From ABC News:
ABC has been unable to come to a contractual agreement with Rosie O’Donnell. As a result, her hosting duties on “The View” will come to an end mid-June.
Despite controversy  or maybe because of it  O’Donnell was good business for ABC, owned by the Walt Disney Co. Ratings for “The View” during February sweeps were up 15 percent in key women demographics over the same time in 2006.
“I’m not going away. I’m just not going to be here every day,” said O’Donnell on today’s show.
According to Barbara Walters, creator and co-executive producer of “The View,” the co-host will be missed.
Indeed. But mostly by conservatives—who, despite some high profile attempts to have her removed—were quite happy to have her advancing her conspiracy theories on a high-profile network quasi-news and discussion show.
Those who get their news from the likes of Rosie O’Donnell were likely to vote Democrat, anyway. But for many centrist Democrats, O’Donnell’s vitriol—coupled with her ability to turn every act by a hostile foreign power into a plot by the Bush Administration—must remind them of the uncomfortable truth that their party has been hijacked by any number of ill-informed nutters with the (frankly astounding) desire to broadcast their paranoia and idiocy loudly and in public.
Here’s hoping Rosie uses the time off from her role as scientist and foreign policy expert to delete “The Huffington Post” from her bookmarks—though I suspect Ariana is already trying to recruit her for a weekly column even as we speak.
And why not? People like themselves a train wreck—and every time O’Donnell opens her mouth of late, a rhetorical locomotive jumps the tracks and runs headlong into reality, leaving nothing but a pile of twisted, fire-proof steel, and a host of overturned freight car, their Mallow Pies strewn all along the accident site like little chocolate-covered symbols of the kind of airy and nutrient-free thinking that proves so seductive to emotional debaters like Rosie.
(h/t Major John and Nanonymous)
The parting was also said to be amicable.
Which means the lawyers vollyed with letters and not automatic rifle fire.
Thanks!
h/t Drudge, natch.
“Fire-proofed steel”… Good one…
I had heard somewhere (can’t recall where) that Rosie has been upset because she doesn’t own any stakes in the show. As she sees it, she is the one drawing the ratings but Walters is the one taking the lion’s share of the profit. So she was anxious to get out and pursue a venture that gave her some ownership.
Like, say, a magazine? Or her own talk show?
I really hate to see her go.
As with most of the left, she was easy to take down with logic and common sense and her little rants did nothing but demonstrate to the non-nutty side of America, by far the majority, just how far the Lefts have gone over the deep end. Hopefully she does end up on Kos/Huffington/DU and Conservatives can use the idiotic things said on these sites by her and well…pretty much everyone else, as ammo to destroy any chance of the left putting their theories into practice any further than they already have.
At least on DU she could play the role of the sanest one in the room.
MSNBC has an open slot in the morning. Maybe they could pair Rosie & Larry O’Donnell in a morning rant-fest.
Can we get her replaced with Ann Althouse and Garance Franke-Ruta? The gross tonnage is about the same, or slightly less, and the fireworks would be better.
That’s one shit-load of a vacuum to fill, but I’m sure the MSM is up to the task.
Now the left will ahve to look to the poor shadow of Rosie that is Joy Behar.
She’ll always be the Kobe to Rosie’s Shaq-ness of leftwingery. Sure she can play, but we know how to count the rings.
Trump said that he thought he’d had a role in the firing because “…she grabbed her crotch and she said ‘Eat me!’ in front of a group of people at the Waldorf-Astoria†, at the New York Women in Communication luncheon. Barbara Walters was also at the luncheon along with many young women who aspire to careers in the communications field.
A class act, Rosie O’Donnell.
That is one command that most women don’t need to be taught to communicate.
Superfluous instructional aid15
What was that, like a year?
Sounds to me like Rosie’s people said, “Hey, it’s time to renew Rosie’s contract.” and Babwa’s people said, “Yeah. We can’t agree on that.”
Rosie then said something unprintable about Bush and Babwa hid in her office and said, “I could be doing colon cleansing infomercials with Hugh Downs, what went wrong?”
Ching-chong-ching-chong don’t let the door hit you on the– ching-chong-ching-chong well that’s easier said than done, I guess
Nah. The only people who care much about what leftist celebrities say are Republicans and conservatives.
It’s old, but, next gig, celebrity spokesperson for SNAP-ON TOOLS!
Think of the money she can make selling those upside down fat bat harnesses as well. The potential is huge, as is she.
mmmm…mallow pies….
Recovering post emesis, Babwa suddenly goes lights-on for the first time: “Finally, the perfect diet. The Rosie Meal Method of Aversion Therapy Video.”
All due credit and royalties to Lost My Cookies
But then why does a Moops Pronouncement sound so much like a “Rosie”?
Look out! Clear the road! WIDE LOAD!!
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What?!
SB: does69
heh
Were I to believe that Jeff would take the low road, I could envision a Protien Wisdom Conceptual Series centered around Rosie soon to be vacant chair. However, Jeff isn’t as low brow as to do that and you know that Barbara has that chair under a confidentiality clause that would make make NFL liscensing agreements look permissive.
That chair is relieved
Maybe for the same reason that a J. Peden comment rarely makes any “sense”.
Oh come now, Moops – you really did walk into that one. Just laugh at it and move on. Sheesh.
Why so thin skinned?
I like my snark to be coherent. Just trying to raise J. Peden’s game.
Really? Huh. Couldn’t tell.
Ever think that maybe centrist Democrats become Republicans when they see people like Rosie presuming to speak for Democrats—which is why only Republicans can be said to care about what leftist celebrities say?
Makes for a bit of tautology.
Just brainstorming here, though. This too shall pass.
PONIES!
Sorry. Meant to say, ”PONIES!”