{"id":43830,"date":"2018-06-25T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=43830"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:13:36","slug":"podcast-interview-of-emotional-roseanne-barr-released-by-rabbi-shmuley-boteach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/podcast-interview-of-emotional-roseanne-barr-released-by-rabbi-shmuley-boteach\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast interview of emotional Roseanne Barr released by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Actress Roseanne Barr became emotional and expressed regret for her tweet against a former Obama administration official during a podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43831\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43831\" class=\"wp-image-43831 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43831\" class=\"wp-image-43831 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roseanne.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-43831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roseanne Barr appears on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d in New York, April 30, 2018. (Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for NBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The interview had taken place two days after ABC canceled her popular show, a reboot of her late 1980s sitcom, over the tweet mocking Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and an African-American. The tweet said the \u201cmuslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby=vj.\u201d The actress later deleted the tweet and issued an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealroseanne\/status\/1001471669641216005\">apology,<\/a>&nbsp;saying she had made \u201ca bad joke about her politics and her looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boteach did not release the podcast at the time,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/06\/04\/news-opinion\/roseanne-sobbed-apologized-racist-tweet-unaired-interview-rabbi-shmuley-boteach\">&nbsp;saying<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cI want to give her space to reflect on the recent events and releasing the recording is a decision she will make at the appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He released the podcast early Sunday morning, a day after ABC rehired most of the cast of the&nbsp;rebooted show with reported plans to launch a new show, \u201cThe Connors,\u201d about the popular working class family but without the original show\u2019s namesake.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast was aired on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-642636263\/episode-1-roseanne-barr\">SoundCloud<\/a>, and an edited transcript was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=10156531718058331\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast, Boteach traced his 20-year relationship with Barr, who is Jewish, and noted that she \u201cloves the Torah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr broke down crying during part of the interview, telling Boteach: \u201cI\u2019m a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff. But I\u2019m not stupid, for God\u2019s sake. I never would have wittingly call any black person and say they are a monkey. I just wouldn\u2019t do that. I didn\u2019t do that. And people think that I did that and it just kills me. I didn\u2019t do that. And if they do think that, I\u2019m just so sorry that I was so unclear and stupid. I\u2019m very sorry. But I don\u2019t think that and I would never do that. I have loved ones who are African-American, and I just can\u2019t stand it. I\u2019ve made a huge error and I told ABC when they called me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr said she thought Valerie Jarrett was a white woman when she made her comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, no I don\u2019t excuse it. I horribly regret it. Are you kidding? I lost everything, and I regretted it before I lost everything. And I said to God, \u2018I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I\u2019ve done wrong.\u2019 I\u2019m going to accept what the consequences are, and I do, and I have. But they don\u2019t ever stop. They don\u2019t accept my apology or explanation. And I\u2019ve made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it\u2019s just horrible. It\u2019s horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr noted during the interview that ABC had asked her to \u201cget off Twitter\u201d when they hired her for the reboot but that she told the network: \u201cI have to tell you right now before we sign any papers that I will never stop defending Israel and the Jewish people. I cannot, if I were to do that, I would rather be dead, I can\u2019t do that. So if you want to hire me, know that. I will never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr tweeted two weeks after the original Jarrett tweet that it was not meant to be racist, but rather was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/06\/14\/news-opinion\/roseanne-barr-says-valerie-jarrett-tweet-not-racist-critical-anti-semitism\">critical<\/a>&nbsp;of anti-Semitism and the Iran deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes. It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to \u2014 the anti semitism of the Iran deal. 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