ROSIE BLOWS UP AT 'LIAR' BABS

[Marnie]

From the NY Post Only in America is this page two news!

anuary 9, 2007 -- THE tension between "The View" creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O'Donnell, sparked by O'Donnell's feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters "a [bleeping] liar."

The fight started around 8:30 a.m. when Walters, back from a two-week vacation, walked into the hair and makeup room at ABC studios and tried to hug O'Donnell, whom she hired onto the popular show.

According to spies, O'Donnell recoiled from Walters' touch and yelled, "You kept me in the newspapers this whole time!"

Both "View" producer Bill Geddie and Walters tried to calm O'Donnell. Walters told her, "I did everything I could to squash the story" - prompting Rosie to scream, "You didn't call me for 10 *EDIT* days, and you didn't tell me what you were going to say on television!"

O'Donnell is fuming because Trump went on Larry King two weeks ago - after she had called Trump a "snake-oil salesman" - and said Walters told him she regretted hiring O'Donnell. Trump also blasted the comic as "a horrible human being and a loser."

During her vacation, Walters issued a carefully worded statement saying, "I'm sorry there is friction between Donald and Rosie. That said, I do not regret for one moment my choice to hire Rosie O'Donnell as the moderator of 'The View.' "

After O'Donnell's outburst at Walters yesterday, Geddie jumped in and told her, "You've crossed the line." O'Donnell retorted, "Cameras are now outside of my house where my wife and kids are." She turned to Walters and said, "You went all around this and never called [Trump] a liar. You never said, 'Donald is lying.' You never called him a liar."

When Walters tried to defend herself, O'Donnell erupted, "Are you looking me in the face and denying you didn't tell him you didn't say this? You're a [bleeping] liar."

Cindi Berger, a rep for both Walters and O'Donnell said, "Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was hardly a squabble. It's business as usual, everyone has moved on."

[SueZQ]

Only a matter of time

[JustinM]

So, will ABC sell out for ratings and get rid of Barbara Walters, or stand up on principle and fire Rosie? I think ABC will sell out and dump the person who was solely responsible for their "success." That will be a big mistake on their part, most Americans cannot stand Rosie and will stand behind Barbara Walters, you can't knife someone in the back and get away with it.

[Marnie]

Why is this even a news item?

Are Donald and Rosie acting like this to boost their ratings?

Come on people, there are more important things going on in the world.

Yeah, but you know, sometimes the serious news is just too much! Watching the antics of a lesbian who has so little talent take on a man who has so much money he could buy and sell her ten times over just makes me laugh. I mean, like I said, only in America. We love to hate our celebrities, don't we?

I'll look more stories of the rape-and-pillage type tomorrow...

[RustyAngeL]

I said when all this started I would sell tickets to this. Rosie is going to mouth her way out of a job. I do not believe a thing Barbara Walters said. I think she is trying to save her own skin. Mr. Trump was right about one thing. Ms O'Donnell she is a bully but with "The Donald" I think she has met her match.

[RustyAngeL]

Why is this even a news item?

Are Donald and Rosie acting like this to boost their ratings?

Come on people, there are more important things going on in the world.

Yeah, but you know, sometimes the serious news is just too much! Watching the antics of a lesbian who has so little talent take on a man who has so much money he could buy and sell her ten times over just makes me laugh. I mean, like I said, only in America. We love to hate our celebrities, don't we?

I'll look more stories of the rape-and-pillage type tomorrow...

I agree, sometimes we just need to lighten up a little bit. It will pass.

[Guest Biblicist]

I don't see Rosie mouthing her way out of any job. What I heard. . . Rosie's show The Rosie O'Donnell Show had higher reviews at any given time than The View ever did. It was a business deal and now they are stuck with her. All her fans have now begun watching The View. Works for them.

I used to think Rosie was so funny and "mild". Not anymore, since she has gotten her own show, The View, she has become a political mouthpiece and poor Barbara has to keep her mouth shut or she will be the one out of a job. She [Rosie] scares me. I heard about what she did with her "wife" and their new baby. Appalling!

Ugh, this is gossip, I hate gossip. I do think that Rosie is getting out of control and I hope that Donald can knock her down a couple pegs so she realizes what she is doing, not only to herself but to those she represents.

In His Mighty Grip,

Bib

P.S. If you're reading this Rosie. . . I think you have changed, and not for the better, dear.

[Shelak]

Cindi Berger, a rep for both Walters and O'Donnell said, "Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was hardly a squabble. It's business as usual, everyone has moved on."

[Shelak]

since she has gotten her own show, The View, she has become a political mouthpiece and poor Barbara has to keep her mouth shut or she will be the one out of a job. She [Rosie] scares me. I heard about what she did with her "wife" and their new baby. Appalling!

In His Mighty Grip,

Bib

P.S. If you're reading this Rosie. . . I think you have changed, and not for the better, dear.

[Guest stevej]

I have been watching with amusement this entire ordeal. Every Entertainment show is having a field day with this. It remminds me of the never ending saga with whatever the blonde's name is that lost her son..it just goes on and on.

I don't care for either one of the 2 ladies and even less for Donald Trump..however, ya gotta give kudos where they belong..Donald and Barbara have more than a mouth to stand on!