Rosie O'Donnell wants Perez Hilton to "add the light"

Rosie O'Donnell told the girls on this morning's pre-taped edition of "The View" about meeting blogger Perez Hilton in Miami at a fundraiser party at Gloria Estefan's house. "I had never met him. I had seen his web site - actually Kathy Griffin is the one who told me about it...He's an out gay man who talks a lot about who's gay and who isn't."
Barbara Walters asked Rosie what she thought about Perez's practice of outing such celebrities as Lance Bass and Neil Patrick Harris as well as repeated mentions of Clay Aiken, Jodie Foster, Queen Latifah in recent months.
Responded Rosie: "He does that I think because he's 28 and grew up in a culture and time where there were gay people on television. Ten years ago, who was on?...He is the next generation of gay Americans where he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it and just assuming everyone should say it."
I was a bit surprised by Rosie's non-chalant feelings toward Perez's controversial outing practices. I wondered how she would have felt like 10 years ago, when her talk show was THE hottest thing on television, if a blogger had been on her that way. She deftly avoided the topic in those years with a mostly sunny and funny personality and crushes on Tom Cruise (before he got crazy). I loved Rosie then and I love her now but I think she might've wanted to seriously punch him out.
One cool thing though. Rosie says she did encourage Perez to "add the light" to his blog, more positive news. "Imagine how succcessful the blog would be," she said.
Joy Behar, ever the realist, said: "Nobody will want to read it! Everyone wants to read it when it's kind of dishy."