Dan Frisa
Wednesday, March 14, 2001

On a continual downward slide for more than a year, the rotund Rosie will quit her show, which is at the bottom of the daytime TV heap.

The once-popular comedian saw her popularity drop in nearly direct correlation to her increasingly outrageous leftist positions.

From her strange affection for ultra-liberal Babs Striesand to her vocal and repeated support for Senator Slick Hilly to her sneak attack on Tom Selleck while guesting on her show, O’Donnell staked out positions far outside the mainstream of middle America.

All of which is no surprise, as this entire scenario was reported and predicted in this column last year. See Americans Tune Out Hypocrite Rosie.

Rosie obviously got carried away with fame and stardom, forgetting her middle-class suburban roots as she ran with the "beautiful" left-wing Hollywood crowd and actually thought she could say anything and get away with it.

While her charity work is noteworthy and to be commended, Rosie learned the hard way that spitting in the face of commonsense, conservative values had a price, as regular people literally tuned her out and turned her off.

She brought it on herself and got precisely what she deserved.

And her fate was determined the way it should be, by the marketplace, unlike efforts by the left to blackmail conservatives from the airwaves by applying political pressure.

It was time for O’Donnell to go and it’s good that she’ll be gone.

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Read Dan's previous column: We Won’t Be Fooled Again.

Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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