Posted on 05/03/2007 1:57:33 PM PDT by Miami Vice
Recently, the hosts of ABC’s daytime gabfest, The View, scurrilously insulted the American military.
Resident termagant, host Rosie O’Donnell asked, “…Why do people enlist in the Army?” Co-host Ricki Lake replied, “To get an education, and they're poor - and that’s the only way to get one.”
This specious allegation has been refuted several times during the past twenty years. Studies conducted by the Rand Corporation, the Department of Defense and the Heritage Foundation - documented by me in two articles, Rangel was Wrong (2003, Front Page Magazine) and Eugene Debs Syndrome (2004, Accuracy in Academia and 2005, Human Events) - disproved it.
However, this is an ingrained myth of liberal Democrats. For almost a year now, the unofficial spokesperson for these leftist Democrats has been Rosie O’Donnell. She has used her status as host of The View to spout anti-Republican, Bush-bashing, conservative hating, anti-papist diatribes, all with the tacit, and occasionally not-so-tacit approval, of the show’s co-creator, Barbara Walters.
Rosie diatribes included gems such as:
• “…radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.” (N. B. Radical Christians have not flown airplanes into buildings)
• “America really depends on the battle in the streets of New Orleans that city is still decimated and $303 billion have been spent fighting this (Iraq) war. If, literally, a third of that money was put into Katrina …we wouldn't be in the situation we're in” (N.B. $154 billion was designated for New Orleans)
• “You know what concerns me?...How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic? …Five…How about separation of church and state in America?” (N.B. There is no religious test for any office in the US. Though some Americans attempted to exclude Catholics at one point in American history.)
• “ (someone should) call for the impeachment of George Bush to let the world know - that the nation is not standing behind this President's choices, that the nation, a democracy, feels differently than the man who is leading as if it were a dictatorship, and that we represent this country, he does not lead as a monarch.” (Rosie’s knowledge of civics ranks matches her knowledge of physics. Read the following.)
However, by far, Rosie’s most bizarre comment was that the government was possibly responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Center Seven tower, September 11, 2001.
What is her proof? Apparently, her expertise in metallurgy and physics.
During a March 2007 edition of The View Rosie said, “I do believe that it’s (World Trade Center Seven collapse) the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Building Seven, which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved - World Trade Center Seven… (World Trade Centers) One and Two got hit by planes, Seven miraculously the first time in history, steel was melted by fire - it is physically impossible…to say that we don’t know that it imploded, that it was an implosion and a demolition, is beyond ignorant.”
Obviously, Rosie is unfamiliar with steel mills. She surely did not grow up near an oil refinery, as I did, and saw the steel melted by refinery fires.
As if to reinforce Rosie’s absurdity, about a month after she made this pronouncement, there was a tanker crash on an Oakland, California freeway. Fuel from the tanker ignited and burned. The conflagration melted the steel girders of the highway causing it to collapse.
Yet, despite Rosie’s ignorance, liberal Democrat blogs contain statements such as, “It’s about time somebody said what Rosie did,” or “Rosie reached 30 million people with her 9-11 truth.” Liberals think she is a voice of sanity, a beacon of truth, for the hoi polloi.
Personally, I think it unfortunate Rosie is leaving The View. She is good for America. She is the paradigm of the attitudes and beliefs - the ignorance, lies, viciousness, and prejudice - of liberal Democrats.
Liberals actually believe fire cannot melt steel. They believe Bush is a dictator. They believe no federal funds were spent for Katrina. They believe Catholics should be prohibited from government office. They genuinely believe military personnel are poor ignorant rednecks.
It is said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. For this reason, the view (pun intended) Rosie gives the rest of America of how liberal Democrats think is invaluable. This is who they are.
It is still possible she will continue displaying her ignorance. Reports are CBS is interested signing her to a contract.
Perhaps she can do the CBS Evening News. Marines are too smart to watch that program.
Michael P. Tremoglie is author of A Sense of Duty, now on sale at Amazon.com
If you would like to comment on this article, please e-mail mal.kline@academia.org
John Kerry thinks that if you are uneducated that you get stuck in Iraq.
It seems to be a common way of thinking among some that the armed services consist of less educated and poorer people, looking for a way out.
What about all of the fine officers turned out by West Point and Annapolis? They are all getting a college education at fine universities. All college educated, all high achievers, and all making a career in the military.
Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.
Sleeping Beauty said, “I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world.”
Tom Thumb said, “I must be the smallest person in the world.”
Quasimodo said, “I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in the world.”
So they all decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records to have their claims verified.
Sleeping Beauty went in first and came out looking deliriously happy.
“It’s official, I AM the most beautiful girl in the world.”
Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant, “I am now officially the smallest person in the world.”
Sometime later, Quasimodo comes out looking utterly confused and says, “Who the heck is Rosie O’Donnell ?”
“Marines Smarter Than Rosie”
Is that a category on Jeopardy?
LOL!:)
We cannot even start to compare the intelligence of our military to that of “Wosie” or Barr or Meredith Vieira or Matt Lauer, Sissy Matthews, etc, etc, etc. Idiots on TV make mistakes and walk home every night. You make a mistake in combat, make a mistake with a B-52 airstrike, call in the wrong coordinates for artillery, etc. and you die.
I’ll take Marines Smarter Than Roise for $200 Alex...
Alex: This is my weapon! this is my gun! This is for shooting and this is for...?
Rosie: hmmmmm... have no idea Alex...
Alex: you wouldn’t Rosie... it’s for “fun”.
Sticks and rocks are smarter than Rosie.
This cow is just too stupid to realize that she has humiliated herself in front of the world with the “fire can’t melt steel” comment. People who watch shows like “The View” have got to be brain dead.
The title is a universal truth.
Scratch West Point out of your answer and I think you’re on to something ;-)
Goodness, that's setting the bar a bit low, dontcha think?
A turkey drowning in a rainstorm is smarter than Rosie.
I think this was very true prior to 9/11, when it seemed unlikely that enlistees would be in a deadly war zone.
The military advertised themselves that way on TV, radio, and in print. Recruiters used it in their sales pitches. Jessica Lynch wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. She lived in a town with very high unemployment and her father told her that it would be nearly impossible to pay for her college education to become one. She had a brother in the WV NG and he was not in any danger of being killed, so she figured that it was a great way to pay for college and have the career she wanted. She enlisted in the Army less than 2 months before 9/11 and was in for a rude awakening.
It's doubtful that the fires melted the steel in either the WTC or the highway. The steel only needs to get hot enough that it loses its strength to support the structure, leading to collapse. In the case of the WTC, the intact steel on the floors below couldn't handle the stress of the top floors collapsing onto them == pancake.
That's not to say that Rosie isn't still dead wrong, but those countering her should get their facts straight.
PING!!!!!!!
Good one!
My dogs are smarter than Rosie. And even having to say that feels like I am betraying my dogs somehow by even considering them in the same sentence.
LOL
Rosie : I’ll take Marines Smarter Than Rosie for $300, Alex.
Alex : For $300 — He ran up Pork Chop Hill.
Rosie : The only boyfriend I ever had.
Alex : Close enough.
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