Rosie: Your contempt for my 9/11 revisionism suggests democracy is dead
posted at 12:28 pm on April 2, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Her logic works just as well with Holocaust denial. Try it!
258,000+ votes cast in the AOL poll. As of this writing, 62% say Rosie must go.
Update: I guess we were overdue for this.
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Sheeesh … will wonders never cease. All Rosie wrote was a rather obvious and transparent rationalization for her psychosis.
darwin on April 2, 2007 at 12:35 PM
Providing, of course, that that “truth” is a larger truth, and one that doesn’t have to be justified with pesky little things like “facts” or “accurate data” or “sanity.”
Bob Owens on April 2, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Why doesn’t she just do what Andrew Sullivan does and call it “airing a theory?”
Seems to work for him.
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 12:37 PM
inquire
investigate
incoherent
Jim Treacher on April 2, 2007 at 12:37 PM
She’s a conservative train wreck
No one likes or pays attention to her seriously, not even most female view listeners. All she has become is something for us conservatives to stare and point at.
Defector01 on April 2, 2007 at 12:37 PM
If the cost of air ever goes up, I will try to acquire drilling rights to that gigantic melon on her shoulders.
E5infantry on April 2, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Except that Boooooosh must have had something to do with 9/11 and for the first time in history, fire melted steel……
Mallard T. Drake on April 2, 2007 at 12:43 PM
And, of course, comments to ask questions of her are “closed”.
As Stan said in South Park after his son broke the dam but which his dad interpreted as a sign of an imminent global warming catastrophe: “We must have the courage to ask… QUESTIONS!”
Skywise on April 2, 2007 at 12:43 PM
However, this ignorance will not preclude me from spouting unfounded conspiracy theories at will over network television.
saint kansas on April 2, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Q:Does rosie run the show and baba wawa?
A:Who cares, they’re both liberal nutjobs.
tormod on April 2, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Her truth is truth…that is what she thinks.
What was that quote: You can have your own opinion, but not your own set of facts?
right2bright on April 2, 2007 at 12:46 PM
rosie has become the lead moo in the cattle drive to the stupid house.
allie on April 2, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Once again, another liberal claiming that democracy is dead because of the backlash to her comments. Rosie, moron, democracy means you can speak out all you want, but it also means everybody else has a right to criticize your comments. Keep exercising your big mouth, because it shows the rest of America what liberalism really is.
And yes, I think that when people like Rosie speak-out like this, it is a big deal (despite what Alan Colmes says) because it is representative of Hollywood - which happens to be a very influential segment of the Democrat party (in many ways).
Rick on April 2, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Well I eagerly await her concise, scientific conclusions regarding what caused the flooding in NO.
I tend to fall into the amount of rain caused by that big honking storm that came through there camp, but I could be wrong.
LakeRuins on April 2, 2007 at 12:50 PM
Free speech is never free.
TheBigOldDog on April 2, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Allah, methinks you have a little crush on the ‘ol gal. HA! Just kidding, please don’t ban me…
robblefarian on April 2, 2007 at 12:57 PM
When I saw the flag on her site, I was so disgusted…
Just because you have the right of free speech, doesn’t mean you have the obligation to spout stupidity.
Romeo13 on April 2, 2007 at 12:58 PM
From Rosie’s blog there is this:
And then if you look just to the right there are links to a whole set of 9/11 conspiracy sites. I don’t see the one for Popular Mechanic there. Maybe somebody can send it to her?
Oh yeah and don’t forget the obligatory Cost of the War in Iraq counter. They are doing this to distract from their little 20 Billion dollars of pork they put into the surrender terms bill.
LakeRuins on April 2, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I have no problem with asking questions and investigating. The problem is when you’re only capable of hearing what you want to hear. Only believe evidence and argument, regardless of credibility, that supports what you’ve already concluded.
Its not about democracy, its about intellectual honesty -with yourself and others.
taznar on April 2, 2007 at 12:59 PM
The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech of Rosie exclusively, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Wade on April 2, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Why does anyone care what this ugly fat cow(1) thinks?
(1) and I am not talking physically when I refer to her as an ugly fat cow…. but her personality.
CrazyFool on April 2, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Finally, someone in pop culture has the courage not only to ask questions, but also to ignore answers.
wilkeson on April 2, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Who is she pledging her allegiance too? Herself? Because it certainly doesn’t appear to be the USA!
I googled “pledge of allegiance” and found this from the “American Legion”: The pledge says you are promising to be true to the United States of America!
hotdax on April 2, 2007 at 1:06 PM
It starts so innocent in the margins of society. All to often it ends up with exorbitant head shrinking & a free membership to the social pariah club.
So tragic.
Another victim of the two ‘els’.
Liberalism and lesbianism.
Just say no kids!
~I blame barbara.
locomotivebreath1901 on April 2, 2007 at 1:07 PM
oops, sorry my formatting came out bad. The bold was to be quoted and the second quote should not be a quote.
hotdax on April 2, 2007 at 1:07 PM
i.e., “Google it.”
saint kansas on April 2, 2007 at 1:08 PM
As long as Rosie is inquiring, she might ask an engineer how steel is made and shaped. Steel I-beams don’t grow up like cornstalks. They don’t grow in trees and you can’t find them in any mine. Where do they come from? How are they made?
She also would do well to ask about the fuel tanks that were in WTC7.
Inquiring means asking questions, right? So ask away, Rosie.
Bryan on April 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Rosie O’Donnell is retarded.
I Googled it.
JammieWearingFool on April 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Sponsors of ‘The View’
From FallingPanda:
Wade on April 2, 2007 at 1:12 PM
This pea-brained inflated ego thinks she’s more significant than C. Rice. Who really cares what she has to say or what she thinks? Enough of such idiotic self-aggrandizement.
Scientists and engineers the world over are indignant.
Entelechy on April 2, 2007 at 1:17 PM
38% are insane
jp on April 2, 2007 at 1:21 PM
I’d say that’s accurate.
lorien1973 on April 2, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Rosie O’Donnell has AIDS.
I Googled it.
Apparently she’s an “activist” too.
saint kansas on April 2, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Bryan, are you sure on this one?
Heh. I have an image in my head, driving through Southeast Pennsylvania and seeing rusty fields of steel as far as the eye can see, like Nebraska in hell. Though some would say Nebraska is hell, but I’m not, because everyone knows hell is in Philly.
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 1:29 PM
I’m already not a customer of all but three of those sponsors…and there really are no substitutes for Clorox, Best Foods/Hellmans, and Scrubbing Bubbles. Sorry, but I’m not gonna go buy Heinz mayo to benefit Teh-RAY-sah over Rosie. In this case, my shopping will just have to be moonbat-neutral. Can I buy a mayo offset?
James on April 2, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Hmm, isn’t this the same Beast that told the blonde chick to shut her hole?
Oh, free speech for Rosie and her bowl of buttered sour cream and chive chunks of Velveeta but not for thee.
I want to know how a controlled demolition was supposed to happen at the very same time tow gigantic planes filled with jet fuel slammed into the sides of those buildings and not causing any disruption to the control systems used to ignite the charges?
Did they use photon torpedoes, proton torpedoes or some type of Jack Bauer technology that doesn’t require reality and the physics of electronics?
She is a dummy.
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Yes, called Kraft
Wade on April 2, 2007 at 1:40 PM
if she were asking it would be different… but she is not asking, she is stating it as some kind of proven fact…
Kaptain Amerika on April 2, 2007 at 1:41 PM
See, what I don’t get is all the truther’s are seeking for the “truth!” Yet, when the truth is explained to them, they refuse to see it. Well, okay, I DO get it–just like Lenin and communism, facts interfere with their fantasy, so can be ignored.
I mean, if Booooosh had the stones to coldbloodedly murder over 3000 people, his citizens, then why wouldn’t he have silenced her by now?
Vanceone on April 2, 2007 at 1:43 PM
Or just, you know, planted some nukes in Iraq.
JasonG on April 2, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Ro, Ro, Ro…It’s time for you to go!
(Only 62%? *sigh*)
flipflop on April 2, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Kraft already has a taste offset. Nasty stuff.
James on April 2, 2007 at 1:47 PM
In the lower left of the page you can scroll the pointer over the group of people to ID them. Scroll over the little person next to her and the name is still ‘rosie’. She truly has the mass of two people.
allie on April 2, 2007 at 1:47 PM
I figured out why she types like that, she is too busy eating a chunky mayo, peanut butter, sour cream, cheddar, and doritos smoothie.
It takes a lot of work to keep that down.
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Only problem is, Kraft makes Honey Bunches of Oats, which is also on the list.
They’ve got you coming and going.
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 1:50 PM
You have to View her like its a petting zoo otherwise youll pull your hair out..
Viper1 on April 2, 2007 at 1:53 PM
But why doesn’t the same logic apply to global warming… shouldn’t we be able to ask questions there, also?
dalewalt on April 2, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Only during hockey season… during football season, hell is in Cleveland.
dalewalt on April 2, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Because global warming has nothing to do with the price of sour cream in China.
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 1:57 PM
No. Stupid. Geesh. You accept global warming without question! Havent you learned anything yet?
lorien1973 on April 2, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Perhaps instead of asking the sponsors to stop sponsoring the show, we could ask the sponsors to pressure the network to bring the Popular Mechanics experts on the show to ‘debate’ Rosie on her trutherism.
The benefits of this are multiple:
1) We can’t be accused of censorship because we aren’t trying to get the show canceled.
2) Sponsors are more likely to respond positively to a positive action (Please use your influence to help open the debate) as opposed to a threat (Stop advertising on The View or else).
3) The people that watch The View would be exposed to the Popular Mechanics’ (and other scientists’) debunking of trutherism.
4) Rosie would look like a big fat idiot (more so than usual).
JadeNYU on April 2, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I wonder if her search for the “rigorous truth” will have her looking into the Sandy “Burglar” Berger caper?
David Asman’s special on Sunday was gut wrenching. I knew most of the facts anyway, but seeing it chronicled with the time line and eye witness accounts and comments was beyond disturbing. So much so, that I immediately emailed the Justice Dept. and told them how criminal and negligent they have behaved. If this is not a huge campaign issue ofr the Repubs and/or Sandy-Pants gets his security clearance back next year I think there should be NO DOUBT in any of our minds that both Parties are in fact the same Party, and that they pick and choose their battles for the good of “The Party”, NOT the good of the People.
silenced majority on April 2, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Who shot Twice? Once?
No, he’s the Controller.
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 2:00 PM
For some reason, when viewing that vile graphic, I instinctively hold my breath.
JamesonLewis3rd on April 2, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Classic…but Weeks was the comptroller.
James on April 2, 2007 at 2:04 PM
We would have been here earlier but your husband wasn’t dead yet.
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 2:05 PM
I’d be surprised if she got a lot of backlash. I posted the clip of her “airing the 9/11 conspiracy theory” and the women there bashed Hasselbeck.
True story.
Dash on April 2, 2007 at 2:07 PM
Who are you, and how did you get in here?
James on April 2, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Rosie, you have no clue. Your rights are not given to you by a democratic system. In fact, a true democratic system doesn’t respect your rights at all. Your life, liberty, and property are up for grabs, to be disposed of at the whim of whoever gets a plurality in an election. (Democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what’s for dinner.)
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, let me point out that not only was Hitler elected, but the institution of slavery in the antebellum south was sanctified by elections, as was Jim Crow for a century after the war.
Rights are moral principles that exist whether you recognize them or not. They are inherent in the nature of H. sapiens. Those societies that organize themselves in accordance with those principles will thrive and flourish, while those who do not will stagnate and decay. The reason why the North beat the South, and the Allies beat the Axis, is that slavery and totalitarian dictatorship are less productive than societies that recognize the rights of more of their people. The reason that the Wall came down and the East joined the West (rather than the other way around) is that freedom is superior to central control.
If you really are interested in an honest inquiry into 9/11, invite the Popular Mechanics guys on The View.
The Monster on April 2, 2007 at 2:08 PM
The teller had his back turned and *then* the gunman fired…
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 2:10 PM
The elephant women.
Hening on April 2, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Then STFU about it until you have.
The Monster on April 2, 2007 at 2:16 PM
If Bush could kill 3000 of his own people then why are we trying to set up a democracy in Iraq and why are we letting Iran have nukes hmmm Rosie. Bush was that cold scorch earth would be the name of the game.
djohn669 on April 2, 2007 at 2:21 PM
u r all so mean 2 ro
y cant we all just
get along
and embrace the crazy?
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 2:24 PM
If you think I’m exaggerating the level of inanity, here you go. Strunk and White weep whenever this woman sets fingers to keyboard.
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Slu, you’re almost as good as Treacher.
Almost.
The Monster on April 2, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Heh, now Slubbos doing bad Ro’ Po’.
Yer stealin’ Treacher’s bit!
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 2:26 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!! Best line of the day. Good Strunk&White reference.
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 2:27 PM
My Ro’ Po’ isn’t nearly as good as Treacher’s.
Sorry if I was stealing his bit.
/mencia
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Slu, your problem is you fade away toward the end, and revert to relatively coherent English. Treach commits to it totally. He must hold drink heavily to make himself temporarily stupid or something.
The Monster on April 2, 2007 at 2:35 PM
How about this, then?
ro sends-
riding on buses = my fave role
so ez 2 get in2 char
their u r!
James on April 2, 2007 at 2:46 PM
Nice.
How much drinking did that take?
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 2:49 PM
2 eet 2 much creamcheez
fair?
cry, don’t cry…
It’s ok. Falling, weeping, crashing eating. bridges burning
Cry
Don’t cry
it’s ok
2 cry
The other,
that day,
those people,
too many,
too personal,
but not.
People you know know,
but you yourself know not.
Crashing down,
all frown,
hurting,
walking,
silently screaming,
slowly running,
often feeling nothing.
Sour cream and chive
Cool Ranch
The president speaks,
The situation reeks an act of war.
I enter my room, close the door
Sit here.
Here where buildings do not fall to the floor.
we young will experience much more
future, liberty, the freedom to mope about in poetry.
My brother I love you.
Old friends and family too.
Safe for now glad to know I’m alive with all of you.
Feel what is real feel later heal.
One.
One person feeling the same as all the rest.
Please let us act and do what is best.
Pork roast in buttered toffee
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Heh, we need an all Ro’ Po’ post.
That’d be fun.
Slubbo, just practice a bit, maybe you can get as good at stealing bits as Mencia.
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Remember when she had her own reality show?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgEiPfGPVVY
Blacklake on April 2, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Eh, none, actually…if I’d had the assistance of booze I would’ve put a bunch more exclamation points (and at least one ‘11oneone’) at the end.
James on April 2, 2007 at 2:53 PM
That would be fun.
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 2:56 PM
The bigger issue here is how the MSM has infiltrated the media and it is using the media to brainwash Americans. From the nightly news to late night talk to many other forms of entertainment, there is a constant barrage of anti Americans propaganda being broadcast 27/7.
Rosie O’Donnell is just but one example how the media has become the Tokyo Rose of the liberal movement. She has been given the platform to express her views when conservatives are not given the same opportunity.
Late night talk shows are all hosted by liberals.
The 3 major new networks are manned by liberals.
2 out of 3 of the cable news outlets are liberal.
HBO and Showtime constantly air programs that are liberal .Like Al Gores Inconvenient Truth propaganda documentary or Bill Maher’s cable show disguised as a comedy show.
When conservatives complain, the media complain peoples constitutional rights are being violated or just change the channel if you do not like the opinions being expressed.
Other than FoxNews, where are conservatives given the platform to express their views in the media?
Just look how the War in Iraq has changed from being supported by the American public by the constant attack by the media for the last 5 years with the mantra no WMD’s repeated so often that people have been convinced there were none.
There is an old saying that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.
IMHO-We are in danger of losing our Republic. The liberals have taken over the media which like it or not has a big influence on public perceptions and influences our elections.
Rosie has every right to her opinions but where are the views supported by conservatives being aired? When the ratio is 98 to 1 that is propaganda not free speech.
ScottyDog on April 2, 2007 at 3:04 PM
hi fanz!
typn this po’ while hangn
lucky steel farmr grew brace
tuff ’nuff 2 hold me
so mean 2 call me fat bat ro…
bet bush put em up 2 it
James on April 2, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Hell Yeah! Get on that, Allah!
Lemme try….
no fear osama
bush is wors e 4 amerca
fear ham samwch
dont want 2
go out lik cass
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 3:11 PM
bush is mean
he doesnt cre8
he destroys
life
luv
pupies are dieing
2 sad
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 3:20 PM
luv teh view
wish i was smrt as joy
lis betr get with prgrm
or i sit on her hed
babs iz my bitch
James on April 2, 2007 at 3:29 PM
feel odd today
sitting down
but why
is it chenys fault
whered my peeking duck go 2
concidince conspircy contrivd
did hallbrton take it?
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 3:35 PM
I have to admit, this made me laugh the most. What is she pledging allegiance too? Reminds me of an old movie. A Fish called Wanda. Otto the hitman is arguing with Jamie Lee Curtis (Wanda). She calls him a stupid ape. ‘Apes don’t read philosophy’, he responds. ‘Yes, they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.’ That’s pretty much the case with liberals ‘pledging allegiance’ to something, and talking about their patriotism. It sounds good to say it, but they don’t have a f**king clue what it means.
austinnelly on April 2, 2007 at 3:39 PM
butter
on my fingers because of the Bush Popcorn
Pop? Poppa Bush?
tee hee tv
i like pie
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 3:53 PM
And now…the Ro’ku:
i plege hand on hart
try to find rigorous truth
no conclusions yet
James on April 2, 2007 at 4:03 PM
ice caps r melting
bears r dieing
2 hot 4 life
y cant bush see
te horror
te horror
life is sad
:-(
Slublog on April 2, 2007 at 4:03 PM
hunger
hunger
so much hunger
nt in da woild
but in mah belly
mmm, sour cream and bacon
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 4:08 PM
i no
it’s a
long shot
but did he
like chop suey
benrand on April 2, 2007 at 4:09 PM
I’m so sick of loudmouths whining about how their speech is being infringed upon.
Here’s the real problem, can ABC not find one loud enough and informed enough person to go on and put her in their place? No, just Hasselbeck, who I have no problem with, but she just sits there and gets screamed at and has nothing to say. Does everyone remember the time Rosie shouted her down telling her she can’t just sit there and give her opinion… Rosie spends the show spouting off extreme leftist and conspiracy theory crap, but shouts down Hasselbeck for offering an opinion, telling her that’s not okay. Someone needs to get on there and truly do battle with this heffer, I’m sick of this sh**. Know this though, she just sent an army of pathetically bored housewives out to “investigate” and make no mistake, probably created thousands of more Truthers.
RightWinged on April 2, 2007 at 4:32 PM
its time 2 wait
hotpockit cooks
i hav an itch
hey its done!
Bad Candy on April 2, 2007 at 4:35 PM
She’s functionally illiterate. I’ve blogrolled her.
PRCalDude on April 2, 2007 at 4:44 PM
If she really believed that, she’d book the Popular Science people.
budorob on April 2, 2007 at 4:50 PM
She should feel free to leave. I’d offer her cheesecake for a year if she’d just darken some other country’s doorstep.
foxforce91 on April 2, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Darn it all! The only three items on the boycott list for me are:
Bush’s Baked Beans
Honey Bunches of Oats
M&M’s
But I can sacrifice to see Rosie gone!!!
It’s gonna be a rough summer :(
dddave on April 2, 2007 at 6:40 PM
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