Ambien manufacturer Sanofi issued a masterfully worded public statement on Wednesday in response to recently-fired ABC TV star Roseanne Barr’s latest Twitter meltdown.
In a series of wackadoodle tweets she posted late last night, ‘Roseanne’ blamed Sanofi’s prescription sleep medication for the racist tweets that got her eponymous show canceled.
She compares a black person who worked for our former President as ape-like, a grotesque old trope of white supremacists.
Sanofi’s response to Roseanne:
“Racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”
Previously, because life’s too short to link to her Twitter account:
Barr said in a series of Tweets on Tuesday and early on Wednesday that what she did was “unforgivable” when she posted on Twitter that if the Islamist political movement “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj,” referring to Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to President Barack Obama.
“It was 2 in the morning and I was Ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible,” she wrote. “I made a mistake I wish I hadn’t but…don’t defend it please.”
In other Tweets, Barr said that she was tired of “being attacked and belittled more than other comedians who have said worse” and asked for people not to boycott ABC, saying that the network has the right to “do what they wish.”