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| Rosie: Captured Brits a hoax to provoke war |
| 2007-03-28 |
| In yet another provocative claim, TV host Rosie O'Donnell implied yesterday the Iranian seizure of British sailors was a hoax to provide President Bush with an excuse to go to war with Tehran. In a discussion about the 15 British personnel seized Friday for allegedly entering Iranian waters, the controversial co-host of ABC's "The View" correlated the event to the Gulf of Tonkin incident that propelled the U.S. into the Vietnam War. President Johnson's administration was accused of provoking one incident in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin and making up another as a pretext for war. O'Donnell, according to the media watchdog Newsbusters, said: "But interesting with the British sailors, 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. Okay." The U.S. and Britain, however, along with Iraq and France, contend the sailors were not in Iranian waters. After O'Donnell's comment, the dialogue when like this: JOY BEHAR: Some other time. Some other time. O'DONNELL: Well, you know... BARBARA WALTERS: It could be a decision-making time. It's a very difficult situation. It's at the United Nations. It's being examined now. Should there be sanctions? Militarily, we certainly don't seem to be in the position to do something militarily. But it is a decision-making time. O'DONNELL: Yes, but it's very interesting too that, you know, these guys, they went into the water by mistake right at a time when British and American, you know, they're two, they're pretty much our biggest ally and we're considering whether or not we should go into war with Iran. BEHAR: But the U.N. was about to sanction them, also have an embargo against Iran. And the, and the timing [unintelligible] so they distracted the whole world with this. ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Right and they may be about to expel the inspectors right now, too, which could be considered [unintelligible] O'DONNELL: Right or it could be just the Gulf of Tonkin, which you should all Google. As WND reported last week, O'Donnell implied the World Trade Center brought down deliberately on Sept. 11, 2001, for the purpose of eliminating records of government investigations into corporate fraud. The previous week O'Donnell defended 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. During the March 15 broadcast of "The View," she suggested the U.S. government elicited a false confession from Mohammed by using torture, robbing him of his humanity and treating him like an animal. A transcript of Mohammed's confession to 31 terrorist attacks had been released that day, but O'Donnell argued it came only after having a "hood on his head and being beaten to death." "They didn't allow reporters there and he hasn't had a lawyer," the talk show host stated, insinuating the confession was coerced with no accountability. Defending U.S. handling of Mohammed, co-panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked, "You don't think he had ties to any of (the terrorist acts)?" "I think the man has been under custody in secret CIA torture prisons and Guantanamo Bay where torture is accepted and allowed – and he finally is the guy who admits to doing everything," O'Donnell said. "They finally found the guy, it's not that guy bin Laden, it's this guy they've had since March 2003." In November, O'Donnell told Hasselbeck in an exchange on "The View" that Americans shouldn't fear terrorists. "Faith or fear, that's your choice," she said. "You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking." |
| Posted by:Elmavith Fluck6403 |
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| Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 2007-03-28 23:46 |
| #23 Put rosie in a burka and put a sock in her mouth. |
| Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 2007-03-28 23:43 |
| #22 how far barbara walters has fallen. She used to do real interviews and now she has to sit with smelly white trash and pretend to have an interesting conversation. Maybe The View can add Jerry Springer and really get a class act going. |
| Posted by: Fester Jomons8988 2007-03-28 23:41 |
| #21 Remind me again why Rosie O'Donnell is on TV and why anyone should care what she says. |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-03-28 22:17 |
| #20 Don't try to parse Ms. O'Donnell's logic, JosephM -- there isn't any. She started off as a comedienne, and her instinct is to spout off whatever will get a laugh... or at least shocked attention. Beyond that there is no thought process whatsoever. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-28 21:11 |
| #19 Rosie this AM also alluded or compared Dubya to the character Tony Soprano, i.e. Dubya is a MOB BOSS??? Iff I understood her comments correctly, by Rosie's scope Dubya + Admin are Mafiosi, + Amer is fighting a Global WOT to impose GLOBAL MOB RULE [OWG?]??? FREEREPUBLIC Poster > America = post-USSR [Mafia] Russia!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-28 20:15 |
| #18 Okay, I will bite. Which viewers (who love Rosie) buy what Sponsor's particular product in mass? Any ad-execs out there who will talk? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-03-28 20:00 |
| #17 You know the series the BBC produced "The Power of nightmares" it sounded like this "O'Donnell told Hasselbeck in an exchange on "The View" that Americans shouldn't fear terrorists." and then 7/7 happened and the repeat was cancelled, for some reason... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-03-28 19:31 |
| #16 Yeah, sorta like Air America... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-03-28 17:59 |
| #15 rj, I know that, but it's a sad commentary that the producers would allow this thing to continue to vent its rage and venom on a nationally televised TV program without some comment from the broadcasters that they do not promote or hold to its views. I do not wish it dead, just off the (national/international) air or consigned to some obscure channel. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-28 17:42 |
| #14 FOTSgreg, Rosie's rants get press and probably increase the ratings. Sick and sad but true. She's not going anywhere until the sponsers get scared. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-03-28 17:22 |
| #13 Sorry, Devil, this thing is a fatuous, ill-informed, egotistical, self-absorbed illiterate piece of garbage that believes it is the only thing that has a voice or knows the truth. In this, it is evil beyond words because it truly believes what it says. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-28 17:20 |
| #12 Rosie has her head up her ass. Hey Rosie, how's The View ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-03-28 17:20 |
| #11 Alright slightly what im talking about, but I want to see the war happen. This woman needs medical help, and should think things over and discuss them more before going on TV. |
| Posted by: Devilstoenail 2007-03-28 16:28 |
| #10 Drop Rosie on Iran! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-03-28 16:12 |
| #9 seems like this would give tony nlair more of a reason too attack iran , but what do i know i'm not a fatass on the view |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-03-28 16:05 |
| #8 That thing (I will not disgrace the likes of TW or Seafarious or Desert/Swamp Blondie by calling it a woman) is certifiably insane with BDS and anti-Americanism. It got the platform it wanted and its made enemies of its own co-hosts. When are the people who run that show going to realize they have a certifiably insane cast member on the show and yank it off the air or cancel its contract? |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-28 15:51 |
| #7 O'Donnell told Hasselbeck in an exchange on "The View" that Americans shouldn't fear terrorists. Hmmm, I'd like to see her ass over in the middle east being chummy with these terrorists that we americans shouldn't be fearing. Not that I'm "fearing", but I certainly want to be on the ready and protect myself. |
| Posted by: Jan from work 2007-03-28 15:38 |
| #6 Some people are born idiots. Rosie's worked hard to get where she is today. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-28 13:48 |
| #5 At some point she will say which political candidate she supports. She can't help herself, she's got time to fill and needs attention. Someone will then take her insane comments and make a commercial, ending the commercial with her quote of support for some candidate. That candidate will be sunk right then and there and she'll realize that she's a court jester, and not the wise kind you find in movies but more of the turd throwing monkey kind. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-03-28 11:59 |
| #4 You need a graphic of Rosie's open mouth with the gaza shit flood pouring out of it... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-03-28 11:52 |
| #3 Rosie, Bin Laden's best friend and if he had his way, first victim. Proving once again that same sex carpet munching causes irreversible brain damage. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-28 10:16 |
| #2 Rosie means nothing to me, just a fat bitch who hates the US government. |
| Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 2007-03-28 09:17 |
| #1 She needs to have her views in a 24hr a day channel. For the entire world to see. See what a fucking dangerous moron she is.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-03-28 09:13 |