"View" Snoozes with Rosie Home

This morning, on an ABC morning talk show, four women sat around a glass table gabbing amiably about pop culture, current events and random marginalia, suffused with self-empowerment -- and they eschewed personal rancor. Huh?

Yo, ABC! Give us "The View" back!

The day after thermonuclear war broke out between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, "The View" was a placid (boring), supportive (boring), and happy (booooring) place once more, with Queen Babs back on her throne to restore order. Rosie was off celebrating partner Kelli's birthday, but the show didn't skirt around yesterday's slugfest, and guest co-host Kathy Griffin compared the dust-up to Christmas dinners in the Griffin family household.

Still, as of this morning, all Rosie was sayin' was that she didn't know when she'd be back -- if at all, according to her blog. And, more officially, Babwa called any suggestion that yesterday's fight was scripted "ridiculous."



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91. kaili - is this what u do all day - hang out on the boards and try to pick a fight?
give it up - take a break and enjoy some sunshine - might help with the bitterness

Posted at 4:36PM on May 24th 2007 by Suzanna

92. Ironic that The View was pre-empted on East Coast by The Shrub today. If he loved or cared as much about this country and all our troops being murdered in Iraq as Rosie O'Donnell does, Bush would get us out of Iraq immediately. Then he would have the decency to resign and take the other criminals with him - Cheney, Rice, Rove, Gonzales. God bless and protect our troops!

Posted at 4:39PM on May 24th 2007 by Susan

93. "At the end of the day, blah, blah, blah" Too many people begin there thoughts with this saying and it's getting old real fast.

Ro, good luck friend.
Elisabeth, go tend to your second string husband, your rugrat and just get ready to pop out the other one. You are full of crap.
Later, much!!

Posted at 4:42PM on May 24th 2007 by Rita the Mitamaid

94. Who cares if EH is having another baby. My cat just had 4 kittens and she's a better mother than EH. She needs to start tuning in to PBS and not FOX. She's a reality show whore!

Posted at 4:39PM on May 24th 2007 by Perez

95. To The View:

So very nice to have you back in my home in the mornings, ladies and guests.

I watched today because Rosie was not on. Guess what? It was a good show, entertaining, gracious, inviting, informative, funny, I thoroughly enjoyed it. You ladies will get your groove back on - cut yourselves some slack - geez, you've been in the gutter week after week fighting your way out for almost a year. I prescribe a long retreat for the team at ABC's expense.

Naturally, it will seem different to the Rosie junkies until Ms. Walters and hosts help guide it back to the healthy format we once knew and loved. (Thank _od sweeps week is over?)

Gosh, anything after the daily overbearing Roe-crappy-upheavals-ridiculous diatribes, inexcusable, crude insults-insinuations and over saturated media hype would seem like what? An upbeat, heathy, enjoyable and NORMAL television viewing experience! Call it boring if you will. I expect the Rosie followers will be trashing the show for awhile - that's their style - now THAT's boring, in my opinion.

If you are addicted to wacked out , toxic, TV thrills, good for you - watch Jerry Springer.

Posted at 4:40PM on May 24th 2007 by It's All Good

96. Rosie is a sorry excuse for a woman. Money doesn't buy class and you can't take a pig and put it in a palace and expect it to be anything other than itis. People who like that form of entertainment show no class either. Who in this world really wants to hear Rosie rant and rave the way she does......obviously people with very dull lives.

Posted at 4:40PM on May 24th 2007 by kay

97. you guys love to attackm liz, im just giving it back.
and yes, this is a good way to vent after a crappy day.

Posted at 4:41PM on May 24th 2007 by kaili

98. That show was pretty "bland" before Rosie showed up. Whether you like her or not, she has everyone talking about a pretty controversial subject that should be the top story in the news each and every night! I will be one of those people who won't be watching the show when she leaves, because once again, it will just be another generic entertainment show on tv. Good luck Rosie, and hope to see you back on the air soon. ON YOUR OWN TERMS AND YOUR RULES!!!!

Posted at 5:31PM on May 24th 2007 by jkkmz

99. I can't stand Elizabitch. All mouth and peroxide. I've always found her an annoying little twit. Rosie is kooky and loud, but she means well, and she doesn't hold back. You can tell Joy hates Elizabitch, too.

Posted at 11:04AM on May 25th 2007 by DV

100. The View stunk long before Rosie came. Joy is anything but a joy. Barbara hired her and Rosie. Poor choices. It's a really bad show all the way around. There's more to my day than watching that kind of ugly programming. What a total waste of valuable time.

Posted at 4:52PM on May 24th 2007 by kay

101. Today I watch the view without Rosie....I hope she's gone for good....I like the view soooo much better without her.

Posted at 4:46PM on May 24th 2007 by thankful

102. The show has run it's course and is now on a down slope. And, the down slope has been since Rosie came on board.

The View was at first an intelligent first of it's kind forum directed toward women and hosted souly by women.

The show has lost all integrity since Rosie came on board. The only thing hot about it is the contraversy Rosie causes with her idiotic statements. And, lets face it folks the only reason why ratings improved is more viewers were tuning in to have a front row seat to see what ridiculous claim Rosie would be making next.

The only claim to fame Rosie has added to the view is her ability to make women look like irrational hormonal idiots.

Posted at 4:45PM on May 24th 2007 by intelligentlifeform

103. TV made it fine after Jerry Springer left! & The Gong show! it will survive the View and Rosie.
If the View's ratings fall ( I suspect they have been for awhile now ) it will be because people are tired of it.
It wont be because Rosie left the show but what Rosie has left in her needy negative short run wake.

Posted at 4:55PM on May 24th 2007 by RoseGoes

104. how can anyone respect EH -- she does not even have her OWN voice or opinion - it is FED to her through her pre-show coaching sessions and her earpiece....

Posted at 4:50PM on May 24th 2007 by April

105. Is it not obvious to you that this whole thing was staged for the sake of ratings? Including Rosie's blog? The View needs the ratings, and so does Rosie. The network worked out the whole thing with Rosie to fulfill both their needs. If I could predict the future, I'd say Rosie will come back, but she will not put in her 3 weeks per her contract .... if my memory serves me right, this is basically what was done before Star left (get into a fight, the ratings come in, you get to leave prior to your contract date, and the network is happy because of the ratings, and we all know that in TV there is no such thing as bad publicity). Barbara is far from being the honest person we all thought she was before the whole Rosie/Donald Trump fiasco (which IMO was worked out as a publicity stunt which benefitted both The View and The Apprentice regarding ratings), and that she has publically stated that it was not rehearsed makes it all the more suspicious.

Barbara needs to retire and not be heard from again. Rosie needs a sex change and a bottle of bleach for her mouth (and to bathe in). Elisabeth needs to retire and be a stay-at-home mom for her children, give her husband massages at night and start some sort of fund-raising campaign to help children (anyone have Angelina's phone number?).

Posted at 4:50PM on May 24th 2007 by C'mon people!

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