Rosie on Wright: “I listened to him and, frankly, it made sense to me”
posted at 1:49 pm on May 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via the ‘Busters, a lazy Monday trip down memory lane. Percentage of Americans who disagree or strongly disagree with Wright, per Gallup’s latest: 86. Percentage who strongly agree: just one, embodied by hard-left idiots like this willing to excuse any calumny or journey into paranoia in the interest of righting historical wrongs. She’s still deploying the “context” defense that Obama (finally) abandoned last week; she’s still excusing the “America created AIDS” libel on grounds that the government did, after all, infect black men with syphilis — which it technically didn’t, but which, unlike her other theories, is at least near to being true. I can’t think of a more transparent case of someone embracing conspiracies to affect intelligence, a fact betrayed here by her mention of blacks having once been considered three-fourths of a person. Close enough, Ro, close enough.
Exit question: You miss her, though, don’t you? Admit it. It’s okay; we’re among friends.
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A thrill tried to go up her leg but got tired and gave up.
Chuck Schick on May 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Getting an error with the vid–and I didn’t try to view it.
Answer to exit question: no, I don’t miss her, except inasmuch as I view her as the ideal Dem voter: someone who cannot spell and has no brain power.
Vanceone on May 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM
It made sense to Rosie.
One more indication that Rev. Wright is stark, raving NUTS.
Cicero43 on May 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Rosie and Wright have a common enemy, the United States of America.
EJDolbow on May 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Judging by her immense girth, she’s eight-fifths of a human being.
JammieWearingFool on May 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM
NOPE.
My, my.
asc85 on May 5, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Miss Rosie?
My collie says:
That’s not the same thing, is it?
CyberCipher on May 5, 2008 at 1:58 PM
But of course! So do deep-fried twinkies, I bet!
redzap on May 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
And I didn’t think it was possible for her to get stupider.
She’s to stupid what this is to black.
Iblis on May 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Just goes to show, “Hate minds, think alike”.
kcd on May 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
The clip is working for me either.
I admit I miss her in a way since she brought you so many great lines. Just by herself though, no.
HotAir had a few links that led to Alex Jones and his radio show. When I’m in the mood for crazy now, I just listen there for a bit. Then I’ll come here to listen to Ed’s show to get back to reality.
Canadian Infidel on May 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Exit answer: NO!
ronsfi on May 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
What a fat piece of excrement. It amazes me how people like her can make a fortune in the greatest country in the world, with the most opportunity anywhere, can then turn around and think we are the enemy.
As they say in the Navy, don’t go out on the weatherdecks at night.
rightside on May 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Of course. Rosie, why don’t you tell us allow about how fire doesn’t melt steel.
amerpundit on May 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM
allow=all
amerpundit on May 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM
To me, this is just proof that homosexuality is a choice - and a POOR choice.
Americans are free to make whatever decision we want to make. Rosie wants to take Ahmadinejad’s creed over America’s creed because he is ‘Bush’s enemy’. It does not matter that he executes homosexuals for being homosexual. . . that’s her poor decision.
Wright’s ideas have no basis in fact or reality, but she agrees with them because it paints America as an evil place (don’t question their patriotism though).
She says that everybody is ‘a little bit’ gay which would indicate that everybody is ‘a little bit straight’ too. . . which again leads to the conclusion that homosexuality is a poor choice by misguided individuals.
Rosie would believe anything that goes against conservatives and considers America to be evil (the Great Satan). I am just glad that she is not influential outside of the 1 - 2 million loud homosexuals in America. We are free in America, but that means we are free to be wrong too. Rosie has plenty of money so it doesn’t matter to her if she is wrong. But here again, she is wrong again.
ThackerAgency on May 5, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Oh, how my heart flutters when a rich white woman bonds with the suffering of african-americans.
And, to have the haughty political figure of Kathy Lee Gifford in the mix …?
nirvana.
yo on May 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Didn’t start the video, didn’t read all of Allah’s intro…. Rosie is a worthless piece of protoplasm… have a great day, folks!
MNDavenotPC on May 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM
There is something seriously wrong with you…
Rick on May 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Frankly, I don’t know who gives a flying flit what this, female, has to say.
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letget on May 5, 2008 at 2:11 PM
That’s the nastiest thing anyone has said about Wright yet.
Jaibones on May 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM
I would like to challenge Rosie O’Donnell to act as the official interpreter for The Anything But Righteous Reverend Wrong Way Wright and tell the rest of us who obviously seem to missing something vital here exactly what the hell it is he is actually trying to say.
And at the same time, she can once again share with us her riveting theory on how steel can’t melt in fire.
After which, we can offer her and the Reverend a nice piping hot cup of SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!!!!
pilamaye on May 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM
My God, people. When liberals are honest we should at least praise their honesty. Rosie at least has the guts to admit that she agrees with Wright. Almost all liberals agree with him, too, but fear being exposed.
It is far, far, far easier to deal with the Left when they at least are honest about their agenda. Dumping on the very few who are willing to come out and express what the rest of them are hiding is very counterproductive for our side.
Halley on May 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM
I think she’s just angling to be America’s first Secretary of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education in a new expanded cabinet.
RBMN on May 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Maybe I’m alone here, but I do a little.
And anyone who is surprised by her statement hasn’t seen her since she had her own show.
Esthier on May 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Birds gotta fly.
Fire
gottacan’t melt steel.Rich Hollywood liberals gotta hate America.
misterpeasea on May 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Three fourths or three fifths, whatever. Whoever cites this part of the original Constitution is just plain ignorant. Black slaves were NO fifths of a person; this just had to do with counting them as a fraction to increase southern representation in Congress.
I get so sick of hearing this nonsense.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Was Rosie loudly chewing her gum while describing what makes sense to her?
viking01 on May 5, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Exit answer: Yeah, I did, kinda…this is too much fun.
James on May 5, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Who knew balloons could talk?
MadisonConservative on May 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Somebody make her go away.
thatcher on May 5, 2008 at 2:25 PM
If you think fire can’t melt steel then Wright might make since to you.
TheSitRep on May 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Rosie O - The first time fat melted polyester.
whitetop on May 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Stuck on stupid
libhater on May 5, 2008 at 2:30 PM
U r Wright - - Rosie
Entelechy on May 5, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Gomer Pyle would be saying, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
that thrill got stuck in sweaty folds.
maverick muse on May 5, 2008 at 2:32 PM
AP, can you at least avoid putting her picture on the front page? I have a weak stomach. I never read the Rosie stories or watch the clips, so the only thing standing between me and a happy digestive tract is a little consideration on your part.
Thanks much.
Splashman on May 5, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I don’t doubt that it did.
Actus reus and Rosie’s consipratorial mind:
Rosie makes a critical mistake by confussing omission with comission. She has inferred that the Tuskegee Study meant that that the govt actively infected unsuspecting black men with syphilis. I suspect that this is the crux of Wright’s argument as well.
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was as the name suggests, a study of the deleterious effects of syphilis on untreated men. It was not linked in anyway to an effort to actively infect black men.
While neglect is unpardonable, the statements of Rosie and Wright suggest a fundamental misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the facts.
moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Rosie and her ilk are good as confidence boosters. Just about anyone can say “I’m smarter than that”. It’s a “good thing”, as Martha Stewert would say.
Entelechy on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Rosie may be gone, but I still won’t watch The View. No way, no how.
And she is stupid. Read Cyril Kornbluth’s short story “The Marching Morons” I fear we are headed that way.
Ellen on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
The government did not give syphilis to the Tuskegee men; those men got syphilis all on their own. The government simply left them untreated. True, that wasn’t ethically appropriate. But nothing prevented those men from seeking treatment elsewhere.
paul006 on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
And no, I do not miss Rosie in the slightest.
moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Manatees are indignant, again.
Entelechy on May 5, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Judging by the picture, I thought it was Jabba the Hut with a wig.
No, I do not miss her in the slightest. Figures she agrees with that racist chump.
Geronimo on May 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps “Red” Rosie and “Red” Wright can get together for a slice of red velvet cake. Today is Karl Marx’ birthday.
whitetop on May 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM
But, let’s focus on topic, the size of her brain.
Entelechy on May 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Larry the Cable Guy is right: “Rosie “O” Fat Arse” is a retard!
kcd on May 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM
What brain!!??
kcd on May 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM
It wasn’t gum, she was chewing her cud, after all she is a an ignorant fat cow!
dmann on May 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Mercifully, the RedLasso clip would not play when I (inexplicably) attempted to play it. From the one image I could see: was that a tarp she was wearing?
dont taze me bro on May 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM
And this helps O’bama, how? Or is this Rosie’s way of keeping the Wrightgate in our faces? Isn’t Rosie a Hillary backer?
bloggless on May 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Every bit as much as I miss the dentist’s drill when it isn’t around.
Typhoon on May 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM
I have a new show idea for Rosie that I might be willing to watch.
The concept is this: Rosie is turned loose with a lone camera person to do investigative journalism and uncover the truth for which the networks are unwilling to expose.
To the nutroots it would be a hard hitting exposé of power,greed, smoke filled rooms and filthy conspiracies and to the rest of the normal, critical thinkers a comedy. Think spinal tap without the talent.
Just a thought.
moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM
How could I possibly miss her? She’s as big as a house.
Jim Treacher on May 5, 2008 at 2:45 PM
America’s chickens are coming home to … TOILET SEAT!
Cuffy Meigs on May 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM
No, O’bama’s chickens have come home to roost.
bloggless on May 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Hey, stop dissing fried Twinkies. Those things are good.
Buford Gooch on May 5, 2008 at 2:50 PM
I’d like to submit one of Rosie’s more famous quotes, ‘ching - chong”. That’s all.
bloggless on May 5, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Rosie is the walking liberal. The liberals claim they welcome everyone under their tent, Rosie wears the tent, everyone is welcome under it…have a nice lunch.
right2bright on May 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM
When toilets mate…
saved on May 5, 2008 at 2:53 PM
dude i am not going to watch that hate filled biggot, miss o’donell.
custer on May 5, 2008 at 2:54 PM
rosie considers herself part of an underclass (gay-woman), so she gives other underclass (in this case self imposed) folks like wright a pass, no matter how outrageous.
what blabber. what a loser.
jimmer on May 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM
And frankly, it makes sense to me that it makes sense to you.
winemkr on May 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM
The government did not give syphilis to the Tuskegee men; those men got syphilis all on their own. The government simply left them untreated. True, that wasn’t ethically appropriate. But nothing prevented those men from seeking treatment elsewhere.
paul006 on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
The people being studied here were in fact told that they were being treated, but you are correct, people linking this study with any attempt to INFECT black men with syphilis is simply a willing excercise in ignorance and a laziness preventing further research of the FACTS. There actually was no cure for syphilis at that point in history so even the argument that they SHOULD have been treating these people is bunk.
Bill O’Reilly missed this correction in an interview as well…I wish I could have been there to have corrected these ignorant statements myself and witness the foolish look on the nitwits faces when you knock the entire wind out of their argument.
LeaningRt. on May 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Guess that answers my question. Thanks.
dont taze me bro on May 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Give my regards to Fraudway.
mymanpotsandpans on May 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM
The government simply left them untreated while claiming to treat them. True, that was
wasn’t ethically appropriatecriminally negligent. But nothing prevented those men from seeking treatment elsewhere, except for the fact that they thought they were receiving the best treatment.paul006 on May 5, 2008 at 2:34 PM
FTFY
***
Dear Rosie,
Fire melts cheese. Enjoy.
The Race Card on May 5, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Heh. Just like old times AP. Ahhhhhhh, the memories.
BacaDog on May 5, 2008 at 3:07 PM
I miss her like I miss being a Bradley driver for a combat arms unit in Iraq in ‘03: Happy to have done it, but tenfold happy I don’t have to do it again! May that woman slip into unparalelled obscurity.
Spc Steve on May 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Of course this makes sense to a woman who thinks that fire can’t melt steel.
shick on May 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Of course it makes sense to Rosie. I would have been simply shocked if it didn’t
Beam him aboard, Rosie, or does his Islamic leanings bear a tendency for stringing up homosexuals? In that case, there might be an orca strength steel beam with your name on it.
Hening on May 5, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Yes, and I hold you responsible for laying the groundwork for my “tent” image…
right2bright on May 5, 2008 at 3:13 PM
What a great excuse for the wife.
“Yes, I have a STD, and Whitey gave it to me. You don’t think I would go I would go running around your back, baby?”
I bet Clinton used it.
Hening on May 5, 2008 at 3:15 PM
As funny as scratching jokes onto a chalkboard.
Your masocistic sense of comedy is scary. :)
shick on May 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM
When America gives you chickens you make
lemonadefried chicken.moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM
“Old age approached, but one look from Rosie and it backed off - fast!”
mojo on May 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Why give this woman any air time for crying out loud??
Of course she agrees with him, she misses the limelight, please don’t bring her back. The way we are hearing everyday about Wright, we were hearing everyday what Rosie said—who cares??? She and her views are bad for our nation, so why share it??
Conservatives R Us on May 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM
The government did not infect men with syphilis:
The experiment was an abomination, but let’s try to get the basic facts straight. Okey dokey Rosie?
CC: Jeremiah Wright
Buy Danish on May 5, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Oops, forgot the link:
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
Buy Danish on May 5, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Doesn’t this give you the creeps? That our government was conducting this experiment, well after the time treatment was available? It makes me sick to my stomach. And you know, it didn’t have be black men. It could have easily have been white sharecroppers. Poor. Uneducated. There are some moments in our history when I hang my head in shame. However, unlike Michelle Obama, I have found plenty to be proud of and hold my head high. But, it makes me sick that the harshest thing you would say about what was done was ethically inappropriate.
Sue on May 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Didn’t she portray a
malefemale welder, dock worker or scrap metal scrounger worker or something? In short, as a pseudo metal worker intellectual person and personality, she should know better.moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM
The Tuskeegee Study is a prime example of what HillaryCare would be like. We’re from the government and we’re here to “help.”
viking01 on May 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM
So where was she when the comet hit?
Cicero43 on May 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM
The Tuskegee study was grossly unethical, and the medical practitioners (some of whom were African-Americans themselves) who deceived the patients behaved shamefully. However, it doesn’t help anyone’s understanding of the event to keep perpetuating falsehoods (the myth that the U.S. government deliberately infected healthy black men with syphilis is nowhere “near to being true” AP).
AZCoyote on May 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
What she said about Tuskegee is a lie!
RobCon on May 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Doesn’t this give you the creeps? That our government was conducting this experiment, well after the time treatment was available? It makes me sick to my stomach. And you know, it didn’t have be black men. It could have easily have been white sharecroppers. Poor. Uneducated. There are some moments in our history when I hang my head in shame. However, unlike Michelle Obama, I have found plenty to be proud of and hold my head high. But, it makes me sick that the harshest thing you would say about what was done was ethically inappropriate.
Sue on May 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM
The Tuskegee study was grossly unethical, and the medical practitioners (some of whom were African-Americans themselves) who deceived the patients behaved shamefully. However, it doesn’t help anyone’s understanding of the event to keep perpetuating falsehoods (the myth that the U.S. government deliberately infected healthy black men with syphilis is nowhere “near to being true” AP).
AZCoyote on May 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Yes and yes.
Interestingly, the CDC website states that the study was undertaken to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks.
The timeline on the CDC website is chock full of informative details.
RushBaby on May 5, 2008 at 3:46 PM
I know the government did not infect these men deliberately. I also know that when the study started, there was no cure for the disease. What makes me sick is that it continued until 1972. Long after treatment would have been available. And nothing can sugarcoat that.
Sue on May 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Best.First.Post.Ever.
The Ugly American on May 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM
5 Companies own all the media in this country, Ro-dog? Really?
I know that is the least insane thing she said, but I thought that by bringing it up it would put her other
ideasbrain farts in context.VolMagic on May 5, 2008 at 3:53 PM
I have to agree with Rev Right about one thing. There is a problem with Rich White People!
Agrippa2k on May 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Whatever you do, don’t violate Rosie’s freedom of speech!!
Rick on May 5, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Of course, I miss Rosie. She’s the living repudiation of the Left’s insistence that they are geniuses. We shouldn’t wish her to go away but rather give her a megaphone and a parade. Because, you know, the lefties never get loud and stupid enough for me.
Tantor on May 5, 2008 at 4:06 PM
My guess is Rosie heard Wright talking about chickens coming home to roost and figures she could bum a 12-piece bucket of extra crispy off the reverend next time she’s in Chicago.
jon1979 on May 5, 2008 at 4:09 PM
LMAO…
Chakra Hammer on May 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM
It makes sense to her, but fire doesn’t melt steel.
She must eat buffets to lose weight.
Stupid her logic is. No wonder she didn’t get that “Price is Right” job.
Black Adam on May 5, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Probably more than half of blacks who know about Tuskegee/syphilis/experiment believe the US govt infected black men. I’ve heard it over and over again. It may be 75%. And then there’s Rosie. Pathetic. So many urban black myths, so much ignorance.
Paul-Cincy on May 5, 2008 at 4:14 PM
It’s amazing that anyone with brain would listen to this queef?
Zorg on May 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM
May I add, no one infected black men with syphilis, either deliberately, on purpose, by mistake, or otherwise. They had syphilis and came in for treatment.
Paul-Cincy on May 5, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Of course it did. When you hate your country, things like that will amke sense in their own twisted way.
Yakko77 on May 5, 2008 at 4:17 PM
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