Yesterday, ABC announced it will not renew the hit show Roseanne, the reboot of the '90s sitcom. Late last night, Roseanne Barr, the show's star and namesake, took to Twitter with a racist "joke" about Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Barrack Obama.
She wrote: "muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby = vj"
Barr later apologized for the joke she said was "in bad taste," deleted it, and then announced she would be leaving Twitter. In a statement, Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, explained why the network took swift action.
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