First, there was Barbara Walters on The View this morning: "There are some people who have done this show and then for years feel they have to dump on it, maybe for their own publicity. Um, and, that not only hurts me, but I resent it. So, if the shoe fits, lady– ladies– get on with your lives."
Then (inevitably), there was this:
After the jump, my colleague Tim Stack and I convene a meeting of EW’s Team Rosie Appreciation Society to discuss the latest contretemps in what historians are even now recording as the longest slumber-party slap fight in history.
Tim Stack: Why is Rosie picking fights with a 79-year old kindly, brooch-loving newswoman?
Whitney Pastorek: Because the brooch-loving newswoman is biting the hand that fed her for a year, despite the fact that she already severed that hand and threw it out in the snow?
Tim: Well, I think the story is a lil’ more complicated than that. And, why must Rosie do webcam stuff without hair or make-up? At least run down to Duane Reade and Vidal Sassoon that situation!
Whitney: I’ll take a poorly made-up woman with a brain over those squawking biddies with their stylists any day of the week, my friend. And I do. Have you seen the way I dress?
Whitney: Anyway, I think we’re missing the point. So is Rosie just trying to drum up publicity for her upcoming sure-to-be-a-beautiful-disaster live special, or is she like this all the time and we only notice when she’s already in the news about something else?
Tim: Why would she need to drum up publicity when she has such a buzzworthy line-up of guest-stars, like…Alanis Morissette and, um, Liza Minnelli?
Whitney: Oh please, Patches, like you wouldn’t stand in line to watch whatever the hell Liza Minnelli has planned.
Tim (by the way, my nickname is Patches): Fair enough. I don’t want to make it sound like I don’t still love Rosie because I do. I love ya, Rosie! I’ll always be on her side…unless she decides to make Riding the Bus With My Sister 2: Home Perm.
Whitney: And again: Oh please, Patches, like you wouldn’t stand in line to buy that on DVD.
Tim: That’s very true—I was hoping that by speaking its name, the movie would come to fruition! You know you’re free, Andie MacDowell!
Whitney: I’m still waiting for Green Card 2: This Face Cream Doesn’t Have Enough Botox In It.
(Meeting adjourned.)
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when will barbara learn that if she just ignores rosie (and star), no one will care. instead, she looks like the moron. team rosie all the way!
What is it with The View? The show seems to be a farm for fat old angry liberals. Thank God for Elizabeth.
Can’t stand Rosie, can’t stand Barbra- can we just vote both of them off the island?
Star and Rosie had the best venue in the world on the View…what do they have NOW? Not much.
Barbara is more ridiculous every day. Who would keep an idiot like Elizabeth and actually encourage her nonsense? Rosie is well out of this and she should recognize that and let it go.
You go Rosie. Love Barbara but she thinks shes gods gift to the news and everyone has to kiss that ass. Rosie don’t do that. Star needs to and Elizabeth can kiss my gay ass.
I think Rosie O’Donnell is ready for any fight. I mean look at one of these quotes: http://www.entertonement.com/clips/34581/I%27ve-Had-Lots-of-Fights
Don’t understand O’Donnell’s need to bash The View. I’m sure NBC appreciates people tuning into a rival network to see the reaction.
Controversy is great hype for a TV news type show, but not for a variety show.
Rosie… a brain? The whole fire & metal thing? Seriously…?
if you have watched any of rosie’s video blogs before you will notice that for this blog Rosie DID have a bit of makeup on and it still didn’t help. Look, I like Rosie and can do without Barbara, so can we just say this horse is glue already and move on? ! ?
Rosie was a big star – with a loved show of her own – well before Baba tapped her to join the View to increase ratings. Which she did.
Rosie did have her own personal issues with B.W. I think the wrong step here was B.W. – especially with the “Lady! get a life” comment. I’ll watch Rosie. Love Whoopi (hope her pay is big!) but can’t watch that show. Baba Wawa needs to retire. Soon.
Rosie has a brain – I have never seen evidence of it…. Rosie needs to fade away and Barbara needs to learn not to engage the insecure bully. As far as I am concerned the View died before Rosie showed up and she did nothing to revive it. Rosie is useless fluff. There is no talk show on today worth the time or energy to watch it
If it weren’t for Barbara’s stunt casting of Lisa Hasselbeck and then Rosie, Barbara would have a credible leg to stand on. She puts people on the panel just to stir peoples emotions, beliefs and frustration. Its almost like a wrestling match of rightious opinion. And lets be real.. She kept Star all throughout her becoming the diva that she became, used it for ratings and when it was over she fired her. And lets not get into the nitwit Sherri Shepard. This has become a freakshow from where it begain. Intially it was a show of intelligent women with different paths in life but now its a panel of people viewers love to hate. And it sucks more that this was done by the hand of a once reputable member of the media.. Ms. Walters.
Remember when magazines like EW dubbed Rosie “The Queen of Nice” during her talkshow days? Yeah, I always thought that was a load of crap, too.
I though this was hilarious. BW was in the wrong here. She should have just not mentioned it at all.