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Rosie fights last fight on 'The View' [ABC said Friday she won't be back on the show...]
AP via Yahoo ^ | 5/25/07 | DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

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."


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To: Fledermaus

Yeah...I’ve seen that. You’re right....Danny would “tear her a new one”.


321 posted on 05/25/2007 7:06:25 PM PDT by scan58
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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


322 posted on 05/25/2007 7:13:47 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty ((Watch this space for new tagline))
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To: edcoil

edcoil:

she is a women al Quada.

She’d look better in a BURQA!


323 posted on 05/25/2007 7:15:45 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty ((Watch this space for new tagline))
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To: PISANO
What demographic finds her shtick entertaining, her voice melodious, her appearance pleasing and her continuous attacks on the United States informative?

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.

324 posted on 05/25/2007 7:20:42 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to cry)
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To: dannyboy72
‘’They should replace her with Patricia Heaton’’,,,,,,,,,,,,,They should, but they won’t!I believe they have they’re sites set on Whoppe Goldberg, or Rosanne Barr. UUuuggghh! After all if you have another conservative that would even things out! Can’t have that. It’s always gotta be 3 SCREECHING libs against one conservative. That’s just ‘’the rules! LOL!
325 posted on 05/25/2007 7:23:46 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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To: I_like_good_things_too; ml/nj
I talk to these women every day

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.

326 posted on 05/25/2007 7:30:43 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: Unam Sanctam

And she hates ‘FOX News’ and Sean Hannity.


327 posted on 05/25/2007 7:31:26 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty ((Watch this space for new tagline))
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To: Dan Evans

Wow, that is the first time I have seen a picture of her since she was on the reality show.


328 posted on 05/25/2007 7:33:44 PM PDT by Disturbin (Welcome to society -- morons with keys)
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To: weegee
"She was outed as a Islamonazi propagandist on the order of Axis Sally from WWII on national television and her staff took it hard."

It cannot be said any better than that.

329 posted on 05/25/2007 7:34:29 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: Sub-Driver

330 posted on 05/25/2007 7:36:54 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Covenantor
Fat, drunk amd stupid is no way to go through life

son.
331 posted on 05/25/2007 7:38:28 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Covenantor

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!!)


332 posted on 05/25/2007 7:40:21 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty ((Watch this space for new tagline))
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To: Texas Eagle

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?


333 posted on 05/25/2007 7:54:11 PM PDT by EagleandLiberty ((Watch this space for new tagline))
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To: Sub-Driver
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

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.

334 posted on 05/25/2007 7:57:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: weegee
Why it took “this” level of outrage to drop her is beyond me.

Ratings trump (so to speak) outrage in TV-land.

335 posted on 05/25/2007 7:58:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: I_like_good_things_too

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.)


336 posted on 05/25/2007 8:17:01 PM PDT by fullchroma
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To: weegee

“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.


337 posted on 05/25/2007 8:25:00 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Dan Evans

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.


338 posted on 05/25/2007 8:27:14 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: Zathras

See my #337


339 posted on 05/25/2007 8:27:48 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: slapshot

Rosie the whale wrangler LOL!!! How I thought, ahh, as a role model!!!


340 posted on 05/25/2007 8:33:22 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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