Liberal comedienne and 9/11 truther Rosie O'Donnell insisted that her return to The View on Monday will feature more "objective" discussions. In an interview with Variety on Tuesday, she bashed previous co-hosts Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. Variety writer Ramin Setoodeh relayed, "[O'Donnell] explains that the Hot Topics segment will include pre-taped newsy intros to catch viewers up on stories they might not be as familiar with."
O'Donnell insisted, "In talk shows like ‘The View’ or ‘The Talk,’ sometimes the argument is over what the givens are...We’d like to first present an objective view of the situation." O'Donnell recently doubled down on her belief in a September 11th, 2001 conspiracy theory, telling NewsBusters on Twitter: "I still do not believe the official story." So, one wonders what her definition of "objective" will be?
Regarding Hasselbeck, her conservative former colleague, O'Donnell continued to complain:
O'Donnell and Hasselbeck made up at a reunion show in May for Walters, where they sat next to each other at the table. Backstage, O'Donnell said the mood was cordial. She even knocked on her ex-co-host's dressing room door and took a selfie with her, the first time they'd spoken in seven years. But after O'Donnell's full-time return was announced, Hasselbeck launched into an angry rant about her on "Fox & Friends," where Hasselbeck has worked since last September. O'Donnell says she wasn't surprised. "I've come to expect nothing from her, even though I feel I continually make the effort to break through," O'Donnell says.
The host also took a shot at Shepherd and her 2007 comment about whether the world is flat:
O’Donnell has always been a whirlwind of ideas, and she shared her vision for the new “View.” She wants the show to be smarter. “No one is going to think the Earth is flat,” she says, referring to an infamous flub Shepherd made when she started. “When I was at home watching that, I thought I was going to have an aneurysm.”
O'Donnell returns on Monday. For a NewsBusters compilation of her most over-the-top liberal outbursts, go here.
