Update (14:25): Justin McCarthy has more analysis and a full transcript available here.
Update (13:50 EDT): Video (2:07): Real (1.55 MB) or Windows (1.3 MB) plus MP3 (980 kB).
Update (12:42 EDT): We're still working on video and a transcript, but here's the audio (980 kB).
Moments ago "The View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell found a golden opportunity to resurrect her conspiracy theories on the collapse of World Trade Center Tower 7 (WTC 7) as her fellow co-hosts were discussing Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. Co-host Joy Behar faulted Giuliani for keeping the NYC emergency command center in the World Trade Center complex. That's when O'Donnell noted that the command center was in WTC 7. This time around, however, token non-liberal Elisabeth Hasselbeck pushed back on Rosie's loopy conspiracy theories.
Stay tuned to NB for more.
Justin McCarthy is working on the transcript. We've been having problems with some of our video today, but we hope to have video of the exchange up later.
Update/Other blog coverage (13:30 EDT):
Ian at HotAir is also covering this development, with video. He adds a link to Popular Mechanics which, of course, has more expertise in stuff like metalworking and engineering than O'Donnell.
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Looking forward to hearing ho
May 14, 2007 - 11:48 ET by Hero SquadLooking forward to hearing how Hasselbeck pushed back. Hopefully those pregnancy hormones are putting some fire in her belly.
(There's gotta be a better way to say that.)
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Think Roise O'Fatso will resu
May 14, 2007 - 12:00 ET by SouthJersey1953Think Roise O'Fatso will resurrect the 'fire never melts steel' argument?
No RINOs in '08 - Vote for a true conservative!
Of course fire doesn't melt s
May 14, 2007 - 12:14 ET by GothampcOf course fire doesn't melt steel. The art skills of a blacksmith are just lies put out by the Bush spin machine. The pictures you see in the website below are part of the Karl Rove photoshop team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith
Oh silly me. Not sure how I d
May 14, 2007 - 12:16 ET by SouthJersey1953Oh silly me. Not sure how I didn't catch that before. That Karl Rove is one tricky guy!
No RINOs in '08 - Vote for a true conservative!
No RINOs in '08 - Vote for
May 14, 2007 - 12:42 ET by lnthompNo RINOs in '08 - Vote for a true conservative!
Where will we find a true conservative who is willing to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous media?
Lee T.
U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain
Lee...I'm hoping that Fred Th
May 14, 2007 - 12:51 ET by Clear thinkerLee...
I'm hoping that Fred Thompson is willing.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
Mike Huckabee or Duncan Hunte
May 14, 2007 - 12:59 ET by GothampcMike Huckabee or Duncan Hunter? They are not getting media attention, but can either one of them pull out to frontrunner?
Goth...Both are good candidat
May 14, 2007 - 13:02 ET by Clear thinkerGoth...
Both are good candidates but do not have the juice to make it to a nomination.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
Off Topic but responding to l
May 14, 2007 - 13:57 ET by SouthJersey1953Off Topic but responding to lnthomp's question - Fred Thompson would be a good great choice. Duncan Hunter, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo are others. The reason McCain, Guillani and Romney receive so much press is because they are RINOs. The MSM would rather a Dem win in '08 but if that doesn't happen, the last thing they want is a true Rrepublican. If they can boost the RINOs it will better serve their "mission."
No RINOs in '08 - Vote for a true conservative!
Nice try Goth - it is true ab
May 14, 2007 - 14:03 ET by FastEdNice try Goth - it is true about the KR photshop team. Anytime you see red-heated steel, it's all done with amoke and mirrors, just like the moon landings, it's all been faked!! And, what about airplanes, while we're at it - it is not possible for anything that large, either a small two-seater, to a C-17 can "fly"! - I've seen the secret 3-d projectors and loud speakers that "make" airplanes "fly". They're really buses! It's one of the biggest scams running and it started long ago, buy a multi-corporate and multi-national cabal, who have had direct conversations with aliens - from beyond the Milky Way.
I'll explain more later, I have to take my meds now, I've missed a few today . .
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Everyone knows that steel gir
May 14, 2007 - 14:27 ET by JerryEveryone knows that steel girders are harvested directly from the steel girder mines. Blacksmiths never made horseshoes, they just developed a way of inexpensively harvesting the existing horseshoes from the horseshoe mines.
Luckily, the United States had plenty of tank chasis mines and battleship hull mines, or WWII would have been a lost cause.
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).
Don't get me started on how B
May 14, 2007 - 14:44 ET by GothampcDon't get me started on how Bush has lied to the public about glass. Oh sure, there are videos of people blowing glass in order to shape it, but the real story is that glass is not made from sand, but sculpted from frozen water, much like ice.
As Johnie Carson used to say
May 15, 2007 - 08:59 ET by FastEdAs Johnie Carson used to say - "I did not know that!" - then the question - how is dry ice made form wet water? (yeah I know, but the libs will be scratching their little heads with that one)
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
She's got more scientific stu
May 14, 2007 - 13:37 ET by taznarShe's got more scientific stuff that "fire never melts steel". I believe in her first rant she tells us if we watch the video we can tell that buildings "don't fall that way" (or something like that). Personally, I don't know much about the support structure of the building and how it was built to withstand the force of tons of TNT released when the main towers collapsed next to it, so I can't tell you how it should fall in any scenario. But apparently Rosie does, and she can tell something isn't right just by looking at the video.
Here Rosie, a little reading for you.
May 14, 2007 - 13:31 ET by Gary HallHere Rosie, a little reading for you.
NIST.Gov - Working hypothisis for WTC 7 Collapse
Thanks. I passed along to J
May 14, 2007 - 14:03 ET by Ken ShepherdThanks. I passed along to Justin McCarthy, who will likely use that in his writeup about Rosie. I'll update this post with the link to his and we'll sticky his post to the top when it's published.
Rosie O'blivion
May 14, 2007 - 13:47 ET by sighkobablPerhaps Elizabeth could site one of the many examples we have of twin 110 story flaming jet fuel laden buildings capped with 767 aircraft, and the effect their implosion has on the structural integrity neighboring buildings...
What?
There aren't any?
Huh...
I guess we’ll have to keep using the 9/11 example and state the obvious…that the effect is anything within the blast radius is totally f-ing destroyed... which includes the WTC 7 Moonbat theory.
when the guy shows up from
May 14, 2007 - 14:00 ET by charlietexaswhen the guy shows up from Popular Mechinics, I promise you Rosie wont be on. She'll have some lame excuse for not being there.......loser
Hasselbeck is a weak debater.
May 15, 2007 - 13:47 ET by whatajoyHasselbeck is a weak debater. I'd love to see Rosie go head to head on issues like this (her insane and foolish conspiracy theories) with Ann Coulter, Gretta Van Sestran or Condaleeza Rice on the other side of the table. Barbara would never do that though because she wants her side (liberal) to dominate the show with just a nugget of the other side (conservative).
Rosie acts like she is an engineer and knows what she is talking about. She doesn't. She just reads some unofficial websites and goes, huh, this sounds good, I'll shout this from the mountain tops as fact and act like I'm the end-all-say-all on this subject. People will believe me.
What color is the sky in her world?
dm...LOL!By the way the probl
May 15, 2007 - 13:51 ET by bigtimerdm...
LOL!
By the way the problem is some people with the equivalency of her IQ do believe her....got to love those the leftist sheeple.