Rosie thinks Barbara Walters should retire...
Who needs her on "Hot Topics" when we have Rosie O'Donnell's memoir "Celebrity Dextox."
Yesterday, I posted about her and Trump with much glee but I'm disappointed in some of the things Rosie wrote about Barbara Walters.
“At some point, a person gets tired. It’s inevitable,” O’Donnell writes, "Barbara Walters is almost twice my age ... at some point it becomes necessary to step back....Everyone has to go. Going is part of the gig.”
Walters may be 77, but she is a pro. She looks terrific, she shows up and she has much to contribute not just to "The View" but as part of ABC News where she has worked for 30 years. Walters report on transgendered children earlier this year was one of the most important pieces of journalism on the topic - ever.
So Rosie, I don't agree and think what you wrote was off-the-mark. I'm still a fan, but maybe a little less.
Walters, who has read the book, expressed her reaction to it in a statement to “Access Hollywood”:
“Rosie has written a sad book, but I choose to focus on the happier times that we had and the happy times that we hope to have in the future.”
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You forget that Rosie is using herself as the context for her remarks. She left The Rosie O'Donnell Show at the peak of it's popularity. You must also remember that she held Carson in very high regard and you know how much her decision was based on his decision to call it quits before people just stopped watching. If there is anything that Rosie can learn it is she, Barbara, Oprah, Martha and now Rachel, that they are INSTITUTIONAL BRANDS.
Brands CAN go on forever.
(Otherwise, Trump would have folded his real estate tent and blown away into oblivion.)