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.
“Good night David”.
“Good night Chet”.
“Good night Rosie”.
How about men in dresses and turbans carrying dull knives?
Why wouldn’t they want someone who uttered those immortal words “[9/11 was] the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel”?
Nah. I’ve been yelled at by big old lesbians. Once because I walked my dog under thier window when they were trying to sleep and once when I was taking a conservative position in a class. I’ve also been yelled at by men in business suits over the telephone (pretty often actually since in a way it’s my job and it’s always some version of “where is my money man, I’m not kidding, where is my money?” or “I’m going to sue you man, I’m not kidding, I’m going to sue you.”) Neither is very scary.
Knife pulled on me while I was in a phone booth. Not particularly scary.
Fights in bars. Not scary.
Wife pregnant. Scary!
Realizing that her vote counts as much as yours.
In Texas, we call it "Tequila Fever".
Makes your brain small...and your mouth big.
She really does look like a crazy guy I knew. He had breasts and big sunken eyes and a foot fetish. He was in the pyschiatric ward.
You just scared me..She is insane..
Just curious here... is there a really large viewer base calling for the television return of Rosie O’Donnell?
Her website and her poetry is illiterate. It’s a travesty that she has any access to the “public airwaves.”
She’s so stupid that she can’t even put together 3 words in simple english.
Didn’t she already tell us she is very rich? LOL
Scarborough ain't exactly the poster boy of Conservatism....
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