Article snippet: ABC canceled its top-rated comedy “Roseanne” on Tuesday in a stunning move that came just hours after the show’s star Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, the former aide to President Obama. “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement announcing the end of the “Roseanne” reboot, a politically tinged show and ratings monster. Roseanne Barr, a 65-year-old comedian and staunch Trump defender, had written that the ex-White House adviser was the child of the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood and the movie “Planet of the Apes.” “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr wrote on Tuesday morning, using Jarrett’s initials. The message was in response to a tweet accusing Jarrett of helping to “hide” misdeeds by the Obama administration. The March “Roseanne” premiere reportedly averaged 18.1 million viewers, the highest-rated regularly scheduled scripted show of the last few seasons. It made headlines for its lead character's defense of Trump, who publicly cheered the show's “unbelievable” ratings and personally called Barr to congratulate her. “Look at Roseanne. Look at her ratings,” Trump said during a March speech in Ohio focused on infrastructure. “Over 18 million people [watched] — and it was about us!” Trump told the crowd. “The fake news hasn’t quite figured it out … ... Link to the full article to read more