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Friday, March 30, 2007
Lorie Byrd :: Townhall.com Columnist
Rosie O' Donnell is Bad News
by Lorie Byrd
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• On the British sailors held hostage by Iran: "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."… "In a no bid contract for 5 years Halliburton -- wait a second -- 16 billion dollars. You want to know why we would go into Iran? For the money. That's why we would do it."

• "Nearly everyone in this administration is under indictment or suspicion. Nearly every person. From Karl Rove to Rumsfeld to Gonzalez. What do you have to do to be impeached in this country?"

My question is what do you have to do to be held accountable for your ridiculous, often incorrect, statements on a major network television program created and controlled by Barbara Walters? I am all for discussing topics and debating them openly, and even fiercely, but on a major network program endorsed by a journalism legend, there should be some effort made to ensure the information presented is not routinely inaccurate and even reckless. At the very least there should be some attempt to balance the presentation.

In recent weeks on "The View" O'Donnell said "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America," that the U.S. government "robbed" terrorists including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "of his humanity," and she has also made statements promoting conspiracy theories about the U.S. government playing a role in the September 11 attacks.

This week on "The View" O'Donnell said that "in America we are fed propaganda and if you want to know what is happening in the world go outside of the US media because it is owned by four corporations and one of them is this one." I strongly disagree that the media in the rest of the world more accurately reports what is going on inside America, but when she said that we are fed propaganda, I have to agree. Anyone who doubts that needs only to watch the first 15 minutes of “The View.”

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Lorie Byrd is a Townhall.com columnist and blogs at Wizbang and at LorieByrd.com.

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What!? Me worry?
Rosie's live audience, just like ANY live audience, is in attendance because the attendees like her and agree w/her. As w/the case of any speaker anywhere, the amt of applause proves nothing in the way of validity or truth--merely agreement.

I appreciate Ms O'Doughnut's forum much in the same manner that I appreciate US flag-burners, GLBS protestors, college campus self-absorbed idiots--both in front of & behind the podium, and deep thinkers such as I saw at the market the other day who wear jackets that say "Bush Isn't MY Prez!" I deem important both everyone's 1st Amend rights as well as knowing exactly who the self-identified a__rags are. It simply makes life easier! What if the Left were TRULY clever and performed its subterfuge & machination underground & out-of-sight?
~KingJeffVersion

Rosie O'Donell
Because I am a 50 year veteran of the steel industry, I was particularly struck by Rosie O'Donell's confirmation of her absolute stupidity when she said (regarding the World Trade Center) that it was the first time in history that fire melted steel, and later that it is a physical impossibility for fire to melt steel. An even greater example of America's general ignorance about anything is when her audience cheers and claps when she spouts one her nonsensical statements. I'm worried about America.
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