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This is a woman who was an early supporter of Birtherism, has compared Muslims to Nazis, took to Twitter regularly to attack citizens both private and public, floated wild conspiracy theories and bullied Trump opponents with racist, homophobic, and antisemitic insults. She infamously dressed up as Hitler in a photo shoot and posed with burnt ‘Jew cookies’ and has promoted anti-Semitic personalities.And if her xenophobia wasn’t enough, her conspiracy theories must have been. From JJ McCullough at National Review just last month:
Barr has never met a conspiracy theory she didn’t love. She’s a 9-11 truther who believes that “ Bush did it,” and she has called the Boston Marathon bombing one of many “ false flag terror attacks” perpetrated by the Obama administration to “remove” the Second Amendment. For good measure, she also believes that the old man Bush killed JFK.ABC knew about all of this before they decided to re-launch the show. So remind me again why we are applauding ABC? To quote S.E. Cupp:
As risks go, Roseanne came with a ton of them. How did ABC think this was going to go? Suddenly becoming a network star again would put the crazy back in the bottle?… You either knew what you were getting or you hoped no one would care.But this isn’t new. Keith Olberman was just hired— again—by ESPN. Just after calling the secretary of education a “motherf*****” on Twitter and spending the year tweeting profanity laden rants about the president—and plenty of time before that personally attacking prominent women with whom he disagrees— ESPN decided to bring him back into the fold. It’s hard to imagine there aren’t more noble and kind people who could do the job better, and with more integrity, than a jerk like Keith Olberman.
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