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| Time for Rosie to Go (to Iran) |
| 2007-04-04 |
| I didn't know before I read this that Rosie had repeatedly mistaken the recently fired federal attorneys for judges. 30 million people listen to her and many of them vote. Incredible.... and frightening. 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, are you going to prosecute this Democratic, and they said, I can’t talk about that because I’m actually a judge, and it’s illegal. And they said “click,” and they got fired. Hey Rosie… U.S. attorneys are the government’s prosecutors. They are not judges. They are presidential appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president and who can be dismissed at any time. As noted in NewsBusters.com, Rosie also tried to say that firing only a few “judges” was actually worse that firing all of them. O’DONNELL: But wait, but wait, if he wiped out 95 judges the first day, and you don’t cherry pick the ones who are going to hurt your administration. That’s very different. That’s mob tactics. That’s Tony Soprano. We’re going to lean on people. That’s what the president’s doing. That’s scary. The next day (March 29), during a discussion on Iran, even the other co-hosts took notice when O’Donnell spoke sympathetically about Iran: BEHAR: This guy Amanidajaja (sic), whatever his name is. He is a bad guy, he is a very bad guy. He stated explicitly he wants to wipe Israel off the map. This guy is a bad guy. Rosie also went down the path of 9/11 conspiracies and melting metal during this exchange (thanks again to NewsBusters.com): HASSELBECK: Do you believe that the government had anything to do with the attack of 9/11? Do you believe in a conspiracy in terms of the attack of 9/11? The first time fire has ever melted steel??? Hello! How does she think steel is made in the first place. Perhaps she might want to take a look at the response in Popular Mechanics. These are just a few examples of recent Rosie rants, and it amazes me that ABC will continue to employ someone who is not only blatantly anti-American, but who is keenly unaware of the facts. Please let ABC know how you feel. It’s time for Rosie to go! +++ Sign the petition –> ABC Needs to Replace Rosie O’Donnell Rosie the Beast, ignorant, arrogant, obnoxious, and slovenly, is the quintessential post-60s pop-culture figure. Her complete descent into drooling insanity, and her network's unwillingness to address it, are early tremors presaging the complete collapse of mass-market pop-culture. This sub-culture, so brilliantly documented and eloquently condemned in Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool, has dominated American life for over 40 years. It was rooted in the pervasive centralized media of the 1960s and it will not long survive their overthrow. That it has survived so far only indicates the monstrous scope and inertia of its influence. I will not miss it. And in 500 years people will shake their heads in amazement that such a destructive force was ever allowed to exist. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #11 Not to mention making you cross eyed! I'll wait for the DVD. ;) |
| Posted by: DanNY 2007-04-04 23:11 |
| #10 Joe, I'd pay $20 just to webcam-watch you furiously typing that...it boggles my mind |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-04 22:53 |
| #9 MEMRI > WHY DO THOSE WHOM INCITE VIOLENCE AGZ THE WEST CONTINUE TO LIVE THERE [or words/title to that effect]. *Post 9-11/Cold War freedom + democracy + pluralism + libertarianism in America > can argue for OWG + Socialism in America ONLY BY DEGRADING + HUMILIATING AMER, INSTEAD OF ARGUING ON OWN MERITS-ADVANTAGES. WITHDRAWING FROM IRAQ-ME + ENDING THE WAR + GETTING OUT OF IRAQ = ENDING "ONLY" "ACTIVE" "US-LED COMBAT/GROUND OPERATIONS" "IN IRAQ". IOW, the DemoLeft is trying hard NOT to say US milfors under Dubya are staying = will stay but undergo minor Iraq-specific downsizing/redux-in-scale, UNTIL SOMETHING {AMER HIROSHIMA?} INDUCES OR CAUSES A SUBSTANTIVE OR OVERWHELMING CHANGE(S). |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-04 22:49 |
| #8 And Bonaduce — to the extent of his own intelligence — is absolutely correct. Examine closely when television's quality went down the toilet. I place it in the late fifties and early sixties. Even shows like "Route 66" contained morality plays and other useable context or content. Concerned people like Rod Serling were still optimistic about the revolutionary role that a superb medium like television could play in uplifting the average American's consciousness. Right around that time is when television producers stopped selling television programming to the public and began selling their viewing public to the advertisers. This single reorientation of or shift in television's profit center paradigm is what begat the bane of all televised media: Lowest common denominator programming. In the blind scramble for Nielsen rating numbers, quality programming got left in the dust. Kraft Playhouse, Onimbus and Hallmark Hall of Fame were vigorously thrust aside in favor of such puling drivel as Baywatch, Squeal of Fortune or Roseanne. So, Bonaduce — expert that he is in lowering that common denominator — is quite right about ratings driven television. Much like with "The View", it is up to Americans to boycott the horrendous garbage being shoveled out of our television screens each day and night. Unless we stop watching tripe volcanoes like "Survivor" and "American Idol", we'll only get more of the same. And we will deserve it. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-04 21:01 |
| #7 In yesterday's Rosie-o'Mania, there was a link to some video of Danny Bonaduce delivering a penetrating analyis - in what Bizarro World can you write that? - about how it is *all* about ratings. As long as Rosie is generating the numbers, she is doing the job she was hired for, however disgusting that may be. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-04-04 14:31 |
| #6 Much hilarity over at The National Review |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-04 13:51 |
| #5 Perhaps she might want to take a look at the response in Popular Mechanics. She did. But -- dah di dah! -- SupeRosie is impervious to logic! Facts bounce right off her diamond-hard head! No source of information is a match for SupeRosie! By the way, I liked this: Get a physics expert here from Yale... That would be the same Yale whose academic reputation is in the toilet because Bush went there? They need to synchronize their moonbattery. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-04-04 13:09 |
| #4 Already done... go look at the Malkin thread. |
| Posted by: Capsu 78 2007-04-04 12:50 |
| #3 ABC hired her cause she is controversial (Full of it). To have an effect you have to put pressure on the money. How about a list of advertisers that can be contacted and boycotted? Its the only way to get their attention. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2007-04-04 11:48 |
| #2 I love how Rosie champions the state run/financed media around the world as superior to Americas free press simply because our free press has private ownership by large companies. Me thinks she's a Marxist and may not know it. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-04-04 11:39 |
| #1 I haven't watched the traditional networks in over a decade. They have totally lost any thread of News or entertainment. Just a wasteland. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-04-04 10:35 |