Why is Jewish media relentlessly promoting Roseanne Barr?
This Roseanne Barr.
NEW YORK (JTA) — When one thinks of Roseanne Barr, ‘meditative’ is hardly the first adjective that comes to mind.
The Emmy Award-winning comedian and actress, who reached superstar status with her role as a blue-collar matriarch on her hit eponymous sitcom, was never known for her mellow side (assuming she had one). Whether in character or doing standup, she was loud, crass and often politically incorrect.
Yet despite her reputation for volume, volubility and controversy, Barr, 58, and her sister, Geraldine, will host a women’s spirituality and meditation weekend at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut later this month. The retreat will emphasize the softer, greener side of Judaism — as well as that of Barr herself.
‘I started meditating about 17 years ago,’ Barr said during a phone interview from Hawaii, where she now lives and works on the 40-acre macadamia nut farm that she bought five years ago. It is also the setting of her Lifetime reality show, ‘Roseanne’s Nuts,’ which chronicles her attempt to live a ‘radical and organic life’ with her musician boyfriend Johnny Argent, who she met on her website, Roseanne’s World. (She has claimed that others have met their basherts, or soul mates, on her site so perhaps if the farming thing doesn’t work, she might consider giving JDate a run for its money.)
No mention of her Hitler shenanigans or her ferociously anti-Israel blog. It is as if these things never existed. Now she’s such a precious little spiritual snowflake!
It is not as though she has repented and expressed remorse. Nowhere does she say “I apologize for my hateful words and actions and I sincerely regret the hurt that I have caused. I beg people to forgive me.”
No. It’s like this never happened, it should not be mentioned because, you know, she has a new hairdo!
FAIL.