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Los Angeles Times
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Christie D'Zurilla

Roseanne Barr explains, sort of, that racist Valerie Jarrett tweet in bizarre new video

OK, Roseanne Barr, you made your point. But at this late date, does it even matter?

The "Roseanne" star posted a bizarre, profane video to YouTube late Thursday that seems to be a humorous explanation _ or a 1,000 percent unhinged version, depending on your perspective _ of what she meant in the tweet that sank her rebooted career back in May.

Do not expect a calm, rational apology. You won't find it here.

"I'm trying to talk about Iran. I'm trying to talk about Valerie Jarrett with the Iran deal," the comic says in the video. She's "arguing" with whoever is "running" the show off camera.

"That's what my tweet was about," she says. (The tweet in question compared Jarrett to an ape, which ABC didn't tolerate and promptly canceled its hit revival of "Roseanne.")

When the man in the video protests that yes, he knows what Barr meant _ because she has told him "300 times" _ she loses it.

"I thought the ... was whiiiiiite!," Roseanne bellows. ".... I thought the .... was whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite."

Time to go back on the Ambien?

And then the minute, and with it her statement, is over. So make of it what you will. Her Twitter account was, as it has been since late June, quiet on the topic Friday morning.

You can watch the video interview, which is loaded with profanity, on YouTube.

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