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."
I’ll tell ya, one of those two women tends to look beautiful when she’s angry — but I’ve never seen anyone look good, who’s suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome.
LOL! “guide the stranded whales out of the Sacremento River.” HAHA! More likely scare them out.
A face that even her own mother could not love!
By the way, do a right-click on the picture to see the properties for a good laugh.
You got that right!
"...face them down?"
I suspect we'll have to go further than that...
I'm betting we'll have to PUT many down....
And because there were people in the audience who actually cheered for her garbage - which is scary!
YAWN!!
lol
Looks like there were actually two big hogs that were bagged today!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839878/posts
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True, of course. But ABC would never allow Ann Coulter on that show. Elisabeth Hasselbeck was a token Conservative. There's nothing 'token' about Ann. And there's no way that ABC (or NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc) would ever allow Ann the opportunity to go one-on-one with their picked socialists, in an on-going environment.
The point is, it's easy to put these people in their place because they expect Conservatives to play nice. Once the opportunity to respond is taken, that's it. And the proof is, that even such a light hitter such as Elisabeth can do it to a loud-mouthed socialist pig such as Rosie.
Rosie felt empowered by her run-ins with Donald Trump because he was a man. Her life evolves around taking on men (well, beyond her obvious political bent). But taking on the likes of Elisabeth, who's young and comes across like a nice person, and who has pretty much rolled over on the show, is another story. I don't think she expected Elisabeth's backtalk, nor do I think she knew how to respond. And once the jig was up, that was it for her, and the show.
Now we have the spectacle of her staff trashing her office and drawing mustaches on Elisabeth's pictures. Such low-life behavior shows just how crass and worthless these people are.
I don't know the name of that redhead on the show, but it would be fantastic should Elisabeth take her on next. I wonder whether that redhead learned anything from this. I doubt it, but that would be interesting.
When Silverstone walked on stage to be greeted by the View crew, she walked past Hasselbeck's outstretched hands, totally ignoring her, to hug the lesbo and skanks.
Rosie II - fat, drunk and ugly.
This is amazing. She just wanted Elizabeth to be her bitch. Runs away when confronted by an honest argument well-delivered.
Hasselbeck’s hot.
Today is just a bad day for extremely large hogs....
Next Joyless Blowhard had to leave. She is stupid, a terrible actress and unfunny.
ML/NJ
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