Rosie's gone...

[noseybuddy]

Did you see the blog video? She's wearing a do-rag with no make-up on and holding up a beer bottle. It's not a good look. I don't know who the other woman with a glass of red wine is.
In it she compares herself to a foster child who was sent away after being tried for a year. She said she never felt welcome.

I saw the blog video. I didn't see anything wrong with it. It was a Saturday night and she was chillin with a friend and having a beer. Big deal.

I didn't see this as a big deal either. She made that comment and then moved on.

 

[Donna]

Agreed. If only more people would have the guts to say what they mean and mean what they say regardless if it goes against the tide of popular opinion. I'm not saying Rosie is right or wrong. But she has an opinion and I think it's great that she isn't afraid to voice it.

This is exactly what i say......only i say it about elizabeth. she could have easily backed down and just sat there all these months, knowing that her "view" was an unpopular one, but she spoke up and i was always glad that she wasn't afraid to speak up. If someone has to go, i'm glad it was rosie. I can only imagine how obnoxious Joy will be now. Tomorrow's show should be interesting.

I just wanted to add that I will miss the humor rosie brought to the show. I just won't miss her overbearing opinion and condascending manner.

 

[auntie]

As much as I enjoyed watching Rosie..and sometimes agreed with her...and sometimes I didn't, I was beginning to grow very weary of the constant political debates. It was getting old. Honestly I just wish entertainers would do just that entertain, and keep their politics to themselves. I don't ask my plumber what political party is a member of, I don't ask the doctor, or the pharmacist. I don't care. Everyone is entitled to their "view"...and either you agree or you don't. However it really did appear of late that if you didn't share Rosie's view...you were either an idiot or totally ignorant. That's just the feeling I've gotten in the past couple of weeks especially. Once it was annouced she wasn't planing to return, I think she felt she could say whatever she wanted, no matter who it might offend. She didn't care. As much as Rosie has the right to express her view...she isn't very tolerant of opposing "views". I've said it before..but Rosie is her own worst enemy. She did herself in. This is pretty much what happened with her own show..and it happened with the view. It's a shame because I think she is very talented, and admire her enthusiasm. She's no dummy..the woman is very media savy and saw the handwriting on the wall. I'm sorry but she isn't this poor put upon soul. I think she was pretty ticked things weren't going her way. Now she is the poor foster child who didn't fit in? Give me a break. I'm tired of it all. I won't miss the fighting, and the spontinaity and enthusiasm that she first brought to the show..well, that's been gone for awhile.

 

[angel*lady]

I used to be a big Rosie fan years ago. Unfortunately in recent years she has turned into a very angry, bitter person with a HUGE chip on her shoulder. She seems to get into fights with EVERYONE!! Now when I see her - I just change the channel or turn the page in the magazine. Maybe she needs to figure out why she has such a need to go for the jugular with everyone who doesn't agree with her 100%. She is definately a loose cannon! Some of the stuff that comes out of her mouth is unbelievable! Her leaving the View has no effect on me personally. I stopped watching it long before she came along - I think it ran it's course ages ago! I'd rather read a good book or visit the DIS!

 

[KristinBelle]

Full transcript of the fight, located here, just scroll down a bit-

JOY BEHAR: I was watching Al Gore on, on "Larry King" last night and, you know, he has a new book out, Al Gore, where he basically really says that Bush was the worst president that we’ve ever had in the history of the country. And I noticed that Jimmy Carter, a former president, is saying the same thing. So now if the former president Jimmy Carter is saying it and a former vice president of the United States is saying it and I have a list here of the things that Bush has done. I don't really understand why he's still there. Does anyone have any idea why we can't get rid of this guy who stole the election in 2000, killed the surplus with tax cuts –

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: According to Gore he stole it.

BEHAR: Wait a minute. It's very long. Wanting to privatize social security. Let me get through the list.

HASSELBECK: It’s very long, so we might be here for a while.

BEHAR: We might be here for a while. I let you talk yesterday. Now I'm talking. And I love her, but let me do this. He withdrew us from the Kyoto Treaty, John Ashcroft. Sat in the classroom after learning about 9/11 --

HASSELBECK: So he was supposed to freak out the kids when he was reading to them, I suppose.

BEHAR: And read "My Pet Goat" for seven minutes after we were attacked on 9/11.

HASSELBECK: Right, he should have definitely panicked the children.

BEHAR: He lied to us to get us into the war. He awarded a no-bid contract to Halliburton, Abu Ghraib. He promoted his friend Michael Brown to take care of Katrina. Heck of a job, Brownie. Remember that? He doesn't listen to the Iraq Study Group. He choked on a pretzel. [laughter] He waited a week to visit New Orleans and then only to watch some jazz. He stood by Alberto Gonzales, who needs to be thrown out, we all know that, and he stood by Rumsfeld, who some people think is a war criminal. He can't pronounce the word "nuclear." [laughter] These are just some of the reasons -- [Applause] -- That this guy needs to be thrown out of office.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: Yes, but he didn't sleep with an intern.

[laughter]

BEHAR: Yes, but maybe he should.

HASSELBECK: No, he did not.

BEHAR: I'm just saying something is wrong in this country when we are continuing to support this administration. I am furious today over all of this and Al Gore makes me mad because he doesn't run. Now, he says in the interview yesterday with Larry King that he's not running because he thinks global warming is more important. Well, the president of the United States has more power than anybody in the world and he needs to run for office if he wants to fix global warming and get us out of this mess that we’re in.

SHEPHERD: You think Al Gore could get us out, Al Gore?

BEHAR: Who else could? Who else could?

HASSELBECK: I knew I liked you, Sherri.

SHEPHERD: No I'm just saying, Al Gore, you know what he’s talking about with the Green Peace and everything, but you really think Al Gore is the one to get us out of this mess?

BEHAR: Why not?

HASSELBECK: What's his plan to keep us safe other than, in terms of the evironment?

BEHAR: He has a plan, read the book. He has a lot of plans in that book.

HASSELBECK: I’m sure he does.

BEHAR: He doesn't just criticize the president. He also criticizes the media. He says when we had that O.J. Simpson trial, he thought that was an aberration and we would not be so stupid as to be watching nonsense like that constantly, that CNN was constantly doing. But it's not an aberration.

HASSELBECK: Isn't he using the media to promote his books and films?

BEHAR: And we watch "Dancing with the Stars" instead of dealing with what’s going on--

HASSELBECK: No, not instead of, not instead of. You can watch “Dancing with the Stars” and also watch a lot of things that pertain to world politics, news safety, etcetera, absolutely.

BEHAR: How many people watched him speak on CNN? I’d like to know.

HASSELBECK: It’s called Tivo.

BEHAR: I’m just wondering.

SHEPHERD: I'm sorry. I wanted to see Laila and Apollo, but I did.

HASSELBECK: I don't think you're a bad person.

BEHAR: I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm just saying nobody is interested.

HASSELBECK: People are interested. They just can do it on their own time. We’re in a situation now where technology allows us to do it.

BEHAR: We need to be furious. This country needs to be furious with what's going on.

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: It's called the election. You have- here is your opportunity, okay. You have, we’re a democratic society, you have the election in 2008 to change things.

BEHAR: Do you know how much damage this guy can do in a year and a half? He can invade Iran for all I know.

HASSELBECK: With Congress now as is?

BEHAR: Congress cannot pass anything because he, he vetoes it and they can't override it because his cronies in the Republican party stick by this president for political reasons.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: They stick by him for not demanding a pullout date for the troops, which is essentially saying to your enemies, I don’t know any team out there. I don’t have any strategy that says-

BEHAR: He doesn't have a plan.

HASSELBECK: -Here is the date that we are going to leave.

ROSIE O’DONNELL: To our enemies?

HASSELBECK: To our enemies, this is when we are going to pull out.

O’DONNELL: The enemies in Iraq?

HASSELBECK: Al Qaeda.

O’DONNELL: Wait, the enemies in Iraq?

HASSELBECK: Al Qaeda.

BEHAR: He didn’t even go after Osama Bin Laden when he was supposed to.

O’DONNELL: Elisabeth did, wait Joy. You just said our enemies in Iraq. Did Iraq attack us?

HASSELBECK: No. I'm saying Al Qaeda which is in Iraq.

O’DONNELL: Okay did Iraq talk us, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: Iraq did not attack us Rosie.

O’DONNELL: Correct.

HASSELBECK: We've been there before. I'm saying our enemies, Al Qaeda, are you hearing that?

O’DONNELL: I hear it. But where do you want to go?

BEHAR: This is a political discussion. Don’t interview each other. Just say what you mean.

HASSELBECK: If you're playing a game, okay, if you’re playing a game and I'm going to say okay I'm going to throw to my wide receiver, wide right, okay. Do you do that- what does it do for your enemy? It gives them time to plan.

O’DONNELL: If the enemy are innocent civilians, I don't want to play that kind of football.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: The enemy are not innocent civilians.

O’DONNELL: Iraq did not attack us!

BEHAR: Don’t yell at each other. Please let’s have a conversation.

O’DONNELL: You know why I don’t want to do this, Joy? Let me tell you why I don't want to do this. Because it here’s how it gets spun in the media: Rosie, big, fat, lesbian loud Rosie attacks innocent, pure, Christian Elisabeth.

BEHAR: Wait a minute. You don’t have to, let me do it!

HASSELBECK: I haven’t heard that line. Listen, I think it's unfair.

O’DONNELL: You should watch some of the shows you don't watch.

HASSELBECK: You accused me of watching all of those shows yesterday.

BEHAR: I’m okay arguing with Elisabeth.

O’DONNELL: You're just as sensitive when I’m hurt as I am when you were. Every time you were hurt, did I reach out to you?

BEHAR: Why is this personal? There's a war going on out there. It's not personal.

SHEPHERD: You know, this is why I like watching "Dancing with the Stars." This is exactly why.

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: I just don't understand why it's my fault if people spin words that you put out there or phrases that suggest things. And I gave you a opportunity, two days ago, to clarify the statement that got you in trouble on all those issues.

O’DONNELL: That, that got me in trouble. As a friend, you gave me the opportunity. That was very sweet of you. What I was asking is you, who actually knows me, do you believe I think our troops are terrorists, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: I don't think that you --

O’DONNELL: Yes or no?

HASSELBECK: I don’t believe that you–

O’DONNELL: Do you believe that, yes or no?

HASSELBECK: Excuse me. Let me speak.

O’DONNELL: You're going to double speak. It's just a yes or no.

HASSELBECK: I am not a double speaker and I don't put suggestions out there that lead people to think things and then not answer my own question.

O’DONNELL: I have a question to you and you didn't answer it.

HASSELBECK: I don't believe that you believe troops are terrorists. I have said that before. But when you say something like 650,000 Iraqis are dead, we invaded them.

O’DONNELL: It's true.

HASSELBECK: Let me finish, “who are the terrorist?”

O’DONNELL: You don't like the facts.

HASSELBECK: I'm all about facts. You know that. You tell me not to use facts because you want me to go only on emotion. Guess what? I like facts.

O’DONNELL: You cherry pick the facts you like.

BEHAR: Did I or did I not give this panel a list of facts?

[Applause]

SHEPHERD: And you know what? Oh my gosh! We're going to be right back with Alicia Silverstone!

[applause]

O’DONNELL: No, no, no we're not. Because we have a lot more time.

BEHAR: If you want to change the subject, that's something.

HASSELBECK: People were criticizing you for saying that because it suggested-

BEHAR: Oh, my God!

HASSELBECK: I said take your opportunity now. You have a show right now to tell the world --

O’DONNELL: I did take my opportunity to tell the world. I wanted to know what people like you, but you are my friend, since September, do you believe that I think our troops are terrorists? And you would not even look me in the face, Elisabeth, and say no, Rosie.

HASSELBECK: What are you talking about?

O’DONNELL: “I can understand how people are would have thought that, why don't you take this opportunity” like I'm six.

HASSELBECK: Because you are an adult and I'm certainly not going to be the person for you to explain your thoughts to. They're your thoughts. Defend your own insinuations.

[applause]

O’DONNELL: I defend my thoughts.

HASSELBECK: Defend your own thoughts.

O’DONNELL: Right, but every time I defend them, Elisabeth, it's poor little Elisabeth that I'm picking on.

HASSELBECK: You know what? Poor little Elisabeth is not poor little Elisabeth.

O’DONNELL: That's right. That's why I'm not going to fight with you anymore because it's absurd. So for three weeks you can say all the Republican crap you want.

HASSELBECK: It's much easier to fight someone like Donald Trump, isn’t it? Because he’s obnoxious.

O’DONNELL: I've never fought him. He fought me. I told a fact about him --

BEHAR: How did I get out of this conversation? I was in the middle of this conversation.

HASSELBECK: I gave you an opportunity to clarify.

O’DONNELL: You didn’t give me anything. You don't have to give me. I asked you a question.

HASSELBECK: I asked you a question.

O’DONNELL: And you wouldn’t even answer it.

HASSELBECK: You wouldn’t even answer your own question.

O’DONNELL: Oh Elisabeth, I don’t want- you know what? You really don't understand what I'm saying?

HASSELBECK: I understand what you're saying.

BEHAR: Let's go. Come on that’s it!

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: I think it's sad. I think it’s sad because I don't understand how there can be such hurt feelings when all I did way say, “look, why don't you tell everybody what you said?” I did that as a friend

O’DONNELL: All you did is not defend me. I asked you if you believe that I thought--

HASSELBECK: You didn't answer your own question. I don’t believe that you’re defending-

O’DONNELL: Elisabeth, every day since September I have told you I support the troops.

HASSELBECK: I have done the same for you.

O’DONNELL: I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying.

HASSELBECK: Did I say yes?

O’DONNELL: You said nothing and that's cowardly.

HASSELBECK: No, no, no. Do not, do not call me a coward. Because number one, I sit here every single day and open my heart and tell people exactly what I believe. Do not call me a coward, Rosie. I do not hide. I was not cowardly. It was honest.

O’DONNELL: It was.

HASSELBECK: What is cowardly?

BEHAR: Is there no commercial on this show?

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: Asking, asking, I'll tell you what's cowardly. Asking a rhetorical question that you never answer yourself.

BEHAR: Who is directing this show? Let's go to commercial. Let’s go to commercial.

HASSELBECK: I need a drink of water. Let’s go to commercial.

BEHAR: Man oh man.

SHEPHERD: How is the baby? Is the baby-

HASSELBECK: The baby's fine.

I know it was really long but I thought some people who didn't see it might be interested. I found it at another site. The site it came from is pretty offensive so I'm not posting the link. PM me if you want it.

 

[donnajon]

Elisabeth said that she didn't think Rosie believes our troops are terrorist. Rosie was too busy arguing over her to hear it. And Rosie was supposed to be the moderator! Sherri Shephard tried to cut to commercial before it got too out of hand and Rosie stopped her! The she gets mad and quits because she was hurt. It is like the kids who get mad and say "You're not my friend any more!" I actually enjoyed The View today when it was prerecorded and there was no political debate. Rosie can be quite entertaining and she does do great things. But she doesn't listen to the other side. With her, it is my way or the highway.

 

[mommylicious]

I thought it was petty obvious, they had been goating her all week, everyday getting a bit worse with the attacks. They played the woman like a fiddle and got what they wanted. MELTDOWN. I suppose they are all real proud of themselves now. I think it was pretty sick stuff. Again taking the politics out of it and just keeping in the people, sick stuff.

ITA. It's more interesting if you read Rosie's blog and pick up on a few things. Like she said a while back that EH was the only one who was briefed by the Exec. Producer every day. Like they fed her facts to argue or things to say to sort of egg Rosie on. None of the others had the same thing happening. Then she says that everything started Monday with the little fight. Then Tuesday she says she got some nasty emails and then the explosion on Wednesday. It did build and build. I hadn't thought about it being sweeps week but whoever mentioned that was completely right. I am starting to feel like it wasn't planned as in staged and Rosie was in on it but rather that the exec. producer manipulated the situation to have everything come to a head as it did.

Sad. Taking all of that into account, I don't blame her for leaving. It's saying I won't let you manipulate me like that.

 

[sunlver]

Did you see the blog video? She's wearing a do-rag with no make-up on and holding up a beer bottle. It's not a good look. I don't know who the other woman with a glass of red wine is.

In it she compares herself to a foster child who was sent away after being tried for a year. She said she never felt welcome.

The other women is Helene, her hair and makeup person from "The View". They are friends in real life as well.

 

[KristinBelle]

Elisabeth said that she didn't think Rosie believes our troops are terrorist. Rosie was too busy arguing over her to hear it. And Rosie was supposed to be the moderator! Sherri Shephard tried to cut to commercial before it got too out of hand and Rosie stopped her! The she gets mad and quits because she was hurt. It is like the kids who get mad and say "You're not my friend any more!" I actually enjoyed The View today when it was prerecorded and there was no political debate. Rosie can be quite entertaining and she does do great things. But she doesn't listen to the other side. With her, it is my way or the highway.

I did enjoy todays show as well. I said it before and I'll say it again, I think Rosie playing the victim in this is ridiculous, I'm just not buying it.

 

[mtblujeans]

Elisabeth said that she didn't think Rosie believes our troops are terrorist. Rosie was too busy arguing over her to hear it. And Rosie was supposed to be the moderator! Sherri Shephard tried to cut to commercial before it got too out of hand and Rosie stopped her! The she gets mad and quits because she was hurt. It is like the kids who get mad and say "You're not my friend any more!" I actually enjoyed The View today when it was prerecorded and there was no political debate. Rosie can be quite entertaining and she does do great things. But she doesn't listen to the other side. With her, it is my way or the highway.

And I will add, if Rosie really considered EH a friend, why put her on the spot in front of the nation like that? Shouldn't that have been a discussion over pretzels and beer if Rosie really wanted to clarify a friendship?

 

[MELSMICE]

Elisabeth said that she didn't think Rosie believes our troops are terrorist.

That's what I kept thinking & I am a fan of Rosie's.

 

[Grandmouse]

I'm truly sorry Rosie is gone. She gave the show much needed "life." For the show's sake, it would be better if Elisabeth or even Joy, had left. I don't think they add much. After not watching for several years, I started taping it again when Rose came on. It's over for me.

 

[sunlver]

I thought todays show was very "dry" and "boring". I knew Barbara W would just try to play nice and smooth things over. Rosie has not updated her question section in two days. Elizabeth said they have been in communication with each other over the weekend and on the road to forgiveness..hmmmm... wonder who is lying?

 

[PolyHereWeCome]

I thought todays show was very "dry" and "boring". I knew Barbara W would just try to play nice and smooth things over. Rosie has not updated her question section in two days. Elizabeth said they have been in communication with each other over the weekend and on the road to forgiveness..hmmmm... wonder who is lying?

Forgot to deprogram the VCR, so did watch The View today. I think EH is lying/exaggerating/stretching the truth, like "I called her home phone, but didn't directly speak with Rosie directly." EH put quite a little spin on her 30th birthday being one of her best birthday's ever, which is odd considering she and her family were originally invited by Rosie for a free trip to her Florida island home. Hmm, guess that offer got withdrawn.

And to the posters who keep writing that EH spoke up and said that Rosie doesn't think our troops are terrorists -- WHERE is that??? I watched the whole show and read the posting transcript -- Did I miss that little sentence like Rosie did??

Doesn't surprise me that EH was coached.

 

[Sandy V.]

And to the posters who keep writing that EH spoke up and said that Rosie doesn't think our troops are terrorists -- WHERE is that??? I watched the whole show and read the posting transcript -- Did I miss that little sentence like Rosie did??

It's right in the transcript on the previous page of this thread (I can't figure out how to quote a quote.) It says:

"HASSELBECK: I don't believe that you believe troops are terrorists. I have said that before. But when you say something like 650,000 Iraqis are dead, we invaded them."

Obviously, there's more, but that's pretty clear to me.

 

[beattyfamily]

And to the posters who keep writing that EH spoke up and said that Rosie doesn't think our troops are terrorists -- WHERE is that??? I watched the whole show and read the posting transcript -- Did I miss that little sentence like Rosie did??

Since you asked:

JOY BEHAR: I was watching Al Gore on, on "Larry King" last night and, you know, he has a new book out, Al Gore, where he basically really says that Bush was the worst president that we’ve ever had in the history of the country. And I noticed that Jimmy Carter, a former president, is saying the same thing. So now if the former president Jimmy Carter is saying it and a former vice president of the United States is saying it and I have a list here of the things that Bush has done. I don't really understand why he's still there. Does anyone have any idea why we can't get rid of this guy who stole the election in 2000, killed the surplus with tax cuts –

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: According to Gore he stole it.

BEHAR: Wait a minute. It's very long. Wanting to privatize social security. Let me get through the list.

HASSELBECK: It’s very long, so we might be here for a while.

BEHAR: We might be here for a while. I let you talk yesterday. Now I'm talking. And I love her, but let me do this. He withdrew us from the Kyoto Treaty, John Ashcroft. Sat in the classroom after learning about 9/11 --

HASSELBECK: So he was supposed to freak out the kids when he was reading to them, I suppose.

BEHAR: And read "My Pet Goat" for seven minutes after we were attacked on 9/11.

HASSELBECK: Right, he should have definitely panicked the children.

BEHAR: He lied to us to get us into the war. He awarded a no-bid contract to Halliburton, Abu Ghraib. He promoted his friend Michael Brown to take care of Katrina. Heck of a job, Brownie. Remember that? He doesn't listen to the Iraq Study Group. He choked on a pretzel. [laughter] He waited a week to visit New Orleans and then only to watch some jazz. He stood by Alberto Gonzales, who needs to be thrown out, we all know that, and he stood by Rumsfeld, who some people think is a war criminal. He can't pronounce the word "nuclear." [laughter] These are just some of the reasons -- [Applause] -- That this guy needs to be thrown out of office.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: Yes, but he didn't sleep with an intern.

[laughter]

BEHAR: Yes, but maybe he should.

HASSELBECK: No, he did not.

BEHAR: I'm just saying something is wrong in this country when we are continuing to support this administration. I am furious today over all of this and Al Gore makes me mad because he doesn't run. Now, he says in the interview yesterday with Larry King that he's not running because he thinks global warming is more important. Well, the president of the United States has more power than anybody in the world and he needs to run for office if he wants to fix global warming and get us out of this mess that we’re in.

SHEPHERD: You think Al Gore could get us out, Al Gore?

BEHAR: Who else could? Who else could?

HASSELBECK: I knew I liked you, Sherri.

SHEPHERD: No I'm just saying, Al Gore, you know what he’s talking about with the Green Peace and everything, but you really think Al Gore is the one to get us out of this mess?

BEHAR: Why not?

HASSELBECK: What's his plan to keep us safe other than, in terms of the evironment?

BEHAR: He has a plan, read the book. He has a lot of plans in that book.

HASSELBECK: I’m sure he does.

BEHAR: He doesn't just criticize the president. He also criticizes the media. He says when we had that O.J. Simpson trial, he thought that was an aberration and we would not be so stupid as to be watching nonsense like that constantly, that CNN was constantly doing. But it's not an aberration.

HASSELBECK: Isn't he using the media to promote his books and films?

BEHAR: And we watch "Dancing with the Stars" instead of dealing with what’s going on--

HASSELBECK: No, not instead of, not instead of. You can watch “Dancing with the Stars” and also watch a lot of things that pertain to world politics, news safety, etcetera, absolutely.

BEHAR: How many people watched him speak on CNN? I’d like to know.

HASSELBECK: It’s called Tivo.

BEHAR: I’m just wondering.

SHEPHERD: I'm sorry. I wanted to see Laila and Apollo, but I did.

HASSELBECK: I don't think you're a bad person.

BEHAR: I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm just saying nobody is interested.

HASSELBECK: People are interested. They just can do it on their own time. We’re in a situation now where technology allows us to do it.

BEHAR: We need to be furious. This country needs to be furious with what's going on.

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: It's called the election. You have- here is your opportunity, okay. You have, we’re a democratic society, you have the election in 2008 to change things.

BEHAR: Do you know how much damage this guy can do in a year and a half? He can invade Iran for all I know.

HASSELBECK: With Congress now as is?

BEHAR: Congress cannot pass anything because he, he vetoes it and they can't override it because his cronies in the Republican party stick by this president for political reasons.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: They stick by him for not demanding a pullout date for the troops, which is essentially saying to your enemies, I don’t know any team out there. I don’t have any strategy that says-

BEHAR: He doesn't have a plan.

HASSELBECK: -Here is the date that we are going to leave.

ROSIE O’DONNELL: To our enemies?

HASSELBECK: To our enemies, this is when we are going to pull out.

O’DONNELL: The enemies in Iraq?

HASSELBECK: Al Qaeda.

O’DONNELL: Wait, the enemies in Iraq?

HASSELBECK: Al Qaeda.

BEHAR: He didn’t even go after Osama Bin Laden when he was supposed to.

O’DONNELL: Elisabeth did, wait Joy. You just said our enemies in Iraq. Did Iraq attack us?

HASSELBECK: No. I'm saying Al Qaeda which is in Iraq.

O’DONNELL: Okay did Iraq talk us, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: Iraq did not attack us Rosie.

O’DONNELL: Correct.

HASSELBECK: We've been there before. I'm saying our enemies, Al Qaeda, are you hearing that?

O’DONNELL: I hear it. But where do you want to go?

BEHAR: This is a political discussion. Don’t interview each other. Just say what you mean.

HASSELBECK: If you're playing a game, okay, if you’re playing a game and I'm going to say okay I'm going to throw to my wide receiver, wide right, okay. Do you do that- what does it do for your enemy? It gives them time to plan.

O’DONNELL: If the enemy are innocent civilians, I don't want to play that kind of football.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: The enemy are not innocent civilians.

O’DONNELL: Iraq did not attack us!

BEHAR: Don’t yell at each other. Please let’s have a conversation.

O’DONNELL: You know why I don’t want to do this, Joy? Let me tell you why I don't want to do this. Because it here’s how it gets spun in the media: Rosie, big, fat, lesbian loud Rosie attacks innocent, pure, Christian Elisabeth.

BEHAR: Wait a minute. You don’t have to, let me do it!

HASSELBECK: I haven’t heard that line. Listen, I think it's unfair.

O’DONNELL: You should watch some of the shows you don't watch.

HASSELBECK: You accused me of watching all of those shows yesterday.

BEHAR: I’m okay arguing with Elisabeth.

O’DONNELL: You're just as sensitive when I’m hurt as I am when you were. Every time you were hurt, did I reach out to you?

BEHAR: Why is this personal? There's a war going on out there. It's not personal.

SHEPHERD: You know, this is why I like watching "Dancing with the Stars." This is exactly why.

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: I just don't understand why it's my fault if people spin words that you put out there or phrases that suggest things. And I gave you a opportunity, two days ago, to clarify the statement that got you in trouble on all those issues.

O’DONNELL: That, that got me in trouble. As a friend, you gave me the opportunity. That was very sweet of you. What I was asking is you, who actually knows me, do you believe I think our troops are terrorists, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: I don't think that you -- interrupted

O’DONNELL: Yes or no?

HASSELBECK: I don’t believe that you– interrupted again

O’DONNELL: Do you believe that, yes or no?

HASSELBECK: Excuse me. Let me speak.

O’DONNELL: You're going to double speak. It's just a yes or no.

HASSELBECK: I am not a double speaker and I don't put suggestions out there that lead people to think things and then not answer my own question.

O’DONNELL: I have a question to you and you didn't answer it.

HASSELBECK: I don't believe that you believe troops are terrorists. I have said that before. But when you say something like 650,000 Iraqis are dead, we invaded them.

O’DONNELL: It's true.

HASSELBECK: Let me finish, “who are the terrorist?”

O’DONNELL: You don't like the facts.

HASSELBECK: I'm all about facts. You know that. You tell me not to use facts because you want me to go only on emotion. Guess what? I like facts.

O’DONNELL: You cherry pick the facts you like.

BEHAR: Did I or did I not give this panel a list of facts?

[Applause]

SHEPHERD: And you know what? Oh my gosh! We're going to be right back with Alicia Silverstone!

[applause]

O’DONNELL: No, no, no we're not. Because we have a lot more time.

BEHAR: If you want to change the subject, that's something.

HASSELBECK: People were criticizing you for saying that because it suggested-

BEHAR: Oh, my God!

HASSELBECK: I said take your opportunity now. You have a show right now to tell the world --

O’DONNELL: I did take my opportunity to tell the world. I wanted to know what people like you, but you are my friend, since September, do you believe that I think our troops are terrorists? And you would not even look me in the face, Elisabeth, and say no, Rosie.

HASSELBECK: What are you talking about?

O’DONNELL: “I can understand how people are would have thought that, why don't you take this opportunity” like I'm six.

HASSELBECK: Because you are an adult and I'm certainly not going to be the person for you to explain your thoughts to. They're your thoughts. Defend your own insinuations.

[applause]

O’DONNELL: I defend my thoughts.

HASSELBECK: Defend your own thoughts.

O’DONNELL: Right, but every time I defend them, Elisabeth, it's poor little Elisabeth that I'm picking on.

HASSELBECK: You know what? Poor little Elisabeth is not poor little Elisabeth.

O’DONNELL: That's right. That's why I'm not going to fight with you anymore because it's absurd. So for three weeks you can say all the Republican crap you want.

HASSELBECK: It's much easier to fight someone like Donald Trump, isn’t it? Because he’s obnoxious.

O’DONNELL: I've never fought him. He fought me. I told a fact about him --

BEHAR: How did I get out of this conversation? I was in the middle of this conversation.

HASSELBECK: I gave you an opportunity to clarify.

O’DONNELL: You didn’t give me anything. You don't have to give me. I asked you a question.

HASSELBECK: I asked you a question.

O’DONNELL: And you wouldn’t even answer it.

HASSELBECK: You wouldn’t even answer your own question.

O’DONNELL: Oh Elisabeth, I don’t want- you know what? You really don't understand what I'm saying?

HASSELBECK: I understand what you're saying.

BEHAR: Let's go. Come on that’s it!

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: I think it's sad. I think it’s sad because I don't understand how there can be such hurt feelings when all I did way say, “look, why don't you tell everybody what you said?” I did that as a friend

O’DONNELL: All you did is not defend me. I asked you if you believe that I thought--

HASSELBECK: You didn't answer your own question. I don’t believe that you’re defending-

O’DONNELL: Elisabeth, every day since September I have told you I support the troops.

HASSELBECK: I have done the same for you.

O’DONNELL: I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying.

HASSELBECK: Did I say yes?

O’DONNELL: You said nothing and that's cowardly.

HASSELBECK: No, no, no. Do not, do not call me a coward. Because number one, I sit here every single day and open my heart and tell people exactly what I believe. Do not call me a coward, Rosie. I do not hide. I was not cowardly. It was honest.

O’DONNELL: It was.

HASSELBECK: What is cowardly?

BEHAR: Is there no commercial on this show?

[Applause]

HASSELBECK: Asking, asking, I'll tell you what's cowardly. Asking a rhetorical question that you never answer yourself.

BEHAR: Who is directing this show? Let's go to commercial. Let’s go to commercial.

HASSELBECK: I need a drink of water. Let’s go to commercial.

BEHAR: Man oh man.

SHEPHERD: How is the baby? Is the baby-

HASSELBECK: The baby's fine.

 

[sha_lyn]

I think EH is lying/exaggerating/stretching the truth, like "I called her home phone, but didn't directly speak with Rosie directly."

No not lying/exaggerating/stretching the truth. She called Rosie's house and talked to Rosie's SO Kelly. Even Rosie has said so I believe and has said that they have exchanged emalis. So if Elisabeth is lying then Rosie is also.

HASSELBECK: I just don't understand why it's my fault if people spin words that you put out there or phrases that suggest things. And I gave you a opportunity, two days ago, to clarify the statement that got you in trouble on all those issues.

O’DONNELL: That, that got me in trouble. As a friend, you gave me the opportunity. That was very sweet of you. What I was asking is you, who actually knows me, do you believe I think our troops are terrorists, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: I don't think that you --

O’DONNELL: Yes or no?

HASSELBECK: I don’t believe that you–

O’DONNELL: Do you believe that, yes or no?

HASSELBECK: Excuse me. Let me speak.

O’DONNELL: You're going to double speak. It's just a yes or no.

HASSELBECK: I am not a double speaker and I don't put suggestions out there that lead people to think things and then not answer my own question.

O’DONNELL: I have a question to you and you didn't answer it.

HASSELBECK: I don't believe that you believe troops are terrorists. I have said that before. But when you say something like 650,000 Iraqis are dead, we invaded them.
O’DONNELL: It's true.

It is there plain as day. She finally got it out 3rd time. Rosie wouldn't shut up long enough for her to answer the question.

 

[MELSMICE]

And to the posters who keep writing that EH spoke up and said that Rosie doesn't think our troops are terrorists -- WHERE is that??? I watched the whole show and read the posting transcript -- Did I miss that little sentence like Rosie did??

See below:

O’DONNELL: That, that got me in trouble. As a friend, you gave me the opportunity. That was very sweet of you. What I was asking is you, who actually knows me, do you believe I think our troops are terrorists, Elisabeth?

HASSELBECK: I don't think that you --

O’DONNELL: Yes or no?

HASSELBECK: I don’t believe that you–

O’DONNELL: Do you believe that, yes or no?

HASSELBECK: Excuse me. Let me speak.

O’DONNELL: You're going to double speak. It's just a yes or no.

HASSELBECK: I am not a double speaker and I don't put suggestions out there that lead people to think things and then not answer my own question.

O’DONNELL: I have a question to you and you didn't answer it.

HASSELBECK: I don't believe that you believe troops are terrorists. I have said that before. But when you say something like 650,000 Iraqis are dead, we invaded them.

 

[JunieJay]

I think the argument was Elizabeth refused to publically defend her friend when questioned by Fox News. When pressed, she reluctantly admitted on The View that Rosie does not think the troops are terrorists, BUT she also throws in the part about the 650,000 dead Iraqis. Why not just say, "no, Rosie, I know you don't think the troops are terrorists" without any other stipulation?

 

[ZachnElli]

Why not just say, "no, Rosie, I know you don't think the troops are terrorists" without any other stipulation?

Cause she likes to argue! Just like Rosie! I'm weird I like both EH and Rosie and enjoyed their heated arguments. I will miss them.