Video: Rosie, Behar, Barbara defend Imus on “The View”
posted at 7:11 pm on April 10, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Strange, no? Three liberals, two of them fringe, shilling for a desiccated moron guilty of the cardinal sin of racial insensitivity.
I wonder why.
Hasselbeck does well until she’s worn down by the barrage of stupidity about Nazis and arresting people and the corporate tyranny that would deny a fat idiot the right to be paid exorbitantly for the burden of broadcasting her conspiracy theories to millions of people. Even Barbara tries to grant him absolution by arguing that he’s a “shock jock” and, after all, his record in these matters is clean — the latter of which is a lie and the former of which is irrelevant, as at least one liberal understands.
Should be fun in the comments, though. This may be the first time some of you find yourselves on the same side as Mabel.
hotair.com
Is Rosie Concerned About Her Job? 'View' Co-Host Concerned about Imus' 'Free Speech'
Posted by Justin McCarthy on April 10, 2007 - 15:26.
Rosie O’Donnell may be worried about her job after her recent extreme remarks. After a week long vacation, "The View" co-hosts returned to discuss radio talk show host Don Imus’s recent inflammatory remarks. Elisabeth Hasselbeck came out strong against Imus and stated his punishment was not harsh enough.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I said he should have a time-out, and they gave him a time out.
ROSIE O’DONNELL: They did give a time out.
HASSELBECK: For two weeks, not long enough in my opinion, but they certainly did suspend him.
JOY BEHAR: How long should he stay- have time out?
HASSELBECK: I told you through February, until it’s black history month. I want him off until then.
Rosie O’Donnell, who came under fire for claiming radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam, anti-Asian remarks, and her September 11 conspiracy theories, made the issue about free speech. Through the course of the discussion, she did condemn Imus’s remarks, but she was concerned that MSNBC, a private enterprise, violated his freedom of speech.
"Listen, here's the thing. There's free speech in America. You can say anything that you want in this country, and to think that you could be penalized for it, by a corporation is kind of a strange- "
Elisabeth Hasselbeck reminded the co-hosts that Don Imus has a right to say what he wants, but hosting a radio show is a privilege, not a right. Rosie and Joy Behar did not buy it. Rosie even what as far to compare it to arrests, "the thought police," and Nazi Germany.
HASSELBECK: I get it. Along with freedom of speech, there's discretion and responsibility. And I feel like we toss those two things out just for the right of freedom of speech.
O’DONNELL: Right, but once we have somebody who’s going to decide what’s the right words to say, and the wrong words to say, we're going down the Nazi Germany road.
[Applause]
HASSELBECK: We didn’t decide this, America decided. It’s hurtful
O’DONNELL: No, America didn't decide. I think the corporation said, you know, we don’t want--this is damaging us and we would like to take you off the air. And he’s going to go--
BEHAR: Look, they could do it to us anytime.
O’DONNELL: They can do it to anyone. It happened to Bill Maher. It happened to a lot of people.
BEHAR: About what you say about firing people for speech. You are in that position.
HASSELBECK: I am. You know what? If I said what he said, I should be fired.
BEHAR: But you don't know what you're going to say next.
HASSELBECK: Guess what? I'm not going to say that. I’m not going to say that.
BEHAR: No, not that, something else maybe.
HASSELBECK: You know what? If I say something that bad, and if it's that offensive, and if I’m a bigot, then I don't deserve the position. This is a privilege.
[...]
O’DONNELL: There are many racist people in America. We can't arrest them all. The Ku Klux Klan is allowed to speak.
HASSELBECK: He's not being arrested, he's being taken off the air for two weeks. Wow! He can take a vacation. He can go to Barbados
O’DONNELL: But, what’s the next step Elisabeth? If you say— the thought police–you’re going to get--your job is going to be taken away if you think or say something?
newsbusters.org
Rosie O'Donnell & Don Imus: 'The View' Stumped, Nappy or Chong Worse?
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By Jo Anne Way
Apr 9, 2007
In likely the most humorous show on morning television today Rosie O'Donnell skipped the 'View' on Monday morning. And for good reason, the girls on the panel wanted to rail on Don Imus for his racist comments on the air. Earlier Imus called Black female student athletes 'nappy-headed ho's' during his show. Certainly inappropriate and it surely make the cantankerous old shock jock sound like a bigot.
Of course the 'View' has their own resident shock jock that fires off what she considers comedy each day and Rosie earlier had insulted all Asians with her now infamous 'ching, chang, chong' rant.
When Asians complained, Rosie said thorough her publicist, "get over it." She later issued one of those 'sorry if you were offended apologies.' As the 'View' meandered through the discussion of the Imus comments, head den mother and Rosie lapdog Barbara Walters had little choice but to say the comments were not enough to get him fired.
The host literally choked up (she was coughing and choked on air) when the discussion turned to ratings and the fact that as long as the ratings are up, the shock jocks can say anything to keep the audience. Would a network be so callous and disgusting that it would leave a bigot on the air just because he or she delivers ratings? That had to hit home for Babs who has left Rosie O'Donnell unabated to spew her hatred on a daily basis.
"I guarantee you they will keep him on the air because of the ratings," a clueless Joy Behar bellowed completely unaware that she had just hammered her own co-host Rosie O'Donnell's sole reason for being on the air.
That's when Walters choked up. Eyes watering and coughing Babs tried this defense: "Despite good ratings - it is true that most networks only care primarily about the good ratings…" Walters was so choked up she couldn't finish her thought. The hypocrisy was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Rosie O'Donnell adds nothing to her show with the exception of her shock jock shtick. She is so completely clueless she earlier spouted that the British soldiers meant to be captured to start a war and sports 9/11 conspiracy theories regularly on air.
Not surprisingly, none of the 'View' gals mentioned the similarities between their shock jock Rosie and Imus.
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