Yes!!! Rosie O'Donnell is joining The View

[devilalum]

Don't you dare imply anything negative about loving Neil Diamond....them would be fighting words!!!

Love you so much, cant count all the ways
I'd die for you girl, and all they can say is
He's not your kind

 

[nathan]

Sorry, Ryan.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rosie O'Donnell's stormy tenure on "The View" will be a short one. The opinionated host was unable to agree on a contract with ABC, and she'll leave the show in June.

"My needs for the future just didn't dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me," O'Donnell said in a statement Wednesday.

"This has been an amazing experience," she said, "and one I wouldn't have traded for the world."

O'Donnell has helped raise the ratings for the daytime chat show invented by Barbara Walters. But her outspokenness has caused almost constant controversy, including a nasty name-calling feud with Donald Trump that placed Walters squarely in the middle.

"I induced Rosie to come back to television on 'The View' even for just one year," Walters said. "She has given the program new vigor, new excitement and wonderful hours of television. I can only be grateful to her for this year."

Walters was frequently left to clean up the damage after O'Donnell. She did it most recently Monday, when O'Donnell was criticized for using bad language and attacking Rupert Murdoch from the dais of the annual New York Women in Communication awards luncheon.

"I would like to point out that Rosie's view is not always mine," Walters said. "I would like to say for the record that I am very fond of Rupert Murdoch."

In the Trump imbroglio, O'Donnell was reportedly mad that Walters did not come more swiftly to her defense, while Trump said Walters told him she didn't want O'Donnell on the show -- a claim Walters denied.

Statements by public figures are being watched more closely in the post-Don Imus era. The lobbying group Focus on the Family said it was preparing to contact advertisers on "The View" as part of a campaign against O'Donnell. The group is angry at O'Donnell for comments they feel were insulting to Catholics.

Despite controversy -- or maybe because of it -- O'Donnell was good business for ABC, owned by the Walt Disney Co. Ratings for "The View" during February sweeps were up 15 percent in key women demographics over the same time in 2006.

 

[Linderbee]

"post-Don Imus era"?? Are they serious? This really qualifies as an "era"???

1 a : a fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned b : a memorable or important date or event; especially : one that begins a new period in the history of a person or thing

People are too liberal with words sometimes.

 

[Rivercard]

"post-Don Imus era"?? Are they serious? This really qualifies as an "era"???

1 a : a fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned b : a memorable or important date or event; especially : one that begins a new period in the history of a person or thing

People are too liberal with words sometimes.

It's been building for a long time (record Howard Stern fines, Bubba the love Sponge firing), but the stakes were definitly raised with the Imus firing. There is blood in the water. Sharks are on the loose.

 

[Linderbee]

It's been building for a long time (record Howard Stern fines, Bubba the love Sponge firing), but the stakes were definitly raised with the Imus firing. There is blood in the water. Sharks are on the loose.

Yes, but it JUST HAPPENED. I'm grouchy.