posted March 28, 2007 05:26 PM            

Rosie O'Donnell on ABC's 'The View' today

In yet another provocative claim, TV host Rosie O'Donnell implied yesterday the Iranian seizure of British sailors was a hoax to provide President Bush with an excuse to go to war with Tehran.

In a discussion about the 15 British personnel seized Friday for allegedly entering Iranian waters, the controversial co-host of ABC's "The View" correlated the event to the Gulf of Tonkin incident that propelled the U.S. into the Vietnam War. President Johnson's administration was accused of provoking one incident in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin and making up another as a pretext for war.

O'Donnell, according to the media watchdog Newsbusters, said: "But interesting with the British sailors, there were 15 British sailors and Marines who apparently went into Iranian waters and they were seized by the Iranians. And I have one thing to say: Gulf of Tonkin, Google it. Okay."

The U.S. and Britain, however, along with Iraq and France, contend the sailors were not in Iranian waters.

After O'Donnell's comment, the dialogue when like this:

JOY BEHAR: Some other time. Some other time.
O'DONNELL: Well, you know...

BARBARA WALTERS: It could be a decision-making time. It's a very difficult situation. It's at the United Nations. It's being examined now. Should there be sanctions? Militarily, we certainly don't seem to be in the position to do something militarily. But it is a decision-making time.

O'DONNELL: Yes, but it's very interesting too that, you know, these guys, they went into the water by mistake right at a time when British and American, you know, they're two, they're pretty much our biggest ally and we're considering whether or not we should go into war with Iran.

BEHAR: But the U.N. was about to sanction them, also have an embargo against Iran. And the, and the timing [unintelligible] so they distracted the whole world with this.

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Right and they may be about to expel the inspectors right now, too, which could be considered [unintelligible]

O'DONNELL: Right or it could be just the Gulf of Tonkin, which you should all Google.

As WND reported last week, O'Donnell implied the World Trade Center brought down deliberately on Sept. 11, 2001, for the purpose of eliminating records of government investigations into corporate fraud.

The previous week O'Donnell defended 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. During the March 15 broadcast of "The View," she suggested the U.S. government elicited a false confession from Mohammed by using torture, robbing him of his humanity and treating him like an animal.

A transcript of Mohammed's confession to 31 terrorist attacks had been released that day, but O'Donnell argued it came only after having a "hood on his head and being beaten to death."

"They didn't allow reporters there and he hasn't had a lawyer," the talk show host stated, insinuating the confession was coerced with no accountability.

Defending U.S. handling of Mohammed, co-panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked, "You don't think he had ties to any of (the terrorist acts)?"

"I think the man has been under custody in secret CIA torture prisons and Guantanamo Bay where torture is accepted and allowed – and he finally is the guy who admits to doing everything," O'Donnell said. "They finally found the guy, it's not that guy bin Laden, it's this guy they've had since March 2003."

In November, O'Donnell told Hasselbeck in an exchange on "The View" that Americans shouldn't fear terrorists.

"Faith or fear, that's your choice," she said.

"You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking."
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54874

That's rich coming from Rosie..."you can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world"...which according to Rosie would definitely not be the United States or US citizens.

posted March 29, 2007 08:18 AM            

Anyway, rarely do I turn on the idiot box but I've caught snippets of The View at doctor's appointments and such. Anyone notice that it really is just another Rosie O'Donnell show, only without the entertaining aspect?

Her opinion, however, is not surprising. How many times have we seen people talk about anything that might show the US/Allies in a good light as a fake, a hoax, a conspiracy, etc.? To some, it seems, everything that doesn't reflect their opinions must be somehow or other faked. Imagine a world where really everything that occurred that you didn't agree with was just a giant hoax perpetrated by evildoers in their attempts to take over the world and control everyone.

posted March 31, 2007 05:00 AM            

Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job?

Btw, Eleanore, you're listed as being in Japan. I'm curious, have you heard of Rosie's not too long ago "ching chong" remark? I'm curious if she caused a stir over there when she did it? (I know she did in the USA and Europe...there was a YouTuber from like Malaysia, too, that told Rosie she should apologize.)

To everyone else, this came out a little too late. last month, MAD magazine gave a choice for readers to send in over who we'd rather see "gunned down by a paintballer." One of the choices was "loud mouth Rosie." I almost chose her, but I didn't recognize a couple of the other names and I thought I should find out about them first and never got around to it (so I didn't vote).

posted March 31, 2007 04:12 PM            

I doubt that jwhop cares if Rosie is a lesbian or not. It is the foul sewage that constantly spews from her large mouth that continually angers people. The fact that she hypocritally shouts down Elisabeth, lecturing her on how NOT to blather on about her own opinions while Rosie goes on about HER warped and factually devoid opinions is what makes her look like a mentally unstable wacknut.

Rosie constantly makes baseless allegations under the pretense of facts and does not allow for anyone with a brain to counter those allegations. She bullies everyone at the table by shouting them down and almost getting into their faces like a starved pitbull drooling over a steak.

The ratings have actually gone down in the last 3 months and more people are beginning to boycott ABC's other interests. Having an opinion is one thing, shouting down everyone else so that only one biased and factually incorrect opinion is heard is disgusting.

posted April 01, 2007 07:50 AM            

Thanks! I'll have to look up that trilogy. It sounds familiar but I can't quite place it. The link was also very funny. I have to show it to my hubby. He'll love it.

posted April 02, 2007 03:20 PM            

As a writer and observer of whiffle-brained Tinseltown activists, it's getting too confusing keeping track of who said what about Bush.

Rosie O'Donnell, Sean Penn and Harry Belafonte are three of the most vocal of late in facing down a global political problem that, if it isn't done away with, could mean the end of their way of life, and even the world as they know it.

Those three entertainers – a rugged looking gruff fella, a Calypso singer and Sean Penn – are putting all their attention toward – once and for all – eradicating the world of its most frightening menace.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Nuh-uh.

Kim Jong-Il? Nope.

Al-Qaida? Nah.

No, O'Donnell, Penn, Belafonte, and many others are focusing on the real enemy. The man who makes the hands of Hollywood tremble in anger to the point where it creates surf-able waves in their Evian; the man who is single-handedly stripping away all freedoms in this land – except, obviously, the freedom to make lousy movies, annoying television shows and over-the-top lunacy-laced Hitler comparisons with zero sense of historical scope. That enemy is, of course, George W. Bush.

The problem is that this kind of talk from the Hollywood left is occurring at such a frequent rate that it's hard to remember who said what, so I'm placing them into groups of three for easier handling. For example, I'm calling the aforementioned trio Rosie O'Pennafonte.

Recently, the actor who puts the ''Penn'' in O'Pennafonte was speaking at an anti-Bush rally in San Francisco, the city that knows the proper and peaceful way to fight terror, as they were recently victorious in putting down the horrific threat posed by plastic grocery bags without a shot being fired. (If the Plastic Bag Manufacturers Association wants to get them back on the market, they should instead refer to them as ''grocery condoms'' and before you know it the S.F. City Council would be handing them out at schools to promote ''safe shopping.'')

Here's O'Pennafonte referring to George W. Bush while doing his best impression of an unhinged spiral-eyed Shakespearean with a skivvie fetish:

''We cower as you point your fingers telling us to support our troops. You and the smarmy pundits in your pocket – those who bathe in the moisture of your soiled and blood-soaked underwear – can take that noise and shove it.''

The drama lessons really paid off, but still, I think Master Thespian needs a truckload of Thorazine.

O'Pennafonte then went on to say that he supports the troops, just as long as the money that funds their missions instead goes to feed Africa and the troops are no longer troops. We should all ''support the actors'' in a similar fashion and see how he feels about that.

Now it's on to the person who puts the ''O'' in O'Pennafonte. Speaking on ''The View,'' the program that gives employment to so many mentally challenged people that it probably qualifies for some sort of federal subsidy, Rosie O'Pennafonte said she wonders if the British soldiers taken into custody by Iran is a fake incident, ala Gulf of Tonkin, that Bush and Blair invented to provoke a war with Iran. I wonder if Rosie thinks the U.K.'s lack of response up to this point (it takes some time to figure out how to say ''pretty please'' in Farsi) is also being faked.

Incidentally, I think The View is a fake incident created to provoke a war with lucidity.

Not to be outdone, the person who puts the ''afonte'' in O'Pennafonte thinks that Bush is not only an evil man who makes Hitler look like Ward Cleaver, he also keeps slaves in his administration. In a recent British interview, O'Pennafonte explained why he thinks blacks in the Bush administration are ''house slaves'' and ''powerless,'' and why black conservatives are greedy tools of white people who ''will sell you out in a minute'' and ''have no regard for humanity.''

Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas and many others have only achieved some of the nation's highest offices and met with the world's most powerful people. Black conservatives have yet to defiantly break the stereotypical mold like Harry did – by singin' and dancin' for white people.

Soon I'll feature three more liberal Hollywood activists whose similar blather is causing them to become a single vacuous entity. In the coming weeks, I'll focus on either Alec Baldsheenglover or Barbreiner Streisarandon.