Rosie, Rosie, Rosie — What Were You Smokin’ That Day?
Ah, Rosie O’Donnell. Sometimes I really like and admire her. Other times, well, I have a hard time liking her. The latest from “The View” falls in the latter category (thanks to the One Man Bandwidth blog for the heads up on this story). Rosie was talking about how the Asian press has been reporting on a half-looped actor Danny Devito bashing the President, and then she proceeded to fall off the wagon into one her conniptions. That said, I appreciate good comedy as much as anyone (Boratz!! What a movie! You are the MAN!), and I don’t have a problem cutting comedians a break to say pretty much anything they want to criticize the absurdity of the world and people in it. We need those people. Yet, for me, this fell more into the realm of “talking head talk show host” than that of comedy or comedian. I appreciate that others may disagree and see the two roles as inextricably intertwined. No problem.
Now, the story does not end there. To top it off, I know that hell really has frozen over in my lifetime — wanna-be political pundit Michelle (”I am a blast furnace of rage”) Malkin, who usually makes me feel ill whenever I hear her speak (really, my stomach literally feels queazy), did the following commentary about the Rosie incident. I found that I actually agreed with her. Wait a minute, I can’t believe I just typed that I actually agreed with Michelle Malkin on something! Like I said, hell has frozen over. Next thing you know, we will all see pigs start to fly.
Oh well, such is life and is part of growing as a person. Check out the above (and Malkin’s commentary) and you can see Rosie self-destruct at the expense and offense of the world’s Chinese population. Is this the best America can offer to the world for day-time TV insight and commentary? Tell me it ain’t so, Joe!
10 comments December 13th, 2006