Rosie's "Today Show" interview involves another split-screen...
I cannot believe "The Today Show" split-screened Rosie O'Donnell! Rosie famously quit "The View" three weeks early last year after producers went to a split screen during a ferocious verbal battle between Rosie and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Now, Rosie is involved in another squirmish - this time with Barbara Walters - who took to the airwaves last week to tell Rosie to "get on with your life" after Rosie said in an interview that the ladies on "The View" are not the best of friends off-screen.
So Meredith Viera (herself a "View" alum) asks Rosie about it and forces her to sit through a replay of Barbara's split-screen and the show runs a split-screen as Rosie watches! So uncool.
Rosie, whose "Rosie Live!" variety hour airs Wednesday night, went on to say to Viera of Walters: "The fact that I hurt her hurts me because you know I was 14 years old and watched the first woman to ever moderate a presidential debate - she was the moderator between Carter and Ford. I remember it vividly. I was 15 when she talked to Sadat and Begin. She is one of the women who paved the way for every other woman in broadcasting and I love her regardless of the fact that to her I'm the rowdy teenaged daughter she can't control."
"I think there comes a time when she's just had enough and I'm hard to take for some people," Rosie added. "I do love her and that's the bottom line. Love is complicated."
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Enough with the endless Rosie ass-kissing!
Rosie is a spoiled, selfish, immature brat.
She was hired to be the moderator of the view. Moderater. Do you know what that means?
Moderate (from webster) avoiding extremes of behavior or expression : observing reasonable limits b: calm , temperate
Rosie was ANYTHING but moderate. Look at Whoopie--probably just as liberal, but is MUCH better at being level headed and a makes sense. Rosie, by comparison, did a terrible job. She talked over guests. She was not open minded while calling others closed minded. Even if she had been hired to be an "opinion" on the sofa, she was a terrible debater. I was almost always on her side in theory, but her behavior made me question my own beliefs.
Combine this with her truly disgusting "I love tommy cruise" straight woman routine with the abrupt about face she did when she decided to come out.
I once dated a comedian whom she told--look, I like you, you're a nice guy, I'd love to give you a break, but you're just too gay to be on the show. This really happened. She was so paranoid her mainstream american audience might suspect she was a lesbian, she was terrified to do anything that might publicly out her.
I just find her loud, obnoxious, rude, a poor debater, a hypocrite, and I wish she would just shut up already about the view. Of COURSE the girls aren't all best friends off camera. It would be ridiculous if they were. But the "sell" of the show is that they all get along. Just like the "sell" of her old talk show was that she was an average American straight woman.
She probably wouldn't like it if she was still doing the talk show, maintaining her "straight" persona and someone left the show and revealed the truth and called her gay.
That would be rude. But from double-standard Rosie, we can expect nothing less.
Why not call this what it is. A desperate publicity move.