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The Daily Beast reports: Comedian Roseanne Barr stepped off the deep end by connecting the [drone] sightings to a conspiracy championed by Infowars founder Alex Jones called “Project Blue Beam.” The decades-old conspiracy posits that the government will stage a fake alien invasion as a way to create mass panic and institute authoritarian controls over society. Jones and others have …

Mediaite reports: During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s cross-country tour, Roseanne Barr insisted that “they” — as always, it’s never quite clear who “they” are, but one assumes given the context she means Democrats — “eat babies,” and “love the taste of human flesh, and they drink human blood.” Perhaps sensing that her QAnon-adjacent takes would find skepticism in an …

Back in January, Glenn Beck wrote this: On January 12, 1971, Archie Bunker walked through his front door at 704 Hauser Street for the first time, launching “All in the Family,” which would become the intersection of discussion where 1960s-era counterculture collided with blue-collar, middle-class families in the early 1970s. Now, the house on 704 Hauser Street sits inside Stage …

The New York Times reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confessed on Sunday that he had left a dead bear cub in Central Park in Manhattan in 2014 because he thought it would be “amusing.” Mr. Kennedy posted a video detailing the bizarre story on social media apparently ahead of an article in The New Yorker. In the video, Mr. Kennedy …

“It doesn’t really matter who the Democrats choose because the president is Obama, and he’s in his third term now, and he’ll be running for his fourth term. “And I love that he has the brains behind the Democrat Party say that if Trump is elected, Trump will be a dictator who will refuse to relinquish power, when in fact …

“How’re you doing? I’m here at Mar-a-Lago supporting Kari Lake and it was a fantastic evening and our Trump is here, being the DJ, and I’ve just danced and everyone’s amazed. So I’m just going to say to you, please drop out of college because it’s going to ruin your lives. Do me a favor, drop out, they don’t teach …

Mediaite reports: TV superstar-turned-MAGA comic Roseanne Barr took her rally speech to 11 with an ear-splitting call-and-response in which she dubbed former President Donald Trump “the MAGA-DOR” who would slay the “DEEP STATE BULL!” Barr — whose career imploded after a racist tweet that was followed by other unhinged tweets — was one of several opening acts. At one point, …

Salon reports: Roseanne Barr recently posited a wacky theory that the coronavirus pandemic is an effort to eliminate baby boomers like herself. “You know what it is, Norm? I think they’re just trying to get rid of all my generation,” Barr told Macdonald during the Sunday interview on his informal YouTube talk show “Quarantined with Norm Macdonald,” in which he …

The Palm Beach Post reports: Controversial comedienne Roseanne Barr will be the honored guest at the next Trumpettes gala, The Palm Beach Post has learned exclusively. Trumpettes USA Inc.’s third annual gala, will be held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Feb. 1, the evening before the Super Bowl. The choice date — a Saturday evening at the height …

From an interview with Britain’s Daily Mail: After a tumultuous year and a half, which saw Roseanne Barr fired from her own successful sitcom revival, the star is stepping back on stage in a new comeback comedy tour. She feels like there is more to her departure from ABC than just the shocking social media post and wonders if there …

“Man, the word ‘fag’ is a really hateful word, isn’t it? Especially when it’s like one gay calling another gay guy that? Hoo! Have you ever been in the middle of one of them hate marriages? Hoo! It’s like, wait a minute, we’re not supposed to say that word. How come you’re saying that word? “What? Oh, I just can’t …

USA Today reports: After blaming Ambien, herself (briefly) and anti-Semitism for her 2018 firing after a racist tweet about former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, Roseanne Barr is now pointing the finger at former first lady Michelle Obama and former ABC programming chief Channing Dungey. “(Obama) said, ‘This tweet is unforgivable.’ That’s what I was told and I tend to believe …

The Jerusalem Post reports: Roseanne Barr told The Jerusalem Post this week that she was fired by ABC from the reboot of her sitcom due in part to antisemitism. “I feel that what happened to me, a large part of it is antisemitism,” the Jewish actress told the Post in a phone interview on Thursday from her home in Hawaii. …

The Jewish Forward reports: Actress Roseanne Barr will visit the Israeli Knesset in late January to speak out against the boycott, divest and sanctions movement. Barr, a pro-Israel activist, is set to tour Israel with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, founder of the World Values Network. She reportedly was invited to speak at the Knesset by Deputy Speaker Yechiel Hilik Bar and …

Yale Law School librarian Fred Shapiro has issued his annual list of the year’s most memorable quotes. Here’s the top five: 1. “Truth isn’t truth.” — Rudy Giuliani, interview on “Meet the Press,” Aug. 19. 2. “I liked beer. I still like beer.” — Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on his Supreme Court nomination, Sept. 27. 3. “While …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Roseanne Barr isn’t happy with the way her character’s disappearance from the Conners’ household was explained on ABC’s Roseanne spinoff The Conners on Tuesday night. “I AIN’T DEAD, BITCHES!!!!” the comedian and actress tweeted just an hour after the episode finished airing. In a more measured joint statement with her friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach released late …

The New York Daily News reports: Roseanne Barr said she hopes to be living in Israel and studying the Torah when “The Conners” hits the airwaves without her this fall. The fired “Roseanne” star revealed her plan for the spinoff show’s October premiere during an appearance on the conservative “Promised Land” podcast Sunday. Barr said if she were to stay …

Here is the official synopsis: “After a sudden turn of events, the Conners are forced to face the daily struggles of life in Lanford in a way they never have before. This iconic family — Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J. — grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America. Through it all, …

The Decider reports: Now that ABC is officially going forward with The Conners, there’s a Roseanne-shaped elephant in the room. How will the show continue without its star? The logline for The Conners suggests that Roseanne has died: the series “will follow the Conner family who, after a sudden turn of events, are forced to face the daily struggles of …

“If she’s watching, I’m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist. Because it wasn’t. It was political. I’m sorry for the misunderstanding that caused, my ill-worded tweet. And you know I’m sorry that you feel harmed and hurt. I never meant that. And for that I apologize. I never meant to …