<p>The popular television show Roseanne was canceled this week after its leading actress made a politically incorrect joke about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Muslim brotherhood &; planet of the apes had baby = vj,&rdquo; tweeted Roseanne Barr at 1:45 AM on Tuesday. According to NBC, the joke came in response to accusations that Obama had spied on French presidential candidates and that Jarrett had helped Obama &ldquo;hide a lot.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Barr apologized for the joke the next morning, which she said &ldquo;was in bad taste.&rdquo; She apologized to ABC, to the cast and crew of Roseanne, to her fans, and to the &ldquo;hundreds of hardworking people to lose their jobs.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Barr apologized directly to Jarrett and claimed that her &ldquo;whole life has been about fighting racism.&rdquo; She also apologized for an earlier tweet suggesting Chelsea Clinton&rsquo;s middle name was &ldquo;Soros.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Barr blamed the tweet about Jarrett on Ambien, a sleep aid used to treat insomnia. That same day, she retweeted an image of Jarrett next to an ape.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Guys I did something unforgivable so do not defend me,&rdquo; tweeted Barr. &ldquo;It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting &#8211; it was memorial day too &#8211; I went 2 far &; do not want it defended&hellip;I made a mistake I wish I hadn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>The response from Ambien-manufacturer Sanofi was priceless: &ldquo;While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of a Sanofi medication.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>ABC canceled Roseanne on Tuesday after two cast members quit.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Roseanne&rsquo;s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel the show,&rdquo; said the network. ;</p>
<p>In follow-up tweets on Tuesday night (many of which she later deleted), Barr said that she thought Jarrett was &ldquo;Jewish and Persian&rdquo; and accused George Soros of collaborating with the Nazis. She also suggested she was fired over her support for President Trump.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> She is probably right that she was fired over her support for Trump, but that does not excuse obnoxious behavior.</p>
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