Comic actress Roseanne Barr makes fun of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on her Web site blog, but its not your garden variety celebrity sniping. The so-called “Domestic Goddess” Barr tries to make political points, and in the process calls Jolie the “evil spawn” of her father Jon Voight and calls Brad Pitt “vacuous.”
Barr, who starred in the sitcom “Roseanne” from 1988-97, started off her blog post slamming actor Voight for his conservative politics. But the so-called “Domestic Goddess” soon veered off and turned her attention to Brangelina.
Barr said Pitt and Jolie make about $40 million a year starring in “violent psychopathic movies” and give away $3 million to “starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more.”
In the blog, which Barr posted on Friday, the 55-year-old actress also mocked Jolie’s adoption of children from countries in the developing world, including daughter Zahara from Ethiopia.
“… do you know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican party’s worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?” Barr wrote.
That statement puts her somewhat at odds with Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate she supports. At a widely viewed forum on Saturday, Obama praised President George W. Bush, a Republican, for his President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an initiative to fight AIDS and other diseases in Africa and around the world. Bush signed a bill last month authorizing up to $48 billion to be spent under PEPFAR.
A spokeswoman for Pitt could not immediately be reached for comment on Barr’s blog post.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)
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i agree with roseanne about angelina and brad.
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- Posted by jenniejennie
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Used to love Rosie but her trolley has left the track. Saw her nauseating site full of vicious blogs, including insulting religious references. When you lose respect for yourself, nothing is sacred…too bad that doesnt apply in the next life. Good luck Rosie babes…you had it all, and spit in the Eye of the Giver.
- Posted by DebbieIt still baffles me as to how Roseanne Barr got to be famous or have her own TV show in the first place. So she has a big mouth. Big deal. So she has opinions on everything. So what, we all do. Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold - two people who made it big by having absolutely no talent at anything whatsoever…..
- Posted by telling it like it is 2008Who is really responsible for the housing bubble bursting? Watch this video and see.
- Posted by CRhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqbgcejIT _k
While I loved Roseanne in her sitcom, I do not think it is right for her to call out on Jolie for voting for whom she wishes to choose, and really, does she have to publicize who she plans on voting for?
I also do not agree with Roseanne on this election’s candidate. She should just shut that big trap of hers, before she gets herself in trouble. Another who needs to can it is Joy Behar, anyone have any duct tape?
I can’t stand that big mouth.
Shirley
- Posted by ShirleyDI totally agree with her. When Mia Farrow adopted 16 children she did not pick them for their ‘beauty’ she picked blind children, crippled children, children who no one wanted. She did not have photo ops promoting what a great mom she was. She genuinely cared for these kids. Brangalina’s constantly parading these kids for photo ops is disgusting. Their parenting skills are pathetic..according to them they give the kids whatever they want (i.e. ice cream for breakfast), whenever they want it, have no set bed time. That’s no parenting. They say they are ‘friends’ of their children, or their children are their best friends. Come on! These are babies by all accounts. Wait until they grow up and see how much they didn’t care enough to discipline them! Their taking the easy way out. Any woman who breaks up people (Billy Bob Thornton’s engagement/Pitt’s marriage) isn’t anyone’s role model. They are nightmare parents. Also the charity money they give, sounds like they give to their own charity foundation! What’s with that!
- Posted by D. DesjardinsRoseanne Barr is right in the eyes of those who are as equally short-minded as she is. How do Brangelina’s vote change the world if not for those whose only bible are blog rags and tabloids? How Brangelina’s african girl adoption would erase the wrong the United States have been doing and still do to poor countries? Does her conception of her own country and of her candidate evolve around Brangelina?
- Posted by CarrieWhat is her point when she is critical about Brangelina’s donations? First she soo obviously misleads people about the 3 million dollars. Brangelina donates 3 times bigger than that, if not higher, and not to their foundation, but to organizations such as Medecins sans Frontieres, Education without Borders etc… and add to this thrid of Angie’s income to the UNHCR since she was only 25. For those who say that she is doing it for publicity, just take a minute to ask yourself why the other actresses don’t do the same? Are they complete dummies not to give away third of their incomes in order to have Jolie’s fame?
Jon Voight fired back and said that Roseanne is is of mind. I agree. Still I like Brangelina’s class act. I don’t care if they are famewhores or not, even then actresses and actors are all by essence famewhores, but I like the fact that they are giving because they can act otherwise. I don’t care if Angelina is a homewrecker and a husband stealer, or used to behave oddly when she was young: it’s not my home she had wrecked, I believe that husbands cannot be stolen, they leave you if they want to, and mine doesn’t leave me anyway and it’s not my life she had ruined, and on the other hand millions of kids, refugees and people in need benefit from her actions, and only this matters.
proud2bhumble, I love it when you liberals get angry. You posted nothing to back up your previous comments. I love it.
- Posted by THEHOWIEFirst off, it is so facist of Rosanne to tell anyone HOW to vote and for WHOM. Secondly to be so cruel with her comments shows us a mirror of who Rosanne is inside - and her facts are completely wrong. The bush administration has spent more and helped Africa more than any previous president including Clinton. Obama had a school named after him in Africa and promised to come back with funding to fix it up (hey what about US schools?) and never did. They interviewed the principal there. These facts come from PBS a liberal station and not from any conservative outlet. I will not vote for those who talk and lie, but those who do ACT.
- Posted by Krystal