Roseanne on 'The View': Limousine Class Warfare and Conspiracy Theories

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Another left winger appeared on "The View." This time it was Roseanne Barr who felt she knew everything because she’s "old," claimed to stump for the middle and working class while admitting she’s rich, bashed the late Ronald Reagan, praised Rosie O’Donnell, and hinted at the left wing election "fixing" conspiracy theory.

Roseanne started with her explanation on why she thinks she knows everything, then demonstrated her love for her favorite "View" co-hosts, Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar. She even added that Rosie made this a "very intellectual hour." The multimillionaire comedienne proceeded to bring in her class warfare pitch by bashing the late President Ronald Reagan and then discussed with four rich women the horror that "most people like to hang out with rich people. They don’t give a damn about anyone else." The four rich co-hosts agreed.

Rosie, Roseanne, and Joy agreed on some commonly held left wing conspiracy theories. Roseanne called on "people who fix elections" to "let a Democrat in the next time." Then of course, much of the media feeds us is "the art of distraction." The transcript from key points of the discussion is below.

Roseanne Barr: "And you get to bitch all the time and say exactly what you think. And I'm coming in to the age where I do want to say what I think all the time and I think people ought to listen because I have every single answer there is. The ones you egged out [turning to Rosie] I got and the ones you egged out [turning to Joy] I got, I got too. So I think they should be out there instead of the same loop of meaningless crap that we're subjected to day in and day out."

[applause]

Rosie O’Donnell: "There you go, sister friend. Now, I saw you. You were so wonderful this week on the--"

Barr: "I just love this show now that you're on."

 

O’Donnell: "Really?"

Barr: "I do. I love it. I love that you're on too. [talking to Joy Behar] No, I loved it when you were on too. I watched it for you. But now it's like two great women comics. It's awesome. You’re telling the truth you’re knocking them down. I love it."

 

[...]

Barr: "And you made this is a very intellectual hour. And I, I thank you as a viewer."

[applause]

[...]

Barr: "Check this out. In California before Ronald Reagan, everybody's big fat hero took over, you used to get a college education for free. For free. Anybody who wanted it."

Behar: "And he changed that."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Well, we should work on bringing a Pell grant too.[unintelligible]"

Behar: "A what?"

Hasselbeck: "A Pell grant, they should bring those back."

Barr: "Most people like to hang out with the rich people. They don’t give a damn about everybody else. And that’s the bottom line."

Behar: "I got mine that's their philosophy."

O’Donnell: "Now do you, do you-"

Barr: "And I’m rich."

O’Donnell: "I know you are, me too.

[...]

Behar: "We were talking before about General Pace and gay men- and the gays in the military. Do you have any thoughts on that?"

Barr: "Well, you know -- yeah I have a lot of thoughts on that and probably hours and hours that you don't want to hear. But, no, I mean if people are qualified for the job it's just crazy. But everything is crazy. That’s why I'm hoping that people who fix the elections will let a Democrat in the next time."

[applause]

O’Donnell: "Way to go. That's right."

Behar: "Just to change it up."

Barr: "For the sake of democracy."

[...]

O’Donnell: "That’s right it’s the art of distraction. It’s like what you do to a little kid. You know, a little kid is getting, you know, asking a question, you know, you don't want to answer as a parent, you distract them. Oh, do you want a cookie? Do you want to color over there? All of a sudden their attention is gone. That’s what we’re being fed in the media."

Barr: "I think that's true but it's scary too. Well, I think that we're getting smarter and smarter. But it's scary too because the fact that we did vote -- and I mean, it couldn't have been a more overwhelming thing that it went from, you know, California to straight across Democrat, Democrat, Democrat. And feel like that's already been nullified. And I think that, that was like the American people, 70% or more of us really want, don't want this war. And they just keep on spinning like we do."

Behar: "They don't spin it. They just don't listen."

Hasselbeck: "Are you a fan of Hillary or Barack? Barack or Hillary? Do you have a camp yet?"

Barr: "I don't really know. I mean, we still have two years. Let’s see what they say. I don't care what they look like. I don't care what shape or color their skin is. [applause] It’s what are they going to talk about? That's what I say. Well, now that you applaud you just encouraged me, so I’ll go ahead with it. I want to see, I want to see real stuff, real stuff that affects like working families on the ballot. Working regular middle American people. Not extremes but the American people themselves. These people, they've got to tell us what we want to hear or we're not going to vote for them and I like kind of go sometimes, we need this may be the time in our history that we start a third party. A green party that's about solar energy and we vote for what we really believe not what we hate least but what we really believe. That's what our country is about. And we really should, like, exercise the right to vote for what we really believe in."

O’Donnell: "That's right especially when the two parties become so similar. Where they’re all just corporately owned and all big money. You know, where is the voice of America? I don't know it seems to be lost."

Barr: "Well, that seems to be left out. And I think that this vote, the last vote, I think that, that’s changing everything. And I just want to encourage people. Stay brave, man and keep doing it. Stay brave and keep doing it."


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More and more this show makes

More and more this show makes me think of a bunch of crows, sitting on a wire and cawing. 'course, the wire is sagging badly...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Chris,Just ewwwwwwww.

Chris,

Just ewwwwwwww.

Blonde! You're back! Sorry ab

Blonde! You're back! Sorry about the mental picture.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Chris,Oh yes, back and gone a

Chris,

Oh yes, back and gone and back again.

Well, it was your little description, as well as reading about Ros(sqared) and the third whack job. 

The three witches from Shakespeare also come to mind.

Must say, tho, I love the term Limosine Liberals.  Fits this group to a tee.

Can you imagine if Roseanne w

Can you imagine if Roseanne was a regular? How could anybody actually sit and listen to these loud-mouthed gargoyles? I'd be out a window in thirty seconds - open or closed...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

CN,Needless to say....I've ne

CN,

Needless to say....I've never actually seen a minute of this travesty myself.

But if this is what the libs think is enlightened debate and programming.

They are truly more stupid than I ever suspected.

Must sign off for a bit & make the commute.

Hi everyone, I did not know t

Hi everyone, I did not know that the tv set was large enough  to hold all that ass. Hide the food the cows are coming.   Pat

Barr: "Check this out.

Barr: "Check this out. In California before Ronald Reagan,
everybody's big fat hero took over, you used to get a college education
for free. For free. Anybody who wanted it."

For free doesn't cost you a damn dime!

God forbid you should work for it, eh?

Piss off!

-cs™

That's fascinating that just

That's fascinating that just a few days ago when NewsBusters had a blog about Roseanne Barr I said that she could be a twin of Rosie O'Donnell's if not for the fact that they were born ten years apart. And now here she is on The View with her fellow rotund one. And Rosie even called Roseanne her "sister friend". How fitting that these two gushed all over each other. They are both about as sane as they are beautiful. How fitting also that Roseanne's two favorites on the show are Rosie and Joy. They make it such an "intellectual hour" you know. Being totally pro Democrat Party, using profanity, saying Bush should be impeached for treason, saying radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam, calling Donald Rumsfeld "Hitler", and making fun of Dick Cheney's blood clot are Roseanne's idea of keen intellect.

By the way, isn't it interesting that Roseanne said in response to the question of what she thinks about Hillary and Barack that she doesn't care what a person looks like or what shape or skin color they are? Interesting that she specifies skin color but not gender, especially considering that The Dragon Lady (Hillary) has been playing the gender card a lot lately (and I imagine will keep doing so for the next 20 months). Could this be an indication that Roseanne's favorite candidate is The Dragon Lady?

Roseanne said... "we n

Roseanne said... "we need this may be the time in our history that we start a third party.
A green party that's about solar energy and we vote for what we really
believe not what we hate least but what we really believe."

It looks like Roseanne wants to nominate Algore for her new green party. And Rosie agreed. ARGHH.

Despite Rosie's apparent cl

Despite Rosie's apparent cluelessness here, nothing's new about the Green Party. They come to us Libertarians (behind the scenes, of course...) all the time for things like the restictive-state-ballot-law expertise of Richard Winger.
JMR

"She [Barr] even added t

"She [Barr] even added that Rosie made this a 'very intellectual hour.'"

...Haaaaahahahahahaaahahahahahahahaaahaaahahahahahahahahahahahah!!! [snort] HAAAAhaHAhahahaha haaaahahahaaahahahahahaha!!!! [Tears running down my face] HAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

Okay. Sorry. I'm done now.

[Face turning purple]

HAAAAAHAAAA HAHAHAHAH HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAAHAA ha ha heh. Hoooooooh...

Rubylens, thanks for the ch

Rubylens, thanks for the chuckle. That made my day. LOL

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

"very intellectual hour"

Well what to you expect these women are the result of public
education? Clearly they don't *read* anything that would required a comprehension
level above the second grade.

Well Lady at least give the

Well Lady at least give the ladies (?) some credit. They probably read their candy wrappers.

And yes "an intellectual hour" only if you have the TV muted and your thinking about anything else.

Oh, my! If Rosie made the

Oh, my! If Rosie made the show "intellectual" what on earth does that say about what it was before her arrival?????

As for Roseanne talking about the middle class but admitting she's rich....."I'm not a middle class housewife, but I played one on TV...."

Next thing you know, she'll be giving testimony before Congress on the construction industry, waitressing, and running a diner.

O’Donnell: "That’s right

O’Donnell: "That’s right it’s the art of distraction. It’s like what you do to a little kid. You know, a little kid is getting, you know, asking a question, you know, you don't want to answer as a parent, you distract them. Oh, do you want a cookie?"

Am I to believe Rosie's kid could ask her a question she doesn't want to answer? Or that she gives up a cookie to her kid? I would love to hear the questions, though. "Wosie, do you weally bewieve the tewwible things you say about the pwesident?"
And why does Roseanne think all the regular middle America people would vote for the green party? Because she played a regular middle America person on TV?

"Intellectual"

And in this so called "intellectual hour" gabfest, the 'intellects" still don't know that we are NOT a democracy.

Yeah gfrrman. We are a repu

Yeah gfrrman. We are a republic. As in "I pledge allegence to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic, which it stands, one nation under God". etc. If I were a doctor, I'd give The View 6 months to live. At most.

Roseanne..... Who?

Roseanne..... Who?

The Phew, or as I like to c

The Phew, or as I like to call it, two, and a half tons of no fun.  Elisabeth Hassleback is about  as adept at defending the conservative position, as her husband is at playing quarterback. She does nothing but provide comic relief for all the Libs out there, as her role on the show is designed to do .

 I would love to see Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin in her place. Now that would be a show! But we know Babwaba would never let that happen.  Rosie O'Donkey, and Joy Blowhar would have a stroke.

, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.

Blaze...Yeah that Hasselback.

Blaze...

Yeah that Hasselback...she is a real go-getter!

She drives me insane with her compliance and her little girl sweetness attitude...oh puhleeeze...!

BTW...I have never watched a show...or will, but the clips I have seen here and on political shows, she is a meek little mouse.

I am so tired of that portrayed as real conservative women out in the real world.

Also I am not talking about screaming and yelling, but make your point strongly, do not let yourself be bullied and interrupted, in other words RUN OVER by the likes of that bull-dyke Rosie and a complete looney tunes Behar...it would not be that difficult to do.

Man where are the real conservatives when we need them ...now more than ever!

Bt, I am sure Babawaba defin

Bt, I am sure Babawaba defined to her what her role was. Sit there, look, and act stupid. The only time it looked like she had any spine to her, was when Dennis Miller was on not too long ago. She actually asked what seemed to be some poignant questions.

It is painfully obvious she is intimidated, and walks on eggshells around the Bull-Dyke Bulldozer. She is villified by her. Not that she was a force to be reckoned with, or anything before Rosey came on the show anyway.

When the show first came on in the early nineties, I actually enjoyed a few episodes here, and there, it was more of a variety show back then. Now it's just another quasi-political Liberal mouthpiece showcasing conspiratorial dementia.

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.

Rosie -intellectual?

Rosie -intellectual? Well, just this old man's opinion, but Roseanne is so low class, I can believe she finds Rosie "intellectual".

(Probably the biggest word in Roseanne's vocabulary.)

Righto, misterbill. If being

Righto, misterbill. If being an un-unny, washed up comedianne  qualifies you as being an intellectual, than it is a testament to the sad state affairs we live in today.

 I wouldn't want to go for the last piece of french toast at an all you can eat breakfast buffet with Rosey O'Donkey, and Rose-man Bahr present. It would be like the running of the bulls.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.

It's all in your perspectiv

It's all in your perspective MB. To the starving masses in Ethiopia, the poor in our country are rich. To the brain-dead in our country, Rosie is an intellect.

Heck, to Roseanne, a single celled amoeba is an intellectual giant. Rosie has a single celled brain, so she is at least the equal of an amoeba.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Blazer-Jerry

Blazer-Jerry-- it may be old, but it's the first time I heard "O'Donkey"---too funny. LOL.