Rooms with a View – GITMO Cells & Safe Houses
By: Steve Yuhas
Rosie O’Donnell has done a lot for the hen house gals over at The View: she got their ratings to jump when she feigned a comb-over with her splint ended bull dyke hair and the world waited with baited breath to see how Barbara Walters would react when Donald Trump revealed that Walters was embarrassed by O’Donnell’s behavior. The best thing to happen for ABC, though, had to happen when Rosie brought in the latest group of View supporters: GITMO prisoners and as the television show of choice for al-Qaeda safe houses around the world.
How happy ABC must be that the woman they’ve decided to sit at the adult (or thinning – you decide) end of the table is the one that would be most likely to come to the defense of the mastermind of the attack that killed thousands of people just miles from the studio. If The View being made the morning program of choice for the death to America crowd isn’t enough – there is not much else that can be done to let ABC know that having an America hating hen at the table is unacceptable to rational people.
On Saturday Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to a litany of terrorist events – some happened and some didn’t. One event that surely was successful was September 11, 2001 for which Mohammed told a military tribunal, “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z.” His confession was not enough for ABC’s O’Donnell who is unconvinced.
O’Donnell dismisses Mohammed’s outlined specifics about the acts of war against America that ranged from the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan to attacks that never came to fruitarian because of either good law enforcement or dumb luck by talking bad about America. her complaint is (what else) torture, oh and that Mohammed had a bad picture. Note to law enforcement – bad pictures may be enough to sway a hen even after a terrorist makes a confession.
Admitting to 31 actual or would be terrorist attacks is not enough for O’Donnell because shortly after the show began and the gals began their roundtable clucking of banter Rosie decided to defend a terrorist. "I think the man has been under custody in secret CIA torture prisons and Guantanamo Bay where torture is accepted and allowed – and he finally is the guy who admits to doing everything."
Leave it to Rosie, who cannot use malnutrition or an eating disorder as an excuse for poor thinking or an inability to speak in a coherent manner, to come to the defense of a killer; someone that we know is a killer, Bill Clinton knew was a killer and who even the Pakistanis agree is a killer.
I suppose it is easy when you have a couple of chins not to worry about having your throat cut, but I hope Rosie is aware that the next time terrorists come calling to New York – al-Qaeda is not going to chopper her to a secret location in advance. These people are dead set on killing us and have been doing it for decades – Rosie becoming their spokes model will not change that.
Terrorists are not going to remember the day that Rosie came to the defense of one of their own on ABC just down the street from their most successful death to America rallying points. Rosie will die right along with everyone else.
The people who will and should remember the day Rosie sided with al-Qaeda are the American people who see first hand what ABC’s morning show has to offer. With the possible exception of Elisabeth Hasselbeck (a more rational member of the clucking foursome) ABC’s morning line-up includes a group of women who sit around and chat with coffee cups; it was cute when they did it and made fun of Donald Trump because nobody really cares about him; I do care when they cluck about terrorists and pretend that America is the bad guy.
Unfortunately ABC allowed O’Donnell to begin her morning diatribe against America by pretending that Mohammed is just a guy that turned up on a police raid instead of someone that was sought for years for his role in killing Americans and that the Clinton administration helped indict six years before the Towers fell in 2001. What O’Donnell lacks in intelligence and finesse (and probably mothering skills and obviously grammar) she more than makes up for in stupid inferences that America is somehow to blame for the evil that reeks in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The best part of The View, something I was compelled to watch because of the mixed company in the auto dealership I happened to be in having my tires rotated (I should have called Rosie, I hear lesbians are good with their hands), was not listening in to conversations that didn’t include me (I’m Jewish – nosey by nature). It was when I realized that women in the room just sat at the edges of their seat listening to O’Donnell blame America for how Mohammed looked shaking their heads.
“And look, this is the picture they release of him. Doesn't he look healthy?" If looking healthy means looking like you weigh as much as Rosie on the day of your arrest then yeah, I guess he looks healthy since all that is shown is his arrest photo.
The point is that ABC has in Rosie O’Donnell a woman who is not satisfied talking about Donald Trump; she has decided that her ire should be placed on the United States and her sympathy should go to the man who was once in the leadership of the people who would nuke us if they had the chance. As long as ABC signs her paycheck and as long as Americans keep watching she will just keep on saying the nutty anti-American things she does with little challenge.
I make my living in the First Amendment business and I thank G-d for it everyday, but the message should be sent to ABC that when you’re going to have a bunch of women sitting around as a captive audience to hear what Rosie will say next – you should hope that you distance yourself when she shows compassion not for the widows of 9-11 or their children, but the man who helped make it happen.
Steve Yuhas is a radio talk show host on AM 600 KOGO and may be reached at steve@steveyuhas.com or www.steveyuhas.com