Rosie O'Donnell is a *Really* Bad Person

I previously wrote about Rosie O'Donnell's insulting imitation of Chinese speakers and the feigned 'sensitivity' of her two-faced antics.

In another display of unbridled disrespect for people, here is how Rosie replied to a poster on her blog when he remarked that she was unworthy to be on broadcast television.

Way to show remorse, Rosie.

The thing about Rosie is that her sense of what is right is basically calibrated to her own personal whims. There is no sense of "this type of action is categorically wrong" or "my thought processes do not coincide with what is espoused as politically correct" or whatever. She does, says, and thinks what she feels like at the moment with her only reservations stemming from foreseeable reperucussions by the authority figures immediately surrounding her. And sometimes not even then. If it weren't for the possibility that she could get fired from her stint in front of the camera, Rosie would probably denounce all straight, white, males to be castrated and moved to an island where they could do her and her followers no harm.

And to be clear; I don't have (serious) problems with comedians doing their thing on stage; imitations of minority groups (a la Russell Peters), the use of "racist" epithets (a la Chris Rock - not, Michaels Richards), politically incorrect stereotyping (a la Denis Miller), and mocking ethnic groups of which you are a part (a la George Lopez) etc.

(The following Lopez video is NSFW... but it's funny.)



But Rosie isn't on a comedy club stage and she isn't painting a broad brush of making fun or ALL stereotypes. Some would argue that picking on ALL stereotypes is much more acceptable because you aren't necessarily endorsing one group over another, rather pointing out the funny idiosyncrosies of all of them. Rosie only picks on the ones that SHE thinks is OK to pick on and makes the 'protected' ones taboo to mock.

As I said in my previous post, her hypocrisy is what I have a big problem with and her unwillingness to offer a swift apology when she is told that she has been offensive is yet another symptom of how she thinks the world should operate when seen through 'Rosie' tinted glasses.