Roseanne Barr, failed Green Party presidential candidate and comedian, kind of apologized for her tweets on Wednesday attacking Chick Fil- A. Barr, who vocally opposes the stand against same-sex marriage taken by Chick-fil-A’s president, Dan Cathy, initially tweeted, “anyone who eats S*** Fil-A deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ.”
Later, Barr tweeting again “off to grab a s*** fil-A sandwich on my way to worshipping Christ, supporting Aipac and war in Iran.”
After receiving backlash regarding her insensitivity to cancer, Barr followed up with a series of tweets saying, “Rereading my tweet I realize that I used the wrong word-I shouldn’t have used the word deserves.”
“I shouldn’t have used the word deserved in my tweet and I apologize… what I meant was not that ppl deserve cancer-at all. I meant to warm ppl not 2 eat processed food.”She continued tweeting, saying, “I should have been more careful with my choice of words.’
Barr’s “apology” was short-lived and directed only at the cancer comment- not her stance on Chick Fil-A’s announcement. She continues to tweet rants against the fast food chain tweeting, “homophobes R actually helping to bring glbt rights to the fore-minds R changing quickly-#equality = #decency Thank U Mr. Cathy!”
Sad news from Chick-fil-A.
Donald Perry, Chick-fil-A's vice president of corporation public relations, has died of a heart attack, according to WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Georgia.
He was a long-time employee of Chick-fil-A, and has often been a spokesperson for the company.
Here's the statement from Chick-fil-A:
"We are saddened to report the news to you that our dear friend Don Perry, vice president of public relations, passed away suddenly this morning.
"Don was a member of our Chick-fil-A family for nearly 29 years. For many of you in the media, he was the spokesperson for Chick-fil-A. He was a well-respected and well-liked media executive in the Atlanta and University of Georgia communities, and we will all miss him.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
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I know the head of their PR team is obviously not a celebrity but I thought this was interesting considering how much they have been scrambling for good publicity this week (even going as far to create a fake teenager on Facebook to back up their policies and spit out Bible verses). Then there was the bonus addition of Roseanne's Twitter so I figured why not.