Roseanne Barr still has some things to get off her chest about ABC and Kimmel

Speaking from personal experience, Roseanne Barr called out ABC’s “double standard” in ending the suspension of its late-night broadcast as she claimed, “Jimmy purposely lied.”

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Misconstruing consequences for cancel culture, raving leftists got their way Tuesday when ABC allowed Jimmy Kimmel’s return to television a week after politicized remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Before he was back on the air, the comedienne who’d actually been canceled by the mob over a misrepresented tweet slammed the outcome and accurately predicted how the program would go.

Joining NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” with fill-in host Brian Entin, Barr brought up her 2018 post about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett as she said, “I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness and all of my work stolen and called a racist for time and eternity … for racially misgendering someone. It just shows how they think. It’s a double standard.”

The comedienne had explained at the time that when she’d compared Jarrett to a “Planet of the Apes” character, “I thought the b*tch was white!”

Barr had then gone on to allege in a 2019 interview with The Times that former First Lady Michelle Obama had been behind her ultimate dismissal from ABC, “She said, ‘This tweet is unforgivable.’ That’s what I was told and I tend to believe it because the woman who fired me is now working with the Obamas at Netflix,” referring to former ABC Entertainment Group President Channing Dungey who had gone on to be president of Netflix at the time.

Further criticizing what amounted to a slap on the wrist after “Jimmy purposely lied” where it concerned the potential political affiliation of Kirk’s assassin, the actress who’d been removed from her own show likened Kimmel’s short suspension to that of “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg over her Holocaust remarks.

She told Entin who she’d been “… erased from history, from the history of feminism, which that cracks me up. I’m never mentioned in anything about women who are pioneers in media … I’m never mentioned in anything anymore.”

Barr also suggested some whose careers she’d helped no longer mention her, “especially when they talk about censorship, which is hilarious.”

Appearing on NewsNation a few hours before “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the comedienne accurately predicted that Kimmel would “cheer himself on” and fans would “feel heartened like they won another battle against Trump and the people of the United States.”

As had been reported, the late-night host had offered a non-apology for what he’d said while claiming President Donald Trump “did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”

During the days of Kimmel’s suspension, Barr hadn’t been shy about contrasting how she’d been treated with how leftists were fawning over the late-night host with histrionics about the First Amendment. This included her bluntly responding to The Atlantic’s David Frum’s spin on the story, “Yeah, imagine an administration putting pressure on a television channel to fire a comedian they didn’t like.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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