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Fifth Column
Rosie O: '"Don't fear terrorists, they're just moms and dads"
2006-11-13
TV host Rosie O'Donnell says there's no reason for Americans to fear terrorists because they are just moms and dads like us. On her ABC show "The View" last Thursday, the shoot-from-the-lip actress-comedienne explained in less-than Rooseveltian fashion that Americans have nothing to fear but fear itself.

"Faith or fear, that's your choice," she told co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck and panelists including Barbara Walters and Beverly Sills. "You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking. And I think that this country ... ."

To which Hasselbeck interjected: "Well, I'm a person of faith, so I, but I also believe ... ."

"Well then, get away from the fear," interrupted O'Donnell. "Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

O'Donnell also said few were willing to speak out against the Iraq war in the beginning because, "people were blacklisted. We were close to the McCarthy era, where if you said that you were against the policies of the administration, you were called unpatriotic."
Remind us, Rosie, exactly who was blacklisted?
On Sept. 12, O'Donnell said on the show "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
Posted by:anonymous5089

#37  Okay, I''ll bite, thought BUDDHISTS as a class were the only ones NOT targeted for boom-booms by Radical Islam. JEWS, CHRISTIANS, PAGANS = NATURALISTS, + HINDUS, watch your sixes, you betcha. Iff IRAQ SHIA-SUNNI factionalism is any measure, can prob add SUNNIS = NON SHIA MUSLIMS to the above.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-13 23:13  

#36  "Sounds to me like Rosie and Elton John are a marriage made in Heaven. One hates Christianity, and the other hates organized religion in general...and they are both fat, obnoxious, and stupid."

-and gay. Rosie could be the guy in the relationship.

"Would they hang her, like they hang gays in Iran?"

-they could try, though her fat ass would snap any rope they got.

Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-11-13 21:48  

#35  It would take one large, musty burka to cover her.

I'm sure the Ringling Brothers have one that they can spare.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-13 17:50  

#34  Re" #33 Omar's Tent and Awning is having an end of the year sale; perhaps her size is in stock. (or should that be 'sail')
Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-11-13 17:49  

#33  
It would take one large, musty burka to cover her.
Posted by: Master of Obvious   2006-11-13 17:08  

#32  Sounds to me like Rosie and Elton John are a marriage made in Heaven. One hates Christianity, and the other hates organized religion in general...and they are both fat, obnoxious, and stupid.

Maybe we can give Sir Elton the Mike Tyson award for stupidity for blowing over $100 million US and flirting with bankruptcy.
Posted by: anymouse   2006-11-13 16:58  

#31  Bold words from a fat, infidel lesbian with her own personal armed bodyguard.

Ya beat me to those thoughts, Steve S.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-11-13 16:52  

#30  "I dunno, she seems pretty talented."

At what?
Posted by: OldSpook   2006-11-13 16:51  

#29  Rosie, you can be fat or obnoxious or stupid, but you can't get away with being all three.

I dunno, she seems pretty talented.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-11-13 15:59  

#28  I don't see why we can't take the Gitmo boys and these LLL "they just need some love" MFrrss like Rosie, Sheenan ect.. put them all in a big Dome sit back and enjoy. At the end of the day we will either have no more LLL's and thier bretheren may finally understand we are at WAR or who knows they may actually love the Jihadi's into blissfull gay love and peace on earth cumbya.

Sounds like a win win in my book. Only if I was President.
Posted by: C-Low   2006-11-13 15:58  

#27  Rosie's just like Jimmy Carter. There's no reason to post her lunacy on Rantburg except to sit back and enjoy all the snarking that will surely result.

FWIW, looks like Hasselbeck at least tried to interject but was nowhere near assertive enough. Might have been a good cat fight if she had.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2006-11-13 15:24  

#26  I am trying to think if I have heard a more stupid remark by a "celebrity" in the past week.
Posted by: anymouse   2006-11-13 15:03  

#25  Rosie, you can be fat or obnoxious or stupid, but you can't get away with being all three.
Posted by: Ebbaling Hupavise8113   2006-11-13 15:00  

#24  Moms and Dads just like us = gay terrorists?
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-11-13 14:43  

#23  it's called the Internet. Maybe youo've heard of it

Get a clue. I'm talking about refuting such bullshit in the exact same arena that it's broadcasted in. The viewing public that gets fed this horseshit needs a promptly administered anti-dote before the poison reaches their bloodstream.

The people who are watching or listening to Rosie aren't usually patroling the Internet for their information. Are you going to argue that?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-13 14:27  

#22  Cripes--so what would they do to this chunky muff diver in an islamic society?

Marry her off, of course. It's not like her opinions on the matter would be consulted, and in Egypt at least the standard of beauty was 100 kg, so it wouldn't take long. Although that second bit was back in the 1980s according to an amusing little story related by Mr. Wife at the time, so perhaps it's changed since.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-11-13 14:10  

#21  Why does anybody listen to this fat POS anymore anyway?
Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-11-13 14:06  

#20  Gordon Liddy once said to David Frost "The trouble with Liberals is they think the ocean is inhabited by "Charlie the Tuna". I've got news for you, it's "Jaws" out there."
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2006-11-13 13:42  

#19  perfect graphic! Someday we will use Rosie's picture to symoblize drip-drooling stupid.
Posted by: anon   2006-11-13 13:22  

#18  Hitler wasn't a dad.
Whaddya think his excuse was, Rosebag?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-11-13 13:20  

#17  Cripes--so what would they do to this chunky muff diver in an islamic society? Would they hang her, like they hang gays in Iran? Would they expect her own family to perform an "honor" killing? Or would they bury her up to her neck and stone her to death?

But cheer up, Rosie! Remember the people who'd butcher you are just moms and dads!
Posted by: Dar   2006-11-13 13:11  

#16  Stalin was a dad.
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2006-11-13 12:58  

#15   there needs to be some way of instantly making a fool out of anyone who spouts such patently false bullshit

it's called the Internet. Maybe youo've heard of it

Oh wait...
Posted by: badanov   2006-11-13 12:56  

#14  Let them eat cake bacon.
Posted by: OldSpook   2006-11-13 12:55  

#13  ...or head.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-11-13 12:42  

#12  You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world...

And get your ass handed to you everytime.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-11-13 12:36  

#11  It would seem like just the easiest thing to do, to publish in Arabic newspapers an editorial exclaiming how Islam is a false religion, Mohammed was a fraud, and how Moslem children should be forcibly converted to atheism and made to eat pork.

By Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-11-13 12:35  

#10  As I've already pointed out many times and Barbara indicated yesterday; It's these gay liberals who would be the first to get beheaded once the Islamists arrive. This sort of stupidity would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous.

I'll certainly go with OldSpook on the need for immediate slap-upside-the-head corrections when shit like this is spewed. Frightening as it may be, these morons actually influence the public's thinking and there needs to be some way of instantly making a fool out of anyone who spouts such patently false bullshit.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-13 12:34  

#9  Rosie O. hasn't noticed the moms and dads sending their junior birdmen out the door with those cute little exploding vests.
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger1073   2006-11-13 12:24  

#8  Fred needs to start a new section "Morons in the Media." Probably not enough bandwidth to include them all, however.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-11-13 12:18  

#7  What a demented bitch.
But we already knew that.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-11-13 12:12  

#6  Bold words from a fat, infidel lesbian with her own personal armed bodyguard.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-11-13 11:50  

#5  Actually the Terrs are not moms and dads - for the most part they are single men 16-28, violent angry and criminally inclined, motivated by extremist intolerant religious ideaology of the Islamacists.

Rosy o fat ass needs an immediate correction when she spouts apologist bilge like that.
Posted by: OldSpook   2006-11-13 11:49  

#4  good. She's making such an idiot of herself that they will have to pull her or risk appearing to agree with her lunacy.
Posted by: anon   2006-11-13 11:34  

#3  Yeah.

Don't be afraid.

Just run away.

That's a solid strategy for vitory.

Let's retreat!
Posted by: badanov   2006-11-13 11:28  

#2  Say it in Saudi without a veil on.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2006-11-13 11:28  

#1  I was in Borders yesterday and of the new releases there were a bunch of new books on how evil Christians, Jews and Buddhist were. Nothing about Islam.

This less than a week after the election.

Can we put Rosie up at a hotel in Yemen or Warastan? Somewhere she could check out her theory?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-11-13 11:27  

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