Rosie refers to Hasselbeck as "a little Republican who scared me.”
Rosie O'Donnell appeared on Martha Stewart's daytime show Tuesday (she's got a new crafts book coming out) and the subject of Rosie's departure from "The View" and Elisabeth Hasselbeck was touched on:.“I tried my best but it’s hard for me when I’m not the boss. There was people there telling me what to do. There was a little Republican who scared me.”
During O’Donnell’s final weeks on the show, the Republican Hasselbeck, now 30, and the liberal O’Donnell famously sparred in May 2007 over the Iraq war. Here is a clip of that famous knock-down, drag-out fight from nearly a year ago that resulted in Rosie leaving the show three weeks earler than planned. She never returned to the show after this showdown:
Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily
News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession
with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen
at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never
seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.