{"id":32,"date":"2007-05-29T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2007\/05\/29\/take-some-time-to-enjoy-my-view\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T21:18:58","slug":"take-some-time-to-enjoy-my-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2007\/05\/take-some-time-to-enjoy-my-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Take some time to enjoy my view"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m writing this post to the now-unemployed Rosie O’Donnell.<\/font>Consider it a message from one overly opinionated Irish American blogger to another.\u00c2 <\/p>\n

Ro, I’m so disappointed in you. And I say this as someone who normally agrees with you and can’t believe Elisabeth’s blind faith in the president or his war.\u00c2 <\/p>\n

I’d write an open letter to Elisabeth, too, but I don’t think she’s Irish and I don’t\u00c2 she would get it. Afterall, this is the same woman who believes we’re safer after invading Iraq. (Though I should say I normally agree with EH’s\u00c2 views on Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and gluten.)<\/p>\n

But I digress. Back to the issue at hand.<\/p>\n

Rosie, I\u00c2 loved what you *and* Elisabeth brought to The View. Lively, unapolgetic, female opinion.\u00c2 But\u00c2 I hate how you left the table: Emotional, petty, mean.<\/p>\n

Basically, I think the whole\u00c2 messy spat\u00c2 — including the incident in which your producer drew a moustache on a photo of Elisabeth\u00c2 — is disparaging to women. The View is the one show in which women talk about world events, politics, etc. from the viewpoint of mothers, sisters, friends. And what did you and Elisabeth\u00c2 do with this opportunity? You acted\u00c2 as if\u00c2 women can’t have a reasonable debate without it being swept up by emotion, personal insults or petty adolescent behavior. You weren’t arguing about Iraq or terrorist troops.\u00c2 You were arguing about\u00c2 your frienship. On national television. The country is in the midst of a war that is dividing the nation and angering foreign allies. And what do\u00c2 you\u00c2 let the debate spiral into? A yelling match over who was cowardly to whom.<\/p>\n

\u00c2 <\/p>\n

Then your producer defaces a picture of EH, as if she’s 12 and you applaud. You seem like a big ‘ol Bully — which casts all women with strong opinions in a bad light.<\/p>\n

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Quitting the View also suggests women can’t have strong opinions without personal feelings get in a way.\u00c2 Ro, you\u00c2 let your emotions and bruised ego get the best of you. It’s sad and demoralizing. \u00c2 <\/p>\n

That said,\u00c2 the spat\u00c2 did give us the best Web\u00c2 moment of 2007: I loved when you used your blog to liken the fight to the Sound of Music,\u00c2 an awesomely\u00c2 bizarre metaphor in which\u00c2 Rosie is Leisel and Elisabeth is that Rolf, that Nazi-worshipping cutey patootie. It may have been the petty move of woman acting like she’s 16 going on 17, but it was inspired nevertheless.<\/p>\n

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I’m writing this post to the now-unemployed Rosie O’Donnell.Consider it a message from one overly opinionated Irish American blogger to another.\u00c2 Ro, I’m so disappointed in you. And I say this as someone who normally agrees with you and can’t believe Elisabeth’s blind faith in the president or his war.\u00c2 I’d write an open letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-entertainment","category-irish-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}