Posted on 05/25/2007 12:33:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edited on 05/25/2007 3:08:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June.
It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.
O'Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives.
"Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at `The View,'" Walters said. "I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."
In a statement, O'Donnell said that "it's been an amazing year and I love all three women."
No one was feeling the love on Wednesday, when the argument with Hasselbeck began over O'Donnell's statement last week about the war: "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"
Talk show critics accused O'Donnell of calling U.S. troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck "cowardly" for not saying anything in response to the critics.
"Do not call me a coward, because No. 1, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe," Hasselbeck retorted, and their riveting exchange continued despite failed attempts by their co-hosts to cut to a commercial.
According to a New York Post report, O'Donnell's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly led out of the building on Wednesday after she was caught drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in "The View" studios. ABC executives didn't return repeated calls for questions on the incident Friday.
On Thursday O'Donnell had asked for a day off to celebrate her partner's birthday. "The View" aired a taped show on Friday.
On her Web site, O'Donnell posted a scrapbooklike video on Friday with pictures and news clippings of her tenure at "The View." Cyndi Lauper's "Sisters of Babylon" played in the background.
A day earlier, she posted messages on her Web site indicating she might not be back.
"When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done," she wrote. "Any more would take away."
Way to go Elisabeth!
And endless "American Idol" blather (can't watch a lot of Fox anymore 'cause I'm sick of that masquerading as 'news').
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Saw the witch in “Another Stakeout” and heard her voice in “The Flintstones” otherwise I don’t watch anything she’s in. Never viewed her show nor watched “The View”. I’m not missing anything either.
I thought Rosie O’Donut preferred bush!
Thank heaven. Now maybe Fox will quit “treating” us to daily views of “The View”.
Poor Alan Jackson. Such a decent, classy guy is probably humiliated to see his face being abused in such a way.
Rosie, don’t let the View’s door knob hit you in the... blubber, you slob.
No no no. She prefers bush!!
I hear Cindy the Sheham is going to replace Rosie on The View. j/k
More unprofessional conduct from Rosie the Rooster. Can’t stand a tiny bit of a challenge, so she runs away and weasels out of her contract early.
Rosie will adopt Dan Blather’s infamous sign-off for her new show:
“COURAGE!”
Rosie the bloviating beast has shown how much courage she has by wilting in the face of a challenge to her bull-dyke persona. She is so used to trampling all over people that when someone stands up to her a little bit, she has to grab her toys and run away wailing like the frustrated bully she is. Go Elisabeth!!
Why do you consider her to be a "lightweight"? I can't watch an episode of the view without getting violent diarrhea, but from the clips I've seen of her, she seems like a good voice for the right. Plus, anyone who can make it as far as she did on Survivor deserves a lot of credit.
Yea, she just accepted a job with Rapala..........now the question is what pound test line to tie to her.
That reference is almost Dennis Miller-ly obscure!
Hmmm...looks like Hasselbeck’s packing...
Her bully bull dyke routine is tedious.
He's RIGHT. Elizabeth confronted her and didn't back down...and Rosie cowardly left the room.
P.S. HELLO DEMS...THIS IS WHY REPUBLICANS ALWAYS SAY, "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH." AND THIS is how it will work in Iraq. This is the ONLY way it will work in Iraq. If we show those that question which side they should take, that WE are the stronger, they will help us to win. If not...they will go with whomever will help them survive the day. Before they can have discuss another issue, they know they must be able to survive the day, first.
BINGO!
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