Posted on 11/23/2014 9:38:43 AM PST by RightGeek
They might as well change its name from “The View” to “The Feud.”
A shrill, backstage brawl at “The View” Wednesday left co-host Rosie Perez in tears while panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell battled over how to cover the latest allegations against Bill Cosby and the racially charged upheaval in Ferguson, Mo., sources said.
O’Donnell believed the show — now overseen by ABC News — needed to delve deeper into both controversial subjects, while Goldberg wanted to steer clear of the topics altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Two RATS in knock down drag out—I love it. Draw some blood little girls.
Hee-hee. Schadenfreude.
I admit it - I love it.
(Bad, kitty. Bad, bad. kitty.)
Yeah sure....right. I don’t believe this story. It is all for ratings no doubt.
Note that Whoopi has been on The View since the beginning, and this is Rosie’s second time. She left before, either fired or resigned, under a cloud. If nothing else, Whoopi knows how to keep her gravy train going.
Best example of a victimless crime I’ve heard about in years...the competition for the lowest rung on the ladder in Progressive Town is intense.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1823102/posts
Rosie’s Success, and Failure: A Post-Mortem, or, “America, Say Goodbye to Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy”
Today, silly | Silly
Posted on 4/25/2007, 1:51:53 AM by Silly
Let’s be real, folks: Television has merely been using Rosie. It needed her to boost ratings (and therefore dollars), by creating controversy and trapping eyes in the headlights.
Rosie brought little or no inherent talent or views of value to television. But she’s loud and pushy, and loud and pushy people tend to get heard over quiet, decent people. For a time, her political point of view was hip, but even that has lost cachet. Look at her poetry: She can’t even speak in complete sentences! What exactly is this woman’s talent?
What does a talentless person like O’Donnell have to offer its audience? Nothing but themselves, packaged for entertainment value. And Rosie was nothing if not herself: a loud, ugly, offensive freak of human nature.
Barnum and Bailey, and many other circuses, fascinated the dullest, most gullible minds of their day, playing them for suckers, by dragging out every imaginable freak they could find and promising entertainment for a nickel. People shows up in droves to see these freaks. Anyone too tall, too short, too ugly, too strange to make it in the real world using real talent to serve the public was preyed upon, placed in cages behind curtains, and exploited for the amusement of the mindless.
Nothing has changed since the days of Barnum and Bailey.
Look at a show like American Idol. Some of the people are truly talented, but it is the freaks that the public loves (this current looney, Jumbalaya, or whatever his name is), and it is the gifted ones that the show doesn’t know what to do with (for instance, Jennifer Hudson, who was talented with or without the pronouncement of Simon, and is likely on her way to Broadway).
(Even Simon himself is a sort of freak. He certainly doesn’t know talent when he sees it, he has little taste, and his personality is lacking in one important feature: namely, a personality. But he’s rude, arrogant, and in his way, a freak. People watch him for that reason. But his eye-rolling after the VT massacre may have been one of the final nails in his coffin.)
Which brings me to Rosie O’Donnell. I saw her in person once, a half block from the Schubert Theatre in New York, at one of the theatre industry’s many sidewalk sales for some cause or another. It was close to the opening of her disastrous Boy George musical, and she was sitting at a table steps from me.
Let me tell you, this woman was scary. Ugly doesn’t say it. Angry-ugly is a better word. Her ugliness, as Trump astutely observed, came from within and infected her exterior. It made me sad and heartbroken to see this ruined shell of a human being. It didn’t surprise me, but it did take me aback. All of her self-hate was pouring out of her eyes. This woman hates herself and her hatred for the world is just an outflow.
When you are a freak, you are only truly safe when you stay behind the bars of your cage and do not touch the customers. If you are Filthy Facial Pustule Man, sitting behind bars on a lice-ridden couch, people will look at your gross facial pustules and say, “Ewwww,” and tell their friends, and take one last glance before they exit. And you can do better for yourself as a Pustulite by finding a way to garner the audiences’ sympathy.
But as soon as you start popping your pustules and squirting them on customers, you no longer have value as entertainment, and no amount of sympathy of will bring them back. You are now a worthless freak: No inherent value, and no entertainment value either. Just a nuisance.
Rosie, in fact, is Jo-Jo The Dog Faced Boy. She was always been Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy. She has been nothing more than a freak which TV execs exploited to line their own pockets.
For all her growling, yawping, bullying, and foaming at the mouth, she was always contained in the protective cage of her masters. She may wish to believe otherwise, and convince you that she had her say, and left on her terms, but it is not true. She only had an audience on The View because she sold soap and toilet paper. When her box office went down, she was no longer of use to Barnum and Bailey.
Rosie started scaring some of the people on the other side of the bars. Her ratio of sympathy and freakinss and grossness and offensiveness shifted, and now, instead of helping the show, she hurt it, in net terms. She will always have her fans that buy crap on her website, and always her detractors. But on this show she went over the line, and, refusing to listen or obey her true masters, the masters she willingly signed on with, she could not keep up her end of the bargain.
Rosie is now, therefore, toast. She is one step closer to being displayed in a bottle of formeldahyde, in a dusty trailer outside El Paso or Omaha.
And let’s be clear: Barbara Walters was merely her zookeeper. She herself is a washed out entertainer, a has-been, who once had credibility as a journalist, but now has none.
Barbara at best is the barker of this freakshow. She didn’t even qualify for ringmaster (unless Rosie’s ringworm qualifies). Walters now plays in the outermost tent, bringing people to dull daytime television (who has time to watch daytime except lazy people?), so they can be sold products and sucked into the evening and latenight viewing. Walters left the bigtop ages ago.
Recent rumors of Rosie’s upcoming departure from The View do not surprise me. They may or may not be true, but her star is falling. I use the term star loosely.
This is nothing that a flamethrower couldn’t solve.
Just light up the entire gaggle.
Such a dilemma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you pull for the White Lesbian or the Black Militant who obviously doesn’t want to air the ‘dirty laundry’ (whether real or projected) of a Black ‘Demi God’.
Then again one would imagine that Whoopi has slept with more White MEN than Rosie....<: <:
Guess the only reason ‘they’ are going after Bill so ‘hard’ is that he had previously dissed the Black Community as a whole, so in some respects he will garner as much stature as Clarence Thomas etal when it comes to Blackness.
Of course, they consider what they are doing to Cosby ‘hard’, ground breaking news,
conjure up the scenario if they could place Ronald Reagan or Clint Eastwood or Tom Selleck OR Rush Limbaugh in the position they have Cosby.....
Since ‘they’ don’t listen to RL, it was ‘hard’ for them to really come down hard on him over the oxy, I took umbrage at him at the time because of all the ‘hatred’ and grief etc he threw in the direction of Strawberry and Steve Howe amongst other ‘Major name’ athletes and their drug use.
( I am not condoning the Athletes usage etc, just pointing out RL was a bit hypocritical if nothing else).
Agreed. And the lesbians will stampede the event and drool from the corners of their mouths over those two ripping their clothes off! LOL.
Sorry to see this happen to the cast of a totally unnecessary show.
Hopefully, they all go their peaceful separate ways.
Stop it!
You've got me laughing so much I can't breathe!
Terrific post.
I can’t take credit for the post. It was from FReeper Silly, circa 2007.
But I’ve always remembered it.
Depends on what the meaning of “rape-rape” is.
They can’t fire a leftist black woman
lol
didn’t they do an episode in the nude once?
Their license should have been pulled
OH NO THEY DIDN'T. They sent this story, probably verbatim, to the newspaper to get publicity for the show.
A p.r. trick as old as time. And it worked. I went over to read the article about a show and people I could care less about.
Axiomatic in the industry: all publicity is good publicity
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