Dark age set to descend on “The Price is Right”?
posted at 11:24 am on June 16, 2007 by Allahpundit
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You’ll recall we were told that Bob Barker was “adamant” about her not getting the job.
We may have been misinformed:
“I believe they’re going to have a meeting with Rosie,” Barker said backstage Friday night at the Daytime Emmy Awards, where he won his 19th trophy.
“She knows the show,” he said. “There’s no doubt in my mind she could do the show. Now, whether they want a lady host, I don’t know. I’ve never heard that discussed. As far as I know, they’ve only auditioned men.”
Barker said his friendship with O’Donnell goes back several years, when she had him as a guest on her old daytime talk show.
Why would morning TV’s most opinionated idiot want a job that consists essentially of saying “spin that wheel” 20 times a day? She’d do big ratings and big money with her own show on HBO, where she could trade conspiracy theories with other cranks while the zombiefied audience claps on cue. Plus, it’d give us a hell of a lot more content.
I just hate to see talent wasted.
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Have your future hosts spayed or neutered. Goodbye everyone
Defector01 on June 16, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Let’s replace a kind, gentle, humorous old man with a hate-filled, rude, self-absorbed lesbian!
That’ll double the ratings for sure!
Nethicus on June 16, 2007 at 11:30 AM
So instead of Bob’s Beauties, will it be Rosies’s Raving Lunatics.
joeswampy on June 16, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Fine with me.
I’ll be laughing my ass off when the ratings chart for the Price is Right models the ratings chart for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric or the NYT stock chart.
IreneFingIrene on June 16, 2007 at 11:33 AM
It’ll be worth it if she eventually appears in an Adam Sandler movie in which she beats the crap out of him on a golf course.
flipflop on June 16, 2007 at 11:33 AM
The price is wrong
WisCon on June 16, 2007 at 11:37 AM
A plugged nickel, Bob!
(What this rotund item is worth.)
profitsbeard on June 16, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Barker is beloved; Rosie is despised. A sure ratings bonanza for CBS if Rosie does Price is Right…NOT. If they are stupid enough to hire her, I will laugh while watching the ratings tank. Middle America is who watches the Price is Right and they don’t take kindly to anti-military and blame America loons.
katieanne on June 16, 2007 at 11:46 AM
I wonder if Rosie would quiz the contestants to their political leanings or lecture the audience about 9/11 tin foil hate theories? Wonderful morning entertainment for a game show.
katieanne on June 16, 2007 at 11:47 AM
I grew up watching Bob Barker on the Price is Right as a kid, yes I even remember Truth or Consequences. He’s sort of a television icon for a generation of tv addicts like myself(he was also able to hookup with Diane), to replace him with truther/self-obsessed/my way or the highway would be an insult to not only Bob Barker but with the TV audience as well. I’m done with my rant..where’s my caffeine?
vcferlita on June 16, 2007 at 11:48 AM
SHOWCASE #1! GOOGLE IT, PEOPLE!
wccawa on June 16, 2007 at 11:48 AM
If anyone should be hosting a show called “The Price Is Right” it should be the United States Senate. They invented the phrase!
repvoter on June 16, 2007 at 11:59 AM
That is why they want Rosie, they’ve only auditioned men
Wade on June 16, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Well, that’s the last time I watch TPIR when I’m home sick.
Mark V. on June 16, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Line of the day.
steveegg on June 16, 2007 at 12:08 PM
To afford Rosie the PIR production company agreed to only give out loose change in prizes. (ok I’ll log off now)
Limerick on June 16, 2007 at 12:13 PM
This is just more or Rosie O fat disgusting lesbian bat trying to engender herself on the country, and she’s thumbing her nose at her critics whiles she’s at it.
Perhaps if they give her the show, she will finally stop with the crazy talk and become funny again. I think people would accept her again. I wouldn’t unless she came out and disavowed her insane behavior as a result of drug abuse or alcoholism.
csdeven on June 16, 2007 at 12:36 PM
It’s either the PIR or that doofus who was just named head of NBC will put her on prime-time, possibly something produced by that lib-fossil Norman Lear.
MoxArgon on June 16, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Well if Rosie hosted the show the Military PiR Specials would be a thing of the past.
Taleena on June 16, 2007 at 12:41 PM
“And let’s see what’s behind door #3. Why, you’ve won 100 copies of “An Inconvenient Truth” for you and your friends! Now isn’t that a grand prize; you look speechless.”
Dusty on June 16, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Somebody got to Bob or his family.
Valiant on June 16, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Rumor has it that the show’s models will be replaced by Dykes On Bikes.
pocomoco on June 16, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Well Bob Barker had affairs with the women models. I guess THAT wouldn’t change.
Mojave Mark on June 16, 2007 at 1:28 PM
She is attempting to “show us”. Sure, she could go on HBO, but that’s not day-time network TV.
unamused on June 16, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Clearly this is Rosie’s way of fighting poverty and consumerism.
eforhan on June 16, 2007 at 2:29 PM
It’s not like I watch PiR on a regular basis, but when I’m home sick or just slugging off on a short vacation at home I like to watch it when there’s nothing else but soaps on.
I’d never watch it ever again if that sow hosted it. It wouldn’t be, “Help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered. Goodbye everybody” at the end of the show. It would be, “911 truth… Google it! Goodbye everybody.”
But then again, no one knows the allure of a sexy woman like a big fat lesbian. O’Donnells beautys, come on down!
SilverStar830 on June 16, 2007 at 2:34 PM
My God, it’s like I’ve known you all my life!
Coronagold on June 16, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Lady? Rosie? Not even close.
infidel4life on June 16, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Who cares? Who watches that anyway?
Entelechy on June 16, 2007 at 3:43 PM
I did, my mom did, my grandmother loved it
And my grandmother is probably furious in heaven
Defector01 on June 16, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Really, this could be a stroke of genius. Rosie could indulge her political leanings by dispensing with the bourgeouis, market-determined prices for the items up for bid, replacing them instead with prices she feels are “fair.” Just imagine the increase in the level of difficulty for the contestants, and the unpredictability for the viewer!
Also, instead of responding jubilantly to the cry of “Come on down!”, contestants could be made to stand sullenly in line for hours.
Blacklake on June 16, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Tokyo-Rosie…host of TPIR…? The Price is Wrong Biatch!
Liberty or Death on June 16, 2007 at 4:54 PM
I’ve already left a comment to CBS. I’m sure all the matronly grandmothers that make up their TV audience will support Rosie. NOT!
GoodBoy on June 16, 2007 at 5:22 PM
If Rosie hosts TPIR that phrase will forever be a sick reminder of her “eat me” comment.
Sorry, I couldn’t find the video, but I found this.
csdeven on June 16, 2007 at 5:44 PM
I can see the opening now…
“From the Fat Lesbo Studio at CBS in Hollywood! Television’s most depressing hour of 9/11 conspiracy theories and Christian-bashing!”
JinxMcHue on June 16, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Please, say it ain’t so! Rosie cannot host a legendary show like TPIR. My grandparents will die! How can someone that hateful and despicable host such a feel-good show? Surely, they are not seriously considering this???
hollygolightly on June 16, 2007 at 7:34 PM
They could revise the other Barker show as “Truthers–No Consequences!”
Steve LLamabutcher on June 16, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Call me a sappy sentimentalist, but I really agree with Nethicus – Bob Barker was indeed a gentle classy sort of guy (well, if we ignore some of the allegations about his sex life) … but I always really liked him. He’s a throwback to the old days, when Hollywood types were actually sort of worth looking up to.
And that doesn’t even take into account his Oscar-worthy performance in Happy Gilmore.
I think they should just shut down the show. NOBODY can replace Bob. C’mon.
But ROSIE? This is an abomination.
I know it’s stupid, but it actually makes me sad.
Professor Blather on June 16, 2007 at 10:19 PM
If I was the producer of PIR and they foisted rosy on me, the first batch of contestants would be evangelical ministers, Iraq War veterans, and Catholic Priests.
Then count down to the meltdown.
MoxArgon on June 16, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Actually that would be a good place for her. I liked Rose, the queen of nice and that 1990’s baseball move, “a league of their own” (tom hanks, madonna, geena davis, Rose).
How much trouble could she get into on a game show? hummm the mind boggles. Instead of the mountain climber price game, she could have the WTC 7 collapsing conspiracy game. When a uniformed military contestant is on stage, she can ask them if they feel like a terrorist and if they killed innocent woman and children. On second thought, let’s put her in a dungeon and throw a way the key.
gmcjetpilot on June 17, 2007 at 4:10 AM
Just a thought…do you think with Rosie as host they’ll rename the show to The Price is Left?
flipflop on June 17, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Allah, your so selfish. Don’t we want what is best for Rosie? Don’t we want her to be happy and complete? Don’t we want her to fade into irrelevance?
Wait. . . What am I saying? She’s a goldmine of idiotic nutroots trutherisms.
DON’T HIRE ROSIE FOR THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!! WE NEED HER MORONIC OPINIONS TO ILLUSTRATE THE RADICAL LEFT!!
Troy Rasmussen on June 18, 2007 at 11:22 AM
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