Tokyo Rosie

Tokyo Rosie

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 4:20 PM
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Media: Crackpot 9/11 conspiracy theories are usually deemed beneath
the dignity of network television. With Rosie O'Donnell now promoting
the fringe, how embarrassed are ABC and Barbara Walters willing to be?

Since joining ABC's all-female talk show "The View" last year,
comedienne and film star O'Donnell has exchanged insults with Donald
Trump, and been labeled a bigot by Catholic League president William
Donohue for what he called her "relentless and profoundly ignorant
attacks on the Catholic Church and its teachings." According to
O'Donnell "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical
Islam."

A nut with a View?
Famed interviewer Walters, co-host and co-owner of "The View," and ABC
might tolerate that kind of controversy. But will they accept her
promotion of 9/11 conspiracy schemes?Last week, O'Donnell said the
collapse of the 7 World Trade Center building "defies physics" because
"it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without
explosives being involved."

In a post on her Web site, she ranted last month about how 7 WTC
"contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which
contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including
Enron's), U.S. Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with
more stock fraud records), and Citibank's Salomon Smith Barney, the
mayor's office of emergency management and many other financial
institutions," not to mention "the U.S. Secret Service's largest field
office with more than 200 employees."

In recent days, O'Donnell suggested on "The View" that Iran's capture
of British seamen could be a plot by Britain and the U.S. to start a
war with Iran. "Have governments ever faked incidents or incited
incidents in order to get them into wars?" she asked.

O'Donnell smoothly transformed herself from history expert to a
virtuoso in philosophy Thursday when a guest called the phrase "war on
terror" propaganda. "Exactly," O'Donnell exclaimed, because the phrase
"makes people into evil and good."

Reputable sources such as Popular Mechanics' "Debunking 9/11 Myths"
report and last year's 10,000-page National Institute of Standards and
Technology report have thoroughly debunked the 9/11 conspiracy crowd.
While O'Donnell has a look at the facts they've assembled, she might
also want to glance at her ABC contract - and get prepared to pull the
cord on her golden parachute.

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