BW only got 12mill bc of BO. The world loves BO.Look how great the 60min ratings were bc of who, BO.
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Joe Cool says: November 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Is NBC even trying any more? Rosie? Rosie looks like the love child of Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann. I stumbled across Liza and nearly threw up. I thought she was dead. Well she did look dead. Maybe Ned from Pushing Daisies brought her back to life after she OD’d on pills and booze?

Pushing Daisies is a good show but its just too different and artsy for the masses. As for it being on the day before a holiday, that really didnt matter much. If Barbara Walters can rack up nearly 12 million viewers at 10pm, the holiday excuse doesnt hold water. Hopefully PD is wrapped in a memorable way – its deserves that much.

This means that NBC isn’t so stupid afterall ~ maybe?

I thought the show was initially a “done deal” and we would have to be put in pain each time we saw a preview or ad for the show (’cause I wouldn’t watch it)… but *sigh* thank heavens we won’t have to be submitted to any previews or ads again.

Rosie needs to find something else.. perhaps writing or directing. She needs to snuff out her need for being the “attention getter” and recede into the background. At least if she writes or directs, we won’t be submitted to her “in your face” kind of drama and we could watch..and/or.. read her if we so choose. Perhaps this could be a venue that would work as a career for her. (?) Just a thought.

I am no therapist.. but it seems she isn’t realizing that her beligerence is not something we want to have on TV. It seems she has a need to continue to create “situations”. Then she has fodder for her spewing out more cantankerous comments.

My sister used to have a saying that she would say whenever anyone got bent out of shape:

“Settle down woman..”

Rosie ~ I think this saying may apply.

That said, Rosie Live didn’t perform well. That performance wasn’t a function of the Barbara Walters special in any way, but the ratings performance still was not good.

Not surprised at all that Rosie bombed. She lost me when she came out on her old talk show with a bead strung on a chin hair she had let grow about 4 inches long and played with it for several minutes. Talk about a classic narcissist! NBC has really lost its mind putting her on. They fell for the hype from the View, HA! Serves them right. Anyone want to take bets on if HBO or MSNBC will give her a platform?

If one just takes a step back and considers the sexual ambiguities presented by the Liza / Rosie duet, it is just TOO complex (or hilarious) for logical interpretation. Liza, the gin-soaked, serial husband abusing beard for her purported gay and eSTRANGED husband shaking a tail feather with the dykey, bloated, blowhard Rosie just leaves so much to interpretation. A Rosie / Liza affair would keep Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil, Dr. Joy, AND Dr. Drew busy for a decade at least.

Rave on Rosie at your own public peril. Rosie just does not possess the charisma to have it both ways. Her private versus her public persona are polarizing. I do NOT love her nor do I hate her but I can say that even with a compelling motive to watch that train wreck variety show, I just could not take more than five minutes of the program.

That door that Alec Baldwin presented Rosie… she should use it as an EXIT.

Too bad that a great episode got less eyes than usual.

I could end with that question.. but I will continue.

Why on earth would they give such a person a platform? Why have this show on their line-up of shows? It is an embarrassment and an insult to our viewer intelligence to have this woman host a show on that network. Controversy? I hardly think so. It is plain ignorance that they would allow her to be a part of an amazing network’s line-up. She can add nothing except a bump up of interest and then when it wanes.. she will fall and the show will fail. There will eventually be some issue or some outrageous controversial subject and she has a platform for her hatred and spewing her mouth full of disgusting views on things which simply make the public sick of it. We are tired of her beligerence. She is just not “with the times” nor is she “on target” with her views. The concept of the show is good but the host was the wrong choice by far. Time for another selection NBC. I surely won’t be tuning in.. nor will many of my colleagues. Simply NOT what that network should be about my friends.. simply the wrong choice for today’s point of view and an intelligent market. Pull the plug, I say. ..(and don’t give Rosie the satisfaction of a platform for her oversized mouth).