Posted on 10/24/2014 12:01:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"The View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell is drawing criticism online for remarks about Wednesday's deadly shooting in Ottawa.
Thursday's episode of the chat show kicked off with the panellists discussing the attack on Parliament Hill and the killing of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of Hamilton as he stood guard at the National War Memorial.
The Ottawa shootings came just two days after two Canadian soldiers were run over — one of them fatally — in Quebec by a man with jihadist sympathies.
As "The View" panellists discussed whether Wednesday's shootings were an act of terrorism, O'Donnell said "most of these shooters have severe mental illness" and then expressed support for a controversial tweet about the shooting from model Chrissy Teigen, who used the tragedy in Ottawa to make a point about U.S. gun control.
On Wednesday, Teigen tweeted: "active shooting in Canada, or as we call it in america, wednesday." She then clarified in a follow-up tweet: "Sorry you don't understand that is a knock at America and our issues with gun control. No one is minimizing the Ottawa shooting."
"I thought it was brilliant and on-point, but some people thought it was insensitive," O'Donnell said of Teigen's tweet.
"Timing is everything," responded ABC News anchor Amy Robach, who was on the panel. "And I think when you tweet something like that in the middle of an active shooting, people are afraid, people are running for their lives and a man is dead."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at calgaryherald.com ...
Lord help us if these people ever gain total control of our nation.
“O’Donnell said “most of these shooters have severe mental illness”
Never disagree with a subpect matter expert when they speak on a topic of which they are personally involved.
Right-on!
Well. The View brought Rosie back to make waves and she’s doing it. I wonder if this will actually create sustained ratings or whether she will ultimately destroy the show. Bringing on a host who shoots her mouth off with controversial remarks works in the short term to incease ratings but may make the show toxic over the long term.
Guns don’t kill people, Muslims kill people.
No Gun Control; Muslim Control!
“I think she’s saying: I’m an American, I live here. I see two people shot this week in Canada and the entire country of Canada is in mourning. However, in America this happens on a daily day basis and we don’t even pay attention anymore.”
What happened in Canada on Wednesday does not happen in America on a daily basis. That last time something like this happened in America was July 25, 1998. And Rosie, the entire country was in mourning.
The View was on in the waiting room at my wife’s doctor’s office. Nurse wouldn’t let me come back with the wife, and I WASN’T going to listen to the babble on TV...so I drug a waiting room chair out into the hall and read while I waited.
What garbage.
Now I need mind bleach..
The shooter was only refered to as a "radical".
Kind of like wilding urban "youths".
Canadians don’t think much of The Rosie’s comments:
**But there are still people out there trying to downplay what happened here. Trying to minimize the reality.
The most egregious words came from American entertainer Rosie O’Donnell on The View.
A debate ensued about such shooters often being mental health patients and not really terrorists.
“I get it,” O’Donnell said Thursday, backing up others who think all the coverage and attention is an overreaction. “But 86 people a day are killed in America with guns, and you know what? That is terrorism here.”
O’Donnell said people are saying, “I’m an American, I live here. I see two people shot this week in Canada and the entire country of Canada is in mourning. However, in America this happens on a daily day basis and we don’t even pay attention anymore.”
She is entitled to her opinion, for sure, in a free society given to us by fallen soldiers.
But the people trying to downplay this slaughter as a routine murder do a disservice to those who were killed in the line of duty.
They hate the word terrorism. But the facts are these were terror acts, plain and simple.
It’s almost like some want to re-victimize these fallen heroes.
Meanwhile, a recap for O’Donnell will show this terrorist stormed our Parliament and tried to kill our prime minister and our cabinet.
That is what happened and that is not a matter-of-fact day.
“In a lot of ways we were very lucky,” said Sen. Bob Runciman, who was very close to the door where the shots rang out. “This could have easily been worse. If he had got a few feet further he would have been facing the prime minister. We lost a soldier in this and we will never forget it and also count our blessings there weren’t more killed.”
Fantino said he was surprised by O’Donnell’s comments, since this is a country that is grieving.
“Under the circumstances, her uninformed comments don’t merit the dignity of a response other than to say this country did lose two fine men in uniform and a whole lot of innocence,” Fantino said.
We are not going to get that innocence back or those two fallen servicemen.
But if there is a procession along the Highway of Heroes, it would at least give Canadians a chance to let the families know how much we appreciate Cirillo and Vincent.**
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/10/23/cpl-cirillo-deserves-highways-of-heroes-journey
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