Rosie O’Donnell’s feud with President Trump began when she co-hosted The View.
The rivalry may be reaching its endpoint.
And you won’t believe why Rosie O’Donnell said The View is getting canceled.
As American Media Watch Dog reports:
The View is on summer hiatus and will return in September.
But in the wake of Paramount canceling Stephen Colbert, liberals are worried that the days of networks propping up failing liberal talk shows are over.
Democrats falsely claim Paramount canceled Colbert so the Trump administration would approve a merger with Skydance.
Rosie O’Donnell seized on this falsehood to claim ABC would not pull the plug on The View to silence more Trump critics.
“You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on The View. The VIEW. The show with five women speaking their own opinions – That’s the threat now. They say they’re not canceling it— they’re just ‘reviewing the bias.’ Which is code for – we’re gonna cancel it, we’re just trying to soften you up first,” O’Donnell said on video posted to her TikTok account.
O’Donnell claimed without citing any evidence that when conservatives say they want a fair media what they really mean is they want state propaganda for President Trump.
“Apparently, the truth is dangerous now,” O’Donnell added. “They say they want ‘balance.’ But what they mean is silence. Silence anything that doesn’t praise the orange messiah and his golden escalator of lies.”
O’Donnell then paraphrased a poem about Germans who stood by and watched the Holocaust happen to warn what could happen to the hosts of The View.
“This isn’t about bias – This is about obedience. This is about removing any program that doesn’t align with Trumpism — soft fascism in full lashes with commercial breaks,” O’Donnell continued. “First they came for the journalists Then the educators Then the librarians Now, it’s Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. It would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying.”
And just for good measure, O’Donnell threw in the tired lie that Donald Trump was imposing a made-for-TV dictatorship on America.
“We are in a dictatorship with good lighting,” O’Donnell added. “I used to think the First Amendment meant something. I used to think you couldn’t just erase a voice because it made you uncomfortable.”
“We stand together and say what is true, even when it shakes the walls. Because the most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about— and refuses to stop,” she wrote.
But there was one flaw with O’Donnell’s rant.
Paramount canceled Colbert because his show was a giant money loser to the tune of $40 million a year.
Puck’s Matt Belloni wrote that The Late Show “has been losing more than $40 million a year” and that the show cost “more than $100 million per season.”
Colbert’s show saw declining ad revenue as it played to an increasingly niche liberal audience.
“Last year, the network late-night shows drew an estimated $220 million in advertising revenue, 50 percent less than seven years earlier, according to Guideline, an advertising data firm. “The Late Show” alone lost $50 million in ad revenue over that period, Guideline said,” the New York Times wrote.
