Rosie not so rosy
We’ve “dehumanized� the Iranians. We’ve killed over half a million Iraqis. “Radical Christianity� is on par with “radical Islam.� And “nearly everyone� in the Bush administration is under indictment or suspicion. Welcome to the Rosie Show.
By now anyone who’s seen the Thursday morning TV pabulum has witnessed Rosie O’Donnell vs. Elizabeth Hasselbeck in yet another blowup on “The View.� Rosie denies calling our troops terrorists. Consider this text lifted directly from Rosie’s blog: “O’DONNELL: …… I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?�
As I post this column, comments are incapacitated at Rosie’s blog. Freedom of speech is simply, at times, inconvenient.
Rosie and Elizabeth had a tiff over that one, with Rosie booming at the slightest hint of her cohort’s attempts to make a single point. Elizabeth did tell Rosie to “defend her own insinuations.�
I’ve never watched “The View.� I don’t watch talk shows in general, other than occasionally catching “Hannity and Colmes.� I like that one; it’s a virtual Dem vs. Repub fight club, with both pundits getting equal time.
But on the morning show Barbara Walters founded, Elizabeth Hasselbeck must feel like a sparrow in a garden filled with starlings. The clips I’ve seen reflect a frequent unwillingness to let the woman speak. In the video linked to youtube.com above, she tries to explain her position on infidelity. She’s ultimately drowned out and reined in, with comments like “cheating on your wife� has nothing to do with “bad parenting.� Role models, anyone?
As if that’s not enough, last year “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit� featured an episode depicting a 30 year old woman being raped and murdered. Her name: Elizabeth Hassenback. Subliminal persuasion, anyone?
Maybe ABC could just issue a fatwa formally denouncing anyone resembling a conservative. Oh, that’s right. They already did.
You have to stop and ask yourself, with the ratings increase this show has experienced since bringing America’s most strident Tinseltown critic on board, what kind of mind seeks this type dialogue every morning?
As Rosie O’Donnell’s stint on “The View� comes to a close, we can expect her to go out in a “blaze of gory.�
Rescue squad, anyone?–Kay B. Day
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