when are they gonna get rid of Hasslecrack? She's the one that really needs to go

I hope that Elisabeth is not going to be fired over this... pathetic that O'Donnell couldn't "tough it out" for 3 more weeks.

Are you kidding?! Hasselbeck dethroned the Queen of Mean on live television! She ain't goin' nowhere!

I think Rosie is a coward for bailing out. I don't really give a crap about Elisabeth but at least she's not a chickenshit. If Rosie really believed what she was saying, why should EH have to defend her. Defend yourself when you put your foot in your mouth and don't whine like a bitch because no one stood up for you.

Amen! A lot of Rosie fans are failing to realize that this was pretty much the debate. I could care LESS about Elisabeth's politics, because I don't agree with them. But Rosie needed to back up her statements without having someone else speak for her.

This is how the new View panel should look this fall.....

PS: That's me!!!

This is how the new View panel should look this fall.....

PS: That's me!!!

LoL, love it! and seriously Sherri Shepherd needs to be on that show, I love her.

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by mateo22

Thanks Mateo!! I so have "The View" pose going on too!!!!

Yeah Sherri Sheperd should one of the two new hosts!!

Did Rosie really say this on the show last Monday?

"I do not think our American troops are terrorists.

I want our American troops home, able-bodied.

I don’t want them to invade countries that have done nothing to us.

I don’t want them to die at the hands of a Republican administration that doesn’t care enough about them to give them health care when they return.

I love our troops and will work for our troops, and -- no matter what you say on your shitty cable news shows -- that’s the truth. Change it around if you want."

Wonder why the news shows don't play THAT clip? Oh yes... it would end the debate. They can't allow that to happen!

Did Rosie really say this on the show last Monday?

"I do not think our American troops are terrorists.

I want our American troops home, able-bodied.

I don’t want them to invade countries that have done nothing to us.

I don’t want them to die at the hands of a Republican administration that doesn’t care enough about them to give them health care when they return.

I love our troops and will work for our troops, and -- no matter what you say on your shitty cable news shows -- that’s the truth. Change it around if you want."

Wonder why the news shows don't play THAT clip? Oh yes... it would end the debate. They can't allow that to happen!

Yup, Kenny, she sure did say all that, and has repeatedly since her first day on the show. And you're so right, as to why they don't play that. What a shame.

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by mateo22

adding to that, she posted this on her blog a couple of days ago and it has a part of the transcript from the May 17th show, where it all started, then continued on that Monday eppy and so on. Silly really, really, silly. And the news is still talking about, go figure....

This also has a great rundown written by somone that was posted with the transcript on her blog...

shellys space

Posted by ro on May 23rd at 11:44pm in in the news

Dated: 2007-05-23

Did Rosie Call Our Troops Terrorists?

The is directly from the transcripts of The View for May 17th:

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?

HASSELBECK: Are we killing their citizens or are their people also killing their citizens?

O’DONNELL: We’re invading a sovereign nation, occupying a country against the U.N.

I just watched Chris Matthews and his panel of journalists including Howard Feinman, Jill Zuckman, and Jonathan Capehart. Matthews asked the panel after replaying that segment of the show if she in fact said that our troops were the terrorists. They unanimously agreed with Matthews that she did call our troops terrorists. That conforms with the majority of journalists who have reported on this comment.

Rosie does not mention the troops at all in that segment of the show. She poses a rhetorical question. “Who are the terrorists?” “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?”In both of her rhetorical questions she refers to the “United States” and “us.” The policy of the United States or “our” policy in Iraq is not the responsibility of the soldiers who are ordered to execute the policy. It is obvious that state supported terrorism can only be implemented by those who have the responsibility of doing the fighting and dying. But, it is not the soldiers who are the terrorists in that hypothetical. And she was not calling the soldiers terrorists.

It is absolutely absurd that these journalists agreed with the interpretation that Matthews and the majority of the MSM had concluded.These journalists who are supposed to be experts on language and communication certainly know that she meant that the U.S. policy was the villain here and not the soldiers. Yet they persist in accusing the accusers who do not fit into their elite club. People like Rosie and others who have been branded as eccentric and outside the main stream are always fair game. They do it with many others who speak truth to power by carefully portraying sound bites out of context. They have done that to Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal for years.

The truth is that it was the elite reporters like the Hardball panel aforementioned who aided and abetted the rush to war in Iraq and fostered the terrorist policy that has resulted in this catastrophe. So it is not Rosie who is the villain. It is journalists like these who have to rationalize their lack of courage and appropriate skepticism of a “policy” that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis.

THANK GOD 4 SHELLY

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by mateo22

Check out this blog entry.

http://www.rosie.com/blog/2007/05/26/no-ja-hero/

The woman sitting next to her was fired and made to clean out her desk for drawing mustaches on pictures of Elisabeth Hasselbeck at the studio. Does anyone besides me think that she comes across as just a little... um... crazy? Maybe she acts a little too much like a 9 year old when she's really, like, 50?

Check out this blog entry.

http://www.rosie.com/blog/2007/05/26/no-ja-hero/

The woman sitting next to her was fired and made to clean out her desk for drawing mustaches on pictures of Elisabeth Hasselbeck at the studio. Does anyone besides me think that she comes across as just a little... um... crazy? Maybe she acts a little too much like a 9 year old when she's really, like, 50?

No, it wasn't Helene, sitting next to her, it was the other one, Janette. A little bit of crazy is always ok, LoL Janette wasn't on this latest one. And I mean, who hasn't lost it a little. It was a magazine cutout, tacked to a message board in one of the offices. It wasn't even a big promotinal photo or anything. Still, the wrong thing to do, but I wouldn't/don't hold it against her. I know i've done worse....

And I know it's not the popular opinion, but I like all three of them, the whole JaHeRo group. I've enjoyed watching the blogs everyday. They always make me laugh. Ah well...I'm just crazy like that,

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by mateo22

No, it wasn't Helene, sitting next to her, it was the other one, Janette. A little bit of crazy is always ok, LoL

Oh! I thought they said the woman next to her was responsible for it, in this blog? Maybe I misunderstood.

Either way, the woman in this blog acts WEIRD! LoL

Oh! I thought they said the woman next to her was responsible for it, in this blog? Maybe I misunderstood.

Either way, the woman in this blog acts WEIRD! LoL

LoL, ya, they're all bit crazy, and Helene doesn't hold back either.

Still, with Ro gone, I wonder what the new story will be next week? I'm sure the media will find something/someone.

UM!!! Those women are crazy!!!

I wonder what Rosie is referring to (in that videoblog) that occured on this past Monday/Tuesday. I rarely watch the View (and am less inclined to do so now) but this whole ordeal seems messed up. Must be a wonderful work environment.

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by parsons

I loved Rosie and I wish they would fired Elizebeth now..