Nice job by Elizabeth. It takes a while for someone to hit her hot button, but when they do, watch out.
Look, Rosie was a huge mistake for the view; everyone knows it, she’s been canned, and now she’s out of control - if she was ever “in” control. She’s a sad, very confused person who is striking out at those around her. She really needs help. How much longer do they have to deal with her?
Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.
Sleeping Beauty said, “I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world.” Tom Thumb said, “I must be the smallest person in the world.” Quasimodo said, “I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in the world.” So they all decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records to have their claims verified.
Sleeping Beauty went in first and came out looking deliriously happy. “It’s official, I AM the most beautiful girl in the world.” Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant, “I am now officially the smallest person in the world.” Sometime later, Quasimodo came out looking utterly confused and said, “Who the hell is Rosie O’Donnel?”
Here is Rosie O’Donut’s reply from her website:
Did Rosie Call Our Troops Terrorists?
The is directly from the transcripts of The View for May 17th:
O’DONNELL: …… I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
HASSELBECK: Who are the terrorists?
O’DONNELL: 655,000 Iraqis — I’m saying you have to look, we invaded –
HASSELBECK: Wait, who are you calling terrorists now? Americans?
O’DONNELL: I’m saying if you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?
HASSELBECK: Are we killing their citizens or are their people also killing their citizens?
O’DONNELL: We’re invading a sovereign nation, occupying a country against the U.N.
I just watched Chris Matthews and his panel of journalists including Howard Feinman, Jill Zuckman, and Jonathan Capehart. Matthews asked the panel after replaying that segment of the show if she in fact said that our troops were the terrorists. They unanimously agreed with Matthews that she did call our troops terrorists. That conforms with the majority of journalists who have reported on this comment.
Rosie does not mention the troops at all in that segment of the show. She poses a rhetorical question. “Who are the terrorists?” “I’m saying if you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?”In both of her rhetorical questions she refers to the “United States” and “us.” The policy of the United States or “our” policy in Iraq is not the responsibility of the soldiers who are ordered to execute the policy. It is obvious that state supported terrorism can only be implemented by those who have the responsibility of doing the fighting and dying. But, it is not the soldiers who are the terrorists in that hypothetical. And she was not calling the soldiers terrorists.
It is absolutely absurd that these journalists agreed with the interpretation that Matthews and the majority of the MSM had concluded.These journalists who are supposed to be experts on language and communication certainly know that she meant that the U.S. policy was the villain here and not the soldiers. Yet they persist in accusing the accusers who do not fit into their elite club. People like Rosie and others who have been branded as eccentric and outside the main stream are always fair game. They do it with many others who speak truth to power by carefully portraying sound bites out of context. They have done that to Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal for years.
The truth is that it was the elite reporters like the Hardball panel aforementioned who aided and abetted the rush to war in Iraq and fostered the terrorist policy that has resulted in this catastrophe. So it is not Rosie who is the villain. It is journalists like these who have to rationalize their lack of courage and appropriate skepticism of a “policy” that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
Excuse me while I wash my eyeballs out with soap & water...
Nice job by Elizabeth. It takes a while for someone to hit her hot button, but when they do, watch out.
Spitboy doesn’t like it because Rosie says what the left is saying and thinking. Of course they hate the troops and think they are murderers, just like Nam. What is different with your side Chris?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
The Tucker piece was priceless.
“Uh, uh, uh . . . .”
Stupid question, why doesn’t Chrissy just ask Rosie those questions instead of “pundits” who try to get into her head and explain her comments? (Damn, those are brave men.)
Oops. I said Tucker. Meant Moran.
Why does Rosie get so much media attention? Who really cares what she thinks any more than any other wild eyed liberal? I am sick of her.
So much for blaming “right-wing pundits” for distorting her comments. This was crystal clear to anyone. I’m just disappointed Hasselback refuses to call it as we all know she sees it. She really needs to stand up to that bully more.
oh but but i thought only fox news put down the Rosie...oh dear ...oh me...oh my ...shes going to really be upset now...
cough..choke..sputter...
falls down laughing
That's the smartest and most accurate thing he's said all week.