Opinion: The devil didn’t make me do it — it was Ambien. Nice try, Roseanne
Roseanne Barr doesn't get a free ride for her racist tweet just because she took Ambien.
by Allen Frances
May 30, 2018
2 minutes
Roseanne Barr reminds us how hard it is for people not to be themselves, even when it propels them to self-destructive behavior with awful consequences. Barr’s recent smash TV comeback after 20 years was engineered on the cynical calculation that her racism and xenophobia might now attract a huge new audience of like-minded supporters of President Trump. If anything, the network greatly underestimated the show’s entertainment value — the, suddenly vaulting her to first place among TV comedies.
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