Zerbisias is partially correct and the fact that Rosie asked the questions from both her faces might be irrelevant and as far as her antics on The View she has conned the Sisterhood into supporting her in the campaign to get a show of her own that will compete with shows that appeal to white trailer trash.
Rosie got boot because she dared to ask tough questions
May 01, 2007
Antonia Zerbisias
Last Wednesday, in the immediate aftermath of the announcement that dominated the American news agenda and cycle for days, CNN's Larry King was in hot pursuit of the story.
Rude, lewd, crude Rosie O'Donnell was leaving ABC's daytime talk show The View.
Naturally, King was obligated to seek out The Combover Which Talks, Donald Trump.
"She's a disgusting person," said Trump, who has been trading insults with O'Donnell since January. "She's a slob."
Then he called for censorship.
"Sadly, after the Don Imus thing, people are going to have to be, I guess, more careful as to what they're saying," he said, as if the former MSNBC morning man's racist, sexist "nappy-headed hos'' line equals grabbing your crotch and saying "Eat me'' to The Ego Who Walks.
Insisting that O'Donnell had been fired instead of being unable to come to a contract agreement, Trump said O'Donnell was an `'embarrassment to this country.'' That's because she had latched on to the growing "9/11 Truth Movement," which dismisses the official story about the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Considering her controversial year on The View, it's interesting that O'Donnell came to the end of the line just as she was demanding answers to questions that millions are now asking.
For that, the full might of Fox News rose up to smite her. Those who had bought and sold the WMDs fairy tale attacked O'Donnell for daring to question the generally accepted explanation for the collapse of the World Trade Center.
"In America, we are fed propaganda and if you want to know what's happening in the world, go outside of the U.S. media because it's owned by four corporations. One of them is this one (ABC)," O'Donnell said in March, reaching an audience at least 15 times that of Fox News.
That's dangerous stuff. More dangerous than taking on Trump, who was followed on CNN by another outsized, outrageous woman: Roseanne Barr, also known for her crotch-grabbing and blunt talk.
Unlike all the blond-trophy-second-wife types flanking old men co-hosts all over the TV grid, neither Barr nor O'Donnell shut up and look pretty.
Not a single mainstream media news show is hosted by a woman who is aggressive and candid, the way that Bill O'Reilly or Joe Scarborough are on Fox or Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. There is no female David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel or Bill Maher.
Oprah Winfrey, as revealed on Bill Moyers' outstanding post-mortem on the pre-Iraq media last week, shut up audience members who questioned the Bushies. Ellen DeGeneres hasn't uttered a controversial word since she yelled, "I'm gay! `' on her sitcom 10 years ago.
Has no network found the courage to offer, say, Sarah Silverman or Janeane Garofalo a platform? Or will O'Donnell's replacement be Red State straight?
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