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."
This is truly an incredible story. Have you sent it to Rush. I don’t know if he’d use it .. but we’re sure the MSM won’t.
I wondered how much longer BW was going to put up with her stuff.
EEEWWWWWWW..... LOL No wonder Jackie didn’t invite him anywhere...
Barbara Hower...hmmm...would she have needed to put up with LBJ to get ahead?
“That I will not say, for she was a great and beautiful lady.”
Jessica Savitch!? And Jimmah Carter!?
Don’t worry, it’ll be our little secret. >:D
All said, it’s going to be interesting to watch these two (BW and RO’D) on air during the next couple of months until Rosie’s contract expires. Do you think their body language will give away the animosity?!
O’D. will have a “Howard Dean/Alec Baldwin” moment and it will play for posterity on YouTube. :)
“Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Huh? I don’t recall her ever being funny.
I saw Barbara Walters walking on Fifth Avenue in NYC a week or so ago. She looks frail but good for her 80s. Still has to be one of the worst interviewers of foreign despots ever.
Yep, she slept with President Johnson.
Andrew Johnson.
“Move over, darlin’. This is your president speaking.”
“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”
Having donee a lot of contract work on ABC buildings back when she “made it to the top”, the word by almost everyone I knew and talked to was she only got promoted by laying on her back.
>>>Having donee a lot of contract work on ABC buildings back when she “made it to the top”, the word by almost everyone I knew and talked to was she only got promoted by laying on her back.
Total, complete male macho BS.
She was an older established star long before she went to ABC. She is also good enough that she din’t have to. This is the woman who got Sadat and Begin together!
Finally, she was Lou Walters daughter. No body messa wid Lou Walters’ kids. As they say in NY, “He knew people. “
No and No
Right timeframe, wrong person.
Dayum, 26, you still up from last night? Did any of the gang last night have anything to add to the latest Couric/Shieffer dust-up? Is Moonves still standing by Katie?
In the words of one CBSer.
“Perkie is our Iraq. It was a situation where we had bad data going in (her appeal outside NYC/DC or lack thereof), and chose to ignore the obvious data we didn’t want to hear.”
“We got in easilly... and have absolutely no idea how to get out.”
PS, Nothing personal at you in that.
It’s interesting your CBSer said “we.” He didn’t do it, Moonves did. This whole Couric thing belongs to him. It’s a good thing for him CBS and Fox are essentially tied for first for the year past. If CBS’ ratings fall, Redstone will ax Moonves pronto.
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