<img src="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKLBarr.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> Actress/comedian <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001683/">Roseanne Barr</a>, who claims to be a psychic (“I channel the higher mind, the higher universal mind”), used the made-up word “overcomeable” and employed teenage phrases such as “like” and “totally,” insisted on Monday night's <a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/jimmykimmel/index.html"><i>Jimmy Kimmel Live</i></a> on ABC that she would win a battle of intelligence with President Bush. Barr recounted how she's “going around telling jokes about our country and our people and the world and how screwed up everything is. And I just basically bitch.” She soon maintained about Bush: "I could totally win him in a mind contest." Barr, the star of the mid-1980s to early 1990s ABC sit-com <i>Roseanne</i>, elaborated: “Like if it was like a psychic thing and he was like, okay Rosanne, bring your best powers against my best powers, even though he's like totally world-wide connected, and I'm not so world-wide, I could so totally still win on account of like being female, being a grandmother and like, you know, being intelligent. I could totally win."<br /><br />Barr, who made the appearance to plug a new DVD of the first season of the <i>Roseanne</i> sit-com, boasted: “I have been psychic since I was very young, about three-years-old. Whenever I touch someone, I pick up all their vibes and stuff. So that's why I don't like to shake hands or touch people because I see like, you know, them dying in horrible car wrecks and stuff like that and it's depressing." Apparently, that was just a joke. (Full transcript follows.)<br /><br /> <b>Video</b> excerpt: <a href="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKL.rm">Real</a> or <a href="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKL.wmv">Windows Media</a> <!--break--><p> From Barr's appearance on the Monday night, October 17 <i>Jimmy Kimmel Live</i> on ABC, which usually really airs early the next morning, at 12:07am EDT/PDT, but because of Monday Night Football, was pushed back to past 1:30am EDT and 12:30am CDT:</p><blockquote>Jimmy Kimmel: "Are you still going around the country, are you still talking about the President and politics and that sort of thing?"<br /><br />Roseanne Barr: "Well, I was doing standup around the President, you know, on election day when I went with Michael Moore to all those colleges. You know and that's why I came here to do stand-up. That's kind of like what I'm still doing, going around telling jokes about our country and our people and the world and how screwed up everything is. And I just basically bitch. I'm really good at it."<br /><br />Kimmel: "Do you think it helps? Do you think it helps at all?"<br /><br />Barr: "I think it really helps to laugh at stuff because then it doesn't seem like so overcomeable. Do you know what I mean? You got to laugh it into scorn and like move on. Because I think when people laugh at stuff, you can, once it's a laughing stock, it changes the whole chemistry of it I think."<br /><br />Kimmel: "It does. We laugh and it and we decide not to do anything about it."<br /><br />Barr: "Well, you think that's true?" <br /><br />Kimmel: "Yeah. I don't think we laugh at the scorn, I think we laugh until like [sighs] 'okay, what's next? We got our-'"<br /><br />Barr: "I think that if you like kind of make fun of it in the way that you're kind of an idiot if you don't do something, then it will work."<br /><br />Kimmel: "You think so?"<br /><br />Barr: "Yeah, absolutely."<br /><br />Kimmel: "I don't know. I don't know."<br /><br />Barr: "I do."<br /><br />Kimmel: "I think President Bush has decided certain things and I don't think there's any convincing him. Just like other people, just like, maybe you've decided things and he probably couldn't convince you of anything."<br /><br />Barr: "I could totally win him in a mind contest."<br /><br />Kimmel: "You think so?"<br /><br />Barr: "I could totally win out on him."<br /><br />Kimmel: "In a what? In a mind-"<br /><br />Barr: "In a mind contest."<br /><br />Kimmel: "Really? Well, I'd love to see that happen. That would be the greatest-"<br /><br />Barr: "Like if it was like a psychic thing and he was like, okay Rosanne, bring your best powers against my best powers, even though he's like totally world-wide connected, and I'm not so world-wide, I could so totally still win on account of like being female, being a grandmother and like, you know, being intelligent. I could totally win."<br /><br />Kimmel: "I'd love to see that." [applause]</blockquote><br /><br />Barr soon added: <br /><blockquote>"I channel the higher mind, the higher universal mind. And it comes through me with the answer. And I have to say it's not from me, it's threw through me. So I don't think people should get mad at me."<br /><br />Kimmel: "What percentage of the time are you right?"<br /><br />Barr: "I am one hundred percent correct at all times."</blockquote><br />Following an ad break:<br /><blockquote>Barr: "I have been psychic since I was very young, about three-years-old. Whenever I touch someone, I pick up all their vibes and stuff. So that's why I don't like to shake hands or touch people because I see like, you know, them dying in horrible car wrecks and stuff like that and it's depressing."</blockquote>Barr conceded she was just kidding about seeing people die in car wrecks.
