Bitch, Slapped (SC Donnybrook)

In the wake of her 20-point drubbing in South Carolina, it looks like the rats are jumping off the USS Shrill One in droves:

Ted Kennedy to Endorse Obama

Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:27 PM

Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts will endorse Senate colleague Barack Obama for president, party officials confirmed Sunday.


The endorsement will be announced Monday in Washington, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the record. An official close to the senator said the announcement will be made during an Obama campaign rally at American University, where he will be joined by Sen. Kennedy and his niece, Caroline Kennedy, who also has endorsed Obama.


Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama

Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:03 PM


The daughter of President John F. Kennedy endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he could inspire Americans in the same way her father once did.


"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," Caroline Kennedy wrote in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times. "But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."


Kennedy, who was four days shy of her 6th birthday when her father was assassinated, wrote that Obama "has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things."


And she appealed to other parents to pick a candidate who she said could invigorate a younger generation that is too often "hopeless, defeated and disengaged."


Kennedy wrote that she wants a president "who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved."

Could it be because Slick Willy not only can't keep his pants on by habit, but can't shut his mouth, either:

BILL CLINTON'S BIGMOUTH OF THE SOUTH
OUTRAGE AT 'BARACK = JESSE' REMARK
By GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondent

January 28, 2008 -- WASHINGTON - Shoot-from-the-lip Bill Clinton has struck again.

A day after Barack Obama's overwhelming victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in South Carolina, the spotlight was back on the former president - this time for dismissive comments he made comparing the Illinois senator's campaign to the failed presidential candidacies of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

While his wife campaigned in Tennessee and Obama stumped in Georgia, the media focus was once again on Bill Clinton, who said on Saturday: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

The message: that Obama might peel off a few Southern states with sizeable black populations, as Jackson did, but can't forge a successful nationwide candidacy.

POLL: Is Bill Too Active in Hill's Campaign?

Sen. Clinton attributed her husband's comments to emotion.

"Well, I think it's human nature. I think that the spouses of all three of us have, you know, been passionate and vigorous defenders of each of us and, you know, maybe got a little carried away," she said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

She chalked it up to "sleep deprivation" on the campaign trail.

Liberal bloggers were outraged by Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama to Jackson.

Mickey Kaus, writing on the Web magazine Slate, called the comment an "attempted ghettoization" of Obama's candidacy.

Obama responded on ABC's "This Week" yesterday that Clinton was dwelling in the past.

"I think that that's his frame of reference - the Jesse Jackson races," Obama said.

"That's when, you know, he was active and involved and watching what was going to take place in South Carolina.

"I think that a lot of South Carolinians [last week] looked at it through a different lens."

OMG!! Rosie O'Donnell's BLACK???

You'd never guess that she left the show,..seeing as BabaWawa replaced her with another poorly-informed, oversized miscreant!

Oh, yeah, HT to Becky C for this gem:

Bye-Bye Rosie,...Hello, Sanity!

ABC: Rosie O'Donnell Won't Be Back on 'The View'
Friday, May 25, 2007

NEW YORK — Rosie O'Donnell will not be back on "The View," ABC announced Friday, two days after she and co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck got into a huge political dust-up live on the talk show.

"We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave. Therefore, we part ways, thank her for her tremendous contribution to 'The View' and wish her well," Brian Frons, the president of Disney-ABC's Daytime Television Group, said in a statement.

After a colorful eight months on the show, punctuated by her feud with Donald Trump and frequent flare-ups with the more conservative Hasselbeck, O'Donnell's contract had been set to terminate on June 22.

"I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at 'The View.' I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change," said show creator Barbara Walters.

"I'm extremely grateful. It's been an amazing year and I love all three women," O'Donnell said in a statement.

O'Donnell, who lifted ratings for the sagging talk show, said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives.

Watching O'Donnell and Hasselbeck squabble on "The View" is nothing new, but Wednesday's brawl seemed particularly nasty with the co-hosts trading accusations and personal digs.

Video: Rosie vs. Elisabeth

A political discussion over the war in Iraq became heated when an angry O'Donnell decried Hasselbeck for not standing up for her when media outlets suggested that she'd called U.S. troops "terrorists" during a previous debate.

The argument with Hasselbeck began over O'Donnell's statement last week about the war: "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"

Talk show critics accused O'Donnell of calling U.S. troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck "cowardly" for not saying anything in response to the critics.

"What you did was not defend me. ... I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying — you said nothing, and that's cowardly," O'Donnell said.

"Do not call me a coward, because No. 1, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe," Hasselbeck retorted, and their riveting exchange continued despite failed attempts by their co-hosts to cut to a commercial.

O'Donnell and Hasselbeck were shown on a split screen as the argument progressed without commercial interruption.

"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,'" O'Donnell said.

Responded Hasselbeck: "Because you are an adult, and I am certainly not going to be the person for you to explain your thoughts. They're your thoughts! Defend your own insinuations!"

O'Donnell said she wasn't going to fight anymore. "So for three weeks, you can say all the Republican crap you want."

Hasselbeck discussed the war of words in an interview with syndicated entertainment show "Extra."

"I honestly think, I believe that we are mature women who can resolve," she said. "I hope we can. I would hope that a disagreement or a heated debate wouldn't be the end of a relationship."

In a posting on her blog, O'Donnell wrote: "a split screen, new heights, or lows, depending on who u ask."

According to a New York Post report, O'Donnell's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly led out of the building on Wednesday after she was caught drawing mustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck in "The View" studios.

On Thursday O'Donnell had asked for a day off to celebrate her partner's birthday. "The View" aired a taped show on Friday.

On her Web site, O'Donnell posted a scrapbooklike video on Friday with pictures and news clippings of her tenure at "The View." Cyndi Lauper's "Sisters of Babylon" played in the background.

A day earlier, she posted messages on her Web site indicating she might not be back.

"When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done," she wrote. "Any more would take away."


The TrekMedic muses:

I guess we won't have Rosie to kick around anymore. Which is pretty good, considering that it would probably break your foot, but,..whateva,....


Semi-related story here

And Speaking of Loudmouth, Liberal Harbingers of DoubleStandardism,...

Rosie O'Donnell Cruise for Gay Families Cuts Bermuda Stop, Fearing Protests

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A summer cruise for gay and lesbian families organized by Rosie O'Donnell has cut Bermuda from its planned itinerary because of possible protests by church groups in the British island territory.

O'Donnell's charter company said it wanted to avoid the type of protests that greeted passengers when one of its cruises stopped in Nassau, Bahamas, in 2004.

The tour is scheduled to leave New York in July on a ship owned by Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line. But the charter company, R Family Vacations, said on its Web site that it would replace the Bermuda stop with two other ports of call in Florida.

In the statement, the company said Bermuda's prime minister had assured them they would be welcome as tourists and they had also received hundreds of supportive e-mails from people who live in the wealthy British enclave.

Still, organizers felt they could not be certain there would be no protesters greeting them upon arrival. "We feel that our cruise would be more enjoyable with an alternate itinerary to ports where we know we are welcome by everyone."

In 2004, about 100 protesters chanting anti-gay slogans met one of the company's cruises when it arrived in Nassau, Bahamas, with about 1,150 passengers.

The TrekMedic ponders:

So,...Rosie is perfectly fine shooting her mouth off behind a TV screen, in a guarded studio, where no one can voice an opposing opinion to her. But she can't face it when her hate comes back at her full force?

Chickenshit!!