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On Wednesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann included Rabbi David Nessenoff – famous for exposing Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic beliefs in a video of her posted on his Web site – for inclusion in his "Worst Person in the World" segment because Rabbi Nessenoff’s site also includes a video which the MSNBC host viewed as being racist toward Mexicans. Olbermann also misstated the severity of Thomas’s declaration that Israeli Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine," as many in the pro-Palestinian movement consider all of Israel to be part of "Palestine." But Olbermann suggested that she was only referring...

What’s the difference between Hezbollah’s thugs and libtalker Rosie O’Donnell? Apparently, not much. While the terrorism lobby openly defends longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas, O’Donnell is offering similar praise and even going so far as to call her a victim of “political correctness”.The only real distinction: O’Donnell’s willing to dance around Helen’s anti-Semitic script a bit to make the message seem less bigoted.Though there are many others on the left who are angry about the 89-year-old stalwart’s sudden departure from the White House Press Corps, few are willing to go so far as to agree with her statement (snip)Rosie,...

Helen Thomas, now former columnist for Hearst newspapers, has a track record of "utter detachment from reality." In a 2006 column, Thomas characterized her colleagues in the White House press corp as "lap dogs" for the Bush administration leading up to the Iraq war. With axiomatic confidence she wrote, "They lapped up everything the Pentagon and White House could dish out — no questions asked." This raised the eyebrow of National Review Online author Stephen Spruiell, who called Thomas to task. Citing a March 2003 transcript of a White House press conference, Spruiell proved journalists had piled on the administration....

Rosie O'Donnell: Helen Thomas was right... Unreal..

"Call it Socialism, call it Communism, call it whatever you want.... Seize their assets. Take over BP!"

I don’t care what you call it — just seize the company...

One week after debating the issue of gay adoption with talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee sat down with fellow conservative Sean Hannity to comment on the contentious yet “respectful” debate, boiling down his point into a single statement. “Personally, I don't think it (gay adoption)'s the ideal,” Huckabee told Hannity on Friday. “I know people will say, well, we don't have the ideal. But still, kids need both the mother and father role models in their life,” he added. On Apr. 22, Huckabee had appeared on O’Donnell’s radio show after the prominent lesbian comedian caught...

On her April 5 satellite radio show, Rosie O'Donnell took her anti-Catholicism to a new level by likening the Catholic Church to the Jonestown cult. As Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer put it, "in Rosie's twisted world, there's really no distinction to be made between the Pope and Jim Jones, murderous cult leader responsible for the deaths of more than 900 people in the Guyanese jungle." O'Donnell certainly has a past of Catholic/Christian bashing. On the April 19, 2007 edition of ABC's The View, she expressed her concern that having five Catholic Supreme Court justice somehow violated the separation...

Lytle is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of town, one of hundreds that dot the vast flat ranchlands of southern Texas. A smear of houses by the main highway between San Antonio and Laredo. Population: 2,383. The first streets only got paved here in the years after the second world war. A sewage system took a little longer, not being built until the 1960s. In short, Lytle, Texas, has never been big enough to have much impact on the politics of the Lone Star state. And few Texas politicians have ever paid much attention to it.

A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

Rosie O'Donnell and Janeane Garofalo have attacked the Fox News Channel (for only something like the hundredth time in the last few days) by calling Sean Hannity a liar and branding the Fox & Friends morning show hosts as "douchebags." Appearing on a little-heard show on Sirius XM Radio called "Rosie Radio" (yes, folks, after her "The View" stint, I thought Rosie was no longer employable, but, apparently, someone has unwisely taken a chance on her), Rosie O'Donnell interviewed the extremely unfunny comedian and second-rate "actor" Janeane Garofalo on February 16. However, as with all things where extreme liberals are...

Lesbian Actress Rosie O'Donnell has a new girlfriend from Texas named Tracy Kachtick-Anders, who promotes herself as "a painter, doula, and mother of six." Depending on your point of view, this new relationship can be good news or bad, something happy or something sad. Tracy is the director of a Seattle-based non-profit organization called Open Arms Campaign which is dedicated to the recruitment of foster and adoptive families; which makes sense because lesbians can not reproduce as God has intended. They must adopt children like Rosie did with her ex-partner Kelli Carpenter, or use an artificial method of insemination or...

Rosie O'Donnell is off the market! The comedian and former TV talk show host – who in mid-November revealed that her longtime partner Kelli Carpenter moved out of their home two years ago – is now dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas-based artist, O'Donnell's rep confirms to PEOPLE. The pair were spotted walking hand-in-hand in Miami Beach on Tuesday.

This is what can only be called a case of art imitating stupidity. Hollywood wingnut Rosie O’Donnell is the executive producer, co-writer, and star of “America,” a LifeTime Original movie that follows the life of a troubled seventeen year old who has grown up in foster care. We’re sure it’s a touching story. A real tear jerker. Something we’ll watch, remember and someday tell our grandchildren about. Or not. What could be funnier than the thought of anger management control victim Rosie O’Donnell playing someone who gives psychological advice?...

A humpback whale is free more than a day after becoming entangled in fishing gear about eight miles off the New Jersey coast. Rescuers describe a long and extremely dangerous day Thursday in freeing the whale, who was stranded near Sandy Hook and then entrance to New York Harbor. NBCNewYork learned that a lobster pot line had caught the whale's tail, and a large amount of debris was hidden under the whale's belly, further complicating the day-long effort. Nobody was injured in freeing the entangled whale, and rescuers said they were able to get all of the debris off of...

NBC’s attempt to revive the variety show genre hit a serious snag last week as “Rosie Live” drew a small audience on Thanksgiving Eve. Preliminary Nielsen estimates show that the Rosie O’Donnell-hosted spec, featuring celebrity guests, musical acts and comedy skits involving the likes of Alec Baldwin, Harry Connick Jr. and Liza Minnelli, settled for about 5 million viewers. In the 18-49 demo, it matched ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” as the night’s lowest-rated program on the major nets (1.2 rating/4 share), coming in below what the struggling “Knight Rider” has been averaging in recent weeks. NBC can’t be pleased with the...

In unprecedented swift action, NBC dropped Rosie O’Donnell’s new variety show after only one night. “There are a lot of things to be thankful for today, and one of them is that NBC viewers won’t have to look at Rosie anymore,” Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, said Thursday while preparing for a Thanksgiving feast of tofu, bean sprouts, and salmon spaghetti carbonara. Zucker hinted he was considering asking President George W. Bush if it was legal to incarcerate O’Donnell in Gitmo on charges of terrorizing an audience.

Rosie O'Donnell's Wednesday night special on NBC, "Rosie Live," was supposed to be a tribute to the variety shows of the 1970s, but she added a Nixonian twist: Christmas songs, tap-dancing twins and an enemies list. Ms. Her opening monologue was a riff about her weight, focused on her Spanx support garments, which she described as "onesies for chubby fortysomethings."

November 27, 2008 NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey. The network's attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening’s lowest-rated program. A mere 5 million viewers tuned in for the 8 p.m. premiere of “Rosie Live,” with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. The telecast matched ABC’s recently canceled “Pushing Daisies” as the night's lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network. NBC had high hopes for the special and planned to expand the program into a series should viewers re-embrace...

Two words: Dancing food. “Rosie Live” ended with dancing food. There’s nothing else to say, really except perhaps, Liza Minnelli. “Rosie Live” opened with a little song and dance from Liza Minnelli, who rose to the stage, as if from the grave, to sing a duet with O’Donnell, in a luminous white suit, complete with fetching Broadway hat. Liza, we love you, we will always love you, but there is no shame in retirement. In between we were treated to Harry Connick Jr. in a Santa hat, Conan O’Brien taking a pie in the face, and Jane Krakowski singing about...