Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for so articulating what I have been feeling and screaming out to the universe! I have felt absolutely sickened by this entire attack on Rosie = especially FoxNews - I actually had to turn the television off because I was becoming physically ill from the hatred and vile coming from this one particular blonde woman hosting one of the shows.On the show, there was one bright moment when a gentlemen from Inside Edition actually defended Rosie, in that he mentioned her feelings had been hurt (as you so eloquently expressed).
I mean, come on people, what about Section 18 and all that she has done for our troops, as you referred to, and the money and support? And while we're on it, how about our fireman and 9/11 injuries and all she's doing for them? People are jealous of her ability to strip it all away and get right to the heart of things. I'm getting myself all revved up once again just thinking about this, so, Ruthie, I thank you once again for your great post.

I feel like you glimpsed inside my brain, and wrote down everything inside. I couldn't have said it any better. I believe you nailed it ablolutely perfectly about Elizabeth - when someone can not look at you straight in the eye, as she couldn't do to Rosie, it's game over. Anyway, Ruthie, your post is helping me feel better and if Rosie gets a chance to read it, I hope it makes her feel better as well. Peace/Out

Cinzia... Thanks for the feedback. I think even those who want to discredit Rosie know she is speaking the truth... at least I hope its arrogance and not genuine stupidity that drives them. I hope everyone will post to Rosie's blog words of encouragement and support.

I feel your frustration Cinzia.

"The View" has become much less Intellectually Piquant since Hasselbecks swollen breasts have shriveled, I suppose associated with her sex/birth/nursing cycles.

Ho hum.

Dear Ruthie,

Thank you for this article! I can totally identify with your thoughts and feelings about Rosie, her time on The View, the misinformation about her, the confrontation with Elizabeth H., etc. It makes me feel better just reading your article, because there are far too many nay-sayers out there. I feel Rosie is a brave beacon of truth in this world of political double-speak, brainwashing and power-mongerers and I admire her very much.

When I heard Rosie had decided to not return to The View and complete her contract, I was afraid to search the Web and read people's thoughts. I feared so much of it would be damning of her. I was happy to discover, through a Technorati search, not only your article, but a number of other posts supporting Rosie.

And yes, I have posted a message of support to Rosie's blog - among tens of thousands of other messages! :-) Thanks again.

Thanks Katherine...I like your description of Rosie...brave beacon of truth. She definitely shines a bright light into the darkness. So glad you posted to her blog. I think its funny in a sad way the effort her critics take to share the venom that is eating their souls. They think the louder they are or the meaner their words they will convince others they are right. So toxic and sad. I'm glad you are finding positive articles on Rosie, she deserves respect.

Only women watch the view so they can learn how to vote. God help the USA.

Hey Ruthie,

I LOVE IT! You rock girl!

I hope you don't mind, but I posted your article as a blog on my JaHeRo myspace page. I think everyone needs to read this. Here's my myspace page if u would like to see it. :D

xo
Peace

Hey Rachel...thanks for linking my article...so cool you have a Jahero myspace. I'm going to go check it out now.

To me, both Rosie and Elisabeth are very partisan, albeit on opposite ends of the spectrum, the politics segment of the show reminded me somewhat of the now defunct 'Crossfire' program on CNN.

I couldn't imagine Rosie saying what she said about the Govt. these last few months if had it been a Democratic administration, I fear her disagreement with them over social issues increases her negativity towards them on other issues (e.g the 9/11 conspiracy).

Anyway, she had good, useful things to say on other topics, and obviously cared about people who needed help, so I'll be sorry to see her go, politics aside.

Not sure why Elisabeth should have to go because of the disagreement, however. I didn't think Rosie had to leave because of it either. Politics can be personal unfortunately, so heated arguments are understandable sometimes and can be forgiven, though I can understand Rosie being upset by the name-calling from certain commentators, which is certainly juvenile on their part.

I think for the Fall, the show needs to hire two co-hosts, maybe one in the next month or so and another in September. They need at least one minority woman (Black, Latino, Native Indian, Oriental??). With Elisabeth going on maternity leave in November, maybe one should be a Republican.

Sure is going to be interesting to see who'll step up to the plate next!!

Ruthie,
Loved, Loved , Loved what you wrote! So true, written well, and I agree totally! I have been watching the View, since Rosie came on. She has truly made that show exciting, and fun to watch. Neither Star or Elizabeth ever made that show work. If ABC had any intelligence at all, they would fire Elizabeth, and just give Rosie her 1 year contract! I will surly NOT watch that show if Elizabeth stays on!

It's about time she's gone. She used that show for her own liberal politcal agenda. Elizabeth should be shown some respect. So long Rosie!

Thanks Lynn....I think EH has such a ugly agenda I'm glad Rosie sensed it and left...they were setting her up to create a lot of drama for her final weeks. I think its emotional abuse and they were never really Rosie's friends..they just used her for the ratings and money she brought in...I hope all the new viewers leave with Rosie. There is just something really toxic about that show and its not just EH.

Ruthie, great article.
I'm not a huge fan of Rosie & Elisabeth's bickering back and forth. But it's been more entertaining than self-absorbed Star Jones.
It'll be interesting to see who they hire to replace Rosie. Hopefully, Barbara & CO don't drag their heels on this one. To keep the momentum, they need to hire someone ASAP. The only problem is-who?

It seems to me that some women feel threatened by women who are beautiful and have brains. Rosie hasn't either, so she has to attack women who do.

"some women feel threatened by women who are beautiful and have brains."

True, but what does that have to do with Elisabeth?

Rosie is just a fat big mouth pig like Michael Moore. The only difference is fat Michael sucks dick and fat Rosie eats pussey,

Hi Ruthie,
We can't imagine anyone watching any show where several women are sitting around bitching and arguing. Rosie and Donald Trump BOTH acted like a couple of 5 year olds. i didn't mind that as much as the fact that it made the news. i personally could't care less what the Hollywood bunch does. If the media wouldn't report it as news and keep talking about it, maybe the nerds woildn't act like idiots. They think because they are rich and famous they can act anyway they want. It really ticks me off when some holloywood celebrity breaks the law (DUI,drugs, etc.) and gets a slap on the wrist. You or i would be in jail. Some of hollywood celebs do good , why don't we hear more about them instead of devoting so much time to the dweebs. Sorry Ruthie, i didn't mean to write a book.i think rosie & elisabeth owe the view audience an apology for wasting their time. And Donald get a life and a new hairdo. Thanks, Karen

Yea! I don't like the View at all to be honest with you. Ruthie, I am an old friend. I don't know if you remember me but we were talking around November of last year on People's Court and you STUFF. How do become a contributor on the blog? I need to report an internet scam. TV Writer's Vault just scammed me out of a lot of money! Spread the word if you can darlin.

Yea! I don't like the View at all to be honest with you. Ruthie, I am an old friend. I don't know if you remember me but we were talking around November of last year on People's Court and you STUFF. How do become a contributor on the blog? I need to report an internet scam. TV Writer's Vault just scammed me out of a lot of money! Spread the word if you can darlin.

Hi Harold...my email is in my brief bio above.. write me...also if you want to write for BlogCritics..just scroll down under EXPLORE BC...the third link will give you the information you are looking for on becoming a writer for "Blogcritics an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe."

None of you know whats going on in Iraq. All you know is what you see on tv. Im a US Marine serving in Iraq, and I'm telling you that we are making a positive difference in the country's development. All this nay saying really isn't helping. If you all want to act like you know whats going on, do a tour out here, then talk. Every time someone talks about withdrawals, it just makes the insurgents attack us more often if they think we don't have resolve. So every little comment you post, or your nagging, is actually killing our soldiers. None of you know whats best for us, only we do. You know what, I'm not even going to finish, go eat a granola bar and hug a tree.

Den..thank you for your service...I also know people who have died in Iraq or came home needing help with post traumatic stress and the very government they served didn't want to help them.
I'm sure we could make a difference in many countries who do things differently than us. Take for example some countries in Africa who "castrate" the females and sew them shut until marriage. Many childrend die from bleeding out of infection. There are many ways of living that we won't ever agree with so are we going to invade every one of those countries? Our President went against the UN...he has basically voided our constitution. We are suppose to be about democracy and freedom. While Bush claims to be trying to bring democracy to Iraq he is destroying it here.
Again, thanks for your service. I do know people who have died over in Iraq and some who are home now and will never be the same and are fighting to get the help they need from those who sent them to war.

Den#21. Right on my friend. During Vietnam we had Hanoe Jane the trader Fonda. Now we have the big lard ass Rosie. At least Jane took her trader ass to Vietnam. I could just see fat Rosie in Iraq. Im sure the welcome mat would be laid out for the pig. I have heard the reason she will not go to Iraq Is no plane is equiped to fly a blue whale. Reading the comments from these fine ladies on this thread and knowing they vote I sleep better at night with full knowledge the country is secured.

I really enjoyed this post, although I come to somewhat different conclusions about the Rosie/Elizabeth dust-up.

I agree with you that Rosie was often a breath of fresh air on "The View," but her early exit (and the alleged behavior of one of her writers, who supposedly defaced photos of Elisabeth Hasselbeck)was immature and thoughtless. Rosie's behavior might undermine the continuation of "The View," which was based on the somewhat false premise that the women on the show were all best buddies, a fiction that was exploded last year when Star Jones was fired from the show, and refused to go along with the company line that she was simply leaving to pursue other opportunities (fortunately the departure of Meredith Vieira didn't appear to have any acrimony behind it).

I admire Rosie greatly and am much closer to her politically than I am to Hasselbeck. But Rosie's misplaced outrage wasn't about politics or respect. Rosie's demand that Hasselbeck "defend her" against idiot right wing columnists was misguided and infantile, and was an implied demand that Hasselbeck validate her views. But Hasselbeck isn't responsible for Fox News or right wing blowhards, nor is it her responsibility to explain what Rosie meant by her outrageous rhetoric question about "who are the terrorists."

It is also noteworthy that she dismissed Hasselbeck's views as "Republican crap," which was not only close-minded and unfair to Hasselbeck, but also pointlessly insulted and alienated a good portion of The View's audience, who do not see themselves as mindless stooges just because they are Republicans. Both the left and the right continue to be guilty of this kind of arrogance in which they assume that only their side is right, and Rosie's comments here fed into the belief that the left are close-minded elitists.

Lastly, it is sad that Rosie seems to disparage the real affection that Hasselbeck seemed to feel for Rosie and her family (which was not stereotypically "Republican" or anti-gay), and here she may have sadly misread the room. Donald Trump recently slammed Rosie again and called Elisabeth stupid. And talk radio and blogs have been filled with nasty comments by people who find the idea of a group of women discussing world events on television to be either ridiculous or frightening. So instead of re-enforcing a sense of sisterhood, Rosie's abrupt departure actually gives aid and comfort to those who just want women on TV to be pretty and say nothing.

I want to clarify that Janette only drew on one photo and it was a magazine cut out that was thumb tacked to a bulletin board. It wasn't a press shot that is hung around the studio. Janette is a friend of Rosie's and I can understand her need to act out. Her friend was in pain. It is sad that EH is often saying how Christian she is but then acts the way she did that awful Wednesday. EH hurt Rosie...Rosie thought they were friends. They had socialized outside the show. On her blog Rosie talks about opening up to EH. So when your friend doesn't back up a character attack..especially on live television...it is the worst kind of character assasination. Then add to it the EP exploiting it with split screen. The next day Barbara made light of it.."auntie barabar is back"...I feel Rosie deserved much better than she got...she brought a lot to the show..viewers, money, notariety. She deserved better. They hurt someone who gave them the boost they needed. But hey it showed them for what they really are and if the results in the end of the show..so be it.

Rosie for president will be next. What say you ladies. How would lard ass Rosie do against your favorite the Hilldabeast? I suggest you listen to Rush Limbaugh to get the true facts. He will point you in the RIGHT DIRECTION because many of you so called ladies are in dire need for a man to whip your ass into shape.

Rosie O'Donnell, gives new meaning to the word idiot. It's one thing to speak your mind and be opposed to a situation, but the crap she's spouting defies logic. A government conspiracy for additional damage at ground zero. WOW!.. Steel can't melt fire... I'll give her a tour of the basic oxygen furnce at a steel mill in Cleveland or Pittsburg, or China if she prefers. They do it every day in this country. The woman's cheese has slid off her cracker. I guess it will take more buildings being blown up in this country, or better yet school buses or schools themselves, before idiots like her realize that there is a real problem here. And these people we are fighting now cannot be reasoned with. Most of them hate us and prefer us eliminated.. If the war in Iraq is a bad thing, I don't know.. I'd like to withhold opinion to see how history sorts it out, but one thing for sure.. We are damn sure keeping these a-holes that want to kill us busy outside the confines of our beloved nation..

Brian is the familiar meaning of the word idiot.

Ruthie,
I want to add voice to the list of people expressing their thanks. I found your artice to be exactly what I've been thinking, feeling and communicating to my friends.
I've been a Rosie fan since way back to VH1's "Stand-up Spotlight". It's been so disheartening to see Rosie's words and actions skewed so badly in the "shi**y cable shows". Thank you for letting people see the real side of this story!
ABC couldn't control Rosie's speech and that's why it ended up like this. Now that Rosie's gone, I'm sure that the show will return to the mundane drivel that they had in the past. I won't be watching and neither will be lots of Rosie fans. Hope the View enjoyed their "10th Anniversary Special" Rosie O'Donnell, they won't get those huge ratings again!
The only person I will miss will be Joy, if she's smart she'd remove herself from this sinking ship!

RE: I want to clarify that Janette only drew on one photo and it was a magazine cut out that was thumb tacked to a bulletin board.... Janette is a friend of Rosie's and I can understand her need to act out. Her friend was in pain.

Actually, Janette was a writer from Rosie's previous show, and had been hired by The View to write material for her. She was an employee of The View, so her actions were not not just "acting out," but was malicious vandalism. This was why she was escorted from the building by ABC. Her friend may have been in pain, but this should not excuse her lack of professionalism.

RE: EH hurt Rosie...Rosie thought they were friends. They had socialized outside the show. On her blog Rosie talks about opening up to EH. So when your friend doesn't back up a character attack..especially on live television...it is the worst kind of character assasination.

Are these adult women are infantile children at a sleepover squabbling over who is supposed to be each others Best Friend For Life?

However, I think that this does get to the heart of the matter. Some (and I emphasize "some," not "all" or "typically") women focus on the perceived emotional betrayal behind the argument between Rosie and Elisabeth and minimize the fact that The View is not a Girls' Summer Camp, but a lucrative business, a TV show. The fiction is that the female panelists are best friends, but as I noted before, this was revealed to be a false picture when the facts surrounding Star Jones' firing came out (she was fired largely because of negative audience sentiment towards her, and none of the other panelists came forward to try to "save" their girlfriend.")

Neither Elisabeth nor Joy Behar had watched the TV shows that supposedly attacked Rosie, nor was a clip of any attack shown on the show when the argument took place. This was not the same situation as, for example, Donald Trump's earlier nasty and gratuitous personal attack on Rosie and her her spouse, which, by the way, Hasselbeck agreed was beyond the pale.

Rosie and Elisabeth were adult co-workers. Rosie could have defended herself against her loutish critics without dragging Hasselbeck into it or setting up false dichotomies (e.g., the big fat lesbian vs the pure Christian). Had she thought that the attacks undermined her position as a panelist on The View, she could have sought assistance from Barbara Walters or the show producers.

RE: Then add to it the EP exploiting it with split screen.

It made for great TV and had everybody talking. Again, the show producers understood that they were broadcasting a TV show.

RE: I feel Rosie deserved much better than she got...she brought a lot to the show..viewers, money, notariety. She deserved better.

As much as I admire and like Rosie, I have to acknowledge that she was as much a liability as an asset for the show. Despite increased ratings and notoriety, interview shows cannot last by exploiting controversy. And Rosie pointless alienated Kelly Ripa, an ABC colleague, when she suggested that Ripa's behavior toward Clay Aiken was homophobic, and doubly unfortunate since Aiken has not made any public statements about his sexuality. The American Idol producers refused to let the View have access to show clips after Rosie harshly criticized that show. And even though Donald Trump was a jerk and a bully, he was apparently also Barbara Walter's friend, and responsible for two TV shows (the Apprentice and the Miss Universe pageant) that NBC wanted to promote. The dust-ups with Rosie interfered with the main purpose of network TV - to make money.

Rosie is supposed to make occasional appearances on The View after her contract expires. Look for this deal to quietly disappear, which is unfortunate.


Billybob - re: I suggest you listen to Rush Limbaugh to get the true facts. He will point you in the RIGHT DIRECTION because many of you so called ladies are in dire need for a man to whip your ass into shape.

Great example of condescending, sexist drivel. Rush Limbaugh might be a good source for hillbilly heroin, but he wouldn't know a fact if it whipped him on his fat, drug-addicted ass.

This kind of thing is exactly why I wish that Rosie had remained with the show, and part of the panel along with Behar, Hasselbeck and Walters.

You must be kidding with this assessment!!! People like Rosie who have the ability to use a public forum to express their views make a conscious choice of how they use it. Unfortunately, she chose to espouse her warped sense of reality (ala Michael Moore) to blast every good thing and support the fringe she is most closely associated with.

Regarding how hated we are, that's a product of the media and not George Bush. The left, and I assume you are in this group, have done everything in their power to discredit this administration from day one and won't relent until they are back in power (God help us on that day). The left hates America and has the media as their vehicle to communicate it. If this country had stayed united, as we were for a brief moment after 9/11, we would be much farther along in this campaign against evil. Oh, I forgot, the left doesn't think there is a "war on terror" (ala John Edwards) and that Bush just made it up to promote his draconian agenda.

I would also like to mention that you can't "support the troops" without supporting the mission they are on. That's like cheering for your favorite sports team but not really caring if they win or lose. I'm a Vietnam vet and know firsthand what it means to be a soldier who has no backing at home.

One day all you leftist will regret your decision to blame America first when terrorists resume suicide missions in this country and you are afraid to send your children outside the house. This is not a joke and the sooner all Americans recognize that there are people who want to kill all of us the better off we'll all be.

Tootie..thanks I think the majority of people support Rosie...its just more people are apt to take the time out to insult than they are to compliment. Sad Really.

Alec...Janette worked with Rosie on her show and Rosie brought her along to The View to write her segments along with Helene her makeup and hair person. Both only worked for Rosie. Rosie has spoken about their relationship on her blog and who works for whom.

A lot of people I know admire Rosie, even though they think she's a little nuts. Elisabeth is pretty and that's about it. She has no brain.

The majority of who? Maybe all the plump, homely, man-hating, bitter women out there but not a majority of normal people. Rosie represents only a small speck of our vast, diverse population and it's apparent that you, Ruthie, and all the supporters on this discussion are a resident of that sliver.

Guest, at 83 Im not sure what it is.

To Reply to comment # 28.. If you really are Rosie, and you want to go toe to toe with me in a debate of the crap you are spouting.. All I can say is let's go... I have to assume that you really aren't her, as I'm never that lucky. But it would be fun cutting you to ribbons on this forum.. Anyhow, nice job (if it's really you) making a complete fool of yourself on national TV. "Fire can't melt steel" Unbelieveable..

No decent person who speaks the truth can stay on the 'view' You have to be a liar, and a hypocrite to be there!

Well, folks, interesting discussion, any idea who should replace Rosie? Whoopi and Roseanne Barr have both been mentioned. Until Meredith left last year, there were actually five of them, I think they need to get back to that number, so that it doesn't seem such a loss when they lose one. Rotating co-hosts like they're doing now is such a mixed bag.

Are the Ton's of Fun still around? Maybe one of them would be a great replacement for Rosie. I have naked pitures of Rosie hanging upside down like a bat. Just request color or black and white.