Back when Rosie O'Donnell was an actress, I actually liked her. I didn't mind her when she had her own TV show.
But somewhere along the way, Rosie O'Donnell went into batshit crazy moonbat mode and the switch got stuck.
I'm not sure what Barbara Walters thought she was doing when she hired O'Donnell to moderate The View. Maybe she knew Rosie would go nuts on the air. Maybe she thought turning The View into Jerry Springer was a good idea.
One of the dumbest arguments I hear in Rosie's defense is that The View "never had higher ratings." Well, a catfight in front of a bar on Saturday night will get a lot of gawkers, as well, but I don't think many people consider it appropriate.
No, Rosie is a victim of no one but her own big fat mouth. Now, apparently, we're supposed to sob that Rosie says her friendship with Elisabeth Hasselbeck is OVER. OMG!
"I never tried harder to be friends with anyone than I did with Elisabeth but I don't think we ended up there anywhere close," Rosie said.
Really? Never tried harder? If that's Rosie trying hard, I wouldn't want to go to a Rosie cocktail party. Rosie constantly slammed President Bush, Republicans in general, conservatives specifically, and Christians as being "as dangerous" as the nuts who attacked us on 9/11. Of course, she famously questioned whether fire melts steel and is evidently a 9/11 truther. And don't forget when she insinuated that the British sailors taken prisoner by Iran was a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.
If Rosie wanted to "try harder," she could have started by shutting her big, fat mouth every time she wanted to say something nasty. I'm certain that, by the end, the higher ratings was due to curiosity watching Rosie's train wreck.
But whether you agree with Rosie speaking her mind, there comes a point where enough is enough. It's time for Rosie to go into seclusion and wait another 10 years before we see her mug on TV again. Maybe by then she won't be so unhinged.
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