September 13, 2006
Blogometer PM Extra II
BLOGGERS VS. MSM: Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
Didn’t take long for Rosie O’Donnell to make her presence on The View known, but it wasn’t unexpected. You could almost say it was heavily anticipated. Even North Korea is keeping score.
Just a week into her stay, Rosie’s generated a firestorm on the blogosphere with her bold assertion (vid’s here) that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.”Bloggers were quick to respond, and sardonically so. Rob at Say Anything: “That's weird, because I can't even remember the last time some reporters were forced to convert to radical Mormonism at gun point, nor do I remember the last time some crazed Presbyterian threatened to saw a hostage's head off if his demand weren't met. Perhaps Rosie can clue me in to a side of American religion I'm naive to.” Van Helsing at Moonbattery: “One advantage liberals have is their knack for saying things that are so fundamentally false and gut-twistingly vile that you don't know where to begin rebutting them.” Bryan at Hot Air quipped, “Is she armed with facts or just her own ignorant opinion?”
Some, like Lorie Byrd at Wizbang!, feel for The View’s “token conservative” Elisabeth Hasselbeck: “[S]he has been vastly outnumbered and overpowered.” Mary Katharine Ham at Townhall: “You should see the look on Hasselbeck's face. Bless her heart, I can't believe she has to deal with them every day.” And amid a lengthy deconstruction of Rosie’s rants, Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters rued, “Hasselbeck… meekly submitted to the liberal onslaught.”>
Evan Derkacz at AlterNet was one of seemingly few O’Donnell defenders, reacting in particular to the aforementioned NewsBusters item: “Whitlock responds in the way the bankrupt always do: with a snide comment…”
[by Mike Sheehan]Posted by Conn Carroll at September 13, 2006 08:22 PM
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