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Maybe I’m wrong…
May 30th, 2007, 1:00 am
By John

Rosie O’Donnell had been attacking Elisabeth Hasselback for almost a year on “The View.” She’d talk about her Republican views, and Rosie would call her names, insult her intelligence, and pretty much berate her - in some cases to the point of tears.

The one time Elisabeth fights back, Rosie stumbles, backs off, and quits three weeks before her contract ends, and she says it’s because of a “split screen.”

What a stupid fuck.

The only reason why that pig’s show lasted as long as it did was because nobody disagreed with Rosie on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.” She had Tom Selleck on as a guest to promote some project he was involved in, and instead of doing the press packet standard, Rosie bashed him and attacked his beliefs on gun control. She was against it, he was a card carrying member of the NRA. Let’s forget the fact that she has gun carrying bodyguards.

Here’s the problem I have. Rosie has no problems bashing people because they don’t agree with her. So far, I’m okay with that. In fact, I condone it. What I do have a problem with is how she is making excuses for why she is leaving early. They went and split the screen for viewers at home so they could see both you and her arguing is NOT a valid excuse.

Just own up to it, Rosie. You couldn’t handle her finally standing up to you, putting you in your place, and calling you out for what you are.

Instead, Rosie writes her cryptic lame duck poems on her blog. Here’s my retort.

someone call the
waaaaaaaaaaaambulance for ro
she makes excuses for quitting
the show using a split screen
to help portray a message

I need an oven to put my head in.


21 Responses to “Maybe I’m wrong…”


  1. Angela
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    6:46 am
    1

    What happened to Rosie?! She used to be funny.


  2. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    9:32 am
    2

    So, I think you’re wrong to a point. That split screen was a big deal for THAT show. It pretty much goes against everything the show supports. “Togetherness for women” and all that pinkish BS. They had not done that during one of the ’round table’ sessions before and it clearly made a statement: This is Rosie against Elizabeth. It went past the point of ‘discussion’ and moved it squarely onto a ‘debate’ platform.

    If Elizabeth can’t stand to defend her opinions and beliefs without succumbing to tears, she needs to get her ass off the stage. I’m sure the Republicans can find another token blond haired blue eyed clone to defend them that actually HAS a backbone. She finally, FINALLY(!!), stood up to Rosie (and really chose the wrong battle to do so) and let herself be overshadowed and beaten into submission AGAIN.

    And really, John. You are going to get onto Rosie for not sticking to a press packet? If only more TV shows would muster up the balls to do the same thing we’d actually get some more quality TV instead of the same BS spewed by different hosts on different TV shows night after night after night. They bounce around from show to show screening the SAME CLIP EVERY TIME, getting asked the SAME QUESTIONS EVERY TIME. It’s lame.

    Anyway, I’m not some huge Rosie fan. I’m really not. While I think she can be funny, she’s pretty damn annoying. But she was lambasted by political corespondents for something she didn’t say. She never said the “troops” were terrorists and anybody watching that exchange and NOT looking for a political ball to volley could see that she VERY CLEARLY meant: Who are we to call people terrorists when we (AMERICA) are over there (IRAQ, who never attacked us. Ever.) while over 600,000 INNOCENT people have been killed. And if WE were THEM, we’d totally be waving the terrorist flag at US.

    Her point was a very valid one and it shut Elizabeth up, AGAIN because what she said isn’t really arguable. I’d be pissed off too if I was one of the few main stream celebs that actually had the balls to stand up and say what needs to be said then got bitch slapped for it by conservative pundit types trying to find a witch to burn.


  3. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    9:56 am
    3

    Then why quit three weeks before her contract ends over a technical thing she didn’t know about until after the fact?

    I’m not bashing her for her views, in fact although I don’t agree with her, I support her right to say them. I just think it’s hypocritical. And I made this point already.

    [quote post=”1157″]The one time Elisabeth fights back, Rosie stumbles, backs off, and quits three weeks before her contract ends, and she says it’s because of a “split screen.”[/quote]

    It’s not about WHAT was said, it’s about HOW it was said. Right or wrong, Rosie was fed the same dose of medicine she gives all the time, and she didn’t like it.

    Besides, it started with them discussing a book that Al Gore wrote about President Bush… the same guy that made a movie about how we need to conserve energy, while using more energy in his house in a month than most people use in a year. Ooops!


  4. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    10:14 am
    4

    She saw the split screen while still on stage. She said, “When I looked over and saw the split screen, I knew it was over.” I don’t blame her for leaving. That show has milked the cash cow dry and she seems like she’s finally sick of having chapped udders. The producer of that segment should have cut to commercial when Guest of the Day first gave them a chance to but they didn’t. They WANTED that debate to take place. They KNEW that there was tension from the exchange a few days prior, they KNEW that Rosie had been dragged through mud, they KNEW she wouldn’t be able to keep the trap shut, and they KNEW the result would be through the roof exposure.

    In turn, Rosie knew the best way to turn the tables was to leave. No cash cow anymore. Rating will plummet back to what they were pre-Rosie and they’ll be back to trying to find another cow to milk.

    As for the Al Gore comment. Well, if the only bad thing we can say about Al Gore is that he’s a hypocrite for using too much energy then whatever. Pile that up against the bad things you can say about the current president and that one thing about Al Gore will get lost in a massive (and ever growing) pile of rank shit.

    Other than that, I haven’t read the book yet so I can’t really speak too much about it. I plan on picking it up soon though, so I may have more to add then! ;)


  5. Caitlin
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    2:33 pm
    5

    I hate Rosie and I can’t wait until I don’t have to hear about her anymore. The events are not even worth commenting on. That is all.


  6. Ryan Wallace
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    2:52 pm
    6

    Rosie’s not always wrong. Rosie is, however, always a douche.


  7. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    3:22 pm
    7

    [quote post=”1157″]Well, if the only bad thing we can say about Al Gore is that he’s a hypocrite for using too much energy then whatever.[/quote]
    Anna, my problem with Al Gore is this. He purposely made a movie to educate everyone on how to conserve, to point the errs of this Administration’s energy policy. At the same time, he was blatantly and flagrantly doing everything he said we should NOT do… tenfold. That said, if he was so flagrant about his energy use, what else would he have been so “do as I say, not as I do” about? Taxes? Foreign affairs?


  8. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    3:59 pm
    8

    [quote post=”1157″]Anna, my problem with Al Gore is this. He purposely made a movie to educate everyone on how to conserve, to point the errs of this Administration’s energy policy. At the same time, he was blatantly and flagrantly doing everything he said we should NOT do… tenfold. That said, if he was so flagrant about his energy use, what else would he have been so “do as I say, not as I do” about? Taxes? Foreign affairs?[/quote]

    And like I said before, I haven’t read the book yet so I don’t know what all he goes into. But yes, things like Iraq would be exactly the kind of thing that I’d point to. And I’d even go so far as to say that at least Al Gore did SOMETHING. What has Bush done for the environment? Certainly not things like join the 169 other countries that have signed the Kyoto Treaty saying things like: “But I will not accept a plan that will harm our economy and hurt American workers.”

    Because yeah, the $100 billion we just gave him to spend in Iraq? Much better for our economy than the silly ozone layer!!


  9. Ryan Wallace
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    4:35 pm
    9

    [quote post=”1157″](Al Gore) was blatantly and flagrantly doing everything he said we should NOT do…[/quote]

    Yes he was, and that’s hypocritical and pathetic. But it doesn’t make him wrong.

    To use his hypocrisy as a reason to discard his message seems foolish to me.

    Anna, if the spending in Iraq stopped this very instant, and all of that money came back to this country (where it should be), do you really believe that a single dime of it would be spent to implement higher environmental standards? Cause that seems pretty foolish to me too.

    Too many powerful people make pull down too much money for this “situation” to get resolved in any sort of a reasonable way. It is, after all, still politics.


  10. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    4:40 pm
    10

    [quote post=”1157″]To use his hypocrisy as a reason to discard his message seems foolish to me.[/quote]
    Then what message does that send to people who go to his movie, see it, and realize what a great mind he is for having such insight… only to find that he himself does not live by the rules or ideals he wants everyone else to believe in?


  11. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:09 pm
    11

    [quote post=”1157″]Anna, if the spending in Iraq stopped this very instant, and all of that money came back to this country (where it should be), do you really believe that a single dime of it would be spent to implement higher environmental standards? Cause that seems pretty foolish to me too.
    Too many powerful people make pull down too much money for this “situation” to get resolved in any sort of a reasonable way. It is, after all, still politics.[/quote]

    No, I don’t for a second think it would. I think that the current administration has made it very clear that the environment is not on the current priority list. I hope that the next election will change that.

    And for the record, I don’t think that we should pull troops out TODAY because we shouln’t leave the country in the mess we’ve created. But I don’t think we ever should have been there in the first place either. Or that building a $592,000,000 embassy in Baghdad complete with tennis courts, swimming pool and a 19,000 square foot residence for the U.S. ambassador is the best way to spend part of that $100 billion dollars either.


  12. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:15 pm
    12

    [quote post=”1157″]Or that building a $592,000,000 embassy in Baghdad complete with tennis courts, swimming pool and a 19,000 square foot residence for the U.S. ambassador is the best way to spend part of that $100 billion dollars either.[/quote]
    That’s like saying the sole purpose of the White House is for the President and his spouse to have a place to crash at night.


  13. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:16 pm
    13

    [quote post=”1157″]Then what message does that send to people who go to his movie, see it, and realize what a great mind he is for having such insight… only to find that he himself does not live by the rules or ideals he wants everyone else to believe in?[/quote]

    Have you seen the movie? The message was powerful, no doubt. No matter how Al Gore lives, or how many 30″ Mac monitors he has sitting on his desk, we are still losing icebergs, killing the ozone and destroying forests.

    I agree that he’s made a some dumb choices and that his own hypocrisy has hurt him in trying to spread the message, but the messaged needs to be spread none-the-less.


  14. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:18 pm
    14

    [quote post=”1157″]That’s like saying the sole purpose of the White House is for the President and his spouse to have a place to crash at night.[/quote]

    Except that in Washington, people have more than 4 hours of electricity a day and actual clean water running out of the taps.


  15. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:18 pm
    15

    [quote post=”1157″]No matter how Al Gore lives, or how many 30″ Mac monitors he has sitting on his desk, we are still losing icebergs, killing the ozone and destroying forests.[/quote]
    No matter how Al Gore lives? A great leader leads by example. His documentary, albeit powerful, is not proof that he can lead by example.


  16. John
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:20 pm
    16

    [quote post=”1157″]Except that in Washington, people have more than 4 hours of electricity a day and actual clean water running out of the taps.[/quote]
    Maybe if they didn’t ruin their own infrastructure when the Coalition came huntin’ for Hussein, they’d still have the energy and clean water they had before.


  17. Ryan Wallace
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:23 pm
    17

    [quote post=”1157″]Then what message does that send to people who go to his movie, see it, and realize what a great mind he is for having such insight… only to find that he himself does not live by the rules or ideals he wants everyone else to believe in?[/quote]

    It sends a terrible message. He’s an irresponsible, soapbox-riding assbag because of it.

    Again, that does not mean that he’s wrong about global warming. On the contrary, he’s precisely right. Something must be done about it, and despite his hypocrisy, he remains an important champion of the cause, even if he neither faithfully follows it or even believes it himself.

    [quote post=”1157″]I don’t think that we should pull troops out TODAY because we shouln’t leave the country in the mess we’ve created.[/quote]

    I think pulling out is PRECISELY what should be done, because - and call me whatever you may - I happen to personally value American lives more than others. I do not care at all what becomes of Iraq, so long as Americans continue to die. In my view, the American government has a responsibility to protect American lives first and foremost. They’ve done a piss-poor job of that by allowing three thousand-plus to die in that clusterfuck of ungrateful losers, and each passing American death is another black eye on an wasteful operation, the beneficiaries of which couldn’t possibly care less that they’ve been rescued from a tyrant thanks to American blood.

    Fuck Iraq and every last soul in it. Our soldiers don’t deserve to die for those cowards.


  18. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:31 pm
    18

    [quote post=”1157″]No matter how Al Gore lives? A great leader leads by example. His documentary, albeit powerful, is not proof that he can lead by example.[/quote]

    He’s not really a “leader” anymore unless you consider him ‘leading the environemtal cause’.

    It’s like people have completely forgotten he was ever a VP or ran for President. American’s have short memories.


  19. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:34 pm
    19

    [quote post=”1157″]I think pulling out is PRECISELY what should be done, because - and call me whatever you may - I happen to personally value American lives more than others. I do not care at all what becomes of Iraq, so long as Americans continue to die. In my view, the American government has a responsibility to protect American lives first and foremost. They’ve done a piss-poor job of that by allowing three thousand-plus to die in that clusterfuck of ungrateful losers, and each passing American death is another black eye on an wasteful operation, the beneficiaries of which couldn’t possibly care less that they’ve been rescued from a tyrant thanks to American blood.
    Fuck Iraq and every last soul in it. Our soldiers don’t deserve to die for those cowards.[/quote]

    I agree with you for the most part other than I think we need to play a part in helping the people that didn’t ask for all this BS in the first place.

    And I’ll probably have more to say when I get home but it’s time to get the hell out of the work place!


  20. Chenoa
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    5:53 pm
    20

    [quote post=”1157″]Fuck Iraq and every last soul in it. Our soldiers don’t deserve to die for those cowards.[/quote]

    Agreed. You can’t fight for a country that doesn’t want to fight for itself.

    And I’ll be glad when Rosie just shuts up and moves on. Split screen my ass - Barbara even said that they’d used the split screen MANY times before and Rosie had never complained.


  21. Anna
    Posted:
    May 30th, 2007
    7:48 pm
    21

    So I lied. I got home and I got nuthin’.

    Good post today though, John!




 


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