Oh the HughManatee!!!
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."
That picure says it all. Great choice.
Truth be known, she hates herself the most.
whoever snapped that photo is a genius.
Hates the lovely Elisabeth.
Is Free Republic going the route of the tabloids?
This woman is deranged and quite frightening. Why do we give her the time of day?
Cause she makes us laugh.
They finally separated that mad cow from the herd.
A new nickname for the queen of mean “Hogzilla”!
Fat, ugly and stupid is no way to go through life.
“Why do we give her the time of day?”
Because...”This woman is deranged and quite frightening. “
bye, bye, bitc....
Interesting. The first story was she had planned to take the day off for her partner’s 40th birthday.
Oh the HughManatee!!!
Hey Rosie! Let the door hit your ample ass on the way out!
We need to have a Hasselbeck rule.
I will miss you. You are a great spokeswoman for the treason-atic party. Only you would say what you really all think.
Tiny little Hasselbeck, stands up for herself and Rosie can’t take it and runs away. Liberals really are cowards.
LOL, I like it.
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