If you’ve watched any of the major cable news channels for the last few days, you’ve seen the Elisabeth Hasselback vs. Rosie O’Donnell war on ABC’s The View. In this heated exchange of words, Hasselback broke out of her shell and started verbally abusing Rosie to the point where Rosie literally had no answers for Elisabeth’s questions and resorted to repeating herself and hiding under the cover of crowd noise.
The scene actually became an awkward one to watch at times.
This was all spurred by Rosie’s America-hating comment below:
O’DONNELL: I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
HASSELBECK: Who are the terrorists?
O’DONNELL: 655,000 Iraqis — I’m saying you have to look, we invaded —
HASSELBECK: Wait, who are you calling terrorists now? Americans?
O’DONNELL: I’m saying if you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?
This is absolutely disgusting. There is no way that any liberal can spin this “view” that Rosie offered. And quite frankly, that’s even an insult to liberals since no clear thinking American – Republican, Democrat, conservative, or liberal – would EVER equate America’s troops to terrorists. And what makes me even sicker is that Rosie went out of her way to say that she did NOT call our troops terrorists.
Oh come the fuck on you idiot! There is NO WAY you can read that exchange and not come to the conclusion that if Rosie answered her own rhetorical question, she would say that our troops are terrorists. She is a shameful American and a person for our entire country to despise. And I actually liked Rosie and her mania before she decided to become political, but now that she’s obviously citing extremist web sites that use fake facts, she’s useless as an entertainer and a person (the number of civilian dead is about 1/10th of the number that she used).
But there is some justice in all of this crap. At one point during their latest debate, Rosie took the easy way out of future arguments by saying that she would not debate Elisabeth any more and that Elisabeth can spew all of the “Republican crap” that she wanted for the next three weeks. This technique is a constant among extremists who cannot defend their comments – they just claim that they’re done with the debate and insult you on the way out. But, thanks to the wonders of reality (and the fact that Elisabeth finally came out of her shell), Elisabeth fought back and made Rosie look like a fool on national television.
The light at the end of the tunnel? Rosie has decided to leave The View before her contract ends. And for me – a guy who is registered as an independent and who loves his country – I’m glad that this beast is finally off of the air because I couldn’t take hearing her blast my country with fake facts and outrageous insinuations any more.
