This is lame.
Let me just say that MSNBC would have been looked at as geniuses if they had been able to snag Rosie O'Donnell for a show on their cable network because it would have broadened their audience and brought them a real water cooler buzz.
I've just read that the deal is now dead because Rosie talked about it during a stand-up routine. Good grief, it's not like she was spitting out numbers and other secrets about negotiations. But this was too much for these execs as Rosie wrote in her blog (in verse, of course):

we were close to a deal
almost done
i let it slip in miami
causing panic on the studio end

well
what can u do

2day there is no deal
poof
my career as a pundit is over
b4 it began

It's not as if she wasn't warned.

Rosie nsists she isn't bitter, noting "everything happens for a reason."

But I am! I want her back on TV!