Rosie on Bill O’Reilly: “A fattish… man”
Written by Dante on Thursday, April 5th, 2007 in Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O’Donnell spat back at conservative talk-show pugilist Bill O’Reilly after he called for her firing from ABC last week, comparing him to a character in George Orwell’s “1984″ who is “a fattish … man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms.”
She didn’t reserve her fire for O’Reilly, however, TMZ.com reported yesterday. On her blog at Rosie.com, she accused O’Reilly of being a totalitarian puppet of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, as she put it, in her lower-case verse, “like 1984/molding the facts/2 suit the needs/of big brother rupert.” O’Donnell also revealed that when she and co-host Joy Behar made reference on “The View” to a sex scandal involving O’Reilly, they were told they had to can it about O’Reilly or else “bill o would ‘go after’ all the hosts” of their show. (more…)
