Guess I won't be needing this any longer.
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."
My God, what is that?
So you think they’ll replace the Queen of Nice with the Queen of ???
lizzie’s a lightweight. that’s why most of the time El Roho is able to twist her sideways.
And Rosie’s a complete tinhat kook.
She’d be easy to knock out, and this could’ve been done with dispatch a long time ago - cept that lizzie’s a lightweight.
No offense to her, btw. It’s just that Baba wouldn’t hire any conservative female who WASN’T a lightweight.
Two pound test line, LOTS of very heavy weights, deep sea fishing.
Right. CNN would love the ratings. And just think how Rosie could keep the dumbed down viewers “informed and up to date”.
I believe you are correct. I think that Rosie is evaluating her life and looking back at it all it sucks.
I do not think she is a lesbian either, thus her total hatred for Elizabeth, she is jealous of her.
Rosie is an emotional cripple who needs 90 meetings in
90 days. I hope that she gets the help she needs.
PS Are you in Boston? Me too.
Yes...
odios you fat pig....
Fat, Drunk, Stupid and breath that smells like XXXXXXX is no way to go through life...
Guess I won't be needing this any longer.
Aren’t these ranting supposedly good for the ratings?
Just curious
Stupid Joy Behar: “Go to commercial! Go to commercial!” She knew Rosie was digging her own grave and she tried to save her. After all, Rosie spouted the garbage Joy is too chicken$h** to say.
Not in Boston, I’m in another lib stronghold, NJ. My screen name refers more to the early warning system aspect. I don’t know why.
Save it...I hear that Rosie is going to join Jim McGreevey and enter an Episcopal seminary. She expects to be named Presiding Bishop of TEC in about 5 years...
“I tell ya, last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!”
” Hates Bush”
“No no no. She prefers bush!!
Quick note, Rosie is a lesbian like my grandma is a wagon. Rosie is what’s known as a “couldn’t get laid in prison with a fistful of pardons” lesbian. No man at the level of looks, money, personality, whatever, she believes she’s entitled to would touch her.
She’s bitter. She has father issues because her mother passed away while she was a teen. She’s been spurned more than once at high school parties by guys she’s hit on. Know her type. Well.”
Ding ding ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!
Hey I never thought of it like that. Great point!
What kind of rule? The kind that tells people to warn everyone when posting pictures that could cause immediate heart failure?
That is great!
ODoCrats
OD'd on food, greed, hatred, drugs, alcohol, hatred, stinky winky eye, arrogance, hatred, envy, sloth, hatred.....
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