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Rosie On Why She Didn’t Help To Defeat Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition
WNBC ^ | Thu, Nov 20, 2008

Posted on 11/20/2008 10:35:35 AM PST by nickcarraway

Rosie O’Donnell has defended herself against critics who were angry she did not get involved in the battle against California’s Proposition 8, which set out to eliminate the right of same sex couples to marry.

“This is nothing new for me,” Rosie told reporters on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. “When I got married, it was an act of civil disobedience as much as it was a love story. There is not any person in the country who doesn’t know I’m for gay marriage.”

The star was criticized by some anti-Prop.8 groups for not lending her voice or money alongside stars like Brad Pitt, Ellen DeGeneres, Steven Spielberg, Pete Wentz and T.R. Knight, to fight the proposition, which passed in the recent November 4 election.

“I’m not vocal enough?” Rosie said. “I got married before anyone else did. I’ve been living it and living it for a very long time.”

Though the East Coast-based star may not have joined the battle against a California ballot initiative, she continues to use her voice to share details about her past at daytime talk show, “The View.”

Rosie told reporters that her former boss and “View” co-star, Barbara Walters, “wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if [the panelists] get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that’s just not the reality,” the Los Angeles Times quoted her as telling a group of journalists. “I’m not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is, there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; prop8; rosieodonnell
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1 posted on 11/20/2008 10:35:35 AM PST by nickcarraway
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She used to be such a fun actress and television personality.


2 posted on 11/20/2008 10:38:44 AM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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To: nickcarraway

Rosie is so bombastic, so belligerent and antagonistic, that if she had weighed in during the election, she would have driven voters away from support for same-sex marriage.


3 posted on 11/20/2008 10:39:10 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway

There’s no way Rosie could help “them.”


4 posted on 11/20/2008 10:44:43 AM PST by GVnana ("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
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To: nickcarraway

I thought we got rid of this nitwit.


5 posted on 11/20/2008 10:45:34 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

I hear that some network is giving her another chance at a TV program. Does anybody think she has an audience anymore?


6 posted on 11/20/2008 10:45:34 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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I hear that some network is giving her another chance at a TV program. Does anybody think she has an audience anymore?

Hear it was NBC. Is that right? By the way, I'm still waiting for her to explain that fire does not melt steel. Nitwit.

7 posted on 11/20/2008 10:48:53 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
that if she had weighed in during the election

8 posted on 11/20/2008 10:49:22 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: nickcarraway
“When I got married, it was an act of civil disobedience as much as it was a love story..."

That says it all right there, doesn't it?

9 posted on 11/20/2008 10:55:03 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: originalbuckeye

Obama should have saved his “lipstick on a pig” routine for Rosie O’Donnell. It was the first thought I had on seeing the promo..


10 posted on 11/20/2008 11:00:11 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Obama should have saved his “lipstick on a pig” routine for Rosie O’Donnell. It was the first thought I had on seeing the promo..


11 posted on 11/20/2008 11:00:38 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: nickcarraway

Live by identity politics; die by identity politics.


12 posted on 11/20/2008 11:01:49 AM PST by YHAOS
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Rosie should, as Barbara Walters said, get a life!
13 posted on 11/20/2008 11:02:03 AM PST by exist
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To: WayneS
When she emerged from the courthouse that day, she did not say one word about love or devotion or spending the rest of her life with her "partner".

It was all about sending a message to President Bush.

"We were both just trying to come here after the sitting president said the vile and vicious and hateful comments he did on Tuesday and inspired myself and my brand-new wife to fly here this morning".

14 posted on 11/20/2008 11:32:53 AM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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“There is not any person in the country who doesn’t know I’m for gay marriage.”

Well, Rosie O’Fatass, I’ll bet there are lots of people in the country who don’t know you, don’t want to know you, and couldn’t give a rip about you and your leftist agenda. How pompous can you actually be?


15 posted on 11/20/2008 11:37:46 AM PST by RedDogzRule (Obama is looking less and less like the Messiah, and more and more like the Antichrist!)
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By the way, can you remember the “vile and vicious and hateful things” Pres. Bush said?

I don’t care for the man but I NEVER heard him say anything that was even remotely vile and vicious and hateful.


16 posted on 11/20/2008 11:52:21 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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Of course he did not. That woman is just delusional.


17 posted on 11/20/2008 12:07:18 PM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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“can you remember the “vile and vicious and hateful things” Pres. Bush said?”

No. That bid ol’ bulldyke is suffering delusions again. She needs to roll away and stay out of sight.


18 posted on 11/20/2008 12:08:23 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: nickcarraway

Rosie is trying to be less scary just prior to her new show’s debut.
She’s so desperate she even claimed she likes Sarah Palin and would like to have a beer with her.

Anyone really believe that?

Rosie’s last chance to keep her star shining.
Can’t wait to see the abysmal ratings.


19 posted on 11/20/2008 12:11:30 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: nickcarraway
Rosie O’Donnell has defended herself against critics who were angry she did not get involved in the battle against California’s Proposition 8...

If that fugly,talentless pig had gotten involved it would have been 60-40 instead of what it was (52-48?)

20 posted on 11/20/2008 12:18:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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