Brace yourselves, kids. Because once Ms O’Donnell gets rolling, she’s as committed to her anti-Bush dementia as Sisyphus was to his rock.
Frankly, it’s almost heroic, in sad, gulled kind of way. Think Persephone in horrific stretchpants and a taste for peachfish over pomegranates.
Anyway, some of the commenters over at Hot Air—including Debbie Schlussel — seem to think that Elisabeth Hasselback didn’t do enough to counter Rosie’s roiling stream of red herrings, non-sequiturs, outright falsehoods, and crazy intimations.
I disagree.
In fact, I think Hasselback came off quite well, allowing O’Donnell to froth like a fat pigeon choking on an Alka-Seltzer tablet. Remember, Hasselback is in an hostile environment, outnumbered, and with an audience squarely in the corner of people like Rosie and Joy Behar (who, stunningly, seemed reasonable compared to O’Donnell)—people who believe, in short, that knowing a few key buzzwords makes them sound more informed than the ordinary proles who’ve bought the “official” “government” story. It’s narcissism and emotionalism, digitally gilded and then vomited from the piehole of a woman whose last original thought was to steal Rosanne Barr’s schtick.
Hasselback’s personality is such that she isn’t loudly confrontational. But the look on her face whenever she has to listen to the political rants from a panel of insane meatsacks suggests she keeps expecting Ashton Kutcher to jump out from behind a speaker  or at the very least, a plague of toads suddenly to infest the set.
(h/t CJ Burch)
in the final analysis, Rosie O’Donnell gives fat pig-ugly dykes a bad name.
When someone starts spewing truther nonsense in public, the best thing to do is sit back and give them more and more rope. This was the first time this radical twit has really opened up on this topic, and the right thing to do was to let her go, not to warn her she’s looking like a freak.
pigeon?
Isn’t that sort of petite sounding?
She waddles like a duck, sounds like Daffy Duck, but is bigger than an emu.
fat pigeon choking on an Alka-Seltzer tablet: “……oh, that’s it Goldstein. It’s ON now. Comparing me to that blowhard? Consider your car an official pigeon target from now on.”
I myself wonder if Hasselbeck is physically intimidated by Rosie, who is about as stereotyped a bull dyke as one can possibly be.
Yah, I said it. Sue me.
There’s a reason her nickname is Rosie O’Donut.
I don’t understand how you can get paid that much money to go on TV and spew just absolute nonsense, and have people cheer madly for you. The first time in history fire has ever melted steel? How does she think fucking steel gets made? It is beyond incredible.
All the while they cling to their measly audience satisfied with the scraps from Fox’s table.
Also, blowing asparagus out my nose while reading your post is not good for the marriage, thank you very much.
Are you questioning her masculinity?
Pretty soon the advertisers will begin bailing and her fat, hulking carcass will be jettisoned faster than she can clear the backstage buffet spread. O’Reilly is running the clip now.
Trying to listen to Rosie O’Donnell is like listening to the fat woman in the frozen foods aisle at King Kullen scream at the crying baby in the shopping cart…
They should replace the girl from Survivor with Althouse.
That would be quality TV.
I’ll never understand why Colby chose Tina instead of Keith.
sometimes it’s scary how you people think like me. I heard this on the way home and that’s the first thought I had. maybe steel grows like some crystal. hmmmmmm.
I would love to take the camera phone in and heckle her from the audience. The only problem is I’d probably actually have to be in audience to do it. That’s a toughie.
………and really, a dude that doesn’t carry a clutch purse would stick out like a sore thumb in that crowd.
I work for a consulting engineering firm in the construction materials testing field. One of my primary responsibilities is testing and monitoring the fireproofing of structural steel, you have no idea how pissed I get listening to these people spout this shit unchallenged every freekin day. Concrete will deform and burn in truly hot fires. What caused the problem at the Trade Centers is when the planes hit they blasted all the fireproofing off the steel, the exposed steel was then critically weakened by the heat of the fire and collapsed. Nobody ever asserted it melted, but a hot enough fire certainly will melt steel, it is how it is forged.
At least we discovered the moonbats’ exception to their rule against hyper-masculinity: It’s OK in womyn.
Never interrupt your opponent while (s)he’s engaged in making a mistake.
— Some Froggy Guy
Excerpts from my rank-ordered list of recreational actvities…
22. Say “Al Gore” and “Oscar.” Giggle.
23. Think up colorful euphemisms involving Billy Packer’s last name (NCAA tourney only, unless I’m really bored in October).
24. Call Harry Reid’s house and ask if he has Prince Albert in a can…buried in a patch of “prime Nevada retail property.”
…
4,902. Scout internet for retail sources of Mitt Romney and Sean Hannity’s hair.
4,903. Fling myself off that new Grand Canyon overlook.
4,904. Watch “The View.”
Heh. You know those lists of “Things to Do Before I Die”…?
I have one of “Things to Do After I Die.”
Watching “The View” isn’t on that one either. Unless I end up in hell.
In which case, you just know it’ll be the only thing on.
Why is it a mistake, mojo?
There’s no such thing as bad publicity.
Rosie recently gave $50 million she made stirring the pot to charity.
How much do you think her right wing counterpart Ann Coulter has given to charity?
I imagine Rosie makes more from each episode of the View than the right’s masculine spokeswoman has made in her entire career.
Are you a Truther too Alphie?
Rosie is just another example of the failed policy of ceasing to institutionalize the hard core mentally ill and instead trying to integrate them into normal society.
Not sure what a “truther” is, aldo.
Is it a religion?
Then, nope, I’m an atheist.
Hassleback did fine. She’s in hostile territory and she really is the “token conservative”- plus her jobs on the line if she takes Rosie to the mat- who’s going to get booted first, her or Rosie. They can always find another blonde attractive conservative.
Also, the truther theory is so much crap and Hassleback knows it – but explaining the complexities of melting melt is like trying to explain physics to a chimp.
They sit there and screech and scratch themselves until somebody gives them a banana (or a pot pie).
I’d say Alpo’s playing dumb but …
didn’t that one fascist Dago make the trains run on time, Alphie?
While Churchill, did he ever make the trains run on time?
HA!
Didn’t think so.
GAME SET MATCH TO ROSIE!
Man,
I gotta start watching the View.
Sounds pretty wild.
What a monumental pile. You must have been screaming like a poodle passing a peach pit trying to get all that out in one post.
Link, please.
screaming like a poodle passing a peach pit
A good description of Coulter’s shtick.
I don’t begrudge people making money by acting crazy.
I don’t understand people who don’t understand it’s all an act, though.
I heard Rosie ate a turd for charity. She used a fork and a steak knife and she cleaned her plate.
for charity though.
Betty Rubble lesbian.
Her claim to fame.
Pathetic, unthinking celebrity.
All the world’s a stage. When it’s convenient.
Right alphie?
You think Hollywoods collective BDS is all an act?
How about the Democrat leadership, and the nutroots, all just an act?
I don’t think the word “counterpart” means what you think it means, alphie. Ann Coulter will be Rosie’s “counterpart on the right” when she (Ann) appears daily on a talk show where she and two other conservative women drown out a token liberal woman on all political topics. Until then, she’s a right-wing author and nothing more.
Well, D.E.–some do want the Fairness Doctrine back.
Is it a religion?
In a sense, yes.
You wouldn’t care to source that, would you alpee?
BTW, for all the blather “progressives” spew about “the poor”, it has been shown time and again, conservatives are the ones that reach into their own pockets to give.
“Progressives” measure compassion by trying to steal from their neighbor’s wallet to indulge their pet causes.
Wouldn’t Karen Carpenter have been Rosie’s counterpart?
Are you guys saying Rosie represents anyone’s opinions other than her own?
I don’t think E. Hasselback, who’s only claims to fame are that she came in 4th on the second season of Survivor and she married the less-talented brother of the Seahawk’s rather untalented QB, is an offical spokesmodel for anyone else.
I do think the Democrats represent people, however and they’re are puttin’ on quite an act lately.
The poor neocons are looking like the Abu Ghraib prisoners in the famous photos.
Woof!
I don’t understand people who compare people based on their public record of charity donations. Giving is about giving, not being on record as having given.
What I found funniest about the clip was Rosie’s threat to ask someone from Harvard or Yale. I’d love to see her ask a structural engineer or physicist from MIT or GA Tech explain this to her – her head would explode.
The most frustrating aspect of personalities like Rosie is they too arrogant to understand how much they truly do not understand. The world just is not as simple as her ability to understand it allows her to believe…and anything beyond that is a conspiracy. Sounds like someone believes in modern mythology…the new religion.
alpee
The “how fast can we surrender to terrorists” act by the Dems is something that you admire?
The people who were clapping wildly maybe? You know that random group of indepentent thinkers in the audience who just walked off the street randomly.
What’s kind of sad is I remember Rosie from her early days of standup … she had a great act of growing up with a stereotypical Irish da …
Rosie is now another example of the Peter Principle. In both the intellectual and moral spheres.
You know, I’m not sure if I am amazed or just downright scared.
It’s true, the worst part are the mindless sheep in the audience. Kind of like Bill Mahr’s folks.
Also, I’m still looking for the so-called “mandate” that was issued in the last election that Rosie et all continue to insinuate.
turin word: each35
– as in: each35 minutes, Rosie eats enough to feed a small African village (or maybe eats the village).
Second request.
Link, please.
Our generation lost all its greatest comedians like Andy Kaufman, Belushi, Sam Kinison, etc.
All we have left are second raters.
Well, we have Larry David, and Steven Wright is still out there somewhere I think.
It’s our cross to bear.
Oh, geez…kinda like saying “your generation’s” greatest actors are Ben Afleck, Woody Harrelson and Jay-lo.
alpo, you’ve got 3 unanswered requests to source a claim you made. Are you trying to hide something? Are you bullshitting us, jihadi boy?
You can’t make this stuff up.
Apparently, amoeba rectum is referencing this Wikipedia blurb:
Which ends with this superscript:
The clueless in defense of the deranged.
You really should do that kind of thing in private, jihadi boy. And don’t let any of the mullahs catch you, I am pretty sure that is against sharia.
“Man,
I gotta start watching the View.”
alphie, I’m sure it would broaden your intellectual horizons.
Alpo won’t source his assertion of her “charity” because it’s simply not true. Just like the crap that emanates from Tokyo Rosie’s overused piehole, his rantings and spewings are lies.
That’s the great thing about being a progressive, facts don’t matter! If it fits the narrative, and it SHOULD be true, than it is, right Alpo?
FOAD
Rosie may have a point on this U.S./British conspiracy deal. After all, she is saying essentially the same thing as Greenwald, who says you can’t believe anything the Bush administration says. He takes the Iranian word on the global positioning of the sailors over that of the U.S. or Brits. He believes in the nonstop theory of neocon warmongering and that it is only a matter of time before we invade Iran. Actually, according to Glenn, it’s only been a matter of time for two years now (the Seymour Hersh Effect).
Glenn Greenwald and Rosie, proud water carriers for the mullahs. Where is Laura Ingraham when you need her? Alan Colmes is probably still licking his wounds.
What’s up with that audience, shrieking like libtards at every FatBitch pie-hole opening? She must be on some serious meds.
She’s gotta smell too. Ugh.
EEEWWWWWWW!!!!
Sorry, for the slow response, wish.
I was digging up my Kinison CD.
Leper Whore is one of the funniest bits ever.
*sniff*
I saw the best soldiers of my generation slagged by Rosie:
The View. The Cows. The Morons.
Sometimes I really wonder why these people aren’t a bit more savvy about their mouths.
More and more I see a total Republican landslide come 2008.
Gave them an inch and they took a million miles.
Sorry alphie and friends, your glimpse at a utopia is just about over.
More and more I see a total Republican landslide come 2008.
Now that’s the funny, RoA!
If they shed a few more crazies like Santorum and Pat Robertson they may get back to scratch in 6-8 years, maybe.
I am just speaking truth to assholes alphie.
I remember when I was in college and Rosie was a VJ on VH1. Even then, when my politics were several miles to the left of where they are now, I NEVER laughed at anything she said.
If your trying to get to jihadi boy’s ears, you probably are speaking to his asshole.
I’ve probably watched 5 minutes of any Rosie Donut show since she started. That was in someone else’s home and was enough to last me a lifetime.
Just like a computer, Garbage in, Garbage out. Do they have guards on the dump in Rosie’s neighborhood?
That’s not playing.
One can only ask if little “a” makes a comment & no one reponds, will it return? I say we give it our first 100 hours & see, but unlike the Dems we may actually accomplish something. If for nothing else then to see how much lower or base he’ll go to get that attention he so apparently craves.
In fact, I bet Churchill’s trains were still more punctual than Mussolini’s ones.
Don’t be so sure O’Donnell is making the rope to hang herself with (figuratively speaking): the whole conspiracy bunch will believe the most illogical, outlandish and outrageous statements. I have blog-friend who run anti-conspiracy websites, and I’ve seen horrible things…
Well, the word “think” doesn’t really fit, does it?
Rosie O’Donnell: Giving fat, ugly, gay, obnoxious left-wing midgets everywhere a bad name….
Using high temperatures and heavy machinery to forge steel is utterly insensitive. Steel should be persuaded to mold itself into a given shape using sensitive, non-judgemental and non-confrontational words (as in “My conversation with a 5-ton steel billet”). We have no right to pound steel into everyday objects against its will!
Rather Lovecraftian, there, Fabio.
Ai! Ai! Cthulhu F’taghn!!
Rosie’s mental breakdown came after she came out of the closet and found out that apparently, the evil conservative neo cons led by Emeperor Bush, won’t let her get married to her gay partner. She needed a target for her hate, since she couldn’t “do” something that she wanted to do and we all know in Hollywood, even untalented boobs (ug) get to do whatever they want.
In short, Rosie doesn’t like being told no.
Her new book will be “It Takes a Village to Keep me Fed.”
Oh, right. Just call Rosie back from R’lyeh, why don’t you?
Just one of the reasons I love this blog.
Next up, Rosie as the Balrog at the bridge.
“It’s our cross to bear”
Hey Alphie! Since you’re an atheist, you don’t have any crosses. That’s part of being an atheist. No splinters. Alphie, why don’t you go have a moment of silence to no one in particular? That nonentity might grant you some brains.
As a Christofascist Godbag, I extend my sympathies to all atheists out there. Your choice of worship (or not as is the case here) is entirely yours, and I repsect that. I have to count among my brethren pedeophiles, liars, swindlers and the shadow of the Inquisistion.
But you have to count Alphie.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
I love how, when someone from the right says something the left doesn’t like, all of the right is held accountable, but when someone from the left, like Rosie, says something, it’s just her opinion and it’s all just an act to make money anyway, which is perfectly o.k. for someone on the left to do.
In other words, when someone on the right does it, that person is evil and it proves how evil everyone on the right is, but when someone on the left does it, it’s charming.
At this point I’m convinced that alphie is a sock puppet operated by one of the commenters here – it’s just so hard to believe that he’s being serious!
Although, at this stage of the game, it’s almost impossible to distinguish self-parody from parody.
Until Alphie came along, you guys were doing so well. I couldn’t imagine IN MY LIFE nodding agreement to anything from BMoe or Darleen, but damn you guys were dead on. Fire doesn’t melt steel?
Like many “entertainers” she is just plain uneducated and stupid. Hell, one watching of the PBS documentary on the WTC explains the whole damn thing.
And that silly statement obscures the proper skepticism her earlier statements warranted. All of you guys who love to doubt the AP, take it for granted the Brits and American government are telling the truth. Most likely (90%) chance, they are.
But, governments DO fake things (somehow I remember the Gulf of Tonkin, the “Mexican” attack on US forces in 1848, the explosion of the USS Maine). Governments, especially deeply troubled governments (and that describes both of the governments involved directly in this and our government), really enjoy meaningless distractions like this. They can even be used as pretexts for war.
I think Rosie is right to maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear her knowledge of science extends further than my 8 year olds.
That done, you guys should really go back to telling Alphie he is a bad guy. Seems productive and reasoned.
Nice work, Bmoe. Blind squirrel = acorn
alphie blurts:
The Dems sure are putting on an act. It’s an act which gets more disapproval than approval, however. The number unhappy they won is already up 8 percent. Nearly half of independents disapprove of the policies and proposals of the Democratic leaders in Congress while just 30% approve.
Uh, timmuh, which is more likely:
o The British government ordered their sailors into Iranian waters, lied about it and continue to lie about it with no leaks and no expressions of doubt.
-or-
o The Iranian government violated the sovereignty of a foreign nation as well as the laws of war in order to distract from their nuclear program, extort the release of their agents caught in Iraq, and possibly have defectors handed back to them.
Consider that the Iranian initially released a lat/long for the capture that was still inside Iraqi territory, and once the “error” was pointed out, released a new set of coordinates two miles north, inside Iranian waters. Meanwhile, the British statements have been consistent.
If the US and Britain were to manufacture a causus belli, wouldn’t it be something more clear-cut? Like the Iranians actually firing on US or British forces?
The conspiracy mongering’s getting old and tired. More importantly, it’s one of the biggest reasons the Iranians know they can get away with this shit. They know that enough Americans and Brits will believe them over their own governments to paralyze the West.
Holy Crap!
TimmyB, in agreement on something with PW commenters!
Rational dialog may yet live!
Actually, the most LOL moment in that Rosie clip was her yelling (and holding up her fingers) about the major networks being owned by only 4 – FOUR- corporations, and that we should go outside the US to hear the truth.
I mean, what kind of control do those media conglomerates have since she’s allowed to spew her stupidity five times a week?
, governments DO fake things (somehow I remember the Gulf of Tonkin, the “Mexican†attack on US forces in 1848, the explosion of the USS Maine). Governments, especially deeply troubled governments (and that describes both of the governments involved directly in this and our government), really enjoy meaningless distractions like this. They can even be used as pretexts for war.
I think Rosie is right to maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear her knowledge of science extends further than my 8 year olds
I don’t think Rosie maintains a “wait and see” – she advocates that the British apologize (appease) in order to get their people back. She outright believes the Iranians over “us.”
And her little brain can’t seem to wrap it’s head around the idea that allowing the Iranians to bully like this might be dangerous.
timmyb,
I might take some issue with this part:
but it’s not too the point.
However,
An interpretation that is just as valid and better supported by events is that if you have an enemy, the right time to put on pressure is when your enemy is distracted from the fight. The situation in Britain is a lot more complex, but as far as the US goes, the timing of the hostage taking dovetails quite nicely with recent congressional initiatives. Can’t really be spun Rosie’s way given the very inconvenient fact that the Iranians did take the Brit servicemen. So given that the proactive side here is Iran, it’s absurd that Rosie would frame it as she did.
The Goat with a Thousand Young indeed…
Hmmm… I just realized: this applies equally well, if not better to the Iranian government.
Another is when she challenged Hasselback by asking her if she believed the administration’s claims that Iraq was connected to 9/11. The morons in the cheap seats started cheering, and Hasselback was still trying to pin Rosie down, so the question was lost, but it indicates how meme driven Rosie (and the morons in the cheap seats) are buying into easily disprovable talking points as truth.
If he is, he’s been operating for a very long time in several incarnations (alphie/monkeyboy/Neville Chamberlin)
From Mile High Dirt Berms™ in Gaza to the military as welfare to Chinese troops invading LA through shipping containers to his oft stated belief that Jihadists will stop fighting as soon as we leave Afghanistan or Iraq, Action Chimp© is the inanity gift that keeps in giving.
BTW: I work in the steel pipe and scrap business and have visited several steel plants in operation. I’m pretty sure that blood started to come out of my pores at the sheer hysterical lunacy of “The first time in history that steel melted.”
Does that observation include Iran or just the US and England? Just askin’…
The point being that you really shouldn’t give Rosie any credit for that frothing, clueless speil from beginning to end. It will diminish you in some way and quite possibly give you a a jauniced appearance that will alarm your friends.
But, governments DO fake things (somehow I remember the Gulf of Tonkin…the explosion of the USS Maine).
I feel confident you can’t pin THAT on the Bushies.
Rosie’s mouth. The gift that keeps on giving to us on the right. Outisde of the rest of the “truther” crap, the first tim in history steel melted comment had coffee spewing from my nose. Obviously she has never played with a blow torch or seen a blacksmith at work. Moonbat alert.
BUT….
[looks left. looks right.]
How long has Skull & Bones been around?
And wasn’t The Chimpinator a member of….Skull & Bones?
I learned that from:
9. The fact that an “official†investigation shows there was no conspiracy is not evidence that the conspiracy does not exist; rather, it is evidence that the conspiracy does exist. Otherwise, why would they deny it?
Another is when she challenged Hasselback by asking her if she believed the administration’s claims that Iraq was connected to 9/11. The morons in the cheap seats started cheering, and Hasselback was still trying to pin Rosie down, so the question was lost, but it indicates how meme driven Rosie (and the morons in the cheap seats) are buying into easily disprovable talking points as truth.
I find it interesting that Rosie deferred to the “truth” revealed by the clapping monkeys in the audience in regards to the answer of that question. I said it at Ace; some people are simply too stupid to understand what is going on in the world. When the “Iraq was connected to 9/11” is simplified – it does seem like a silly argument (made by the administration.) Simplified arguments DO seem hallow.
Not everything can be simplified, in order to be digested by a general audience, and still contain the “truth” of the argument.
So, I got home from work last night and this was our topic of discission while dinner was being prepped. Wife had accidentally turned on The View and, like any good car wreck happening in front of you, saw the whole thing. She thought E. Hasselbeck set Rosie up perfectly – she asked the question, and sat back in her chair through Rosie’s pregnant pause (sorry for the bad visual all). As if to say, ‘here, Rosie, is something I know you have an opinion on. feel free to share it with the viewing public.’ Wife was stunned at the stupidity, and finally turned over to Rachael Ray. Her girlfriends, from coast to coast, who had been watching as well, were stunned too.
Rosie could have challenged Hasselback by asking her if she believed the administration’s claims that Iran was involved in 9/11 and the reaction from the peanut gallery would have been the same.
The View is popular in the way that Regis Philbin’s show is popular. The table is scaled up to suggest a more cerebral discussion setting, but when you look at it, the table suggests a coffee table rather than a conference table design. I don’t mean that to dismiss what’s said out of hand based on perceptions of the setting. Rather I am pointing out that the setting is intentionally designed and the show intentionally produced, directed, and staffed to appeal to an audience seeking to be entertained by opinion rather than knowledgeable discussion. No one is going to be convinced by Rosie’s ignorant take on serious matters who isn’t already predisposed to accept her opinion on any matter.
That and the other silly statements. Like WTC7 collapsing in a way that only explosives could account for. As far as I can tell, the only idiots making claims like that have also claimed that the twin towers collapsed faster than could be accounted for by gravity.
Ponder on that for a while: the VRWC has somehow induced a huge enough local gravitational anomaly to make something fall faster than free-fall, or the like. And yes, there are academics from respected institutions holding forth on these ideas, but their colleagues are pretty much all looking on in mass horrorification.
I have little doubt that Rosie can spew correct and incorrect gibberish with approximately equal frequency, but I suspect that none of it has much thinking behind it.
There are legitimate concerns with the Bush administration, but those don’t give any sort of credibility at all to the batshit insane concerns.
More like a “weight” & see attitude, w/ lots of twinkes
So this alphie individual just makes shit up?
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