Possible explanation for Manilow/Hasselbeck feud emerges!
posted at 7:03 pm on September 17, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Via Ed Driscoll, this one’s too sweet to be buried as an update to the other post. TMZ updated its earlier item with a headscratcher: If Manilow has such a deep principled objection to Elisabeth’s politics, how come he appeared on “The View” not once but twice last year when she was on? She’s been conservative since she joined the show. Did he just figure it out now?
Or has he been influenced by outside parties?
Way back in July we started getting psyched up for Barry Manilow’s upcoming album, The Greatest Songs of the Seventies, and its sure-to-be-amazing lead track, a duet with Rosie O’Donnell on “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” And now, just weeks before the record’s September 18 release, Billboard reports the horrifying news that the song has been cut from the album!…
“But Rosie … was inspiring,” he continues. “She’s not a singer, really, and she got behind that mic and she turned into a rock ‘n’ roll singer. I hope people don’t think we didn’t put it on because she wasn’t great. She was great. It’s a wonderful cut; it just doesn’t fit on the album, but it’ll probably be a bonus cut somewhere.”
Access Hollywood calls them “longtime friends” but speculates that this is less a matter of Rosie leaning on him to take revenge on Hasselbeck than him trying to kick up some buzz for the new album. Exit question: It’s Rosie’s fault, right? Sure it is. C’mon.
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Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Nope. Bush’s. Don’t know why, but it seems everything is Bush’s fault these days…
Seriously, though, I wouldn’t put it past Rosie.
amerpundit on September 17, 2007 at 7:08 PM
It takes a real woman to be a man
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:08 PM
I told you she threatened to start breaking her bones again if she didn’t gether way :)
Pam on September 17, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Manilow gets his ideas the old-fashioned, liberal extremist way: someone else gave them to him.
stonemeister on September 17, 2007 at 7:09 PM
What was i thinking? Of course it’s his fault :) Nice!
Pam on September 17, 2007 at 7:09 PM
This schmuck’s new record is due to be released tomorrow
(9/18) and apparently they were going to give him some free air time to hump it. Well, I wonder how many sales he will lose by entering the world of politics.
Barry, you had best just ‘write the songs’ and leave the liberal crap to Rosie and Barbra and their kind.
Can anybody tell me how I can track the sales of the new disk to see how it sells?
OBX Pete on September 17, 2007 at 7:11 PM
Well, Rosie has a problem with men, so it makes sense that she and Barry are friends.
bbz123 on September 17, 2007 at 7:12 PM
“Barry:
if u appear w/the barbie doll
i’m releasing the fotos.
peace out”
laelaps on September 17, 2007 at 7:14 PM
They removed the song because Rosie is caustic. She has put herself out of the mainstream. She is now an offical sideshow. She and Jeanine Garofalo should host a show on Air America, the coveted 18-45 anti-war lesbian demographic is all thiers…
Theworldisnotenough on September 17, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:14 PM
His 50’s CD was number 1 so if this one doesn’t do well it could well be because of this. But then his liberal friends may buy stacks of them to make up for it.
Rose on September 17, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Barry has never hit me as being political. I think he is too musical and gay to be political. But it does make sense that he is in cohorts with Rosie.
jihadwatcher on September 17, 2007 at 7:20 PM
Oh my! I’m glad you said it I don’t have to.
OBX Pete on September 17, 2007 at 7:21 PM
I would take his CD skeet shooting.
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:21 PM
Back in the 70’s I heard he had a thing for Penny Marshall. Someone (that infamous someone) said that he wrote Even Now for her.
Rose on September 17, 2007 at 7:23 PM
Nice photo. One’s got enough testosterone to launch Sputnik, and the other one’s not too bad of a singer.
thejackal on September 17, 2007 at 7:25 PM
Where’s OJ when you need him…oh yeah.
Iblis on September 17, 2007 at 7:27 PM
I’m gonna need some kind of opiated suppository to rid my mind’s eye of that horrible image.
infidel4life on September 17, 2007 at 7:34 PM
Sounds like Rosie is obsessed with Elisabeth H. Someone call Sally Field…
DrMagnolias on September 17, 2007 at 7:37 PM
Barry Nomanatall
Kini on September 17, 2007 at 7:37 PM
My aversion to homosexuals, as strong as it is, is not nearly as strong as my aversion to that thing standing beside him. What is that thing?
jihadwatcher on September 17, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Shut up and sing as Laura Ingraham would say.
On second thought…
Valiant on September 17, 2007 at 7:43 PM
It seems liberals hate conservatives more than KKK Byrd
hates black people. What with a “singer’(?) refusing to be
on a tv show with a conservative and a journalist (?)(Geraldo) wanting to spit on a conservative.
Such love they (libs) have.
gary on September 17, 2007 at 7:48 PM
I’m surprised Barry wouldn’t come on the show. I mean Whoopi and Barry could’ve done some sort of “Sister Act” and I don’t mean the singing part.
kiakjones on September 17, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Birds of a feather cower together.
SoulGlo on September 17, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Allahpundit has RDS - “Rosie Derangement Syndrome”
pullingmyhairout on September 17, 2007 at 7:58 PM
As I’m listening to Drudge radio last night,Sally Fields
informs the world that with mothers running the world,there
would be no wars,until Drudge reminds me that Hillary is a
mother.
Now we have Barry Manilow in some bizarre manly stance
against Elizabeth,exist question;I think this is a game
of good’ol one-upmanship Liberal style.
Looks like my list for idiot celebreties has increased by
one.
Glen beck,had a psycologist on about Rosie’s state of mind,
on his show today.
canopfor on September 17, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Overheard: Rosie singing to one of her split personalities….
“Don’t go breaking my bones”
csdeven on September 17, 2007 at 8:08 PM
I was just scrolling through the Manilow’s imdb photo page and found another picture of the two lovebirds, as well as a series of photos of him singing at the Barbara Streisand National Democratic Gala Benefit (2002) for whoever said that Barry doesn’t get political.
Oweee…who ever thought he’d be so calculating in stirring up controversy as promotion for his upcoming album? Oh wait…right…nobody cares :)
Clouds on September 17, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Ever notice she can’t smile? I mean Rosie.
She just opens her mouth enough to show teeth; never expresses an upturned smile and happy eyes. More like a sneer. Figures.
portlandbob on September 17, 2007 at 8:17 PM
That’s a cancer on Barry’s right are he should have removed.
right2bright on September 17, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Wait a minute… Barry Manilow is still alive?
SailorDave on September 17, 2007 at 8:40 PM
It’s confirmed . . . the loonies have taken over the insane asylum. This poor sick society is beginning to rot.
rplat on September 17, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Overheard:Rosie singing to one of her spilt personalities…
“Don’t go breaking my bones”.
Csdeven on September 17,2007 at 8:08PM.
Csdeven:Maybe Rosie heard v o i c e s in her mind!
He he.
canopfor on September 17, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Birds of a feather…
eanax on September 17, 2007 at 11:03 PM
I thought Manilow was quietly pickling somewhere in California in a bathtub full of gin with a disco ball spinning forlornly above him…odd to see him in public. All I could think of when I saw that picture was that old duck joke..
Man walks into a bar with a duck on his head. The bartender says: What are you doing with that pig? The man answers, that’s not a pig, it’s a duck. The bartender replies: I was talking to the duck.
austinnelly on September 17, 2007 at 11:13 PM
duet?
…
yo on September 17, 2007 at 11:17 PM
So… Barry and Rosie sing duet on “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”. I suppose that’s the last thing she had to break for herself.
historybot on September 17, 2007 at 11:42 PM
AP, you just had to squeeze in one more Rosie thread.
You really miss her, don’t you?
BacaDog on September 18, 2007 at 7:19 AM
Funny, I remember thinking that Barry and Penny had interchangeable faces. Like they got separated after birth, although Penny Marshall has a stronger chin. Go figure.
Freelancer on September 18, 2007 at 7:35 AM
I just saw Rosie making a statement:
http://tallfreak.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/rosie-oterror.jpg
PoliticallyIncorrectSandy on September 18, 2007 at 8:12 AM
That’s right, Barry … keep pretending you matter.
yo on September 18, 2007 at 8:34 AM
and more balls
Wade on September 18, 2007 at 9:09 AM