CONVICTED FELON Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
CONVICTED FELON Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
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#1CONVICTED FELON Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:20pm
"I'm calling for conservatives to take on Rosie O'Donnell," DeLay said during an interview with CNN. "She criticized and ridiculed Chinese-Americans, she accused the president of being responsible for 9/11. Let's now start calling for her resignation."
From his essay entitled "If the Left Takes Imus, We’ll Take Rosie": That's why I am calling on conservatives to use the available media (radio talk shows, blogs, letters to the editor) to protest and demand that Rosie O'Donnell be kicked off The View. Where are the demonstrations in front of ABC? Where are the boycott threats for The View's advertisers, or its parent company, Disney? Who is holding Barbara Walters accountable for Rosie's offenses? We can fight like the Left, too. If Don Imus falls to the pleas of political correctness, we're taking Rosie O'Donnell down with him. And that, my fellow conservatives, is how the Left wins. Now it's our turn.
Updated On: 4/13/07 at 12:20 PM
#2re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
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#2tom delay was getting lambasted even by the wingers at townhall
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:24pm
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#3re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:28pmWell, the right wing saw what pressure groups were able to do to Imus so now they feel empowered to go after Rosie. Will ABC cave like MSNBC and CBS did?
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#4tom delay was getting lambasted even by the wingers at townhall
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:31pmno, jim, because the second time around always feels manufactured. folks have gotten their pound of flesh (somehow off imus' skeletal frame) and are back to looking at shiny pieces of metal on the ground.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#5re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:33pm
"Will ABC cave like MSNBC and CBS did?"
No, because the sponsors of The View are all women's products. They need a high powered woman to call for the boycott, then ABC would respond. Delay is just blowing smoke.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#6re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:36pm
Ah yes, welcome to hunting season.
Delay wants Rosie gone.
Franken wants Beck gone.
The majority of Americans want Bush gone.
I think the stones said it best:
"You can't always get what you want."
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#7re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:45pmYou know, if this came from someone other than disgraced, scandal-ridden, Abramoff-butt-buddy Delay, maybe I could somehow be able to take this seriously.
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#8re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 12:59pm
"Why has ABC not suspended her from The View? Why has she not been frog-marched up to some radio show to apologize to 9/11 victims/Chinese-American activists/evangelical Christians? "
She apologized to the Chinese-Americans
The reason she's not going to be/ never will be suspended is because we NEED someone to be honest and real with us.
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#9re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:00pm
The only real comparison they have is Rosie's Chinese-American slip, which unlike Imus's remark, was never intended to be an insult. Imus wanted to make a negative remark on the appearance of the basketball team and he chose to do so in a derogatory manner. Doesn't take a genius to see the difference.
And Delay is certainly in no position to judge anyone's behavior or actions. Ever.
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#10re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:03pmLike he should talk. What a friggin Ass.
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#11re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:06pm
the best thing that could happen is this game of tag everyone is playing. Maybe all the blowhards will be gone and we can get back to some balanced, sensible reporting.
Having said that, neither Rosie nor Imus are reporters, but they're widely influential. Too influential to be speaking so irresponsibly.
Rosie goes on rumor and half-truths, and Imus is just a bigot.
....but the world goes 'round
#12re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:07pm
She apologized to the Chinese-Americans
Not that I agree with Delay, but Imus apologized to the Rutgers' team as well.
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#13re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:08pmSO what he is saying is that he AGREES with Imus and is ok with what he said? Is he owning that for the conservatives?
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#14re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 1:11pm
The difference between Imus and Rosie and their comments is Rosie's was meant as a joke and was never intended to hurt anyone.
Imus's comment was a vicious attack.
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#15re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:53pmA fellow poster corrected my Subject line: "CONVICTED FELON Tom Delay Wants Rosie GONE!"
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#16re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:54pm
And I want a solid gold toilet seat, but that's not happening either.
...where is that from? I can't remember.
#17re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 9:07pm
The reason she's not going to be/ never will be suspended is because we NEED someone to be honest and real with us.
Sweetie, your naivety is endearing, and while you may have a successful career writing greeting cards for Hallmark with statements like that, at some point you're going pop that pop-culture bubble in which you are enclosed and start questioning things.
You cannot believe everything that the TV feeds you. You cannot take anything at face value, otherwise you are going to get eaten up and spit out by this society like most other people. You're smarter than that. Start to dig a little deeper -- beneath the sunshine.
The reason why Rosie is still on the air is because people are watching. High ratings = High advertising dollars for the network. Honest/Real? Irrelevant. The network could care less about what "we" need. They just want to make more money.
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Updated On: 4/13/07 at 09:07 PM
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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#18re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 9:59pm
While ya'll make good points, i disagree with clumsydude. if you actually listened to Imus when he made his comment, he just said it..he didn't say it to be mean, or to hurt people, but it was just said. it wasn't a "viscious attack"..it was one comment. and compared to what he's said in the past, i can't believe it got him fired.
and maybe the same is true about Rosie..i dont watch the view, but Imus apologized and so did she, but Imus got kicked off the air, so maybe she should. Or, the better way would be that Imus shouldn't have been fired, and neither should Rosie.
People can, and will, say what they want, when they want..it's that whole freedom of speech thing. And as far as people disregarding the comment for wanting Rosie gone because it came from Delay, so what? he has opinions too, and whether or not you respect them, they deserve to be heard.
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#19re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:38pm
"The reason why Rosie is still on the air is because people are watching. High ratings = High advertising dollars for the network. Honest/Real? Irrelevant. The network could care less about what "we" need. They just want to make more money."
I know that hight ratings = high advertising.
I don't know.
I'm just glad she's around speaking the truth.
Eh, but what do I know, I'll go back to my Sanjaya hating and American Idol watching, MTV-gossip magazine reading generation.
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Updated On: 4/13/07 at 10:38 PM
#20re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:39pm
People can, and will, say what they want, when they want..it's that whole freedom of speech thing.
Well, "that whole freedom of speech thing" doesn't count when you are under contract of a network, being paid a salary to say whatever the hell you're saying.
If he wants to get up on a soap box in front of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE and say what he wants, he can go right ahead.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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#21re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:47pmi know that it matters because he's on contract, but he can still say it. I could say it if i wanted to, and that's the point...you can punish people for what they've said, but you can't stop them from saying it.
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#22re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:49pm
i know that it matters because he's on contract, but he can still say it.
And he did say it. And he was fired. Said and done.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#23re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:50pmRosie is entertainment. She entertains me. And I do find it interesting how she went from the "queen of nice" to what many believe - "a cranky bitch."
#24re: Tom Delay wants Rosie GONE!
Posted: 4/13/07 at 10:50pm
For what it is worth, there is also the issue that Imus' comments were targeted at a specific, known group of individuals. I think a large portion of the uproar and disgust was that Imus said this actual individuals. If he had said the same comment about some hypothetical woman, perhaps the reaction and anger would not be so strong. These were young women who were attacked with no provocation, and the furor really started to grow when the target of his comments came in full view. Some of these "women" were still in the teens, and had a life time of hard work and effort dismissed - and they could not say "he must be talking about someone else, not me."
And, there is no such thing as free speech on public airways. Otherwise, we would not have censors on TV and words you cannot say on the radio.
Rosie's comments, while stupid and offensive, did not (to my recollection) go after an actual individual. That does distinguish the comments in my mind. As for her comments about Bush, he is a public figure, and it goes with the territory.
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