ABC announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the hit sitcom "Roseanne" following "abhorrent" comments from the show's star, Roseanne Barr, who had compared former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have
decided to cancel her show," Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement Tuesday.
Critics immediately slammed Barr's remark as racist. Likening black people to apes is an attack commonly used by racists. The Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, is an Islamist political group. Barr had apologized for her comments earlier in the day and said she would be refraining from using her Twitter account, which was still live at the time of publication.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have
decided to cancel her show," Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement Tuesday.
In a since-deleted tweet, Barr said of Jarrett: "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."
Critics immediately slammed Barr's remark as racist. Likening black people to apes is an attack commonly used by racists. The Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, is an Islamist political group. Barr had apologized for her comments earlier in the day and said she would be refraining from using her Twitter account, which was still live at the time of publication.
