mad About You. What's next, the return of Friends and Frasier?

[world wide wally]

21. Same now as ever... An obnoxious asshole who is not funny

[radliberal]

24. A perfect example of MONEY corrupting people....this woman has lost her mind!

Enjoy your tax cuts lady.

[JI7]

25. Put that in the show instead of pretending trump voters

Were about jobs.

[Leghorn21]

30. Just went agooglin to see who sponsors the show...I got nuthin...but heres a blip from

AdWeek, 2 days ago:

“Producers said in January that the show, which tackles the country’s political divide head on in its first episode, could help “heal” families who have had rifts over Donald Trump’s election.”

...or not

[LyndaG]

34. Is she going blind?

A couple of years ago, she claimed she had Macular Degeneration. I don't think there is a cure for that. She must be handling it if she is doing a series.

[DeltaLitProf]

44. You could tell from the two episodes . . .

. . . that she is now virtually blind. She doesn't look at anyone directly.

[LyndaG]

50. Thank you

[YOHABLO]

37. She's going to kill her reboot before it gets started

[olddad56]

39. that is fine. She hasn't been relevant since, well, forever.

[trueblue2007]

42. i watched her show one time. I WONT WATCH IT ANYMORE.

[denvine]

43. She is the personification of a Trump supporter!

Classless, rude and uninformed.

[greyl]

45. Carroll O'Connor was not a real life Archie Bunker.

ABC fucked up with this one, and Roseanne should stick to nut trees.

Blackish had a better approach(with that first election conflict episode), cast, writers, directors, and producers.

[leftynyc]

46. I wonder how the right wingers

are handling the storyline with her grandson - Darlene's son - who seems to be questioning or pushing the boundaries of his gender identity - wears girls' clothes, has "feminine" mannerisms. Darlene asked her parents to let it go, and other than being worried he was going to get his butt kicked at school, seem to be handling it better than many liberal parents would.

[rtracey]

48. I wonder

I wonder how the real life actress who plays her daughter actually can stand being near her. She is gay and into major liberal causes....

[leftynyc]

49. That's really my point

Roseanne has always been strong on LGBTQ issues and it looks like this show is no exception. She's a conundrum.

[obamanut2012]

56. She is insanely transphobic

As in, rabidly and disgustingly.

[dembotoz]

47. give a doofus a big stage you get a doofus on a big stage

[riversedge]

54. Here is the screenshot.....

Link to tweet

[.99center]

55. Caught in a lie.

Link to tweet

[olddad56]

57. maybe after her show is canceled because the advertisers drop out,

she can replace Sarah Sanders as Trump's new spokesperson. They already remind me of one another.