How did this even start?

Valerie Jarrett responds to Roseanne's racist Twitter rant: 'A teaching moment'

Why on earth did R feel moved to attack VJ, anyway?

Obama has been out of the White House for some 15 months.

The ape thing is classic racism, but what's up with the Muslim thing?

Valerie Jarrett, a former top aide to President Barack Obama, reacted to actress Roseanne Barr's racist Twitter rant that led to the cancellation of the television sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday by saying that the incident should become "a teaching moment."

In one tweet, Barr wrote, "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" in reference to Jarrett. ABC announced it was canceling "Roseanne" in the aftermath of the Twitter outburst.

And Bozo, of course, used the occasion to whine about ABC's coverage of himself.

"Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that 'ABC does not tolerate comments like those' made by Roseanne Barr," Trump tweeted Wednesday. 

"Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?"

This is interesting.

Cole is a fully compliant liberal, so in his mind anything you really want to damn you have to call racism.

No matter how often it is pointed out that Islam is a religion whose followers are of all races, they will never concede that religious and political hostility toward or suspicion of Muslims is (a) not necessarily unreasonable and (b) not per se a form of racism.

And despite the fact that Islam's most dangerous followers are generally whites in or from the Middle East or Iran.

Ms. Jarrett is African-American, and ape comparisons are an ugly staple of anti-Black discourse. 

Even the right wing comic Wanda Sykes (a former National Security Agency employee) resigned from the show as production consultant.

The internet has been thick with falsehoods for years about Ms. Jarrett having wanted to promote Islam in the US. 

Apparently these lies derive from her having been born in Shiraz, Iran, while her father, an American physician, was helping out at a hospital there. The family is not Muslim. 

The connection from there to the Muslim Brotherhood is ignorance, since the Brotherhood is Sunni but Iran is largely Shiite.

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It probably does not need to be said that it was the ‘planet of the apes’ crack rather than the weird invocation of the Muslim Brotherhood that got Barr fired. 

Racist language against Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians is virtually the only uncontroversial hate speech in today’s America. 

Barr even did a segment about Muslim neighbors with strong Islamophobic overtones.