The Rosie O'Donnell Cuts and Runs.....

Now if we can just keep her off the airwaves.... :x

I saw the clip. Hilarious. Her little punching bag swung back and Rosie crapped her pants. Then she pulls a little passive/aggressive move and quits the show. Typical behavior for a bully. I hope her and her Moveon talking points just stay on her blog.

What I find particular interesting is that "The View" is another of the many countless liberal forums on television. Yes they have "conservatives" on the set that most real conservatives would call moderates but they at least try to make it look fair and balanced. But in all these liberal forums they stack the audience with people who clap and cheer every time a liberal makes a statement during an argument. People were cheering and clapping for Elizabeth. I really think that liberals cant defend there beliefs without a hoard of cheerleaders standing behind them. That was the straw that broke the hippos back in my opinion.

Rex I agree. Rosie is a bully. The truth is that when ever 2 bullies finally agree to meet and settle who the real bully is after school the same thing happens. One bully doesn't show up and the other is relieved that he didn't. Rosie is the bully that chickened out against a mild mannered passive woman. She really looks foolish....

Dawn we can only hope.

Rosie must have been in total shock when Elizabeth finally got a word in edgewise. Poor lil Elizabeth, isn't poor lil Elizabeth anymore. When will bullies ever learn that their subjects will reach the "we're not gonna take it anymore" sooner or later and dish out total embarrassment to them. Didn't Rosie learn anything from the Virginia Tech incident?

What I find funny about Rosie, and all liberals, is that they can attack anybody and any institution with impunity and call it courage, freedom of speech, patriotism etc.... They tell us how soldiers fought for their right to express themselves. But when their views are put under the microscope they wig out. They think that nobody has the right to question them. Anything less than admiration for their motives and way of thinking is censorship and they start name calling almost immediately instead of standing up for their own beliefs. Hypocrisy of the worst kind.

I wonder if Elizabeth Hasslebeck would be any more comfortable with Rose See Yah comparing her with the Virginia Tech shooter than the troops are with Rosie comparing them to terrorists.

I think you have to cut out just a bit of intellectual honesty to equate Rosie's statement with "calling the troops terrorists." sure, that's how it seems on the face of it, but it only holds water if you pretend we all have the thinking capacity of a third grader.

I'm sure everyone here understands the fact that TROOPS FOLLOW ORDERS. They don't ask questions. The President says invade, they invade. That's the way the system is set up, has been since the earliest days of civilization. Troops don't say "No sir, I don't think thats a good idea." They follow orders, whatever those orders might be. Can we all agree on that?

Also, bombs -- no matter how "smart" -- do not discriminate. They don't stop and ask if there are any innocent civilians present before they explode. They don't knock on the door of the building they have been targeted to destroy, and make sure the intelligence on who was in that buiding was correct, before they pummel said building into bits. And the pilots that drop those bombs take prders just like the soldiers on the ground.

I think, in all honesty, that the people who Rosie was comparing to terrorists were the policy-makers. The people who decided to invade Iraq on spurious pretenses, based on the flimsiest of evidence for justification. In that regard, she might even have a valid argument.

Invoking "the troops" has become the most tired tactic in the arsenal of Neocon foreign policy supporters. The troops folow orders. They do their jobs, and they do them well. Their sacrifice should be appreciated by all, whether one agrees with the policy or not.

The fact the Administration's policy has put our troops in such a morally troublesome quagmire -- wherein no matter how successfully they carry out their orders, the situtation just gets worse -- is what infuriates me.

And please -- if you want to cheerlead for an imperial foreign policy, and a systematic erosion of civil liberties in the name of a vague, indefinite "war on terror," all sustainable only by an ever-expanding central government, financed by the unconstitutional income tax and the hidden tax of inflation, then by all means go right ahead. BUT STOP CALLING YOURSELF "CONSERVATIVE!"

It's just sickening.

I saw this argument on tv. I do not think that it was Elisabeth's job to defend what Rosie was saying. If Rosie wants to make comments that can make people on both the left & right think that she was calling the American troops terrorists, it is her job to defend what she said, not Elisabeth's to do the damage control for her.

Amen Whitney.

Steve, Why didn't Rosie say that? But that goes without saying. Second the number of 650,000 Iraqis killed is one created by anti-American "researchers and analysts". Why use a figure from an anti-American website when the U.N. says that the number of Iraqi deaths is under 60,000? Steve you have all the Rosie answers so I am sure you know this. Third, has the left really decides to claim that all those deaths by bombings in market places in Iraq are America's fault? If I was a terrorist I would love the fact that people like Rosie pins their good work on America and I would be inspired to kill more. Now THAT'S sickening.....

Rosie, acts like a spoiled brat. I dont watch the view because she was on there. I have never cared for her,even when she was pretending to be nice.

I guess I "have all the Rosie answers" now.

Thanks, Jeff. I didn't know that about myself. It's always good to have people like you around, to inform me of what my political viewpoint is supposed to be.

Steve you were the one who explained what Rosie meant, giving an explanation she never gave herself.

"""I think you have to cut out just a bit of intellectual honesty to equate Rosie's statement with "calling the troops terrorists." sure, that's how it seems on the face of it, but it only holds water if you pretend we all have the thinking capacity of a third grader."""

That was your explanation FOR Rosie not her own. I am glad to inform you Steve.

Don you are probably right. In terms all democrats can understand..... Rosie is like a bad case of the crabs.....she just won't go away.

Don so you admit.....it's all about you.

Jeff --

I honestly don't think it requires any intimate knowledge of Rosie (of which I have none) to be honest.

Like I said, troops follow orders. Surely Rosie is aware of that. Those who wish to attack her and say she is calling the troops terrorists can pretend like they don't know that, but the fact remains; troops follow orders.

If you just read what you yourself typed, Rosie's exact words were "we invaded." Seems to me that this is clear indication that was directing her comment at the people who made the decision to invade, and everyone over age 10 knows that troops don't just decide to invade a country on their own accord.

So you can continue to think like a 10 year old, and say Rosie was calling the troops terrorists. It's all you.

After all, it goes right along with the childish logic of the president, pretending like it's the "General's on the ground" who decide foreign policy matters (a rationale that only pops up when it's someone other than himself who is proposing policy changes).

Steve OK so Bush and all the democrats and republicans in congress who called for the war in Iraq are terrorists? Once again, I am sure Rosie appreciates your clearing things up for her. It is not being a ten year old child to ask somebody to answer their own rhetorical question. If she really meant that Bush, the Clintons, Nanci Pelosi, Tom Daschle, and everybody else who supported the war are the real terrorists she should have had the courage to say it herself instead of behaving like a ten year old child and have all the other like minded liberals like you tell everybody what she meant. She left the show in humiliation for a reason. She couldn't say what she really meant.

Jeff: Sorry I didn't catch your article earlier; was downstate feeding my kids' brains with the zoo and science center...

Rosie is such a touchy subject. She is to liberals what Rush can be to conservatives; open mouth, insert foot. I used to like Rush when he first started on the air, even if I disagreed with his points of view, he was really good at getting me thinking about "the other side" and how most issues are in shades of grey, not the black and white of conservative/liberal. But fame got the best of much of his rhetoric and I only peek in occassionally to see if he's come back home.

Rosie and her views on "The View" was strong and emotional; not thought out and rational. I happen to agree with her intent her tirade, but if she was looking for others to simply follow her blindly and support her, then she shouldn't be on a round table style talk show. Differing opinions is what makes such things interesting, (although I'm not a fan of "The View" thinking it rather fluffy and more deserved on Lifetime channel), and rebuttal should be expected, not blind following.

To clarify HOW I follow the line of thought of Rosie...Place yourself in the shoes of an Iraqi citizen. Yeah! Sadaam's gone, now please go home Americans. Once we entered Iraq, I honestly believed that we had to stay until their was stability. There may be no such animal now until we leave, and this will come only after a long struggle for power. Whether we are a positive presence or not, we are allowing America to become a scape goat for extremists to rally their troops. On the ground, Iraqis are like, "my neighbor/family was bombed because of your occupation...get out!" We DO look like terrorists, at least IN THEIR EYES much of the time, whether we deserve that title or not.

Remember, Jefferson, Franklin et.al. were considered terrorists by the British government; both Jefferson and Franklin had to flee their homes and hide out until the Revolutionary War was won. The use of such a word as terrorist is so open to interpretation to the user.

Glenine your points of view are all legitimate. I just think Rosie needs to quit lecturing with her self righteous overtones if she doesn't have the spine to back up what she says.

I dig your art, and Rosie may need to cut and run, Jeff. But, you can't. You've been tagged!

She's a nasty thing that Rosie.

I wish she would just go away.... =/ She annoys the hell out of me.