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Rosie O'Donnell - "Wait just one second. Radical Christianity
is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America [loud
applause]."
"You’ve ruled against impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney....Why do you, why do you insist on not impeaching these people so that the world and America can really see the crimes that they’ve committed?" — Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, July 28, asking
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi why she refuses to begin impeachment proceedings
against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Behar: "You have to put, you have to put like a Hitler type, like you put Donald Rumsfeld there or something, somebody who's like-" http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20061220.asp#3
Behar: "Well, you know, I don't know exactly what it means. I know that Dick Cheney is in trouble now, which is a delight for me." Behar: "Who wouldn't have a blood clot after the lying that he did? Talk about a backup of blood!" Behar: "No. No, no. Send them to jail. Impeachment takes too much time." Behar: "Cheney is gone. Cheney's going, he's going, I'm telling you." http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070308.asp#6
O'Donnell: "It is a disgrace. This administration (Bush) is a disgrace." O'Donnell: "It's not democracy." Behar: "That's right. I agree with that. I don't want add fuel to the fire, but I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they are liars and they are murderers. I'm sorry." Behar: "In addition to all of this, I don't understand how you can still support this administration. After the Katrina incident, after the incompetence that took place there, after the incompetence and the lying about this war- I don't understand it. I don't understand it, explain it to me, what is it that you still are backing them for? What?" http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070301.asp#2
Rosie O’Donnell: “655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?” O’Donnell: “I’m saying, if you were in Iraq, and another country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?” — Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s The View, May 17, 2007. http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/08/category/politicalgenius.asp
O'Donnell: "I thought it was interesting. I watched it when I got home on TiVo, you know, with the list fast forward button. But I thought it was interesting that he's talking about health care and, you know, where were these ideas six years ago, number one? And number two, had we not spent $800 billion invading Iraq, we could have fixed all the issues he spoke about in the first two hours." O'Donnell: "I think it's interesting, too, that he wants to hail this hero in New York, who is obviously a great man, who saved a stranger's life. One man's life, worth it. But he sends 20,000 new Americans over to die in Iraq. What is the difference between-" Behar: "But, yeah, I mean, if the country is against the surge, if the Congress is against the surge, are we going to call ourselves a democracy when the President makes the decisions without the people? It's not a democracy anymore." O'Donnell: "You know what I think the Congress should do? And this, I'm sure, will make me in some sort of celebrity feud or AOL poll, but someone, I believe, should call for the impeachment of George Bush to let the world know-" O'Donnell, after asking others to let her finish her point: "...I think we should do it so the world knows that the nation is not standing behind this President's choices, that the nation, a democracy, feels differently than the man who is leading as if it were a dictatorship, and that we represent this country, he does not lead as a monarch." Behar: "Amen." O'Donnell: "And that's what I think, even if he doesn't get impeached, that we should call on it to tell the world we are against his policies." O'Donnell: "I'm saying someone should call for it to be in the history books. Someone should stand up and say, 'When democracy was dying, I, Senator, said I am against this, I am against what he is doing.'" O'Donnell: "But to call for an impeachment is a political statement from the people they represent. Isn't there some Senator brave enough to stand up and say it?" http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070125.asp#5
Behar: "Well, you know, what I think we should do is draw up a petition,
everybody sign in crayon, and then he'll (Bush) understand." "I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect
him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway." http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030220.asp#5
During a recent discussion about Anti-War protestors one of the show’s hosts, Meredith Vieira, stated that President Bush "will not be deterred from war against Iraq if he thinks that’s what we need to do. He says that he's not going to decide policy based upon a focus group. He believes that the role of a leader - and he has a point here - is to decide policy based upon the security of the people." At which point Jamie Lee Curtis took issue. "So then what is he talking about that it’s a focus group?" Curtis shouted. "That was millions of people! That is not a focus group. Fifteen people, you know, talking about a movie plot is a focus group. That was millions of the people that he’s supposed to serve." Star Jones then jumped into the discussion with a reminder from the 2000 presidential election. Saying "Well, I guess, you know the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway." Curtis seconded the motion. "They didn't elect him at all." Monday, February 17th
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