Good Bye, Rosie – Fat Lady Sings!

Dan Frisa
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/14/183305.shtml

Talker Rosie O’Donnell’s ratings have sunk so low they nearly
match the level she herself occupies in the political gutter.

On a continual downward slide for more than a year, the rotund
Rosie will quit her show, which is at the bottom of the daytime TV
heap.

The once-popular comedian saw her popularity drop in nearly direct
correlation to her increasingly outrageous leftist positions.

>From her strange affection for ultra-liberal Babs Striesand to her
vocal and repeated support for Senator Slick Hilly to her sneak
attack on Tom Selleck while guesting on her show, O’Donnell
staked out positions far outside the mainstream of middle America.

All of which is no surprise, as this entire scenario was reported and
predicted in this column last year. See Americans Tune Out
Hypocrite Rosie.

Rosie obviously got carried away with fame and stardom, forgetting
her middle-class suburban roots as she ran with the “beautiful”
left-wing Hollywood crowd and actually thought she could say
anything and get away with it.

While her charity work is noteworthy and to be commended, Rosie
learned the hard way that spitting in the face of commonsense,
conservative values had a price, as regular people literally tuned her
out and turned her off.

She brought it on herself and got precisely what she deserved.

And her fate was determined the way it should be, by the
marketplace, unlike efforts by the left to blackmail conservatives
from the airwaves by applying political pressure.

It was time for O’Donnell to go and it’s good that she’ll be gone