Rosie O'Donnell's Latest Bout of Stupidity

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Amused

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Well she probably has contributed more to society than you (and I) have. Her problem is that she's prone to saying outrageous BS that detracts from her contributions.

OK, if you stop quoting me out context to make it look as if I had supported her statement regarding the conspiracy.

You are misinterpreting what I states. I quoted you to expand on what you said. I was saying that yes, people can be wrong, but that in this case her being wrong was not an innocent mistake.
I guess I did misinterpret what you said. In fact when I read it again I still misinterpret it but I'll take you at your word.

While she has contributed to society (various charities), he work has also promoted ignorance in this country, which is something that is hard to put a value on. Does making hundreds of thousands of people dumber and more ignorant outweigh her financial contribution? I think so.
I seriously doubt she has enough influence to make a significant negative impact. Seems a lot of you people give her more credit than she deserves as far as being influential.

She has a pretty loyal following. Not as loyal as Oprah, but still significant.
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Well she probably has contributed more to society than you (and I) have. Her problem is that she's prone to saying outrageous BS that detracts from her contributions.

OK, if you stop quoting me out context to make it look as if I had supported her statement regarding the conspiracy.

You are misinterpreting what I states. I quoted you to expand on what you said. I was saying that yes, people can be wrong, but that in this case her being wrong was not an innocent mistake.
I guess I did misinterpret what you said. In fact when I read it again I still misinterpret it but I'll take you at your word.

While she has contributed to society (various charities), he work has also promoted ignorance in this country, which is something that is hard to put a value on. Does making hundreds of thousands of people dumber and more ignorant outweigh her financial contribution? I think so.
I seriously doubt she has enough influence to make a significant negative impact. Seems a lot of you people give her more credit than she deserves as far as being influential.

She has a pretty loyal following. Not as loyal as Oprah, but still significant.
Yeah, Yentas are a real political force:roll:

 

bwatson283

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I really dont care about Rosie, even before her and the Donald went after each other.

She is a Fing Toolbag just like Trump!
If you get business tactics from him im really sorry!
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Well she probably has contributed more to society than you (and I) have. Her problem is that she's prone to saying outrageous BS that detracts from her contributions.

OK, if you stop quoting me out context to make it look as if I had supported her statement regarding the conspiracy.

You are misinterpreting what I states. I quoted you to expand on what you said. I was saying that yes, people can be wrong, but that in this case her being wrong was not an innocent mistake.
I guess I did misinterpret what you said. In fact when I read it again I still misinterpret it but I'll take you at your word.

While she has contributed to society (various charities), he work has also promoted ignorance in this country, which is something that is hard to put a value on. Does making hundreds of thousands of people dumber and more ignorant outweigh her financial contribution? I think so.
I seriously doubt she has enough influence to make a significant negative impact. Seems a lot of you people give her more credit than she deserves as far as being influential.

She has a pretty loyal following. Not as loyal as Oprah, but still significant.
Yeah, Yentas are a real political force:roll:

You can roll your eyes all you want, but her show had a huge and loyal following. On a smaller scale she could really influence people much like Oprah.

Yenta? You Jewish? :p
 

Stg-Flame

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I don't know which attracts people quicker:

Moronic conspiracy nuts to a 9/11 thread

or

Drug addicts to an unguarded hospital.

Some people need to make better use of their time rather than finding new ways to bash our President and make obsurd alligations like "9/11 was PLANNED!!! OMG Bush is teh nazi!"

And my friends wonder why I have no faith in humanity...
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Why are people not allowed to question spoon-fed government-issued explanations?

Because the conspiracy theories are as ignorant of the clear-cut scientific facts as a Creationist arguing against evolution. It has nothing to do with the Bush administration.

And I suppose you believe everything Bush says?

I didn't hear what Rosie mentioned but to say Bush had absolutely nothing to do with what happened is pure BS. One way or another, he was involved.

This is why I hate politics. Always makes you dirty in one way or another.


I certainly don't, and I'm not willing to absolve Bush of responsibility for 9/11 happening. It seems logical to me that he would have diverted FBI/CIA attention towards a subject he was more interested in>>Saddam. I'm sceptical that he would allow something on the scale of 9/11 to happen, however.

I don't think any of the anti-conspiracy theory arguments up to this point in the thread have mentioned anything about removing blame from Bush's intentions.

The reason these conspiracy theories are trash is because the basis of their argumetns are trash. They blatantly ignore the laws of physics (they create their own and convince the easily-duped that they are right), and selectively interpret the opinions of the "experts" they draw on to make their claims.
 

akshatp

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God I hate her... This just makes me hate her more. She is the epitome of the words "attention whore"

I wish she would just crawl into a hole and die.
 

Pastore

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The weight of her believing this is that fire can't melt steel? There is no God, because he wouldn't create a being this stupid.
 

ta8689

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Originally posted by: Pastore
The weight of her believing this is that fire can't melt steel? There is no God, because he wouldn't create a being this stupid.

No sh*t. I'd like to drive down to her show, chain her to a chair and take an acetylene torch and melt a steel rod over her face, allowing the molten steel that she doesn't believe in to drip down and burn its way to her useless brain.
 

manowar821

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Loose Change doesn't count.

The "facts" presented by this administration have terrible evidence supporting them.

I'm sorry you have such a hard time questioning authority, thats a real shame.
 

Descartes

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Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Loose Change doesn't count.

The "facts" presented by this administration have terrible evidence supporting them.

I'm sorry you have such a hard time questioning authority, thats a real shame.

It's not really a question about authority though. I could create a video full of nonsensical conclusions and present them as truth, but that doesn't mean you have to open your mind to it for the sake of questioning authority.
 

manowar821

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Loose Change doesn't count.

The "facts" presented by this administration have terrible evidence supporting them.

I'm sorry you have such a hard time questioning authority, thats a real shame.

It's not really a question about authority though. I could create a video full of nonsensical conclusions and present them as truth, but that doesn't mean you have to open your mind to it for the sake of questioning authority.

I'm just talking about how so many people simply accept what BS explanation the government shoves down their throat.
 

gsellis

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Besides how amusing nutjobs like the deniers and Rosie are, there was something recently that was just beyond ironic. A structural engineer stated that if asbestos had not been banned outright during the Trade Center construction, they probably would not have fallen. They coat the girders with fire retardant. The replacement for asbestos sucks compared to asbestos. If they had been allowed to continue using asbestos and coated it with another sealant, it would have prevented the heat from softening the steel. No failure.

New conspiracy theory - environmentalist and consumer advocates are working in secret with Al Qaeda. :p jk
 

manowar821

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Originally posted by: gsellis
Besides how amusing nutjobs like the deniers and Rosie are, there was something recently that was just beyond ironic. A structural engineer stated that if asbestos had not been banned outright during the Trade Center construction, they probably would not have fallen. They coat the girders with fire retardant. The replacement for asbestos sucks compared to asbestos. If they had been allowed to continue using asbestos and coated it with another sealant, it would have prevented the heat from softening the steel. No failure.

New conspiracy theory - environmentalist and consumer advocates are working in secret with Al Qaeda. :p jk

:laugh:
 

Gibsons

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Originally posted by: akshatp
God I hate her... This just makes me hate her more. She is the epitome of the words "attention whore"

I wish she would just crawl into a hole and die.
You'd need a pretty big hole... ;)
 

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Not this again.. :roll:

I suppose now you're going to link us to "Screw Loose Change" or something, right?

Heh, you say "the 9/11 videos'" like they're all one in the same, do you even KNOW how many "9/11 videos" there are that focus on aspects of 9/11 that HAVEN'T been answered, let alone "virtually destroyed"? Keep posting news articles instead of debating them if you're going to make asinine blanket statements and promote disinformation like that.

"The 9/11 videos" aren't even the best evidence to suggest complicity, so you can "destroy" them all you want with your powerful, unflinching opinions. The proof is in documents, peer reviewed papers, and testimony that "completely destroys" the conspiracy theory YOU believe.

Never liked Rose but she's doing a good thing by bringing this issue up in a public forum, it deserves an explanation after all these years.

Point-by-point.. riiiiight.

All conspiracy theorys have one thing in common- there's always some "secret documents" that the "government" hiding. The person or department of the government is never revealed. It's just these general people known as "they" are hiding "everything". I guess "they" have this stored in some secret vault somewhere in a file next to the cure for AIDS, UFO proof, the formula for running cars on water, and a copy of the DiVinci Code on DVD.

I was in NYC over the weekend and saw some bums walking down the street yelling "They're going to get me!!!" Same state of mind applies here. :roll:

(BTW- it would have taken weeks for the WTC to be loaded with explosives that would bring it down in such a fasion).
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Yeah, burn someone at the stake for questioning how weakly-explained history happened!

Are you kidding me? The 9/11 conspiracy videos have been utterly destroyed point by point. They are complete nonsense.

Loose Change doesn't count.

The "facts" presented by this administration have terrible evidence supporting them.

I'm sorry you have such a hard time questioning authority, thats a real shame.

She is directly addressing the Loose Change theories of implosion.

Try reading comprehension... maybe you wont be so inclined to believe in fairy tales if you can actually understand what you're reading.
 

0roo0roo

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heat weakens steel which matters big time when its holding up a skyscraper:p doesnt have to melt. its not like its perfectly strong during heating until a sudden point where it becomes liquid all of a sudden, think people think:p rosie is officially dead to me. she was just another entertainment moron before, but this crosses the line.
 

Stg-Flame

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Someone really needs to take away her rights of Free Speech. After hearing that she thinks the British Government got their own people captured just to start another war while the American Military lined up on the boarders of Iran, I cannot fathom why ABC has not just closed it's doors to her. Their ratings have dropped substantially while she has been allowed to spew her ignorance and if they continue to keep her on, The View won't have much of a future.

While I don't watch or care about the morning talk shows, it still pains me to know that there is someone on National Television making up things just so she can hear herself talk. This world is going to hell and thanks to the left-sided liberals and these conspiracy theories, the majority doesn't care.
 

dmcowen674

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4-25-2007 Rosie O'Donnell leaving ABC's `The View'

NEW YORK - Rosie O'Donnell's stormy tenure on "The View" will be a short one.

Trump quickly went on Fox News Channel Wednesday to claim that O'Donnell was fired by ABC because of remarks made at the Women in Communications luncheon.

"Barbara's the happiest person in the world that Rosie's been fired," Trump said.

O'Donnell made headlines repeatedly for comments on "The View," and for testy exchanges with her more conservative partner, Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

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.
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I just had a visit by a Focus on the Family member this morning.

Apparently they didn't have my new address to stay away.