Posted by
Tzimisce on Friday, March 30, 2007 12:59:13 AM
If you want Rosie to go away stop watching "The View", stop reading her blogs and just ignore her. Before Ms. O'Donnell took over the command chair, "The View" was a show only known to a few housewives. Now it carries a huge audience waiting for the next Rosie rant. Ratings is what keeps television shows from going away. By watching it, you're just aggravating the problem. By talking about it, you're just increasing the show's reach.
Pay attention because this will be my one and only column about Rosie and her brain dead show. I want it to go away, so I'm trying to ignore it.
Recently on her blog (and on "The View") Rosie has accused the Bush Administration of setting up the fifteen British soldiers for capture so that the West would have a reason to declare war on Iran. She goes on to declare that maybe the Iranians really aren't that bad of people, they're just in the way of a corporate plot to control oil in the Middle East.
Let's assume for a second that Rosie is right. Bush set those troops up just so he would have an excuse to make war on Iran and Iran is as innocent as Rosie tells us they are. In this situation I'm left perplexed by why the Iranians haven't let the soldiers go with a stern warning about never entering Iranian territory again. I would expect them to be making condemnations of the West in the media and at the UN rather than humiliating the soldiers in front of the TV cameras (which is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.) I wouldn't expect the Iranians to be making all kinds of outrageous demands of the West before they let the soldiers go. That reminds me of the actions of a school yard bully who won't return a toy till their victim cries "uncle". If what Rosie says is true, the Iranians would bring forth some hard evidence that the Brits were in Iranian territory rather than relying on confessions.
Rosie is a dunce. For some reason, the stupidest people imaginable make up the leadership of the left worldwide. Rosie is just one example. But expecting Rosie to say something coherent demonstrates how stupid some of us on the right can be. We already have a pretty good idea what Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Hanoi Jane and other big libs are going to say so why even pay any attention to them when they speak? Just ignore them and they'll go away - just like the The New York Times, NBC, CBS and ABC.