Well, this may be a bit more "schtuff" than actual Newsy Bits tonight. You've been warned!Okay, who's following the Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump brouhaha? (You know how I love to use the word "brouhaha" in a sentence, right? A perfect excuse to do it!) I simply can't believe these two wealthy celebrity adults, can you? And, what's getting me is that I think Donald sunk lower than Rosie. I would have thought it would be the other way around. I'm a huge The Apprentice fan, but he's disappointed me with his behavior in this matter. To sink to calling someone "ugly" and "fat" is schoolyard stuff. Not that I'm defending Rosie, mind you. But...!
Did anyone see the brief Lost promo during Ugly Betty tonight? Jack and Kate have the walkie-talkies and Jack's trying to get Kate a way off the island. Yes, more proof there are indeed two islands. Heck, if giant polar bears run amok, they can go around an island and never see another right nearby. Kate and Sawyer are attacked by the others and someone gets shot.
It seems tonight is the meatball-and-pizza-on-the-tree night for the Late Show with David Letterman judging by the promos. And, tomorrow night is the Christmas show with the Annual Christmas Tree Football Toss.
Ho ho...
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I agree Jackie! The Donald and Rosie need to grow up. We all know the sticks and stones motto. Both just need to shut up!
Missed the LOST promo, but I am sure will be shown alot. Sad that Lily's home burned down in Hawaii.
I just want to wish all a "Happy-Jolly-Merry Holiday. Be safe all and warm...and please all over-eat. LOL
I am off to DC soon and on Sun off to Orlando and the land of Mickey for a week. NYE and day in DC and GO Penn State kick some TN butt!
Hugs and love,
Delee
Forgot to mention Brouhaha....very good word!
Over that situation all I can do is the Jackie "FAMOUS" @@
I agree that the personal attacks on one's size and appearance are not nice at all,but then,Rosie DID start it with her impersonation of "The Donald" and his ridiculous hair. And I find it hard to believe that this all isn't a publicity stunt to hype his coming show. I think ALL these "celebrities" think that we all care what they think and endorse,and I,for one,find it a big turn off. In fact,it only makes me go the other way with them. I don't care about their politics or preferences,when they shove them in my face,I turn them off or refuse to patronize anything they are involved in. I quit watching "the View" when Jones was on there spewing her political rhetoric and I'm about there with Rosie and Joy now. If it's a political forum,then advertise it as such,otherwise,keep your opinions to yourself. It's a free country,I know,and Bush bashing is allowed,but do it on your own time,NOT in my tv viewing time!! I will now step dowm off my soapbox and wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy 2007. Travel safe and we'll all meet up after the holidays.
LOL LOL
Accrding to this report by WIKIPEDIA, the statement that Rosie made about Dondald is true and there is no way he will win this suit if this article holds up in court.
"By 1990, the effects of recession left him unable to meet loan payments. Although he shored up his businesses with additional loans and postponed interest payments, increasing debt brought Trump to business bankruptcy and the brink of personal bankruptcy. Banks and bond holders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars, but opted to restructure his debt to avoid the risk of losing more money in court. Things were so bleak for Trump at this time that in the August 21, 1990 edition of the Jersey Record, columnist Mike Kelly wrote “If we still had debtors’ prisons, Trump would be in the dungeon.” Kelly added that “Donald Trump is a Third World Nation.” Also in 1990, he co-produced the game show Trump Card in syndication.
By 1994, Trump had eliminated a large portion of his $900 million personal debt and reduced significantly his nearly $3.5 billion in business debt. While he was forced to relinquish the Trump Shuttle (which he had bought in 1989), he managed to retain Trump Tower in New York City and control of his three casinos in Atlantic City. Chase Manhattan Bank, (which lent Trump the money he needed to buy the West Side yards, his biggest Manhattan parcel) forced a sale of the parcel to Asian developers. According to former members of the Trump Organization, Trump did not retain any ownership of the site’s real estate - the owners merely promised to give him about 30 percent of the profits once the site was completely developed or sold. Until that time, the owners wanted to keep Trump on to do what he did best: building things. They gave him a modest construction fee and a management fee to oversee the development. The new owners also allowed him to put his name on the buildings that eventually rose on the yards because his well-known moniker allowed them to charge a premium for their condos.
In 1995, he combined his casino holdings into the publicly held Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. Wall Street drove its stock above $35 in 1996, but by 1998 it had fallen into single digits as the company remained profitless and struggled to pay just the interest on its nearly $2 billion in debt. Under such financial pressure, the properties were unable to make the improvements necessary for keeping up with their flashier competitors.
In 1999, Donald’s father Fred Trump, a multi-billion dollar real estate mogul, died. Fred Trump, the same man who cosigned Donald’s first business loans, also happened to be the man who enabled Donald to escape from the massive financial morass he had created over the decades. Creditors who got stuck with the past losses were not as fortunate. Whereas Donald walked away from his empire unscathed, others were forced to take catastrophic writeoffs and losses even up to 2004, when Trump refused to continue to back his casino. Although Trump boasted he would build a bigger empire than his father, in the end, his father built an empire so large it could even accommodate Donald’s most lavish personal losses.
Problems loomed for Trump’s casino resorts. In a May 28, 2004 Wall Street Journal article, Trump said the spectre of bankruptcy bothered him “from a psychological standpoint,” but added, “it really wouldn’t matter that much.” A number of his bondholders disagreed. In the same article, “Meyer Marvald, a Florida retiree who says he owns about $44,000 of the bonds,” said Trump “has the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.” On October 21, 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts announced a restructuring of its debt. The plan called for Trump’s individual ownership to be reduced from 56 percent to 27 percent, with bondholders receiving stock in exchange for surrendering part of the debt. Since then, Trump Hotels has been forced to seek voluntary bankruptcy protection to stay afloat. As a result of his company filing for Chapter 11 Protection, in May of 2005 Trump relinquished his CEO position."
Rosie imitates everyone, get over it. Donald mention that Rosie lost her show, yes she did because people could not handle the fact that she was a lesibian. I love Rosie, I am glad she speaks her mind. How many of us out there agrees with her and are afraid to say it because of the backlash. Don't get me wrong, I love the show the apprentice and I will continue to watch it because there are some life lessons in that show. I will also continue to watch the view as long as Rosie is on the show. She gave the show some life, Whem Barbara was sitting in that chair, the show was so boring, I barely watched it. Rosie is the bigger person by not name calling like the Donald did when attacking her physical appearance. Donald get over it, everyone talks about your hair even Joy Behar and you still sat you behind on the counch. Everyone talks about your hair, if you don't like whzt they say about it fix it.
Jackie, Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for your 2006 Blogs on all my Reality and Non Reality Shows, I enjoy reading your insights.
Arlene
Yo! Sharon ( aka Rocky ) I agree with your post re: Trump/Rosie fued...........pathetic. So funny to see these two battle each other , comic relief, talk about the pot calling the kettle black syndrome! Both are disgusting!!!
It is so clear that Rosie hit a MAJOR nerve with Trump. A homerun on his morals, business dealings and finances.......so damn funny! All true, truth hurts, no matter how "The Donald" wants to call it a lie. Marrys, cheats, creats children, divorces, a macho pattern to bolster his ego..........again, disgusting.
As much as I have trouble stomaching Rosie, she does APPEAR on the surface to be a better person, but hits every adjective of brass, outspoken, and opininated to the point of over obnixious. Both of them suck in their own delusion of grandeur...........this cat fight is hysterical. IF , it were for ratings, it would have been a great idea, but I doubt it. It is simply two loud mouth egos with an audience and airwaves. Their fellow friends/news casters and alike can hardly keep a straight face from laughing reporting this pathetic scene as it unfolds! Larry King and Anderson Cooper come to mind as just two.
Enough said, oh! and "The Donald's" going to sue! You have to know the lawyers are laughing and loving it, and crying all the way to the bank helping these idiots unload their $$$$ in frivious lawsuits!!! Serves them both right!!!!
Sorry for my ranting, but we are discussing these two that give out SO MUCH AMINO to discuss!
Penny in Florida
Arlene, I applaud your support of Rosie. I keep hoping to find messages like that in the general media but have so far been disappointed. Rosie and all the ladies on The View are getting paid to express their opinions on everything from Iraq to Britney Spears’ missing underwear. And they do it with humor, wit, and spontaneity. And they do it better than ever now that Rosie has joined the panel. The View has never been a generic celebrity interview show, there are already a million of those on TV. You know the shows; the ones where every word is either scripted, massaged, politically corrected or designed solely to promote celebrities and their latest projects. No feathers are ruffled, no sponsors are left unhappy. Seriously, how many more shows like that do we need? Personally I prefer The View where I can expect to get at least 10 or 20 minutes of women expressing genuine, heartfelt, opinions and concerns and making me laugh along the way. I may not agree with all of the opinions expressed but I welcome different viewpoints. What is the point of only listening to or reading about those views that enforce your own? We are all sorely in need of some authentic truth telling. Trump’s hair IS ridiculous. Trump HAS been in bankruptcy proceedings, Trump HAS divorced multiple women, Trump HAD a wealthy father and therefore cannot claim truthfully to be a self-made man when he obviously had so much help. Trump DID hold himself up as the moral authority in the Miss USA decision. These are all truths expressed by professional comedienne Rosie O’Donnell on The View. Yes she parodied Trump. Trump is a public figure and hence, like Rosie herself, fair game for parody on shows like South Park, SNL, The Daily Show, talk radio, and Letterman. It’s ok for them but not The View? I’ve seen everybody from Barbra Walters to Barbra Streisand lampooned and parodied on some of the above mentioned shows. Most respond with a sense of humor or at least muster a little grace and take it like a grown up. Trump responded with neither grace nor parody, he responded with rage, petulance, lies, a media blitzkrieg of a tantrum and a slew of derogatory remarks that should be patently offensive to all who heard them. I think what offends me most is that more people are not standing up against Trump and his juvenile boorishness. Yes Rosie is fat, yes she is a lesbian, no she is not a beauty queen. Do you have to be skinny, straight and hot before people deem you worthy of defending? If that’s the case then wow most of us better pack it in right now. Rosie has done more for adoption advocacy, breast cancer awareness, Katrina relief, Broadway revitalization, foster kids, and a bunch of other causes than a thousand people put together. Name me one thing that Trump has done to improve life on this planet for anyone besides himself. Yet he calls her despicable.
I had stopped watching the View and was not going to watch it when Rosie joined the cast. But, I did the first day out of curiosity and now I at least check in on most days for the opening...(I tape it, I should say). She is outrageous, and has brightened up the others who were getting way too boring. Even Barbara seems happier with Rosie on the panel. Barbara understand the premise of the show (since she created it) of showing differnt Views on life. R needs to learn some interviewing techniques (such as being quite while your guest is speaking), but she has brought an energy to the show and while she speaks her mind, her words often bring up discussions of "views" besides her own. Whatever, though, it is a tv opinion show and that is what the hosts are speaking..their opinions. It was unbelieveable to hear someone as powerful as D Trump reacting to their talk. But, I had to laugh at the school yard comment when he said "that's not what Barbara told me, she doesn't like Rosie, no one likes Rosie"...spoken in true head cheerleader tones. But, the most entertaining of all (to me) was that all the news networks were covering it. And Trump, the Master, who timed his rehab speech perfectly (see Miss USA's birthdate, etc) now will have outstanding ratings for his next Pageant. Has anyone read Dish by Jeanette Walls? Thanks Jackie for your work this year...I followed BB all summer through you. Sue
Donald trump is a blow hard businessman who likes to artificially inflate his wealth AND his ego. Rosie is a comedian, like her or not. GET OVER IT TRUMP, ACT YOUR AGE. Rosie is a smart cokie and would not open herself to liable; what she said about Trump and his finances are true and documented for anyone wishing to do the research. You can't sue someone for telling the truth, just because you think they are "ugly" and "fat" (shame shame on you Donald). At least Rosie contributes her time and money to helping children and chilfrens issues, while it seems The Donald spends his time and money giving second chances to drug addicts...Before you attack me for saying that, understand I am a therapist and I believe in second chances, however, I also believe in consequences and losing her "crown" is a consequence, as she is still denying she has a problem with drugs or alcohol.
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