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Feedback on NBC's Rosie Variety Show funnier than the show

The reviews are in on Rosie O'Donnell's spectacular new variety show on NBC! And to say the show bombed is a little like calling a hurricane a "bit of a breeze". TV Guide headlined its review "Dead on Arrival."

On one of the NBC discussion sites, the bad reviews outnumbered the good by a ratio of about 1000-to-1.

I'd rather watch Gary Busey in a Prom dress interviewing drunk psychotic homeless people. Hmmm. Actually, that doesn;t sound half bad!

What? The "Jews and Bush were behind 9/11" sketch and song and dance number (Fire don't melt no steel) didn't draw big numbers? No. Say it ain't so.

Why don't they pipe this show down into Gitmo? Being forced to watch this ... would be better than water-boarding.

Rosie, you're fired.

Rosie the un-riveting host: That was the worst 32 seconds I spent last night trying to figure out what on earth allowed you, dopy Baldwin and poor Conan on the same screen at the same time. Go get a real job as you will starve trying to entertain and be funny...

When I saw the commercial I thought it was a joke. I guess it was...on NBC.

What does (hate media) NBC expect? They put on the poster girl (?) for hate and expect people to watch? NBC is in a death spiral. Good riddance.

The only reason this show failed is because America is a backwards homophobic country still living in the dark ages. At least Barack Obama will lead us to future days. Out with Bush the Dictator.

Amateurish. Not prepared. Have seen better high school productions. ...NBC, wake up and get rid of this show. I could have done many other things last nite instead of watching this albatross.

The key to Variety shows of the past was the likeablity of the host. The format might work great if you don't use such a polarizing figure. Ms. O'Donnell is hated viciously by too many people... Nice try, NBC. We'll be seeing a few new faces at the unemployment office...

What a disaster!! What the hell was NBC thinking. The executives in charge should be fired immediately. They thought people would watch that s***?

Even though I think Rosie is vile, mean-spirited human being, longing for the days of the old variety shows, I was willing to give it a shot. I turned it after the first minute when she had to get political. Get over it Rosie, no one wants to hear your ingnorant political rants!

Try the format again, this time with someone more like Ed Sullivan, who would introduce the talent, spell the name correctly, and stand to the side.

Rosie, Thank you for reminding me of what a useless, no-talent political hack you were. The hype before the show was genius. Your show was the opposite. For God's sake, go enjoy your money and stay out of the public eye. Get a show on Air America. Nobody listens to that anyway, and it's the same format as your show. You would fit in nicely with all the other no-talent political hacks.

NBC should have sold "Rosie Live" vomit bags to make up for the lost advertising revenue on this pile of crap.

Please NBC, flush ... again. Sometimes it takes two cycles to remove one this big.

...I watched for 15 minutes out of sheer amazement at it's failure, kinda like a train wreck in progress. And I must ask Alex Baldwin about his jacket..... it was so small his huge and growing belly was made obvious.

You could dig up Frank Sinatra's corpse and prop it up on stage and have a more entertaining show than what was described in the article. Variety shows will work again like they did in the 70's, but only an idiot would have tried what they put on here. Whose Line or sketch comedy like Carol Burnett's show would be great. Why not just replay The Carol Burnett Show? Bring out Bob Newhart to carry on half a phone conversation for an hour. I'd watch. Have Frank Caliendo, Ryan Styles, and Wayne Brady do impersonations for an hour. I'd watch. Put Robin Williams and Jim Carrey on stage and let the audience give them an idea to run with. I'd watch.

I once knew Rosie back in late 90's. I was part of Toys for Tots NYC. She was a very gracious, humble, giving and funny entertainer. Then I ran into her family again in CT when she sent her kids to a private school in Greenwich. She had armed guards for her kids yet is against guns? She jumped right off the deep end after that with her political leanings and I've never been a fan or supporter since. Very sad!

...it may have been more entertaining if they did a skit where Baldwin had a phone converstion with Rosie playing the part of his daughter.

These comments are funnier than the show.

Yes, the variety show format must be horrible! It couldn't POSSIBLY be that potential viewers might think Rosie O'Donnell is an angry, mentally-disturbed, no-talent nit wit... If someone figured out how to cast and produce a contemorary version of what Carol Burnett did SO WELL in the 1970s, it would be a huge hit... This only proves that programming executives at NBC are morons. They think all television shows must be leftist political crap, junior high bathroom humor, or fake "reality" nonsense.

When asked on her blog "When will u know if there will be more Rosie Live shows in '09?," O'Donnell writes, "there will b no more/no ratings/ bad reviews/ yet still - a thrill 4 me."

Rosie, it's a thrill for me to know that I won't be seeing any more of you for a very, very long time.

More must-see TV....

 
I'm really upset that my cable system hasn't arrived at an agreement to air Truther TV. This is another show that could become an instant classic.

It would be a real shame if Rosie got trapped in the basement during her scientific experiment.

This looks like a must-see

 
Unfortunately, I don't get Truther TV on my cable system, so I'll have to miss out on the latest Bush-Zioneocon-Halliburton-Steel-Melting scandal. 42% of Democrats agree with Dr. Rosie O'Duncell, who I believe is a Ph.D. in both Metallurgy and Civil Engineering.

Falling Panda: Boycott The View and its Sponsors

Dan at Falling Panda has a wonderful idea for dealing with the rot that has become The View. If you're just tuning in, Rosie O'Donnell, a co-host on the show, has fallen off the deep end.


In addition to dispensing her usual hard-Left blather, O'Donnell has now begun marketing 9/11 conspiracy theories. One of the hateful fictions: implying that the U.S. Government, neocons, Israelis/Zionists, or some combination thereof, used controlled explosions to bring down World Trade Center 7. Popular Mechanics promptly obliterated her ludicrous theory, using concepts foreign to the likes of O'Donnell (i.e., science, facts, and analytics).

Falling Panda calls for a boycott of not only The View itself but also its sponsors. Dan lists the following sponsors from the 3/30 show:

Humira - Arthritis drug	Pier 1 Imports	Vaseline Intensive Rescue Body Lotion
Pilsbury Toaster Strudel	T.J. Maxx	Stanley Steemer
Reach One Ultimate Clean Toothbrush	M&M's	Janome Sewing Machine
Zyrtec	Tide Laundry Detergent	Marshall's
Stainmaster Carpet	Cottonelle Toilet Tissue	Crest Whitening Rinse
Disney's Meet the Robinsons	Best Foods Mayonnaise	Woolite
Claritin -D	Sears	Honey Bunches of Oats
Loestrin 24	Excedrin	I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
BAM Power Cleaner	Pepto Bismol	Head And Shoulders
Bush's Baked Beans	Miracle-Gro	Scrubbing Bubbles
Singulair	All Detergent	Dove Ice Cream
Clorox

Please join the effort. Avoid these products and make clear why. And feel free to repost this article in whole or in part.

Dan reports that since January, the ABC morning show has lost close to a half million --uhm-- viewers. Let's accelerate the demise of Rosie's hard left, anti-American soapbox.

Update at 20:40: Dan has provided a link to Janome's Customer Feedback Form. Feel free to rip off my letter if you'd like:

To whom it may concern: I want to express my concerns regarding your association with the ABC show "The View" and Rosie O'Donnell in particular. O'Donnell has always been somewhat liberal in her views but last week she appeared to go way over the line. On Friday, O'Donnell implied that the U.S. Government or some other conspiracy had played a part in the collapse of the World Trade Center. This is outrageous and patently ludicrous propaganda. Popular Mechanics Magazine promptly rebutted her ridiculous assertions. I don't have a problem with most of what O'Donnell says, but 9/11 Conspiracy theories and the like debase the show and, by extension, your products. I would recommend severing ties with "The View" until it cleanses itself of this anti-American rhetoric. Best Regards, --name--

Rosie O'Donnell, The View and the Mainstreaming of Hateful Nonsense

Bernard Goldberg, visiting The O'Reilly Factor, distilled Rosie O'Donnell's bizarre rants with an incisive turn of phrase:

The real danger is that they're mainstreaming this hateful nonsense.

Hateful nonsense indeed. Her most recent diatriabe contained an allusion to a U.S. Government conspiracy to destroy World Trade Center 7:

...I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible... To say that we don’t know that it imploded, that it was an implosion and a demolition, is beyond ignorant. Look at the films, get a physics expert here [on the show] from Yale, from Harvard, pick the school—[the collapse] defies reason.

Fortunately, Popular Mechanics has offered a scathing response to Rosie (hat tip: LGF). Using scientific data, engineering reports, analysis, and research, it has eradicated O'Donnell's sick meanderings. Read the whole thing; I've created an illustrated summary of the key facts.


"Initial reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) misunderstood the amount of damage the 47-floor WTC7 sustained from the debris of the falling North Tower—because in early photographs, WTC7 was obscured by smoke and debris."


"...Towers 1 and 7 were approximately 300 ft. apart, [a] small [distance] for structures that large. After further studies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) told PM that debris from the 110-floor North Tower hit WTC7 with the force of a volcanic eruption. Nearly a quarter of the building was carved away over the bottom 10 stories on its south face, and significant damage was visible up to the 18th floor..."


"The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center weren’t knocked down by planes—they both stood for more than a half-hour after the impacts. But the crashes destroyed support columns and ignited infernos that ultimately weakened—not melted—the steel structures until the towers could no longer support their own weights... Ms. O’Donnell fundamentally misstates the case with her use of the word “melting”: Evidence currently points to WTC7 also collapsing because fires weakened its ravaged steel structure."


"Tower 7 housed the city’s emergency command center, so there were a number of fuel tanks located throughout the building—including two 6000-gal. tanks in the basement that fed some generators in the building by pressurized lines.. Steel melts at about 2,750 degrees Fahrenheit—but it loses strength at temperatures as low as 400 F. When temperatures break 1000 degrees F, steel loses nearly 50 percent of its strength. It is unknown what temperatures were reached inside WTC7, but fires in the building raged for seven hours before the collapse."


"Demolition experts tell PM that wiring a building the size of WTC7 for clandestine demolition would present insurmountable logistical challenges... there’s a clear-cut engineering explanation for why the building fell the way it did. Trusses on the fifth and seventh floors of the building were designed to transfer loads from one set of columns to another; with the south face heavily damaged... The entire building fell in on itself as the slumping east side dragged down the west side in a diagonal pattern. Still, damage to the Verizon Building... directly west of WTC7, and to Fiterman Hall... directly north, show that it was hardly an orderly collapse."


"NIST is currently preparing its final report on the collapse of WTC7, which is expected to be released this spring. In order to address concerns of conspiracy theorists, the organization added “Hypothetical Blast Analysis” to its research, according to a December 2006 progress report. The report also points out that 'NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition.'"

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In other words, there's no credible evidence that the U.S. Government -- which has proven itself incapable of fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax or illegal immigration -- orchestrated a conspiracy of epic proportions. There's a word for folks who believe in this stuff, but I'm not allowed to say it in mixed company.

And consider the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is offered a forum on a major network to excrete these despicable concepts. And that such a venue provides these outrageous blatherings with a tenuous currency.

Rosie's vile secretions need to be excised from The View. ABC management should terminate her contract -- with extreme prejudice -- so that she can return to life as a magazine publisher.


Oven-baked good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Alphabet City, Dr. Sanity, Hot Air, Leaning Straight Up, New Quebec, What the Crap?, 7.62mm Justice

The Worst of Rosie O'Donnell, and that's saying something

Rosie O'Donnell represents a wonderful learning opportunity for children: shrill, stupid and wrong is no way to go through life.


Thanks to Lorie Byrd and the folks over at Newsbusters (hat tip: Larwyn), we've assembled a Rosie Hall of Shame. When put into the context of The View, it's no wonder ABC's rankings are sinking faster than Michael Moore's doughnut inventory.

• "And just one second, radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."

• Claiming the U.S. Government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks: "...But I do believe the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved, World Trade Center Seven... Seven, miraculously, for the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible..."


• On 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: "Because you don't think terrorists, you don't think terrorists- you think that robs them of their humanity. That name "terrorist" makes them not human any more? ... But I just think, this man for whatever he did or didn't do, he is not the be all, end all of terrorism in America."

• 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?"

• On the U.S. Attorney firings: "Okay, Republican officials who supposedly called these judges that were fired and said, are you going to prosecute this Democratic, and they said, I can't talk about that because I'm actually a judge, and it's illegal. And they said "click," and they got fired."…That's mob tactics. That's Tony Soprano. We're going to lean on people. That's what the president's doing. That's scary.”

How did someone this ignorant land a co-host role on a mainstream morning news show? The answer is as much an indictment of the mainstream media as it is a testament to ABC's management abilities.