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."
Yeah...I’ve seen that. You’re right....Danny would “tear her a new one”.
Rosie now you can start a show in CUBA! You can call it ‘I love Fidel’. Rosie, you are an overrated bag of HOT AIR - and you look like one! LOL
edcoil:
she is a women al Quada.
She’d look better in a BURQA!
I can only conclude there are a whole lot of easily entertained, hearing impaired, ugly, overweight, lesbian loving, America hating, conspiracy nuts who are wealthy enough to stay home and watch daytime tv everyday.
Everybody likes to watch a train wreck in progress. It's called rubbernecking.
As do I; bumping to what you've said here.
It's unfortunate, ml/nj, but these women have been given the vote.
This is not just stupid pop culture; this is "hearts and minds" stuff, and we have to combat it.
And she hates ‘FOX News’ and Sean Hannity.
Wow, that is the first time I have seen a picture of her since she was on the reality show.
It cannot be said any better than that.
Covenator:
Don’t insult GROUPERS! Those fish are great eating and besides, they are smarter then Rosie. Heck, COW MANURE is smarter!! :)
(I hope I am not too mean!!)
Texas Eagle:
Photo of Rosie O’Donnell painting courtesy of Moonbat Art Gallery, Greenwich Village, NY.
Shouldn’t it be a JackA...er Donkey painting than an elephant?
Like the clintonoids leaving the White House. Illustrates once again the true character of liberals. The only issue is how long they can hide it.
Ratings trump (so to speak) outrage in TV-land.
Exactly right.
That this woman, with her venomous falsehoods was allowed to spread her vitriol, unchecked, over the public airways, in the deadly serious manner of someone who knows what the hell she’s talking about, five days a week to a huge, brain-dead but possibly voting audience for as long as she did was irresponsible and scary. Barbara Walters gambled her reputation for lucre and lost.
I’m glad Ms. O’Donnell is gone (but, strangly, I’ll miss her.)
“why it took this “level of outrage” to drop her is beyond
me”
——I haven’t really followed this that closely but the Rosie/Trump, and Rosie/everyone else and Elizabeth thing was hard to miss, even if you tried. THere is a point where even pumped-up ratings get “trumped” by diminishing returns, where “controversy” and free speech start looking like spoon-fed idiocy which is all that was on display when the policy was obviously just to let Rosie go on and on and set the agenda. Barbara Walters, and the Network and the producers of the show obviously realized they’d reached that point this week, and an ejector seat was called for for Rosie, two weeks early. So it was not really a “level of outrage” that was finally reached and brought about the departure, it was an assessment and prediction of falling ratings which paradoxically rose quickly and burst through the level of outrage that was already there, waiting to be activated.
Interestingly the only commentator with nerve enough to even suggest a “fat Lesbian/cute blonde” dynamic to this was Mark Steyn on Hannity.
If she is supposedly representing conservatives, too bad she looks like a cheap street walker. The comments posted in response to your picture say it well.
See my #337
Rosie the whale wrangler LOL!!! How I thought, ahh, as a role model!!!
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