Greg Pollowitz of NRO's Media Blog already beat me to the punch, but it bears repeating on NewsBusters. The only fresh angle I can bring to this is that, to my recollection, this is the first time Rosie O'Donnell has attempted an original blog post in prose. For the occasion she blamed President Bush for a nasty staph infection back in 2000.
I'm sure given enough time and inspiration from Joni Mitchell's greatest hits she can re-work her post into her groundbreaking poetry.
Without further ado, the relevant portion of her blog, unedited (lousy formatting left intact), with portions in bold reflecting my emphasis. Oh, by the way, what Rosie really wants you to get out of this anecdote is the importance of voting:
President Bush almost killed me. It’s true, and I have the scars to prove it — multiple scars that are part of the public record — you saw them in magazines and on my show, and you can see them on my blog frequently — no twelve year wait required.
It was 2000, and the Republican National Convention was on television. The whole affair felt something like a home invasion, with a chronically smirking and arrogant George W. Bush as ringleader. Not wishing to be robbed of my optimism and hope at the time — or to tumble into depression and despair — I shut off the TV and decided to go fishing.
I needed gear, so I went to the store and bought a few things, including a knife, which I used to cut the price tags off of the fishing poles.
Now, I could have stabbed myself 100 times in the hand and not managed to do the damage I did with that one poke to the inside of my middle finger. I went all out, though, and got everything — skin, ligaments, tendons, nerves. Maximum impact, including a particularly nasty staph infection that almost left me dead.
That’s my personal war story from the demoralizing Bush years, and probably a minor one, considering the 935 documented lies told by the Bush administration that thrust us into an unjust war, killing thousands of Iraqi civilians and nearly 4000 Americans. One near-death experience probably pales in comparison to the $9 trillion dollar debt heaped upon the collective back of America, or the gross war profiteering by corporate friends of Cheney and Bush, or even the $10 billion dollar third-quarter profit Exxon recently reported.
Still, it hurt like hell, and the scars and swelling are there as a reminder. I was right to feel repulsed by Bush. Nearly everything his administration has done or stood for in the years since has been tainted by lies and corruption.
You can find more on the former "View" co-host in our archive of Rosie O'Donnell blog coverage.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Pity Rosie
February 5, 2008 - 14:59 ET by Lame CherryRosie O'Donnell suffers from a strange mixed form of psychopathy, mental retardation, molestation and a type of dyslexia akin to Charlie Sheen doped up on coke being told things by his crazy dad, Martin.
I pity this woman as she is insane literally. Her above post makes no sense at all.
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February 5, 2008 - 15:00 ET by dervishI'd say that the fish have a more legitimate complaint.
Let us hope (or not) that the big'un has learned not to play with sharp objects.
What an insane rant! One
February 5, 2008 - 15:02 ET by rbosqueWhat an insane rant! One would think the authorities should have given her a straight-jacket and made her a ward of the state by now. What does it take to get someone committed now-a-days? The bar must be REALLY high!
You'd think,
February 5, 2008 - 15:06 ET by Gary P JacksonYou'd think, anyway!
Although, they have hauled Britany off a couple of times, so maybe the straight jacket brigade is just busy!
Rosie makes Brittany
February 5, 2008 - 15:06 ET by marpelRosie makes Brittany look sane. Brittany was hospitalized for less crazy behavior than Rosie displays in this blog. Crazy is as crazy does.
Rosie is insane. She needs
February 5, 2008 - 15:06 ET by bigtimerRosie is insane.
She needs to grab Olbermann by the hand immediately and check in to the nearest looney-bin...
No sharp objects allowed either.
Leave it to a leftist to blame others for their own outright stupidity.
Victim-hood is the mantra of the lazy left.
Sadly Typical
February 5, 2008 - 15:07 ET by MassConservSadly typical for the loony lefty she is. Of course it can’t possibly be her own fault for being careless with a sharp implement.
She needs to go back to kindergarten and learn to use the blunt plastic scissors so he doesn’t hurt herself again in the future.
Hey kid!
February 5, 2008 - 15:13 ET by okiehawk44Knives "bite" you every once in a while. Anyone can get an infection and it has nothing to do with any of the things or people you are blaming. But stop complaining about it for gosh sake and act like an adult. Remember, you've got kids now.
Rosie Outlook
February 5, 2008 - 15:15 ET by mattmAs non-conservative as Bush is, he must be pretty darn good to affect Rosie this way.
Rosie O'Donnell *IS* A Staph Infection
February 5, 2008 - 15:18 ET by lgeubankLike I said.
Pathetic
February 5, 2008 - 15:23 ET by voodoodaddyWhat a pathetic human being. Actually, I apologize to all for calling her a human being. Too bad she/it did not put herself/itself out of her/it's own misery with that knife rather than cut herself/itself with it.
Wash your hands
February 5, 2008 - 15:41 ET by Hero SquadFunny... I just got back from doing an interview for an article on the topic of preventing viruses and bacteria, such as staph infections.
Seems to me that if Ms. O'Donnell washed her hands properly, she might have prevented her staph infection.
So, did President Bush, like, shake her hand after he walked out of the rest room or something?
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
She probably did wash her
February 5, 2008 - 22:06 ET by bretzysdudeShe probably did wash her hands, but she herself is a germ so by that time it would've been too late.
You are all wrong
February 5, 2008 - 15:43 ET by ricklailRosie is a cyst on a hemmoroid.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.-Lewis Grizzard
What more can I say?
February 5, 2008 - 16:00 ET by PommeOther than "Wow."
4 MORE YEARS!
February 5, 2008 - 16:01 ET by ArchConservativeIf this doesn't cement her as the certified nutcase that she is, nothing will. This is like saying that I was so mortified when Clinton was elected that I went for a drive to clear my head and killed a family of 8 on the way to Chuck E Cheese and then blame Clinton for those deaths. Moron.
It's too bad Bush can't run again. I'd love to see TokyoRosie finish the job she started.
You support the troops by supporting the mission! If you don't support the mission, have the guts to say you don't support the troops.
Heh, heh
February 5, 2008 - 16:09 ET by MassConservHey AC. How many heads do you think might explode at that prospect? :-)
Though I don't think anybody would re-elect Bush at this point.
Ahhhh but I can
February 5, 2008 - 20:08 ET by ArchConservativeAhhhh but I can dream................
Rosie O'Donnell, Strahan, et al.
February 5, 2008 - 16:09 ET by ShaftBigScoreIs Rosie sure that it is not Jock itch? I thought she was the one 4 BIG Defensive Linemen putting pressure on Tom Brady on Sunday from the NY Giants. She is one of the boys, you know...
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. President Ronald Reagan
She may have beaten
February 5, 2008 - 16:09 ET by fonzie2178the staph infection (due to her own inability to safely handle sharp objects, not President Bush) but what is she going to do about that big useless lump on top of her neck?
Please please please
February 5, 2008 - 16:15 ET by c5thenStop paying attention to this mentally ill loon. Next you will be posting snippets of Brittany Spears blog from the psych ward. Actually they would probably be just as coherent.
the best thing that society can do is to ignore Rosie's rants and allow her to fade away into oblivion. I'm going to do my part.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
I know,
February 5, 2008 - 16:23 ET by fonzie2178you're right, but when someone keeps making themself such a wonderful target, it's hard to keep from exploiting it. She's like the stress ball of life! :-)
Let's substitute knife for gun and see how this plays out...
February 5, 2008 - 16:18 ET by planetrepublicanNot wishing to be robbed of my optimism and hope at the time — or to
tumble into depression and despair — I shut off the TV and decided to
go hunting. I needed gear, so I went to the store and bought a few
things, including a gun, which I used to shoot some warts off my face. Now, I could have shot myself 100 times in
the big fat ass I have and not managed to do the damage I did with that one shot to
the brain. I went all out, though, and got
everything — a lobotomy, electric shock treatment. Maximum impact,
including a particularly nasty brain disorder called BDS or Bush Derangement Syndrome that most certainly left me brain-dead.
LMAO!!!
February 5, 2008 - 16:25 ET by voodoodaddyLMAO!!! How sweet would that have been.
I gotta say, if she said
February 5, 2008 - 16:30 ET by ForeverOnTheRightI gotta say, if she said this to my face I'd look at her bemused and ask her if she was kidding. She's blaming Bush for an accident that is her fault. Her fishing accident and Bush have no direct connection. What is it with these lefty children, can't they put the blame where it belongs? If the onset of BDS impaired her judgment that's her fault, BDS is a choice not something that you are involuntarily infected with.
Rosie gives Staph
February 5, 2008 - 16:56 ET by stratmanRosie gives Staph infections a bad name.
Why is she so angry at George Staphylococcus of ABC?
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
You are absolutely right.
February 5, 2008 - 19:01 ET by Ruths husband BenYou are absolutely right. Staph ought to start a blog entitled, "Bush gave me a Rosie."
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn't. - Ben Franklin
"Bush gave me a
February 5, 2008 - 22:55 ET by stratman"Bush gave me a Rosie."
lol
Terminal... No cure.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
Oh, for cripessakes!
February 5, 2008 - 17:36 ET by drillanwrPut her back on "The View", already ... Maybe she and Joy Bearhair will try to out ass-clown each other and implode live on the ABC set ...
I don't think that was
February 5, 2008 - 17:45 ET by TeeDeeI don't think that was Rosie. All the words were spelled correctly, and she didn't use '2' for to and 'u' for you.
I'm calling on this.
"It isn't that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so" - Ronald Reagan
you're right it's probably...
February 5, 2008 - 18:06 ET by Ken Shepherd...her intern. By it was bylined by her, as it were, as she's the sole contributor to her blog.
tee dee, it's not that liberals are that ignorant anymore
February 5, 2008 - 21:05 ET by lunaticcringeradiothey use their right to choose to be that stooopid and their politicians prey on their stooopidity to gain power. they like being emotional irrational reactionary idiots. good conservatives choose to think things through, to evaluate, to set a value of an outcome, the value to obtain it, a value to a situation, a system, or a person, that is something a liberal will never do except for a tax value or a vote value.
lunaticcringeradio
Brain infection
February 5, 2008 - 18:09 ET by ScrapironI think she said she got a STD infection in her Bush. That would have to come from her girlfriend. Did't one of the great gangsters of the time die of an STD infection that went to his brain? ROFL at the most stupid person allowed to walk the streets without a jacket of many straps.
Al Capone
February 6, 2008 - 08:55 ET by ricklailHe died from syphillis.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.-Lewis Grizzard
Nurses and orderlies to
February 5, 2008 - 20:30 ET by Chris NormanNurses and orderlies to Padded Cell 4 - stat! Rosie's got her hands on a computer again!
i'm sure i'm late with this one
February 5, 2008 - 20:55 ET by lunaticcringeradiobut does rosie blame bush for her fat ass. or would she ever possibly blame bush for her sexuality? no no no not that but everything else i'm sure. i'll bet she had a coffe cup in her washer get a chip on it and she blamed bush. god can you imagine how much fun it must be to live in that house.
the next thing will be she blames bush for a yeast infection.
lunaticcringeradio
other Rosie-related infections
February 5, 2008 - 21:04 ET by lgeubankForget the staph -- there's a more worrisome condition out there. A story titled "Paralysis Outbreak In Meat Workers Handling Pigs' Brains" describes it, at
http://www.medicalne....
If that disease hits people who work with pig brains, what about if you HAVE a pig brain? And snout? And body?
As I understand it,
February 5, 2008 - 21:40 ET by dervishthis disease doesn't affect the pigs themselves. Thus...
That's rich coming from
February 5, 2008 - 21:17 ET by Jack BauerThat's rich coming from someone with a terminal case of Mad Sow Disease.
Where's that hand been?
February 5, 2008 - 23:56 ET by right minded and lovin itThink about it ....
Conservatives unite - "Time to go to the matresses!"