Rosie O’Donnell: U.S. Under Patriot Act Similar to Apartheid

News Busters ^ | October 24, 2006 - 14:44. | Megan McCormack

[Sopater]

Rosie O’Donnell took another vicious swipe at the Bush administration and its efforts to combat terrorism during Tuesday’s ‘The View.’ Liberal actor Tim Robbins appeared on the program to promote his latest film ‘Catch a Fire,’ set in apartheid-era South Africa. In the film, Robbins portrays a white police officer who tortures a black South African man, wrongfully accused of sabotage of an oil refinery. While discussing the film and his character, co-host Rosie O’Donnell equated the brutal tactics used against the people of South Africa by its own government with the Bush administration’s Patriot Act.:

Rosie O’Donnell: "They were seeking out terrorists, which is what they called the people in South Africa who actually lived there, who were the majority. The blacks in South Africa, who were trying to fight for their own civil rights, were called terrorists and the government was allowed to arrest them at will and interrogate them, no matter what they did, just on the suspicion. Very similar today to what we have in the United States, thanks to the Patriot Act."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck briefly defended the anti-terror legislation, before being cut off by Robbins and O’Donnell, who went on to compare further "similarities" between South Africa under apartheid and President Bush’s America:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Well, and the Patriot Act, I’m sorry, protects us. But that's a whole different story, but this–"

Robbins: "What they did–what they did that was similar was, they threw out due process. They threw out the right to attorney."

O’Donnell: "Habeas corpus."

Robbins: "And they allowed the, the government and actually required people like this guy I play to torture people. And I’m, so, so what it does to the individual is it, it puts an incredible moral burden on the agent of the government, the, the soldier or the policeman–"

O’Donnell: "Lynndie England."

[sgtbono2002]

North Koreans would be best, dropping her in a Islamic community wouldnt work Islamics dont eat pig meat.

[LIConFem]

Proof positive that donuts kill brain cells.

[TheKidster]

And what did FDR do during the war ?



Definitely much worse!!

[MikeA]

Glad you liked it!

[popdonnelly]

The Left likes to apply the term apartheid to everything. It's a cheap condemnation. And no one ever calls them on it. But then, the Left is a disreputable bunch, anyway.

[popdonnelly]

"I almost chocked on my corned beef sandwich!!!"

Careful. That's what got Mama Cass.

[RockinRight]

Elizabeth Hasselback's cute and conservative but the poor girl never gets a word in edgewise.

[Gaffer]

Guess he liked the buggering he got in Shawshank......

[Deano]

Don't they keep a cattle prod on set so when she starts mooing, all they have to do is zap her to shut her up?

[Charles Martel]

Wasn't the torture in SA done by the black "civil rights" fighters? Wasn't there a Mandella involved, as I recall. Something about necklaces.

I'd suggest one of Winnie's infamous "necklaces" for Rosie, but the inevitable grease fire which would result from all that melting lard might get out of control.

[DesScorp]

"Poor Elizabeth Hasselback, she's has to defend this nonesense everyday."

She should leave.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Just after Katrina, my wife was channel surfing and she stopped for a second on The View,
just in time to see ROD say that blacks today were being kept in concentration camps, like we did with the Japanese.

[Vaquero]

Commack, Long Island, NY.

Her royal Heinie, went to what use to be Commack HS South. I went to what was for a while Commack HS 'North'. though I went to HS 10 years before this barf bag did.

[Ghengis]

The View and Oprah have the same level of discourse (To use the phrase loosely). Remember Cameron Diaz (on Oprah) claiming the 2004 election was important if you did not want rape to be legal.

Sit around any campus area coffee house and listen to 2nd semester freshmen students trying to sound oh so smart. You'll get the same type B.S., but maybe a better cup of coffee than you would make at home.

[Charles Martel]

If you had nothing to look forward to but going home and fondling Sarandon's flapjacks, you'd wish you were gay too.

Thanks for the chuckle, despite the accompanying mental image. I've got to go find something pointy now, and poke out my mind's eye.

[pandoraou812]

I would love to see Rosie in a burka sitting in Iraq. Bet her big mouth wouldn't be flapping in the breeze so much then.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Rosie is another glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.

[AnnaZ]

Ooh... I love hyperbole:

AnnaZ: U.S. Under Rosie O Similar to Rachel Corrie Under Bulldozer

[tumblindice]

If she were a conservative using the show as a platform for her political beliefs,
they'd have given her the heave-ho a long time ago.

[quikdrw]

I have never tried to watch that show. And Rosie on there, I never will.