Posted on 02/05/2008 11:09:58 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Rosie O'Donnell Blames Bush for Staph Infection Photo of Ken Shepherd. By Ken Shepherd | February 5, 2008 - 13:54 ET
Greg Pollowitz of NRO's Media Blog already beat me to the punch, but it bears repeating on NewsBusters. The only fresh angle I can bring to this is that, to my recollection, this is the first time Rosie O'Donnell has attempted an original blog post in prose. For the occasion she blamed President Bush for a nasty staph infection back in 2000.
I'm sure given enough time and inspiration from Joni Mitchell's greatest hits she can re-work her post into her groundbreaking poetry.
Without further ado, the relevant portion of her blog, unedited (lousy formatting left intact), with portions in bold reflecting my emphasis. Oh, by the way, what Rosie really wants you to get out of this anecdote is the importance of voting:
President Bush almost killed me. It’s true, and I have the scars to prove it — multiple scars that are part of the public record — you saw them in magazines and on my show, and you can see them on my blog frequently — no twelve year wait required. It was 2000, and the Republican National Convention was on television. The whole affair felt something like a home invasion, with a chronically smirking and arrogant George W. Bush as ringleader. Not wishing to be robbed of my optimism and hope at the time — or to tumble into depression and despair — I shut off the TV and decided to go fishing. I needed gear, so I went to the store and bought a few things, including a knife, which I used to cut the price tags off of the fishing poles. Now, I could have stabbed myself 100 times in the hand and not managed to do the damage I did with that one poke to the inside of my middle finger. I went all out, though, and got everything — skin, ligaments, tendons, nerves. Maximum impact, including a particularly nasty staph infection that almost left me dead. That’s my personal war story from the demoralizing Bush years, and probably a minor one, considering the 935 documented lies told by the Bush administration that thrust us into an unjust war, killing thousands of Iraqi civilians and nearly 4000 Americans. One near-death experience probably pales in comparison to the $9 trillion dollar debt heaped upon the collective back of America, or the gross war profiteering by corporate friends of Cheney and Bush, or even the $10 billion dollar third-quarter profit Exxon recently reported. Still, it hurt like hell, and the scars and swelling are there as a reminder. I was right to feel repulsed by Bush. Nearly everything his administration has done or stood for in the years since has been tainted by lies and corruption.
You can find more on the former "View" co-host in our archive of Rosie O'Donnell blog coverage.
bush’s fault
(lack of capitalization on purpose)
Well done George W Bush!
Anyone notice how fat she’s gotten lately? She really is one FAT blowhard.. Extrelmely fat, did I mention?
SHE IS a staph infection.
I blame America’s obesity on Rosie O’Donnell.
George W. Bush wasn’t president in 2000.
Wouldn’t it rather be the fault of Bush’s Chief of Staph?
It's the spoons fault.
Bush gave her a staph infection? I’m only sorry it wasn’t Ebola.
Frankly, I’d believe her if she said that GWB/Rove/Condi had replaced her brain with three pounds of mildewed pastrami. That’s more believable!
It all started back when he planned 9/11. Serious infections started in the midst of all that fallout. those infections spread, went to the Middle East as part of the bumper-sticker war, and returned mutated by exposure to our biological weapons we have used there. Bush did all this! And the result is that so many people have fever that the whole globe is warming. Michael Moore is making a movie on it, Algore is narrating.
Who does she blame for her yeast infections?...
Next up, Rosie will blame spoons for her obesity.
Mr. Tetanus, where are you when we need you?
Who is Rosie O’Donnell?
LOL.
I told my teacher once that George Bush ate my homework.
I blame Rosie O’Fatty for oral diarrhea.....
The Pillsbury dough girl.
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