The Sow says goodbye

Roger Friedman, writing on FoxNews.com has this to say about Rosie O'Donnell's departure from "The View".

We told you on Jan. 10: Rosie O’Donnell would leave “The View.”

Her announcement this morning has nothing to do with contract negotiations breaking down. ABC did not end Rosie’s "View." Rosie ended it.

And don’t believe the spin that ABC was mad at her for comments made at the Matrix luncheon on Monday. Rosie was finished with "The View" over the Christmas holiday when Barbara Walters failed to defend her against Donald Trump.

In fact, it was worse than that: When O’Donnell discovered that Walters had bad-mouthed her to Trump, she decided to leave the show. It was that simple.

ABC, in fact, wanted O’Donnell to stay with the show. They offered her, as she said on the air, a three-year contract. She refused to sign. Rosie said she’d stay for a year, and this is what you don’t know: She wanted $10 million to do so.

ABC did not turn down the money. They turned down the one-year part. They wanted stability. They would have paid her something like $30 million to sign for three years. That’s how much they wanted her. She was the future of "The View."

I don't know if this is true, but it is believable. An ego the size of Rosie's will not accept anything less than fawning adoration and slavish sycophancy from those around her. When Baba Wawa made the mistake of letting slip a tiny little bit of what she feels in down deep in her heart about the detestable Sow - to The Sow's mortal enemy, Donald Trump - she guaranteed that The Sow would not continue to work with her.

There are rumors that Rosie was dumped because she embarrassed the network with her spouting of 9/11 conspiracy theories and her foul mouthed performance at the Matrix Awards (along with her general demeanor on he show where she screams, shouts down any contrary opinion and generally behaves like a spoiled three-year-old on crystal meth). However this is unlikely.

Ratings in the show's target demographic of women between 18 and 49 who have the IQ's of pencil erasers have never been higher and if some advertisers were put off by her others would have been standing in line to take their place.

I believe that The Sow will start her own syndicated daytime talk show.