Rosie's Exit

This morning, Rosie O'Donnell announced that she was leaving her hosting gig on ABC's The View.  I don't know what's more distressing: that we still have two months of her irresponsible and hate-filled rants to endure or the fact that all of the cable television networks called this announcement "Breaking News."

 

"Breaking News" used to be reserved for presidential press conferences, natural disasters, and movie stars' deaths.  The announcement that a talk show host won't be returning to her program next season really ranks up there in importance, doesn't it?!

I must say that I have mixed feelings about Rosie's departure.  There is no doubt that she was wildly damaging to this country's efforts to fight a war against a ruthless enemy----an enemy that probably hung on her every word, just so they could mine what she said for their own propaganda and get a hearty chuckle.  She was also intellectually dishonest, taking the president's comments and policies way out of context in order to bash him, or she was simply wrong about her facts.  She never let the truth get in the way of what she wanted to say. 

On top of it all, Rosie was a classic bully.  She never let anyone with an opposing viewpoint speak for very long, because she wanted to shut them down before their arguments gained traction.  She bulldozed everyone in her path, including her fellow co-hosts, none of whom dared to stand up to her. 

But as offensive and dangerous as she was, she also served a purpose: she showed how vacuous and ridiculous the left in this country really is, how vapid its arguments, how ill-informed its viewpoints, how reckless its policies, how short-sighted and low-class its spokespeople.  Rosie's daily irresponsibility exposed all of that.  And although her departure doesn't mean the left won't still have its wackos out there, many of them will be just a little less obvious.  (Senator Harry Reid excluded.) 

Rosie may once again get her own daily talk show, where she can control everything without having to deal with co-hosts who may not toe her radical line.  But for now, we bid her adieu from ABC, which indulged her insipid recklessness for far too long. The enemy has lost a great ally from network television today, and although they still have plenty of others helping their cause, for now at least, Rosie O'Donnell exits Stage Left.

Comments

[Jol]

How about a "no holds barred" public debate between Monica Crowley and Rosie O'Donnell. Imus can moderate.

http://jackromp.blogspot.com

[PETE]

While I thought I was watching a view of the exit yesterday, it turned out that I wss watching a great program on The Animal Planet Channel called "GROWING UP WALRUS". Perhaps Rosie will re-surface on that channel on some outdoor African hunting adventure or similar program.

THE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS "what important news is being covered up by all of this face time she's been getting as the mainstream media AND cable news channels, including FoxNews, have a reporting orgy over this NON EVENT!

Here's a sampling:

4/25/07: Ex-CIA Director George Tenet reveals intelligence extracted from terror suspects in the CIA’s “High Value Detainee” program, which includes so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” was more valuable than all the other terror intelligence gathered by the FBI, the National Security Agency and the CIA.- this program has saved lives. I know we’ve disrupted plots,” http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9.htm

4/25/07: U.S. exercise prepares for Iran attack on the Fifth Fleet petroling the Gulf.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/07/front2454216.050694444.html

4/25/07: IRAN'S VICIOUS DRESSTAPO ISSUES EDICT: Women who refuse to wear veil & otherwise adhere to strict Islamic dress code banished from Tehran for up to 5 years’ http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252007/news/worldnews/irans_vicious_dresstapo_hits_unveiled_gals_with_barbaric_banishment_worldnews_ali_akbar_dareini__ap_and_post_wire_services.htm

4/25/07: Iran’s HITLER IN A HEADSCARF Ahmadinejad hails 27th anniversary of failed U.S. operation to rescue 53 American hostages from U.S. Embassy in Tehran - brags God & Iran "clobbered the enemy." http://www.washtimes.com/world/20070425-123550-3598r.htm

4/25/07: RELIGION OF PEACE STRIKES AGAIN: Enraged about her recent statement that Qur’an’s views of women need reevaluation, Somali Muslim thugs beat Somali woman senseless on an Oslo street where she lives in Norway breaking several of her ribs.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27980

[gringoman]

How about a "no holds barred" public debate between Monica Crowley and Rosie O'Donnell. Imus can moderate.

http://jackromp.blogspot.com

Posted by: Jol | April 26, 2007 at 12:21 AM

No holds barred? Public debate? Surely, Sir, you jest. Surely you weren't in Waziristan just recently, or on that newly discovered planet. Surely you know about that fancy Manhattan ceremony for media women, attended also by aspiring high school young ladies, where the dim-wit Rozabeast, all eyes upon her, grabbed a certain part of her nasty hulk and instructed Donald Trump on what to do with it. It seems like you really meant to suggest a "No ho's barred pubic debate." But maybe this misconstrues you?

[Jol]

G Man
Rock Musicians and baseball players have been grabbing their crotches for years, as likely have those young ladies you are so wont to protect.
Rosie's tactic was obvious. She was trying to get Donald to throw up.

[gringoman]

JOL,

OMG, did you really think that any one doesn't know how unsightly baggage like that exists, and how the liberal's debased culture enables them? I've been with women around the world, but have rarely seen anything like the aggressive dumb-dumb who elitenik Barbara Wah-wah shamelessly patronized and who Donald Trump described as an "animal" and not a very bright animal. However, I'll cede to your greater familiarity with or knowledge of and interest in crotch grabbers. .

Now at gringoman.com: VIRGINIA TECH: AMERICAN JIHAD?

[FK]

Does Monica really think that al Qaeda members were avid followers of "The View"? Aren't they too busy killing our troops that Bush nicely put right in their crosshairs?