I Still Don’t Like Her
I don’t watch The View. Life’s just too short for me to sit and listen to a group of women paid to bitch and whine. (After all, bloggers do it for free!) The few times I’ve accidentally paused in my channel surfing long enough to figure out The View was on, I felt like I’d just been treated to a preview of hell.
Adding Rosie O’Donnell didn’t change my view of The View, but it certainly didn’t help it, either. I don’t like her. In fact, I can’t stand her. And it has nothing to do with her sexual persuasion: I could not possibly care less with whom she sleeps. I don’t like her, and I don’t understand why anyone would.
Sure, Rosie is a charitable person when it comes to childrens’ causes. More charitable than her current arch-nemisis, Donald Trump, even.
But she’s also a loudmouth. She’s a bully. She interrupts those around her (remember her talkshow, when guests could hardly get a word in when Rosie wanted to rant?) and she is quick to play victim while excusing her own racism as “comedy.”
I’ve never understood why she’s considered so “entertaining.” She’s the kind of woman who, if she were sitting in a crowded bar, is so loud, so rude and obnoxious that other people would be moving their chairs away while they considered complaining to management. Were Rosie walking along in a mall, you’d hear her before you saw her coming, and if you happened to be part of the group she was with you’d suffer the same disapproving gaze that all bombastic people draw to themselves and those around them.
I wouldn’t have Rosie O’Donnell into my home — not after the first time she monopolized a conversation, at any rate — so I certainly see no reason to let her in here through my TV.
And, as I’ve discovered, I’m not alone.
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DITTO, DOUBLE DITTO, TRIPLE DITTO!!!! May she move to some remote location in Montana never, ever, ever to be publicly heard screeching her shrill whine against everyone who thinks differently that she does again. She is the most intolerant person I have ever heard!
Wait a second: I like Montana!
I actually DO generally watch the View, but mostly because it was more entertaining than writing papers. But now that the semester is over — no reason for that torture route.
Anyway, I initially thought the change-up might be worthwhile, but it’s been far from it. When a talk-show, supposedly designed to discuss other topics, becomes the source of fodder in other arenas, there’s a problem. They make more news because of her big mouth than they talk about. Not appeasing. And since the election, Rosie and the Redhead have become unbearable.
All that to simply say there is ALWAYS a problem when a person feels the need to buy other people’s affection, which is what all of her giveaways amount to. I think that speaks for itself.
I’ve never seen The View, have no intention of ever seeing it and could care way more than less about the whiny windbags that inhabit the show.
What I can’t understand are people who write petitions about these things… why don’t they just turn the channel? Or, watch the show, note the sponsors, publicize the sponsors to the internet, and let the sponsors know they won’t patronize their services until Rosie is off the show.
Petitions draw viewers, viewers make sponsor money, money keeps Rosie on the show… heh.
Teresa, your idea is brilliant!
I’ll sign up for that!
BTW If Donald is so rich and successful, why is he an entertainer (or did I dream that several of his properties went belly-up)?
I’ve never been a fan, but it seems to me that as time goes by she simply becoms meaner and uglier. And I’m not talking physically, I’m talking personality.
I didn’t like her on VH1, I didn’t like her talk show, but she was at least kind to some people back then…now she just seems to wallow in her cruelty towards people she disagrees with.
I didn’t like Rosie when she did standup.
I didn’t like her in the various TV shows she was in.
I will admit, under extreme torture and threat of suffering, to have watched A League Of Their own and enjoyed it, her part included.
I didn’t like and haven’t enjoyed anything else that woman has had cascading out of her oral privy since. She is, to paraphrase another author, a Big Stupid Fat White Woman, and the fact that she’s on TV at all is solely due to her talent for being offensive. People watch her because she’s an idiot, and like a Slinky, idiots always bring a smile to our faces when they take a tumble down the stairs.
It’s rather appalling, isn’t it, that we’re cultivating a whole generation of “celebrities” who are famous for little more than their bad behavior.
I don’t favor sending her to Montana, or for that matter anywhere else except that island in the other post you put up. I think that’d be ideal – her blubber would keep her afloat without a problem, and the fact that it’s underwater would keep others away.