Roseanne deserves her banishment, but we’ll lose a lot with her | Suzanne Moore

I can’t forgive her these latest awful tweets, yet she was once a rare voice that connected conservative and liberal America

As the new king of primetime, Richard Madeley said of Roseanne Barr’s disgusting tweets that sedatives don’t make you racist. Barr, whose show has now been cancelled, left Twitter after comparing a woman of colour to an ape and then reappeared claiming that the sleeping pill Ambien had made her say these awful things. She has also said that she is being picked on while other celebrities are not.

Her excellent cast has distanced itself from her outbursts, but still she goes on. Watching this woman has for some time been like watching a car crash, and yet her talent is undeniable.

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