Posted on 04/13/2007 8:55:33 AM PDT by seanmerc
After Imus, DeLay Calls for Rosie to Be Fired
Wants Conservatives to Lead Anti-O'Donnell Push
(April 13) -- Fanning the flames of discontent sparked by the Imus controversy, former congressman Tom DeLay is making a plea for his fellow conservatives to get Rosie O'Donnell fired for recent remarks she made.
"I'm calling for conservatives to take on Rosie O'Donnell," DeLay said during an interview with CNN. "She criticized and ridiculed Chinese-Americans, she accused the president of being responsible for 9/11. Let's now start calling for her resignation."
He also recently penned an article on TownHall.com titled "If the Left Takes Imus, We’ll Take Rosie."
DeLay's comments come just as Don Imus ' career was brought to a screeching halt after he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
O'Donnell responded to DeLay on her blog with a post titled "Tommy D," calling him a "criminal" and "sad slug," and also says his claims about her 9/11 comments are wrong. She then goes on to post a wikipedia transcript of Delay's indictments for illegal acceptance of funds while he was U.S. House Majority Leader.
O'Donnell's spurned quite a bit of controversy lately. She recently questioned the cause of collapse for World Trade Center 7, a building near the Twin Towers that collapsed eight hours after the planes first hit. That led to a feud between O'Donnell and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
Before the O'Reilly spat, O'Donnell and Donald Trump were involved in a back-and-forth feud after O'Donnell criticized Donald Trump 's ethics during the Miss USA scandal. Trump shot back at her, mocking her weight and looks.
Beat me by this >< much! :-)
Love it! Big smile—BIG SMILE!
DeLay needs to just go away. I hope this does not happen. If we were to do what he wants, we would be engaging in a contest where we lose just by playing.
What a loser.
Also, I just don't see how Imus was that far right-wing? Certainly not the equivalent of Ol' Rosie. PS Death to anyone who posts a picture.
Some times “our” guys embarass me as much as “their” guys.
lies beneath
I seriously doubt it.
Is Rosie one of "their guys"?
Until they get a taste if their own medicine (which they sort of have with Imus) they won’t stop coming after conservatives. It’s just like any war, when you enemy is attacking you and you refuse to fight back, you’ll lose in the end. When you hit back you have a chance at a truce.
Thompson / DeLay in ‘08
She's real smart....
Not really, just late to the party. Many in FR have been pushing for this for a long time - in the last case with all the e-mails, they actually took her email address off the shows website.
I dont see his call as serious, I think it was meant to be more of “this is where we are heading”. How crazy this IMUS stuff has been. Thats my take. Maybe I am giving Delay to much credit.
And, oh, by the way, thanks for contribution to the corruption in the Democrat style Republican congress the last 6 years that gave us the slaughter the last election.
Do us a favor Tom; sit down and shut up!
Yes! It’s just like Rush says, “The aggressor sets the rules.”
They have set the rules, we are just following them. Rosie is just one of many who shoot off their mouths and need to pay for it.
Remember Howard Cosell? This has got to stop.
You said it.
Doesn’t DeLay GET IT? This is about liberty...NOT PC on EITHER side.
“If the Left Takes Imus, We’ll Take Rosie.”.......a win-win situation if I ever saw one.........
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