Last Week, Roseanne Barr Told Adweek She Was Turning Over a New Leaf on Twitter. It Didn’t Work

She recently sent out a racist tweet about an Obama adviser

During last week’s cover story about the triumphant return of her series Roseanne this spring, Roseanne Barr told Adweek that she was going to try a new social media approach when it comes to her frequently controversial Twitter feed: “I’m going to just try to talk about what I’m for, rather than what I’m against.”

Well, that didn’t last long.

Barr once again finds herself under fire this morning after she attacked President Obama’s White House adviser Valerie Jarrett on Twitter, comparing her to the movie Planet of the Apes and the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood.

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