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<p>Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at `The View.' ABC said Friday she won't be back on the show following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday.</p> <p>O'Donnell asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract. She was due to leave "The View" in mid-June.</p>

Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers Posted by Justin McCarthy on May 1, 2007 - 13:03. The May 1 edition of "The View" marked the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s famous "mission accomplished" announcement with Rosie O’Donnell’s predictable rants against the war and the administration. The co-host mysteriously claimed Afghanistan had nothing to do with September 11 and downplayed the Al Qaeda threat, claiming it is simply a U.S. government scare tactic. Additionally, Rosie, with the aide of guest co-host Ricki Lake, followed Charles Rangel and Andy Rooney to assert that U.S. soldiers are not patriots, but losers...

The resident shock jock at 'The View' has had a difficult time on the show since returning from vacation. Rosie O'Donnell makes her living blasting away on ABC's morning show and it is all justified in the name of ratings by ABC. That's pretty much the case with Don Imus and NBC. Rosie and Imus are both are unfunny and past their primes, but both can still get a decent audience in their time slots with their cheap humor. Whether it's Rosie mocking the Chinese or Imus mocking young black women athletes bigotry is all done in the name of...

HOLLYWOOD - Chopping logs. Taking long walks in the woods outside his home in northern Michigan. Reading the latest Robert B. Parker detective novel. Going to church on Sunday. And catching up on sleep. That's how filmmaker Michael Moore is spending his time these days. He's no longer sparring with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly or trying to sway opinion with his Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11," but is instead watching "Desperate Housewives" with his wife, Kathleen Glynn. Taking a postelection breather before launching into an Oscar campaign that he hopes will earn his documentary a best picture nomination, Moore is also preparing...

..."You won't hear the C-word during the Democrats' Teddy lovefest, of course. Yet the events at Chappaquiddick gave birth to a Democratic mantra that would be sounded over and over in the years to come: Character doesn't count. That's the phrase we heard endlessly during the debate over Bill Clinton's White House romps and whether or not they merited impeachment. Only competence and ability matter, we were told. Indeed, mention the word "Chappaquiddick" and you're inevitably met with groans of annoyance and complaints that "it's an old story," or "it's totally irrelevant to today's issues" or "there goes the Republican...