Posted on 05/01/2007 10:54:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers Posted by Justin McCarthy on May 1, 2007 - 13:03.
The May 1 edition of "The View" marked the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s famous "mission accomplished" announcement with Rosie O’Donnell’s predictable rants against the war and the administration. The co-host mysteriously claimed Afghanistan had nothing to do with September 11 and downplayed the Al Qaeda threat, claiming it is simply a U.S. government scare tactic. Additionally, Rosie, with the aide of guest co-host Ricki Lake, followed Charles Rangel and Andy Rooney to assert that U.S. soldiers are not patriots, but losers who join out of desperation.
O’DONNELL: Wait, can I just say something? Why do people enlist in the Army?
RICKI LAKE: Because of a ineducation (sic), and they're poor.
O’DONNELL: Thank you.
LAKE: And that’s the only way to get one.
O’DONNELL: The vast majority– Yes, Elisabeth. It’s true!
No, it’s not. According to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation, noted that military enlistees are "better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers." Additionally, "recruits have a higher percentage of high school graduates" and "the distribution of household income of recruits is noticably higher than the entire youth population." Of course, facts don’t matter to Rosie O’Donnell. After all, fire can’t melt steel.
Token non-liberal Elisabeth Hasselbeck responded harshly and Rosie continued to smear volunteer soldiers before she claimed that she does support the troops.
HASSELBECK: First of all, in the past year, the testing scores of our armed services have been higher than ever, so the education level-
O’DONNELL: You are wrong. We have more convicted felons in the Army because we’re allowing them to get through.
HASSELBECK: So they're awful. They’re awful then.
O’DONNELL: Elisabeth, I do everything I can to support the troops financially and emotionally. I love them as much as you do. I'm as much of a patriot. I want them home.
The fact free analysis continued as Rosie made this observation.
"Well, listen, Elisabeth, we shouldn't be fighting this war, because we were not attacked by either of the nations we invaded. 19 Saudis were on those planes and we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq."
Perhaps she’s forgetting that Afghanistan’s then ruling Taliban knowingly harbored Al Qaeda training camps. Also, 15 of the hijackers were Saudi, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was Egyptian, and one Lebanese. Rosie then continued to downplay the terrorist threat.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Do you believe Al Qaeda, do you believe Al Qaeda is alive and working and planning in Iraq?
O’DONNELL: Well, I think there might be some guy on dialysis in a cave, but I don’t think he’s really a threat.
HASSELBECK: You don’t think there are operatives in Al Qaeda, the number one guy--
O’DONNELL: There are terrorists in America too. What about Tim McVee (sic)? What about him? He was a terrorist in America.
HASSELBECK: Does he have cells operating right now in this country?
O’DONNELL: Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."
HASSELBECK: Well, guess what, guess what. Terrorists are scary. Terrorists don't need us to help them be scary. They’re scary. They’re scary people.
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That poor little girl Hasselbeck is so out of her comfort zone. I don’t know why she stays.
I think she ought to be replaced with Malkin or Coulter....
Now THAT.....I would watch.
Just a thought from a Porsche driving, master’s degree carrying member of the uneducated poor military.......
RLTW
Shame on ABC for letting this traitorous bunch defame our troops. They are fortunate they don’t operate under jihadi rules or the network wouldn’t be on the air tomorrow.
Ineducation.
Snicker.
What a MORMON! /s
I notice that according to IMDB, Lake had an entire year of college at Ithaca College before dropping out. Rosie also is a drop out.
Ladies, before you throw stones at "the ineducation (sic)" of our Volunteer force, you might want to go back to school and earn a degree. Your hypocrisy is showing.
hahahaha!...haven't read past that yet...my eyes are tearing from laughing...hahahaha!
FMCDH(BITS)
I guarantee you that most of my neighbors (I live in USMC base housing) are infinitely smarter than Rosie O’Donnel. I live among people that amaze me with their intelligence. And their kindness, btw. You will never see anything that compares to a military community that comes together to help their own. We don’t need help from morons like Rosie. With friends like her, who would need enemies?
Convicted felons are allowed in the Army?
Mrs. Hasselbeck has too much class to be on that show.
It always becomes a liberal debate. Whomever yells the loudest wins, regardless of the facts.
“Justice would be served if Rosie was the next target of the nonexistent group called Al Quida.”
True enough......
Except that she’s the best free press they could get in the U.S.
RLTW
Hmmm, ineducated (sic) soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen would make mincemeat out of those two ignorant bitches on the SAT.........
Haaa, good one!
First of all, Michelle Malkin or Anne Coulter probably wouldn’t lower themselves to argue with Rosie or the others. Secondly, I’d pay money to watch the View if they did
Let the doyenne of the View know that, by association, Ms. O’Donnell threatens her reputation as a paragon of journalistic excellence (ahem).
Barbara Walters
The View
320 West 66th Street
New York, NY 10023
Even if they do, when did liberals ever have anything against convicted felons?
Its not a secret Rosie is queer..
And Rosie had to tell Elizabeth about being patriotic and how she supports the troops because she wants them home.
I do not question Rosie’s patriotism or that Rosie supports the troops in her own way. But I greatly question Rosie’s knowledge of the world situation, and think that Rosie and her kind simply do not understand / choose not to understand the threats to this country. They may not understand the threats because we have a Republican president. They would feel better about the use of military force if a good Democrat were the one using that force.
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