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Rosie O'Donnell appeared on the May 5 "Today" show in its fourth hour, claiming that many have confused her "passion for rage" much in the same way as they've misunderstood Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Indeed, claimed the former "The View" co-host, Obama's former pastor "made sense to me." O'Donnell also defended Wright's conspiracy theory view on AIDS...

Rosie O'Donnell can't seem to get over her spat with Elisabeth Hasselbeck. As a featured guest on "The Martha Stewart Show" Tuesday, O'Donnell referred to her former co-host on "The View" as "a little Republican who scared me." Here's how the conversation went: Rosie: "I haven’t worked since 2002. Aside from 'The View' ... Let’s not mention it. Anyway ..." Martha: "You did really well on 'The View.'" Rosie: "I tried my best but it’s hard for me when I’m not the boss. There was people there telling me what to do. There was a little Republican who scared me."...

Mitt Romney's campaign for the presidency brought more attention to the Mormon Church than it has had in years. What the church discovered was not heartening. Critics of its doctrines and culture launched frequent public attacks. Polling data showed that far more Americans say they'd never vote for a Mormon than those who admitted they wouldn't choose a woman or an African-American. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in late January revealed that 50% of Americans said they would have reservations or be "very uncomfortable" about a Mormon as president... The Mormon religion "was the silent factor in a lot...

Keith Weissman and Steven Rosen Are PhDs and Middle East Experts Who Did Some Lobbying. They Thought They Were Doing What Washington Insiders Always Do. Thomas O’Donnell didn’t reveal his job when he phoned Keith Weissman in 2004 and got the policy analyst’s wife. He says he didn’t want to scare her. When Weissman returned the call and found out O’Donnell was an FBI agent, his first reaction was to attempt a joke: “What did I do?” “I’m sure you didn’t do anything,” O’Donnell told him. He wanted to meet that day, for five or ten minutes, and get Weissman’s...

December 11, 2007 -- HBO execs would prefer if Lawrence O'Donnell would keep his mouth shut on the subject of Mormons. [snip] [snip] But O'Donnell was on "The McLaughlin Group" Sunday denouncing the religion of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a "demented, Scientology-like . . . racist faith . . . based on the work of a lying, fraudulent criminal . . . [who was] anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist." Panelists Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley and Eleanor Clift had trouble being heard......"

Check out this very telling exchange between Hugh Hewitt and Lawrence O'Donnell at Townhall: ---------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Lawrence O'Donnell, Unplugged Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 9:09 AM Larry O'Donnell went on a tirade about Mitt Romney, Mormons and Joseph Smith on this past weekend's McLaughlin Group. So I had him on yesterday to discuss his Mormon problem. The transcript is here. Concluding exchange: HH: Would you say the same things about Mohammed as you just said about Joseph Smith? LO’D: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much...

Just because she doesn't have her 'View' platform doesn't mean Rosie O'Donnell is going to stop taking shots at her enemies whenever she can. O'Donnell took aim at both Donald Trump and Elisabeth Hasselbeck again during a gay-themed cruise, and pictures of O'Donnell's antics made their way to Us Weekly. In the photos, O'Donnell is seen with a large picture of Hasselbeck -- with devil horns, a mustache and a tail drawn over it. O'Donnell goes on to tell the crowd that Hasselbeck's "only f-ing credit was 'Survivor,'" taking a shot at her former co-host's resume.

The saga is over. Rosie O'Donnell will not be returning to "The View." In a statement today, Brian Frons, the president of Disney-ABC's Daytime Television Group, said, "We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave. Therefore, we part ways, thank her for her tremendous contribution to 'The View' and wish her well." Barbara Walters, the show's creator and co-executive producer, said, "I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful...

Rosie O'Donnell and Joy Behar too; Spewing dissent to the fans of The View Theories and conspiracies all day long; Compared to the facts, they're usually wrong One seems crazy, the other just nuts; Blaming all on Bush, 'cause they hate his guts "Impeach him!" they shout, "Arrest Cheney too"; Drawing support from the fans of The View "This war is illegal, too many are dead!"; Their eyes glare crazy, their faces burn red Meanwhile, sitting patiently, there on the right; Our sweet young Elisabeth, oh what a sight With child and glowing, a mother to be; Her eyes wide...

Apparently, Marie Osmond was a co-host on "The View" last week, fueling rumors that she is a possible replacement for Rosie O'Donnell. Marie is quite conservative and not bashful about expressing her opinions so, she could be an interesting choice. We'll see.

JUST ASKIN’ XXXVIII – QUERIES IN QUICKSAND © by Norman Liebmann Just askin’: Is the recent vote of whether or not the United States should surrender in Iraq indicative of just how many shades of yellow there are among the Democrats in Congress? Just askin’: Is Hillary’s threat to appoint Bill Clinton Ambassador to the World the most obscene use of destructive personal influence since Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles? And would it surprise anyone if that famous celebrity-humper, Yoko, were to marry that famous Irish hip hop Third World do-gooder and become Yoko Ono Bono? Just askin’: Does...

Despite being the lone Conservative on Friday’s “Real Time,” National Review contributor Lisa Schiffren might have had the best line of the evening when she accused comedian and actor Richard Belzer of emulating the “Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy.” As the discussion moved to Iraq, Belzer advanced the common liberal meme that the war was all about oil: And now the Democrats are stealthfully working with the Republicans to take all the oil from Iraq and give, like a little bit to the Iraqi people. You know about that? Did you hear about that? This is an oil war....

From Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, to ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ American women have stepped up and made great noises to gain representation, equality, free speech, and recognition. However, for her efforts Hutchinson was convicted of treason in 1637 and cast out by the divine commissioners of her Massachusetts colony because her feminist initiatives did not align with those of the men. Mary Dyer attempted to pick up where Anne had left off and was hanged by the same ecclesiastical authorities. From the beginning, traditionalists associated feminism with mental illness, neurotic behavior, hysteria...

Elizabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" is co-hosting "Fox & Friends" This week. And today, when she goes to assume her co-hosting duties on "The View," Elizabeth Hasselbeck is going to have a few choice words for Rosie O'Donnell. But we'll get to that later. If you recall, cutie Kiran Chetry was canned when the William Morris Agency tried to play hardball with the Fox News Channel. Chetry was axed in favor of Gretchen Carlson. Fox has been trying to push Carlson (albeit unsuccessfully) ever since Kiran left. They've even tried moving a few other Fox babes into the role as...

The Party of Defeat and Surrender (i.e., the Democratic Party) has basically informed the terrorists of the world that we do not have the fortitude or the integrity to face terrorism. "If we do not fight them over there; we will soon be fighting them here" were the exact words of a brave Kansas soldier returning to Iraq last week. In their quest for political gain and power, the Democratic Party and a handful of reject Republicans sold out our troops and undermined their mission with a bogus bill. Thankfully, our President will veto this bill and validate our troops'...

Sean Hannity interviewed Mitt Romney on H&C tonight and asked him to word associate with the names of his competitors. At the end of the list, Sean slipped in the name Rosie O'Donnel to which Mitt responded, "Rosie Who?" They both laughed and then Mitt threw out another word "Moonbat." Great line!!

What started out as an embarrassment — ABC’s hiring of Rosie O’Donnell — has turned into a disgrace. With each passing day, O’Donnell spews anti-American rhetoric which shows that she is not only a left-wing moonbat, but totally out of touch with reality. We should all tell ABC that it is time for Rosie to go. Last week, the ensemble of The View decided to venture into the story involving fired U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and the White House. During the show, Rosie said: O’DONNELL: Okay, Republican officials who supposedly called these judges that were fired and said,...

I think it is time that we have a Freeper presence outside of ABC/Disney corporate offices across the nation and the studio where "The View" is filmed. Our heros are dying while the feckless slob O'Donnell is lying.

Rosie O'Donnell spat back at conservative talk-show pugilist Bill O'Reilly after he called for her firing from ABC last week, comparing him to a character in George Orwell's "1984" who is "a fattish ... man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms." She didn't reserve her fire for O'Reilly, however. On her blog at Rosie.com, Ro accused O'Reilly of being a totalitarian puppet of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, as she put it, in her lower-case verse, "like 1984/molding the facts/2 suit the needs/of big brother rupert." And Rosie also revealed that when she and co-host Joy Behar made...

Is Rosie a modern day Tokyo Rose?

O'Donnell, Sheen Back 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Stars Cite Movie As Evidence Of Government Conspiracy Image Andrew Kirtzman Reporting (CBS) NEW YORK A controversial new film about 9/11 is raising eyebrows, not only for its content, but also for the people involved in the project: Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen. The sitcom actor and talk show hostess have both become spokespeople for the 9/11 conspiracy movement. "If the government is lying about flight 93, is it hard to believe the rest is a lie?" That line can be heard on the video "Loose Change," which has been floating around the Internet...

SOME celebrities don't know when to keep their traps shut - like Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell, who are throwing their weight behind the twisted theory that the United States government was behind the 9/11 terror attacks. Page Six has learned that Sheen, the hooker-loving Hollywood hunk, has agreed to narrate a new version of the loopy YouTube documentary "Loose Change," which claims that a corrupt faction within the federal government orchestrated the mass murder at the World Trade Center. Sources say Sheen - whose father, Martin Sheen, has been arrested 63 times protesting on behalf of various leftist causes...

Rosie O'Donnell — quite rightly, I believe — has had enough of Barbara Walters and "The View." I am told that she is not likely to renew her one-year contract when it ends in June and will leave the crazy talk show after boosting its ratings higher than ever. Sources say that Rosie feels that the backstage antics at "The View" "are completely dysfunctional." O'Donnell, who's got plenty of money and lots of outside interests, simply doesn't need to be there. I am told that her contract was for "one school year" and that ends in June. But ABC might...

NEW YORK - Three months into the Reign of Rosie, "The View" has become must-see TV. But is it the type of viewing that series creator Barbara Walters was bargaining for? Rosie O'Donnell's inclusion in the daytime chat show's cast has boosted ratings but seemingly brought along a controversy du jour, the latest this week's verbal mudfight between O'Donnell and Donald Trump. O'Donnell said she wasn't talking about it on Thursday's show but couldn't help herself, saying she was afraid to leave home the night before "in case somebody with a comb-over came and stole" partner Kelli from her. Trump...

Donald Trump Theatens To Sue Rosie O'Donnell POSTED: 6:58 am EST December 21, 2006 UPDATED: 7:41 am EST December 21, 2006 NEW YORK -- The Miss USA partying episode has led to a war of words between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. O'Donnell told her audience on ABC's "The View," Wednesday that Trump's news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner had annoyed her "on a multitude of levels." O'Donnell said Trump should not be the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. She said he's divorced two times and had affairs. Trump lashed back at O'Donnell on the entertainment show "The...

Donald Trump is set to sue “The View” host Rosie O’Donnell, Access Hollywood can reveal. Earlier this afternoon Trump announced he is filing suit against the TV talk show host. “She says things that come to her mouth, she’s not smart, she’s crude, she’s ignorant and to be honest I look forward to suing Rosie,” he told our cameras. “I’m gonna sue her and I look forward to it. She’s really very dangerous for the show.” Trump declined to elaborate on the details of his proposed legal filings, but added O’Donnell will understand his reasoning. “Rosie will find out what...

Here's a new definition of mine thanks to Rosie O'Donnell. Ching Chonged – adj; an attempt at “de minimus” racist humor and be non-politically correct at the same time. Example: Rosie O’Donnell – “"You know, you can imagine in China it's like `ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk.” Did she ching chonged?

"In this photo provided by Madison Square Garden, Rosie O'Donnell, right, poses backstage with Kathie Lee Gifford before the opening night of "Annie" at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York."

"Vent with Michelle Malkin" from 12/11/2006

One of the most extraordinary moments of the 2004 presidential campaign was when MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell went totally ballistic on one of John Kerry’s swift boat compatriots, John O’Neill, on the October 22, 2004, installment of “Scarborough Country.” Roughly two years later, O’Donnell was once again a guest of Joe Scarborough, and this time the object of his disaffection was Republican strategist Terry Holt (video here). The discussion centered on Rep. Charlie Rangel’s recent suggestion that the draft should be reinstated. After playing a video clip of the Congressman, quite a melee ensued wherein O’Donnell called Holt and basically every...

This is one of the more hotly contested open congressional seats in the country. The split between Republicans, Independents and democrats in this district is roughly split equally three ways at 33% each. This was (R) Bob Beauprez seat which he gave up to run for Governor of Colorado this year. Rick O'Donnell conversely agreed to the debate right away when contacted weeks ago and was open to just about any date. Today on the Mike Rosen show at 850am KOA there was a 'debate' between the candidates for the 7th congressional district here in Colorado between (R) Rick O'Donnell...

Well known liberal Rosie O’Donnell used the shooting at an Amish school in Pennsylvania as a springboard to promote gun control. O’Donnell, who famously sparred with Tom Selleck, stated on Tuesday's edition of ABC's "The View" that the event should spur tighter restrictions: O’Donnell: "I think the horror of imagining six to thirteen-year-old girls handcuffed together and shot execution style, one by one, is perhaps enough to awaken the nation that maybe we need some stricter gun control laws." This quickly led to an exchange with the program’s token conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, in which O’Donnell asserted that there is no...

Posted on RCP (source can't be linked, Gannett) Survey USA Ed Perlmutter (D) 54% Rick O'Donnell (R) 37% Undecided 6% 482 LV 9/21-9/25 with no surveys on 9/22 or 9/23 due to Jewish holiday

Rosie O'Donnell gave co-star Julian McMahon an eyeful when they were shooting a sex scene for FX Networks' Golden Globe-winning drama "Nip/Tuck." O'Donnell told "Access Hollywood" that the director tried to shoot around a tube-top that they made her wear. But the director kept yelling "cut" because a bit of the tube-top could be seen in the shot. So, Rosie fixed the situation by pulling down the top. O'Donnell said McMahon, who plays plastic surgeon Dr. Christian Troy on the show, looked down and told her "nice boobs," adding, "but he was so nice." O'Donnell said she would "love to...

Posted by Megan McCormack on September 21, 2006 - 17:29. Reaction against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ remarks to the United Nations, in which he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil," has been strong. Liberal Democrat Charlie Rangel forcefully argued that the attack on the President was an attack on all Americans, while House minority leader Nancy Pelosi denounced Chavez as "an everyday thug." It’s interesting, though not surprising, that Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar of ABC’s "The View," were not able to do the same.Rather than criticize Chavez for his outrageous comments, Behar and O’Donnell did what...

Three of America’s most controversial women — Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Rosie O’Donnell — just launched an all-women-run radio network, promising to offer programming that’s less polarizing than the typical all-talk AM radio fare. A women-centered radio network isn’t a bad idea: Lots of successful media outlets specifically target women, from sappy television romances on Lifetime and Oxygen to family-centered morning shows and magazines. The new all-women creation, Greenstone Media, follows a similar model. It endeavors to be entertaining as well as informative, and relate to women’s everyday challenges with family and work. Steinem told Reuters that the network...

The lefties aren't going to be happy about this one: NORAH O'DONNELL: Cindy Sheehan is America's most outspoken anti-war activist. But does she speak for America or just the fringes? She's called President Bush the biggest terrorist in the world and she stood side by side with socialist dictator Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Now she begins a two-month hunger strike to get the American people to join her mission to end the war. Welcome to Hardball, Cindy. Let me begin by asking you, you know, Americans may hate the war, but they don't necessarily hate the president. How do you...

Since entering the race for attorney general a year ago, Denise O'Donnell has labored to raise her profile in a campaign whose coverage has been largely fixated on two other Democratic candidates, Andrew M. Cuomo and Mark Green. But the political events of the last few days may have provided a boost to the candidacy of Ms. O'Donnell, a Buffalo resident who is the former United States attorney for the Western District of New York. Last week, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer selected David A. Paterson, a state senator from Harlem, to be his running mate in the 2006 governor's race....

At Sundance Film Festival... Many celebrities keep their kids out of the public eye to avoid the paparazzi and kidnappers. Not Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell said it was Madonna — her co-star in "A League of Their Own" — who explained to her why she appeared with her daughter Lourdes in public. Rosie, wife Kelli Carpenter O'Donnell and their two sons and two daughters will be on hand Tuesday for the world premiere of the documentary "All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise" at the Sundance Film Festival. Kelli, whom Rosie married in San Francisco in 2004, and Parker, 10; Chelsea, 8; Blake,...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring. The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland. His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly 16 million descendants, said Dan Bradley, who supervised the research. "It's...

NEW YORK - Who won the debate?

Reporters insist that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald runs such a tight ship that it's impossible to discover what's going on with his Valerie Plame Leakgate investigation - before reporting in the next breath their latest "scoop" based, apparently, on leaked information. Our favorite recipient of insider info is MSNBC commentator Lawrence O'Donnell, who confidently predicted last week that Fitzgerald was about to hit the Bush White House with 22 indictments of senior officials. On Tuesday, one left-leaning web site breathlessly reported that a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney was secretly cooperating with Fitzgerald's probe in exchange for not...

STANFORD, Calif. -- I just witnessed a fascinating juxtaposition. On Tuesday, I attended a lecture, "All the President's Women," by veteran MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnnell at Stanford University. The next day, a piece by columnist Maureen Dowd with the very same title appeared in the New York Times. They couldn't have been more dissimilar. O'Donnell's presentation was charming, insightful and literate. She described the nuanced professional relationships that President Bush has with women. How some, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Karen Hughes, have become genuine "family," even vacationing with the Bushes. How others,...

Two years ago, when I first read the federal law protecting the identities of covert agents, my reaction was the same as everyone else who reads it -- this is not an easy law to break. That’s what I said on Hardball then in my first public discussion of the outing of Valerie Plame, and that’s what I said on CNN the other night. Let’s walk through the pieces that would have to fall into place for Karl Rove to have committed a crime when he revealed Plame’s identity to Matt Cooper.

BROWN: We return tonight to the case of Judith Miller, Matt Cooper, Robert Novak and Valerie Plame. If ever there was a story that defied understanding, this surely is it. It started simply enough. Who told Robert Novak, the columnist and CNN contributor, that Ms. Plame was a CIA operative, and in doing so perhaps committed a crime? That's how it started. Tonight, Mr. Cooper, who works for "Time" magazine and Ms. Miller of "The New York Times" are a step closer to jail. Mr. Novak is not, though he won't say exactly why, and it isn't exactly clear what...

<p>Q: You’ve said Rove is not a target of the investigation. Is he a subject of the investigation?</p> <p>Q: Since Time delivered its e-mails to the prosecutor on Friday, have you asked the prosecutor whether Rove’s status has changed? From witness to subject? Or subject to target?</p>

MIDI - BOTH SIDES NOW He's on MSNBC...he's really looney, you'd agree From Belleveue did this whackjob flee? We would't be surprised He lives to bring down Karl Rove...beyond obsession he just drove A tale of lies O'Donnell wove Right there before your eyes We've looked at both sides of his brain Both left and right --- the guy's insane "Rove outed Plame," he will insist O'Donnell put the "anal" in --- "analyst" Of one clip we never tire...when he screamed out "You creepy liar!" He saw for Kerry things looked dire He thought he'd change the trend How...

Karl Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, had his holiday weekend ruined on Friday when I broke the story that the e-mails that Time delivered to the special prosecutor that afternoon reveal that Karl Rove is the source Matt Cooper has been protecting for two years. The next day, Luskin was forced to open the first hole in the Rove two-year wall of silence about the case. In a huge admission to Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, Luskin confessed that, well, yes, Rove did talk to Cooper. It is a huge admission in a case where Rove and Luskin have never,...

NEW YORK, NY, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement during an appearance on ABC’s the view, outspoken lesbian Rosie O’Donnell confessed that she had ordered her lesbian partner to stop breastfeeding her child because of her jealousy. The topic came up when the moderator Meredith Vieira mentioned the recent New York protest—or “nurse-in”—which involved 200 women breastfeeding outside of ABC’s headquarters in protest against negative remarks Barbara Walters had made about breastfeeding. “Kelly [Rosie’s partner] only nursed for like about a month,” said Rosie at the time, “and then I was very angry, because as the other mommy...with...