Posted on 05/25/2007 12:33:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edited on 05/25/2007 3:08:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June.
It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.
O'Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives.
"Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at `The View,'" Walters said. "I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."
In a statement, O'Donnell said that "it's been an amazing year and I love all three women."
No one was feeling the love on Wednesday, when the argument with Hasselbeck began over O'Donnell's statement last week about the war: "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"
Talk show critics accused O'Donnell of calling U.S. troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck "cowardly" for not saying anything in response to the critics.
"Do not call me a coward, because No. 1, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe," Hasselbeck retorted, and their riveting exchange continued despite failed attempts by their co-hosts to cut to a commercial.
According to a New York Post report, O'Donnell's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly led out of the building on Wednesday after she was caught drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in "The View" studios. ABC executives didn't return repeated calls for questions on the incident Friday.
On Thursday O'Donnell had asked for a day off to celebrate her partner's birthday. "The View" aired a taped show on Friday.
On her Web site, O'Donnell posted a scrapbooklike video on Friday with pictures and news clippings of her tenure at "The View." Cyndi Lauper's "Sisters of Babylon" played in the background.
A day earlier, she posted messages on her Web site indicating she might not be back.
"When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done," she wrote. "Any more would take away."
WGAS?
Kind of reminds me of what the Clintons did to the white house when they left...
It’s what the libs will try do to our country when we’ll ultimately have to face them down!
Everybody say hello to Rosie on the thread folks. I guarantee you she’s here lurking, or will be.
Hello Scumbag!
Hasselbeck took you down. Bet it hurts. Glad it does.
I miss Gilda.
“The View” Staffer Allegedly Draws Moustaches On Elisabeth
May 25, 2007 11:09 a.m. EST
Jordan Casey - AHN News Writer
New York, NY (AHN) - First, Elisabeth and Rosie got into a nasty brawl on Wednesday’s episode of “The View.” Then the blonde co-host was snubbed by actress Alicia Silverstone, who happened to be a guest on the show that day. And now, believe it or not, there’s another person who has a bone to pick with the conservative host. All of this only a few days before her 30th birthday!
On Thursday, Janette Barber - Rosie’s head writer on “The View” - was caught drawing mustaches on pictures of Elisabeth that are on display in the studio’s lobby, reports dlisted.com. And it didn’t take long before the writer was quickly escorted out into the streets of New York.
ABC has confirmed the incident took place, saying, “Photographs at The View’s offices were defaced. Rosie O’Donnell was not in the building. ABC Legal and Human Resources are investigating the matter,” reports PEOPLE.
Rosie was nowhere to be found on Thursday since she had taken the day off to be with her partner Kelli, who was celebrating her 40th birthday.
In the past couple of days, the outspoken co-host has hinted on her blog that she may be leaving “The View” before her contact is up in late June, saying she is “sad” about Wednesday’s fall-out and believes that her “work is done.”
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007452267
Good riddance.
I miss Gilda, too.
“It’s always something!”
Now the great Anne Coulter just needs to take Hasselbeck under her wings a little bit and nurture and we’d have two great Conservative women sages....
... and her chair breathes a sigh of relief.
Chris Matthews said about Rosie, "I don't know who she's trying to win with this argument, it's like she's a mole on the far right-wing side of the war, and she's figured out a way to make the war look better. I don't get it."
If you are such a moonbat against the war that a rotten Tertiary Syphllitic Bolshevik, like Matthews, wants to throw you under the train it is time to leave the airwaves and suck on the bong of perpetual bliss it the hope of enlightenment.
How odd that the dust up occurred on the last day of the May ratings sweeps. !!
Yep, after they get their name calling in.....
Pathetic, but it doesn clearly demonstrate who the adult was in this tele confrontation.
Adn who the winner was.
Who gives a rat’s rump?
"Gay Girl, Why do You Look So Sad?"
Wow! FR is losing quite a few threads now. I wonder how they will be replaced. No more Rosie bashing. We need to find something else ASAP! lol.
I hope this means Fox News will find something else to talk about. It seems that Fox has some thing for her lately and spends a lot of time talking about her (and therefore promoting her).
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