Posted on 04/25/2007 8:45:26 PM PDT by MindBender26
As many FReepers know, FR has had the inside track on Rosie O'Donnell's impending deaprture from "The View" since we first posted an article on it last January.
Am in New York tonight and attended a "celabratory" party thrown by some of old CBS cronies to help friends at ABC celebrate Rosie's rushed retirement.
(We had to host them to a party at a CBS watering hole so the ABC types would not be seen celebrating too hearily at their usual hangouts.)
Here is the inside scoop from the ABCers:
Rosie was a marked woman (?) ever since she got into a public pissing contest with Barbara Walters. It was not the first they had fought, but last January, it finally broke into the MSM gossip columns.
Unfortunately, there was no way BW could dump her without paying huge contractual penalties and risk offending the oh-so-important Gay community.
But BW is a very tough woman. She made it to the top "cleanly" when the only way other women did that was either sleeping with the Suits or in one case, sleeping with a sitting (or in this case, reclining) President. (No it was not Slick or his ethical Godfather, JFK.)
BW plays for keeps, and a few days ago when Rosie was particualrly vulgar, F-bomb and all in front of 2000 distinguished women (and, fortunately for BW, 17 teen age girls) (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822558/posts?page=47#47), it gave BW the ammunition she needed.
In the wake of Imus, that kind of thing does not cut in front of kids, and BW knew she had the leverage she wanted. Someone, we will never know, (yeah, sure) called a high ranking official in New York law enforement and "encouraged" them to "inquire about" possible "contributing to the delinguency of a minor" charges.
Since there was a morals clause in her "View" contract, Rosie's "people" knew she was f-ed. (which, if you think about that visually, it's not a pretty sight.)
The Suits made Rosie's people an offer they couldn't refuse: Go quietly, or law enforcement might step in and you will go very painfully.
Rosie knew that would kill her career. ABCers love that she will be going because as they said, the only thing they have had a "View" of recently is her fat horizon-to-horizon arse.
In the words of one very senior ABC on-air talent. "Was Rosie pushed or did she jump? She will be spending the next 3 months trying to wash Barbara Walters' palmprints off her fat backside."
AAAARRRGH!!!! What an image
That’s ok...I understand. I’ll imagine it was Helen Thomas. :-)
I thought it was Helen Thomas and Andrew Jackson.
Nevermind, I see it was Johnson. (this to me is more intriguing than the Rosie O’Blowhard jazz!)
NO!
Thank God no!
I would not wish that on anyone.
Have had dinner with her a few times at Mama Ayeash’s in DC. She is a mean drunk, a raving anti-Semite, hates all things Bush and her nose looks like the landing hook on am F14 Tomcat.
LOL...but Johnson wasn’t so wonderful either!
A D-9 Cat?
Or maybe she ate that contaminated food and is really quarantined on one of those hog farms?
Excellent report!
They should put “Backstage at the View” on as a replacement for “The Sopranos”.
Rosie the Pig stopped being funny over a decade ago.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Nice report MindBender, I can go to sleep with a big FAT smile on my face. :)
Morals clause. BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Couldn’t happen to a nicer dyke.
Well, I think the woman you are talking about is DG.
And that will be my last and final guess.
You are so cruel . . . Now apologize . . . to Andrew Jackson! LOL.
Her chatter about 9/11 conspiracies had to contribute to ABC execs worrying about her becoming increasingly unhinged. In the wake of Imus, BW didn’t have to push hard. However, having her around the remind the wimpy, cringing leadership was the catalyst they may have needed.
The interesting part was the lie she came up with to cover it up. Instead of saying something vague, she made up a story about disagreements about their wanting her for a 3 year contract, and her only wanting to grant a 1 year.
For a corporate player, you can’t have an out-of-control personality anymore. There are too many of the professionally offended around these days.
OMG!! lol
High-heel prints are more like it. LOL!
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