Posted on 11/08/2007 1:04:50 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Rosie O'Donnell's return to the world of talk has been short-circuited by her own big mouth.
In a posting to her blog Wednesday night, O'Donnell revealed that negotiations with MSNBC to host her own prime-time show had fallen apart due to her inability to keep quiet about the potential deal.
"We were close to a deal/ almost done/ i let it slip in miami/ causing panic on the studio end," she wrote in her trademark punctuation- and grammar-eschewing free verse. "Well/ what can u do.
"2day there is no deal/ poof/ my career as a pundit is over/ b4 it began."
Still, O'Donnell doesn't seem to be too distraught.
"Just as well/ i figure/everything happens for a reason/ bashert—as we say," she wrote. "And on we go."
Word of the proposed deal, which would've seen O'Donnell in the 9 p.m. time slot, immediately after Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's schedule and talking head-to-talking head with CNN's Larry King, was first reported Monday by the New York Times. The newspaper indicated that cautious conversations had begun between O'Donnell and the network.
Apparently not cautious enough, at least for O'Donnell.
The boisterous talk-show vet failed to keep mum about the back-and-forth, dropping hints of a potential return to the airwaves on several stops of her book-signing tour for Celebrity Detox.
During a stop in Miami on Sunday, O'Donnell told fans she would soon be competing against "the guy with the suspenders and the long, long face"—as in, King.
On Tuesday, during a stand-up show at the New York Comedy Festival, after reports of her discussions with the cable net had already made the rounds, O'Donnell again played not so coy with the audience.
"We're filming for an unidentified TV station, which I was told I was not allowed to mention," she said during the gig. "You don't tell me what I'm not allowed to say, because then I can't help but say it!"
She went on to prove her point.
"They told me not to mention this possible show, and they are men in business suits. Nothing is scarier than men in business suits screaming at you over the phone."
O'Donnell's last television foray ended abruptly in May, when she departed The View before the end of her one-year contract after an on-air bustup with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
I just can't say.....
I wonder if it had anything to do with Brian & The Judge asking Brokaw about it.
Big mouth, little brains.
Rosie has led a sheltered life.
Why the heck is keeping it a secret such a big deal? Because they needed to sell their stock short before they announced it?
Was rosie to take over for Joe Scarborough.
MSNBC has gone completely moonbat, hasn’t it?
Alligator mouth and twitty bird brain
It was clearly rubbing the faces of those clowns at NBC. I loved it.
That's just priceless, this bimbo should get out more often.
Rosie and loose lips are words I’d rather not see together, thank-you very much :P
Just when I think my opinion of her can’t get any lower, she says this crap.
That is one dumb human being.
That’s my question. Is this the way these people always operate in order to force low-down shows on us that destroy our culture? They have to sneak up on us or we would reject their plans before they got the momentum needed to overcome descent people’s objection.
Rosie O’Donuts got her education and girth watching 19 hours of tv a day, from birth, with a bag of potato chips, dry boxes of fruit Loops and two litres of Pepsi.
So, once again, Rosie torpedoed herself. Trump is right ... the woman has severe mental problems.
Well all we have is her word that this is the reason they turned her down. Maybe the real reason was because she is a total fruit cake and they just didn’t want her!
Heck what would be scarier would be having her on the other end of the phone knowing she could be nude. EeeeeweeeU!
And I thank you. LOL!
Maybe scarier could be a big old lesbian in leather pants screaming over the phone?
Why the heck is keeping it a secret such a big deal? Because they needed to sell their stock short before they announced it?
Because the deal was already going south. She’s doing damage control.
You too, huh? Mind in the gutter, sometimes good. Here? Very bad.
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