Rosie O'Donnell should let the door hit her on the way out. And we hope it hurts.
The outspoken, pompous commentator first riled out celebrity gossip-loving feathers when she got into a tiff months ago with the adorable Kelly Ripa. Since then, Rosie has mocked Asians and blamed America for the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
Earlier this week, meanwhile, O'Donnell reportedly acted like a kindergarten child after an argument on The View.
After a heated discussed with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie allegedly trashed her dressing room in anger. Moreover, her chief writer, Janette Barber, was escorted from ABC studios after she was caught drawing moustaches on photos of Elisabeth hanging around the building.
To paraphrase Meredith Grey: Seriously? Seriously, Rosie?!?
Indeed, ABC confirmed that "photographs at 'The View's" offices were defaced," though it adds that the world's most offensive lesbian wasn't around when it happened.
As for the dressing room meltdown, ABC denies it. But O'Donnell continues to be cryptic about whether she's coming back next week, with her latest blog posting saying, "There is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done."
There's also a point where YOU need to spell like a grown-up, Rosie. That said, we agree that it's time for you to go. You'd made the canvas at The View uglier than Seth Rogen.
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May 25th, 2007 9:01 AM
i think what rosie did was very heroic. It takes guts to tell the truth on national television. Journalists from all over the world tell a different story than what the American people get from their media sources. it's really fascinating to live in a diff country than the USA and have access to all neutral information sources. the pic that rosie portrays (albeit not conveyed in the appropriate form) is the most accurate. It's unfortunate that there is so much reluctance in the USA to accept it.
May 25th, 2007 11:19 AM
Rosie cannot handle a reasoned discussion. While this may be the case for many on both sides of the fence, she elevates it to the point of insanity. Apparently, like many these days, she believes that the loudest and last argument means that it was the best argument. She threw out the question that does lead a reasonable person to infer that she believes we are acting as nothing but terrorists in the case of Iraq.
Case in point. Rosie's citing of the 650K figure from a recent study tells me that she looked no further into the study than the post-invasion number. Rosie's insinuation is that the US is responsible for all of these deaths and that all of the victims were innocents.
What are a few things that Rosie fails to mention?
* The estimated death count range of the report is between 400K and 900K.
* The researchers did not qualify whether or not the death count was for an innocent, an insurgent, a fighter, a criminal, etc. It was not only for innocent men, women, and children.
* The total percentage of violent deaths attributed to coalition (includes the full coalition…not just the US) action was 31%. Not 100% as Rosie insinuates.
* 50K deaths are reported to have occurred without violence or due to normal accidents.
These are just a few of the things Rosie doesn't mention. She married herself to the 650K number and ran with it. She truly does need to stand on her own statements. It's not Elisabeth's responsibility to explain Rosie's comments.
Based on how she responds to disagreement, opposing Rosie is equivalent to being a close-minded religious nut…being bigoted…being unintelligent…you name it. For some reason, there are people in the world who believe that "being true to yourself" or "standing up for what you believe" is the same as being a well-informed participant in the discussion. This is not true.
Rosie is proof.
May 25th, 2007 12:29 PM
The following was posted on Rosie's blog a while ago, but has already been removed:
Please pull the plug on this and leave TV now - there is nothing to gain by staying but plenty to lose, particularly if you piss off veterans on Memorial day
monday is my last show
it was pre taped
Am I being stupid or are you saying you are not going back to The View for the last few weeks? If I were you I wouldn't either but what about your contract?
abc has been very understanding
Looks like she's gone.
May 25th, 2007 1:06 PM
Starfan, you say Rosie is wrong in her numbers of 650K. Okay, fair enough, let's look at the numbers you posted. 400K to 900K killed x 31% coalition = 124K to 279K. Considering the US make up about 90% of the coalition forces let's make it 110K to 250K for the Americans. Then let's look at the fact that Shias and Sunnis wouldn't be in the midst of a civil war if America hadn't opened the door for this to happen. How many died because of that - look what we're back to - approx 650K Iraqis. You really think your numbers make Rosie look stupid?
May 25th, 2007 3:17 PM
Rosie, if you made the comment that our troops are mercenaries, YOU DEFEND IT. Stop being a COWARD, stop calling others COWARDS, and DEFEND IT YOUR OWN D*** SELF!!!
My husband is retired Army military intelligence who served in Desert Storm and Desert Shield IN THE DESERT, COMMANDING TROOPS, AVOIDING BOMBS, my daughter and son-in-law are deployable in the Army, and I have two nephews in the Marines. How would you like it if the children you love so much were serving and someone accused them of simply VOLUNTEERING to MURDER people for a monthly check??
If you're going to make the call, present the facts when someone asks for them or SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!! I know you have facts because you love to throw them around, accurate or not. Why'd you stop now? Huh? Elisabeth did nothing but do what everyone else has tried to make you do for along time...make you responsible for your own statements and you got mad at her for it. She didn't defend you because she shouldn't have had to!! She didn't make the comment; she didn't know what was in your head and she was waiting for you to explain yourself just like the rest of us. You just got angry and thought you could dump the blame on her. SURPRISE!! She didn't let you walk on her.
Tell me, DO YOU MEAN FOR THE WORDS TO COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH THAT WAY, OR DO THEY JUST SPILL OUT IN THAT IDIOTIC ORDER??!!!!
Joanna Haynes
Damn proud to be married to, mom of and aunt to service men and women because they're there GIVING their lives...YES, MY HUSBAND HAS COLLEAGUES WHO'VE BEEN BROUGHT HOME IN BODY BAGS YOU UNGRATEFUL B****, so you can spout off!!!!!!
May 25th, 2007 3:39 PM
loveslife: "Then let's look at the fact that Shias and Sunnis wouldn't be in the midst of a civil war if America hadn't opened the door for this to happen."
That's an interesting perspective. Perhaps we could have continued to let Saddam "repress" the uprisings of his dissenters. I wonder what his death count would look like by now had we stayed out of his way. Furthermore, we could probably make a case that there would not have been as many Jews killed by the Nazis if everyone would have just let Hitler do his thing. The desparate push made near the end of his reign might not have happened at all by your logic.
Your reasoning is that of a simpleton. The conflict is unpredictable by its very nature. You conveniently leave out the context of a Saddam-led Iraq and the Middle East. It's not a peace loving as one would think by reading your comments as if the Shias and Sunnis somehow just decided to start engaging one another.
loveslife: "How many died because of that - look what we're back to - approx 650K Iraqis. You really think your numbers make Rosie look stupid?"
Back to the numbers. I'm not sure that I'm ready to hang my hat on numbers generated by a group who also published a 2004 report with a range of 9000 to 194000. This range was for the death toll 18 months post-invasion. It's not a report that has been verified in any sense of the word and it's numbers are far greater than any other publicly available report.
That still seems pretty stupid to me. For one, it makes her look like she does absolutely no research. Secondly, it only makes her look less intelligent by ASSERTING the numbers in justification for her idiotic statement. And finally, it is a simpleton's argument to say that we are the cause of the number because we went in to Iraq in the first place.
Do yourself a little history favor and go back through the claims and public statements made by politicians on both sides of the fence and your Monday-morning quarterback intelligence should dissipate if you are intellectually honest with yourself.
May 25th, 2007 3:40 PM
Army Pfc. Johnathon Millican of Trafford, Ala., wrote on his MySpace page before he was killed in Karbala, Iraq: "You don't have to love the war but you have to love the warrior."
May 25th, 2007 4:07 PM
SERIOUSLY, I THINK ROSIE IS A PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC. SHE SHOWS ALL THE SIGNS.
May 25th, 2007 4:55 PM
Thank god for Rosie!!! Finally an american that speaks the truth. It's about time you americans need to wake up seriously you voted Bush in for the second time??? I totally respect Rosie she is the only one speaking the truth. And you wonder why the rest of the world is beginning to hate the US and for good reason. IF there were more people like Rosie in the US maybe things would be different, like not having to buy Canadian flags and stickers and Tshirts etc. for when they travel so they get treated with respect because Americans sure aren't and I wonder why. Rosie speaks the truth and then gets slammed for giving the facts. WAKE UP AMERICA
May 25th, 2007 5:02 PM
Linda: "Finally an american that speaks the truth. It's about time you americans need to wake up seriously you voted Bush in for the second time???"
You truly are an uninformed idiot if you belief that Rosie deals in truth. The woman is a highly medicated victim of depression, and probably schizophrenia. If Americans are hated because of Bush then the rest of the world (only those of your intellect) is truly made up of morons who cannot disassociate a people from their government.
Linda: "I totally respect Rosie she is the only one speaking the truth."
Another moron who gives more respect to someone for being an obnoxious loudmouth who "speaks her mind" than to those with verifiable credibility.
Linda: "IF there were more people like Rosie in the US maybe things would be different,.."
Well, that's for sure. We would all get blogs and type like little teenage girls talking to our BFFs instead of actually putting together some coherant sentences that actually explain a position.
Wherever you are, I doubt most Americans would mind if you stay there.