The pregnant woman won
I wrote a column May 9 about pro-abort Rosie O’Donnell’s disengenuous vow May 1 to stop sparring with conservative co-host on The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, because Hasselbeck was pregnant.
I reported two days ago O’Donnell broke her vow. Big surprise.
That very day, O’Donnell and Hasselbeck got into a major disagreement on the air, after which it was reported O’Donnell immediately quit the show three weeks before her contract expired.
I have seen news clips of the joust and thought it looked somewhat serious, perhaps a little theatrical. I thought Elisabeth pushed bully Rosie back well.
But I just watched the entire 10 minute segment on YouTube, and in context you see it was very serious. Hasselbeck really got to O’Donnell, which isn’t clear from the clips. Watch O’Donnell’s face at the end.
On Rosie’s blog you get more of an insight to what she’s thinking. I can’t believe her feelings are hurt. She has made incredible accusations about 9/11, the Iraq War, President Bush, the Supreme Court, and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, to name just some, and apparently is offended by two-way conversations about them.
I’m shocked, too, that the person to whom Rosie condescended got the best of her. It must be the hormones of pregnancy. They’re empowering, you know.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I side with Elisabeth. Joy instigates everything, and then chickens out. Who was that African American woman? She should be Rosie’s replacement! She was great at keeping her cool!
off the topis. I hear that ‘The View” wants to replace Rosie with Ricki Lake. YUCK! I will no longer be watching if that’s the case.
Ummmm…so Rosie is upset with Elisabeth because Elisabeth did not defend Rosie against some harsh criticism from the media to which Rosie’s comments left Rosie open? And yet Rosie will not defend the defenseless fetuses of American mothers against the harsh reality of abortion when their parents willingly engage in their creation? This makes so much more sense to me now…
I don’t watch this show (can’t, at work), but I’ve seen the clips posted at newsbusters. Elizabeth finally stood up to the “know it all” bully, and the bully could’nt even play out her contract.
Good one Samantha T. !
Yes, great thought, SamanthaT!
Yes, I agree with Samantha T also and might I add this? Where is it written that E.H. has to defend Rosie’s comments. If Rosie has the mouth to spout it, she better have the guts to stand there and take the criticism that comes from it. Rosie is a walking controversy looking to happen. I also find it amusing to see postings on her blog babying her for hurt feelings and how the big, bad, mean, Elizabeth pushed her around. Oh, Please! Yeah to Elizabeth for sticking up for herself, and as for Alicia Silverstone, won’t be watching anything she does again. It was very rude of her to be a guest on the show and treat the host the way she did.
My understanding, from somewhere I read or saw on a news show, was that EH had defended or backed up Rosie’s views in private, but then had refused to do so publicly and that was what Rosie was upset about.
Ok, if I had only heard Rosie’s side of the story, I could understand how she felt. She was saying that she wanted to hear her *friend* say that she didn’t believe what the critics were saying.
However, I am certain that I heard Elisabeth say, “I do not believe that you believe that the troops are terrorists.” Did you hear that, or was it just me? It was hard to hear with Rosie yelling over her like that.
Yes, I heard it too, Michelle, and was thinking the same thing!
I don’t think that Rosie is a bad person, but I do feel that she should stick with comedy rolls.