Damn.
I was really hoping this mess would be resolved with some class, and that Rosie would finish out her last three weeks on The View and get a proper send-off, borne aloft by a platoon of Broadway chorus boys. But no.
Rosie’s sudden announcement of her early departure was marked by carefully worded spin from nearly everyone involved (except for Elisabeth, who impressed me for the first time ever by saying nothing). Rosie’s statement said she was "grateful" for her "amazing" year on the show, "and I love all three women." (Translation: I don’t hate Elisabeth, really, I don’t!) For her part, Barbara Walters said she was "most appreciative" of O’Donnell’s contribution to the show and that "our close and affectionate relationship will not change." (Translation: Don’t expect me to invite you and Kelli to one of my dinner parties anytime soon.) And ABC’s president of daytime TV said, "We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now," (because the ratings will plummet as soon as she’s gone) "but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave." (And we were only too happy to get this PR nightmare behind us as quickly as possible.) "Therefore, we part ways," (Please clean up those defaced portraits of Hasselbeck before security escorts you from the building) "thank her for her tremendous contribution to The View" (those cat-fights sure made for great TV, didn’t they?) "and wish her well." (If you decide to launch your own morning show, may we bid for it? We won’t tell Barbara if you don’t.)
I’m still kinda puzzled; I didn’t expect Rosie to walk away from afight, and I figured she’d stick around for three more weeks just tospite the naysayers. But she seems to feel really hurt and betrayed(judging by her answers to her fans’ questions on her blog),not just by Walters and Hasselbeck, but by the behind-the-scenes folkswho framed Wednesday’s tussle in a, exploitative, Fox News-esquesplit-screen and let it drag out to a punishing length. Maybe she feltit wasn’t worth staying if even the producers weren’t going to supporther, and that the only way to save face was to set her own departure date and leave early, just like Star Jones did a year ago. Which means her final episode was today’s pre-taped installment. No weepy hugs, no montage of embarrassing moments, no chorus boys.
Not sure how the show is going to handle her absence: will it justbe Elisabeth, Joy Behar, and Barbara (or a revolving roster of guestpanelists) sitting around the big table? Will Joy, who startedWednesday’s fight with her own political diatribe, become even moreoutspoken in Rosie’s absence? How quickly will ABC move to name a newpanelist or panelists? And who will earn the honor of sticking their hand in this hornet’s nest being charged with attracting an audience to replace the throng who will leave with Rosie sitting at the right hand of Barbara Walters?
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“I was really hoping this mess would be resolved with class…”
Gary, my man! With Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck involved, you might as well have hoped for a leprachaun to ride in on a unicorn and deliver you…i don’t know, something else that doesn’t exist and isn’t likely to happen.
I’m done with the View as I didn’t watch it anymore until Rosie came on. Hasselbeck was constantly setting her up and she finally got her. I would get rid of this Survivor reject as soon as possible, if I were Barbara. I’ll be waiting for Rosie’s own show where she can say what she wants without the little blond fool interrupting her.
I think Hasselbeck is next to go, but it’s going to be slow and quiet. She’s pregnant and they’re not going to ask her back. As for Rosie, I see her on cable. She can do whatever she wants on cable. She forgets she’s on network TV and the stakes are much stricter and higher. I certainly don’t see her back on NBC or CBS.
No more View for me, but I’ll be waiting with bated breath for Rosie’s own show, where she’d be free to rant about pop culture and politics.
Glad she’s gone now the hot topics can go back to being fun and gossipy with some bitchiness for a twist. Rosie made that place into a political panel, with her view being the only one heard.
As for Joy, I think she will go back into her foxhole and not start too many fights. It’s the only gig she has and she can’t afford to lose it. As well she doesn’t have her pit bull Rosie there to attack for her so she’s toothless.
Elisabeth will stay, they were already promoting her pregnancy for the Nov sweeps. Whether she goes on maternity leave and never comes back? Who knows.
I do hope they stick with the rotating guest host, I think it’s been working fine all year.They might want to stretch out the stay to a week’s worth of hosting though.
I’m really disappointed. I would have been more impressed if Rosie had defended her own comments, and handled herself better. From my vantage point, she looks like she’s just running away from the first person that’s actually confronted her directly, not through the press. Honestly, it makes her kind of look like the classic bully, who once stood up to is revealed to be a sham. I would have had so much more respect for her if she hadn’t ditched.
I’m just glad it’s over. The Rosie/Donald thing got so old and now Rosie/Elisabeth. Stick a fork in it already!!
And getting into a verbal altercation with a pregnant woman? Come on.
i would love it if i never saw another word about the view, its hosts, or their feuds ever again. who gives a rat’s ass about these loudmouths? give it a rest already!
Looks like Rosie can dish it out, but can’t take it. Bw didn’t “defend” her in the Trump mess, Elisabeth didn’t “defend” her troops/terrorists comments. She loves the attention (blogging almost non-stop since Wednesday’s show), the cryptic career move comments, etc. Grow up Rosie, it not always about YOU
Why doesn’t Hasselbeck’s underemployed, clipboard-carrying quarterback of a husband enlist and fight the war they seem to believe is such a worthy cause? Plenty of pregnant mothers are managing on their own while their guys are over there; at least Elisabeth would have money to feed her children.
So many say that Rosie was a bully, but it is Hasselbeck who is a bully–she never lets anyone finish a comment that she disagrees with without yelling over them. (She started this fight by yelling over Joy). She should have acknowledged that Rosie would never call the troops terrorists, but that would have gotten her in trouble with the few people who like her. On Survivor, she rode the coattails of an old man to stay on the show. Now, she spouts conservative views so that she can have a job. Get rid of her, Barbara, or better yet, end the show altogether. If the only viewers left for the View are the ones who agree with Hasselbeck, cancellation is inevitable.
And please don’t give us that “yell at a pregnant lady” trash. Many of us have been pregnant ladies in our lives and it didn’t entitle us to any special treatment–especially if we had views as stupid as hers.
Sam and Evchen……..I heart you. Will you guys be my friends???
Ah…I had a feeling it would come to this. This whole show was one big, freakin’ mess, and it became obvious when they unfairly got rid of Star Jones. Why didn’t Barbara Walters stick with her “Specials”? I can’t believe that one of journalism’s great pioneers reduced herself to this nonsensical drivel just so she could have an easy and lucrative gig. She lost all creditibility – getting involved with the Donald feud and calling him pathetic didn’t help, even though it’s kinda true – and I bet the job’s not even as easy as she thought it would be!
I’ll stick with Regis and Kelly, thank you very much!
Puhleese…pregnant women shouldn’t be yelled at?? I did my best yelling when pregnant. Stupidest comment EVER!
I’m sorry to see Rosie go this way. I was hoping for a great send off, and now it’s time for Elisabeth to go as well. I quite agree that this show has pretty much run its course and needs to be put out of our misery!
and yet i’m strangely curious about what Star Jones has to say about all this.
I, too, am sad that Rosie left like this but she did the right thing. some of the words that come out of
Elizabeth’s ideas are unbelievable.
And she went to college in Boston?
Obviously her friendship with Rosie
was not as strong as her support
for mr. prez…..
Rosie did a great job and I hope she
gets a really good gig out of this!
I’m so tired of watching Rosie be persecuted by simple-minded, prejudiced and hypocritical people. It’s one thing to disagree with Rosie’s political beliefs, but using her sexuality and religious affiliation as a springboard for discrediting everything she has to say is beyond base–it’s animalistic. Come on, people. Overcome your human nature for a change. Because Rosie isn’t a part of the “Right White Way” in this country–namely, she is homosexual and doesn’t flaunt herself as a Christian–suddenly there is no basis for her point-of-view. As a married mother of two and a university grad with two degrees, one in sacred music, I am appalled by this narrow-minded nation. Because 650,000 Iraqis weren’t the Jon Benet Ramseys we cry over here in the states, we can somehow justify these murders. And Elisabeth is the moral one of these two women?! Give me a break. As for the View: count me out. I can no longer stomach the Stepford wife’s stupidity. Grow up, Elisabeth.
Elisabeth is a loud-mouth moron and Rosie is a loud-mouth idiot. This show has outlived it’s relevancy and should be put out of it’s misery now.
those who say that the view is a joke and tv at its worst obviously only watch boring crap on PBS. I luv it its train wreck tv at its best but with surprising relevance, these are real people have real fights and real feelings being hurt and its refreshing to see tv personalities that just dont care that they are airing their dirty laundry infront of millions, never watched before rosie but has become appt. tv
Face the facts everyone – The View became really popular because of Rosie. You know that. When do we find out if Rosie will have her own game show?
Are you guys kidding? ELISABETH’s ideas are unbelievable? So it sounds like you just don’t like her because she is a conservative. I can’t believe Rosie. Some of the things she says are downright irresponsible. And now this, she’s a grown woman, and she just leaves her show before her contract is up because of a fight? Where she was the one launching personal attacks? Ridiculous.
I love how Rosie vs. Elisabeth becomes Liberals vs. Conservatives on every Internet forum that discusses their fight. Rosie’s personal and political views may align perfectly with mine, but she’s incredibly rude, so I don’t much care for her. Most of the conservatives I know find Elisabeth to be an empty-headed, party-line-spewing moron. You guys, let’s stop giving this “event” a deeper meaning and recognize it for what it was–two TV talking heads who hate each other finally letting each other have it. It was nothing more than that.
Rosie’s original comment was comparing the Bush Admin to terrorists, not comparing soldiers to terrorists, as was plain for anyone hearing it in context. The folks at FOX News, however, decided to spin it to make it sound like she meant the troops. Had Elizabeth simply stated that, whether or not one agrees with Rosie’s statement, it’s wrong to try and make it look like it means something it doesn’t.
A true friend would do that. I’ve can’t count the times where I’ve had a friend’s words being twisted by someone else, and when I see that happen, I’ll say something about it, and ask that if we’re going to discuss the comment, let us discuss what was said, not what someone else THINKS was said. When making a statement like that, it’s very EASY to add that you don’t agree with the comment, but you’d prefer to discuss it as originally intended (and so on).
Debbie EASILY could have backed up Rosie on *what Rosie actually meant* WITHOUT betraying her conservative beliefs.
Personally I’m pissed she’s leaving so suddenly. She’s been the only reason that I’ve been tuning in all year. Not for the fights, or controversey or any of that. But because she’s open, honest, and to the point. I also find her funny.
For me a Rosieless View is not going to be worth watching.
i have never watched the view until this season bc of rosie, ill probaly never watch it again even tho i think joy is funny. the ratings are gonna drop, and soon see that rosie was holding the show together believe it or not. and i agree with someone who mentioned b4 that rosie wasnt the only bully elizabeth shared her times just look when joy was reading the list and hasselback kept on interrupting with stupid comments let the woman finish…..idk i think rosie added something to the view even if u hate her ur gonna miss her bc who are u gonna get mad at now?????
Rosie didn’t flee anything. She left because she was set up and used by the producers of the show. If she were only facing EH she’d have stayed and stood toe to toe, no matter how badly she was hurt. But once the production stepped in and showed their willingness to exploit so shamelessly, they left her no choice but to step away.
EH was utterly irrelevant before Rosie. She was the milquetoast girl from survivor who was kind of conservative and kind of christian. Since all this started she’s been parroting the Bush agenda, to the point of sounding like she’s reading from a Fox News script. Now suddenly dinner at the White House? Meeting the queen of frickin’ England? There’s a reason she didn’t stand up for Rosie, her supposed friend, and if you think about it, it’s not so hard to see. She’s not saying what she believes up there, she’s parroting talking points.
EH mentioned trump, EH refused to defend, EH sold out her ‘friend’ for a meager shot at relevance.
Team Ro.
Rosie, I’m sorry you left like this. Political discussions often get out of hand. Chill out. Have your meds checked if needed. Watch some Ellen. Enjoy your summer.
A simple night school class in debate could’ve given all of these women (including Barbara), at least the apearance of class. Taking their “hot topics” to the “Jerry Springer show” level was pandering to the “get a life” crowd. The saddest thing about all this is-that stradegy worked out well for ABC. Nice legacy, Barbara Walters.
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