Such a strange way for the concerned-about-the tenor-of-our-cultural-public-debate left to act. On one hand, the debate must, must be “cleaned up” (of all that nasty conservative talk of course). An on the other, paranoid, racists and Hate-America-First rhetoric is just fine. And not even for talk radio, but for national broadcast television!
It looks like Rosie O’Donnell’s MalNar blather is so well liked by the Establishment Media, they just can’t wait to give her another show. All her own. To “discuss the issues.”
New show on the horizon for Rosie?
…My needs for the future just didn’t dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me,” O’Donnell said in a statement. On air she told viewers: “They wanted three years, I wanted one. … It just didn’t work.”
She didn’t elaborate, but sources among the syndicators who would distribute such a show say O’Donnell is considering a plan to revive her solo daytime gig, probably in fall 2008…
As part of her View deal, ABC’s Buena Vista is said to have first rights to negotiate for a solo O’Donnell show. But Warner Bros.’ TelePictures, which was behind her previous show, is keenly interested, says a top executive who asked for anonymity because of sensitive negotiations.
O’Donnell promised to return as a guest host. She also might return as a guest on FX’s Nip/Tuck, though the cable network dismissed rumors she’d star in a spinoff. It’s expected a new talk show would focus on issues rather than the celebrities who dominated her 1996-2002 run.
Aren’t you excited with how our television airwaves are being used? And here the left complains about how “unfair” and “offensive” talk radio is. Perhaps the so-called Fairness Doctrine, in its efforts to protect us fragile average Americans from being offended or disgusted, should also be applied to opinion-based television talk shows.
But hey, thank goodness Don Imus is gone (remember him?). Apparently, the left thinks his departure alone is enough to offset both the racism, sexism and homophobia in rap and hip-hop, and O’Donnell’s generally mean, ignorant, paranoid, intolerant, hate-based anti-American Truther rants.
•She compared fundamentalist Christians to Islamic extremists: “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state.”
•Commenting about how Danny DeVito’s visit to the show, when he was acting drunk, attracted attention: “The fact is that it’s news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong, ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. The View. Ching chong.’ “
•Suggested the British intentionally caused the crisis with Iran: “There were 15 British sailors and marines who apparently went into Iranian waters, and they were seized by the Iranians. And I have one thing to say, Gulf of Tonkin. Google it.”
•Claimed that the World Trade Center’s Building 7 was brought down by explosives on 9/11: “I do believe that it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower 7 … which collapsed in on itself. It is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. … World Trade 1 and 2 got hit by planes; seven, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire.”
So, “nappy-headed ho” gets you fired if you’re a white male radio talk show host, but “ching-chong, ching-chong,” among scores of other offensive, bizarre comments gets you a three-year, 30-million dollar offer to stay with a show (which you turn down), and offers of your own issues-based show. Only if you’re a fat, paranoid, leftist dyke, though.
Uh, double-standard anyone? And radio talk show hosts are supposed to be running scared. I think not.
The only solution is to boycott her sponsors.
The typical leftist trait is to selfishly swing out and say and do whatever one wants, no matter how ignorant or stupid it is; to live for one’s own present needs, screw everyone and everything else – Rosie is built this way, like Streisand, Sheryl Crow, all of them. John Kerry, John Edwards, the Clintons, and the Kennedys can all be illegitimately rich, yet attack everyone else who has earned their way. This hypocritical, better-than-you conceit is rampant in Europe and plagues half this country. What will become of America?
The Establishment Media is shameless. That is now a given. No surprise that they have big plans for this foul-mouthed, depraved slob of a being. The really pathetic thing is that there is a market for Rosie and the garbage she spews. How is that possible?? Rosie is damaged and lost, as is her audience. Unfortunately, they all get to vote.
A part of me will continue to hold out hope that “the powers that be” will have grossly overestimated her appeal, and anything she is associated with from now on will be a complete and utter failure.
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t take it any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Save our Country, Miss Tammy!!!
I fully expect Imus to win a sizable lawsuit against CBS over his unwarranted firing. The attorney he’s hired should have an easy time proving his client was sacked for political reasons [Sharpton… Jackson], not performance. It just won’t stand.
KIMJ7157 nailed it with “Unfortunately, they all get to vote.” I think passing a current events/citizenship/issues quiz should be integral to every ballot as “Step 1” every election day. No passy, No count votey.
About the only reason I’d watch any show O’Donnell was on would be to know which advertisers to boycott. Otherwise, I suspect her views speak only to the choir. It’s sad that her leftist views are getting special treatment, but thats nothing new. Let her keep spouting garbage to prove what nonsense the liberal nutcases espouse. Just keep rebutting it with facts. Sooner or later, like all the other liberal talk shows, she’ll run out of listeners and advertisers. Buh bye, Rosie.
Well hold onto your hat Ms.Bruce, according to WLS Chicago am Radio that unconfirmed reports say that Rosie is taking over Imus’ spot on both his radio and tv spot.
I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Try as they may the leftists in the media will never stifle conservative talk radio. There’s just too many intelligent and well informed people who work within and listen to truth talk radio that we would never let that happen. We’re too many and too strong and the love America first Americans out number the hate America first leftists by a large margin.
As for Rosie and the outrageous statements she makes, she’s just a bovine parrot repeating what she reads on left wing websites. Where ever she ends up she will implode. If there were no audience there would be no Rosie so shame on the nitwits who cannot think for themselves and watch this woman and believe the garbage that spews from her mouth. But I am glad they have the choice to watch whatever they please, I just can’t understand WHY.
I choose to not watch. Thank God for talk radio. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave and we will not be silenced. Teri
Losing Rosie is bad news for The View – she really helped to re-energize the show. I only hope she gets back on the air without too much of an interruption!
Only if you’re a fat, paranoid, leftist dyke…
Such language, Tammy! I’m telling Media Matters on you.
BTW, I don’t think heterosexuals are allowed to say the d-word, but can someone in the majority get special permission from a minority to use a banned word? Can people get “minority privileges for the night” or something? Or does it not work that way?
I saw where Alex Baldwin went on the “View” to “apologize” for his crazy rant against his daughter. You might guess that the place Baldwin would go was the “View” and Rosie O. These people are an embarrassment to humanity. How she could be paid millions to spew her crazy hatred of America and her crazy conspiracy theories is beyond me.
Boycotts rarely work, unless they get wide-spread media coverage, and getting the MSM to sign onto anything that harms a leftard is a loser out of the gate…ain’t going to happen.
O’donnell is neither funny nor entertaining. Her appeal is either based on her gayness or her irrational hatred of the US and all it stands for.