Breaking: Ro-Ro-Rosie, Goodbye

James,

Note that no network has ever been willing to give Coulter her own program. Sure, they like to have her on as a guest for a ratings bump, but they don't want to deal with her on a daily basis. I think the same might happen to Rosie. She might be able to put something together herself, but I don't think anyone will come knocking on her door for a while. She has gotten out of control of late and ends up saying some really ignorant stuff. I'm no Hasselbeck fan, but it isn't her job to defend Rosie's mouth. Rosie is a big girl....no pun intended. Perhaps she should quit dishing it if she can't take it.

I like "Ro Ro" The View is going to go down hill. I really did not look @ the View that much before Rosie...

Don't let the door hit you on the *** Rosie! So long and good riddence.

Rosie was right. She asked Elizabeth to say that those who were attacking her were dead wrong about her, and Elizabeth demurred.

The person who should be leaving is Hasselbeck -- she's incapable of a "fair fight" (the Trump remark), but then again that is part and parcel of being a GOP sock-puppet, and any replacement for her is going to be just another GOP sock puppoet incapable of defending the Republican position

The problem with the show is that the Republican perspective is indefensible, yet the producers feel they need someone there to act as the voice of Bush supporters. Purely in terms of "informational" programming, the show would be far better off with a "sensible progressive" who would call Rosie on some of her more outrageous statements (e.g. implying that the implosion of the third tower represented some kind of vast government conspiracy on 9-11.)

Rosie's human, and one of the things typical of humans is that it becomes much harder to deal with the day-to-day bullshit you deal with on a job once you know you are leaving that job. Its at that point that all the bullshit really gets to you, because there is no "upside" to dealing with it.

So good for Rosie for standing up and saying "there is no point in my sticking around for three weeks to act as a foil for a moronic GOP sock-puppet."

Iam so so sorry rosie ddecided to leave.
the view will not be the same without her!!!
i hope she gets her own show real soon.
hopfully opisit the view!!!!!

I am so sorry to see Rosie leave especially this way, by letting Elizabeth and the news media get rid of her. Elizabeth comes to work every day with a chip on her shoulder when it comes to anything regarding politics....she could not keep her mouth shut and let Joy even read the things she had to say that day.....Elizabeth kept interrupting instead of hearing her out and then pointing out her differences. She would not answer Rosie.....all Rosie ask for was a yes or no and Elizabeth just kept her mouth going, and I believe that she hurt Rosie's feelings terribly and she didn't care...she sounded like a spoiled brat. I really believe that Elizabeth is the one who should be leaving the show. I find it funny that everyone tells these stories about how Rosie is so wrong about what she says about politics, but she says the same things that my husband says and he is a professional and a very intelligent man. So all of these thoughts that Rosie says are not untrue about the politics and at no time did she ever not fully back our troops....and it makes me furious to hear the media blow this out of proportion.

Why is O'Donnell being so thin-skinned about this? Her original statement (where she cited the number of Iraqi citizens dead and then asked "who are the terrorists?") was ridiculous and did nothing to further the debate about Iraq. She DID equate US troops with terrorists, and while I don't believe that was her intention, she should be held responsible for making such sweeping and counterproductive statements about a complex issue like the war in Iraq.

[Note: I'm not a conservative and adamantly opposed the administrations decision to invade Iraq. That doesn't mean I automatically agree with everything suggested by people on the left, particularly when the person talking has such a simplistic conception of foreign policy. So please don't accuse me of being some blind Bush follower.]

For O'Donnell to expect her Hasselbeck to defend O'Donnell for saying something Hasselbeck almost certainly found offensive at the time is irrational and self-centered. And Hasselbeck was right when she said that O'Donnell was trying to make the debate personal by accusing Hasselbeck of being a bad friend.

This whole thing depresses me. As a woman, I cringe at such a public display of two poorly informed women dragging personal conflict into a debate about foreign policy. As someone who follows the news and can see what an impossible conundrum we now find ourselves in with regards to Iraq, I am weary of the old Left/Right, Good/Evil, Anti-Bush/Pro-Bush framework being trotted out even though it long ago ceased to provide any useful insight on this issue.

Good riddance to Rosie. And if her departure means the View's rating fall and it's eventually cancelled, all the more reason to celebrate. The show may have been riveting this last season, but for all the wrong reasons.

just goes to show that "there's no biz like show biz" Has anyone ever seen the movie "They Shoot Horses Don't They"??

I can't believe that the producers, execs, whatever, keep Elizabeth on the show. She has never had anything interseting to say and her political opinion is out of the GOP handbook. She has no life experience. Maybe that would be a good job for her after she lives in the real world for a while and then can look at things with a real persons perspectives.
Elizabeth did not answer Rosie's question with the easy Yes / No that was needed. Rosie's feeling were hurt, you could see it in her eyes, and I felt for, as I am sure many did.
I am so tired of Elizabeth's Kaleidoscope eyes that I wonder sometimes how much she is getting paid to be like that, for surely no one can be that imperceptive.

@Joanna: forget the producers, I wonder why Hasselbeck or anyone else actually chooses to be associated with this show. Sooner or later (and usually sooner) it makes a fool out of everyone: Starr Jones, Hasselbeck, O'Donnell, Barbara Walters... the only one who seems to have escaped with her dignity intact is Meredith Viera. Why these people choose to do this to themselves is beyond me. Forget Survivor; surviving this show is the new form of reality TV.

I am sorry that Rosie is leaving the view. It was never better when she hosted the show. Rosie will be missed. I think that Barbara should make Joy the new host. I feel that Elizabeth should grow up a little and stop being so opinonated, its like she sulks when she doesn't get HER point across or if someone disagrees with her. Even the guest are starting to ignore her when they come on stag. I would watch again just for Joy B. and Barbara.

ROSIE I LOVED YOU ON YOUR OTHER TALK SHOW, BUT ON THE VIEW YOU WERE ALWAYS ONE SIDED IF YOU DID NOT BELIEVE IN IT, THEN IT WAS NOT RIGHT.AND A LITTLE TOO MUCH ON YOUR FAMILY SEX LIFE. WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE SHOULD BE YOUR BUSSINESS, NOT ALL OF CHANNEL SEVENS. WISH YOU LUCK IN THE FUTURE,HOPE YOU FIND PEACE WITH YOUR SELF. P MAKROS