{"id":1965023,"date":"2023-07-05T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-over-70m-views-in-twitter-comeback-with-help-from-musk\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:34:56","slug":"roseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-over-70m-views-in-twitter-comeback-with-help-from-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-over-70m-views-in-twitter-comeback-with-help-from-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseanne Barr&#8217;s explosive interview goes viral, amassing 70M views on Twitter with Musk&#8217;s support."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Froseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-over-70m-views-in-twitter-comeback-with-help-from-musk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Roseanne Barr&#8217;s Viral Interview Explodes Over 70M Views in Twitter Comeback with Help from Musk<\/h2>\n<p>Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr continues to trend on social media more than two weeks after her viral comments about the Holocaust sparked indignant headlines and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-seeks-to-reimpose-sanctions-on-iran-backed-houthis-after-uae-terror-strike\/\" title=\"Congress Seeks To Reimpose Sanctions on Iran-Backed Houthis After UAE Terror Strike\">drew widespread condemnation<\/a> from liberal media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter owner and former CEO Elon Musk jumped into the fray Sunday, and as a result, Barr not only was restored to the platform after yearslong banishment, but her controversial June 14 interview was reposted on his site.<\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted out his approval of Theo Von\u2019s post containing the podcast with Barr, declaring, \u201cComedy is legal on this platform!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>WARNING: Von\u2019s conversation with Barr contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Comedy is legal on this platform! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1ZslWmxBK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/G1ZslWmxBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1675539077607596033?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk\u2019s action was a sharp contrast to that of YouTube, which had deleted Von\u2019s interview with Barr and had posted a notice saying the recording violated its \u201chate speech\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>Barr responded to Musk\u2019s announcement Monday in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-over-70m-views-in-twitter-comeback-with-help-from-musk\/\" title=\"Roseanne Barr's explosive interview goes viral, amassing 70M views on Twitter with Musk's support.\">typical saucy style<\/a>, thumbing her nose at critics and flaunting the Twitter post\u2019s popularity for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamn it feels good to be a gangster,\u201d she said. \u201cThank you @michaelmalice for getting me my twitter back! 62 million views isn\u2019t bad for a multi-cancelled has been. Thanks @elonmusk for fact checking the mind controlled bots after me and for giving @TheoVon a platform. Comedy is back!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Damn it feels good to be a gangster. Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmalice?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@michaelmalice<\/a> for getting me my twitter back! 62 million views isn\u2019t bad for a multi-cancelled has been. Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@elonmusk<\/a> for fact checking the mind controlled bots after me and for giving <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheoVon?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheoVon<\/a> a platform. Comedy is back! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qRFhyeBVQj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/qRFhyeBVQj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealroseanne\/status\/1676056946112184321?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By Wednesday, the Theo Von podcast had more than 70 million views on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My podcast with Roseanne was removed from another platform so i want it to be able to live somewhere. Amen! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IjL5JGg0gG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/IjL5JGg0gG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Theo Von (@TheoVon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheoVon\/status\/1675248238226706432?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Liberal media outlets last week reported only a snippet of the original podcast conversation, an omission that served to make Barr \u2014 who confirmed in the interview that she is \u201c100 percent Jewish\u201d \u2014 sound like a dyed-in-the-wool antisemitic Holocaust denier.<\/p>\n<p>Many who heard the comments in context, though, came away with a different perception.<\/p>\n<p>Von was quick to rise to Barr\u2019s defense, proclaiming Barr was \u201cobviously using sarcasm and satire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He posted a clip of the conversation on his Twitter feed last week for viewers to judge for themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is the full clip of Roseanne Barr obviously using sarcasm and satire. She is a mensch and one of the funniest people i\u2019ve ever met. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p0K6pWEqr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/p0K6pWEqr8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Theo Von (@TheoVon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheoVon\/status\/1673767148794290176?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussion in the clip touched on the 2020 election, which Barr \u2014 a supporter of former President Donald Trump \u2014 at first appeared to emphatically insist \u201cwas not rigged,\u201d with Joe Biden receiving a \u201cmandate\u201d from 81 million voters in only 36 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Her punch line was a comment about censorship: \u201cAnd don\u2019t you dare say anything against it, or you\u2019ll be off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other ones,\u201d she deadpanned, adding, \u201cAnd nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That\u2019s the truth. It should happen \u2014 6 million Jews should die right now, because they cause all the problems in the world. But it never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sarcasm of the remark was similar to the line people use to indicate they\u2019ve just told a whopper: \u201cIf you believe that, I\u2019ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Barr\u2019s comments have landed her in hot water.<\/p>\n<p>She was booted from her ABC sitcom \u201cRoseanne\u201d in 2018 after remarks about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett were condemned as racist.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/roseanne-barrs-viral-interview-explodes-70m-views-twitter-comeback-help-musk\/\">Roseanne Barr&#8217;s Viral Interview Explodes Over 70M Views in Twitter Comeback with Help from Musk<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Roseanne Barr&#8217;s controversial Holocaust comments still dominate social media, even after two weeks. The liberal media expressed outrage, but now former Twitter CEO Elon Musk has joined the conversation. Surprisingly, Barr&#8217;s status was reinstated due to this unexpected involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":1965024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}