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Rosie O’Donnell Tells Piers Morgan ‘We’re A Backwards Nation In Many Ways’

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Rosie O’Donnell spoke with CNN’s Piers Morgan Tuesday night about the GOP race, and slammed the anti-gay rhetoric being espoused in some of the various campaigns. “We’re a backward nation in many ways,” O’Donnell observed. “That’s one of the ways most evident nowadays especially with the election — to think you can turn on the presidential debate and you can have people actually say they think being gay is wrong is shocking in 2012. It’s shocking to me.”

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Morgan asked the OWN host what she thought of the Republican race in general; O’Donnell was unimpressed.

“You know, it’s a sad lot of contenders,” O’Donnell remarked. “It’s not the Republican Party that, you know, I grew up believing was one of the two viable ways to lead the nation in America. It just seems to be almost too much entertainment and no one qualified. That’s the saddest thing. There doesn’t seem to be any qualified…I wish that there would be a real contender so there could be real issues brought up and not everyone sidetracked with these absurd anti-gay rhetoric or whether or not evolution is real.”

O’Donnell singled out Rick Perry’s controversial anti-gay ad as particularly egregious.

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“I remember being at home and announced we were engaged and being in Chicago and getting overwhelming support from everyone and watching this ad saying I don’t believe you people have the same rights as other people in this country. That’s not what America was founded on. It was hurtful and shocking. In the wake of teen suicides and gay bullying, I don’t understand why politicians or anybody thinks they can get away with that.”

Watch Rosie criticize the anti-gay rhetoric of various Republican presidential contenders below via CNN:

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  • Pablo

    Indeed we are. We still pay attention to Rosie O’Donnell ferchrissakes! But not much. We’re getting better.

  • Anonymous

    The fact she has a show means we stupid, not backwards.

  • Anonymous

    Wonder if the hate-America-first crowd ever asks themselves why so many are coming over the border from Mexico to the U.S. instead of the other way around? 

  • david r

    Another liberal wanting to apologize for the country.

  • Anonymous

    She did an interesting interview on Howard Stern recently where she talked about how her oldest son joined the military.  I guess it’s just something he wanted to do.  Say what you want about her politics, but she must have done something right as a parent for her child to want to aspire to some sort of normal, non-celebrity, career.  Usually the children of celebrities are f^ck ups.

  • Anonymous

    Did he ask he ask about her 9/11 Trutherism?

  • Anonymous

    Riiiiiiight. We should be taking advice about moving “forward” as a nation from the woman who still believes that 9/11 was a government sponsored, inside job. Who believes that Al Qaeda is not a threat and who once infamously declared “There’s no reason to fear the terrorists.” Who once went after Tom Selleck on live TV for simply being a gun owner…even though at the EXACT SAME TIME she had armed guards protecting her and her kids 24/7.  And who was also hypocritically picking up hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by being the spokesperson for Wal Mart, which was selling guns at the time. And who was — make no mistake about it — fired from her previous TV gig for showing to a national TV audience JUST how incredibly stupid and bitter she is as a person.

    Rosie being shipped off to Oprah’s low rated cable channel is equivalent to Olbermann being shipped off to Current TV.  But they do make a picture perfect couple. Two liberal loudmouths in media exile because no one gives a crap what either of them has to say anymore…

  • Pablo

    And a woman who believes you can’t melt steel.

    http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9034&size=A

  • Pablo

    Or it could be that he’s rebelling against her.

  • Anonymous

    The headline quote from Rosey opens her up to so many good jokes…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Considering this woman washes dildos in a bucket, saying America is backwards is like saying we’re okay in my book.

  • http://twitter.com/the_klute The Klute

    Says the woman who helped put the hammerhead shark on the endangered species list.

  • Bobby Brady

    Or it could be that he wanted to get as far away from her as he possibly could.

  • Anonymous

    Ellen Degrene still has a show.  Rosie does not.  See a pattern, Rosie.

  • Anonymous

    I think she proves  her point just by reading some of the ridiculous and hate-filled comments here.

  • Anonymous

    Well, we can’t all wash our dildos in fancy, hoity-toity, washing machines like you do with your dildos, James.  Some of us have to make due with washing our dildos in buckets.

  • Anonymous

    Being that Parker is only 16, he is too young to join the military.  He has enrolled in a military school with aspirations of enlisting after graduation.  Rosie also revealed that ever since Parker was a little kid this has been a dream of his.  Kudos to Rosie for letting her son pursue his dream regardless of her beliefs.

  • Anonymous

    I find her shrill but, it’s beside the point.  People ought to be free to live their lives as they see fit.  I think most of the smarter Americans (the live and let live crowd) figured that out long ago.  Using religion as a club to beat down someone you disagree with is’nt right.  Is it imperative that we hector and harp at gay teens to the point of suicide?  If she washes dildos in a bucket, it’s her own concern.  I’m aware she focuses her ire at conservatives while ignoring the foibles of people she finds easier to understand.  And yes, it eats at her credibility.

    I’m surpised how quickly someone becames “anti- American” for expressing a point of view about American culture.  People who feel themselves above comtemplating their own actions concern me greatly.  Odd, how some of the most self-righteous people are’nt happy unless stepping on someone else to do it.  We’re big enough, strong enough, and hopefully wise enough, to take it.

  • http://twitter.com/bohratom Bohr Atom

    Rosie and the rest of the dems should ask themselves, if the Messiah Obama is anti-gay by saying that he does not approve of marriage for gay couples?

    Once they come down to earth on that question then we can continue this conversation about the so called conservatives….

  • Anonymous

    The focus should be on the economy. Irrespective of my or anyone else’s opinion of gays, they should hardly be a top-tier issue.

  • Anonymous

    Well conservatives are conservatives and have their views & they’re honest about their views… but when democratic nominees for office pretend they’re anti gay marriage only to recant as they leave office, perhaps the gay community is mad with the wrong party

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Does she mean “backwards” in the sense of inexorable adherence to inculcated personality traits and orientations – to the point of petrifying reasoned thought?

    Is that what she, and her fellow identity-indoctrinates mean?

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    And another ignoramus denying the obvious for personal gain. You should be a Republican presidential candidate.

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    Actally, Rosie DOES have a show, and she’ll have another airing on Oxygen shortly. The pattern I’d worry about is ignorance – yours..

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    And other people just *become* dildos and wash themselves in showers, like James apparently. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    Thta’s the problem with conservatism – it has no tolerance for anything that isn’t precisely what they think. And sine they are rules by fear, their more intelligent and far less lees moral leadership uses that fact to marshall the troops to pillage cash, votes, and cohesiveness from the cattle. In a fear based ower structure, there always has to be someone (else) that is responsible for their lot in life - the homosexuals and the ‘socialists’ are the whipping boys du jour. Of course, everyone else knows how ridiculous that is but the cattle just herd and parrot. It’s rather sicking, actually. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    People that actually read understand that Obama is hedging for the next election, and after he’s reelected (which he will be looking the at the abominable selection of soulless, moronic candidates the Republicans are fielding), he’s ‘evolve’ into a pro-gay marriage position and probably advoate ending DOMA. Personally, I think Obama is a poor president, but he’s a billion times better than the Shrub, and at least a million times better than any of the Republican candidates (which is truly pitiful all the way around).

  • Gloves Clay Donahue

    What a sweet young lady.
    Very nice of her to point out the faults of America to us.

    So sorry that Republicans do not impress her, since that is their main goal.
    Probably this charmer does not know that Obama and Biden are opposed to gay marriage.

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    Unless you are homosexual (and being actively harmed on multiple levels every minute of every day by the current policies). As for the economy, the Republicans are in control of the legislature, and the Speaker of the House has literally decreed that he’s not going to pass anything at all the President supports. So, at the moment, it’s prefectly clear that the republicans are not interested in jobs, or the economy, or anything else (except, perhaps, lining their own pockets, which is standard Repug policy).   

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    Yes, I’m sure that all the homosexuals will be interested in switching to a party that has devoted themselves to their abject destruction on the physical, emotional, financial, legal, spiritual, and practical level. That’s just bizarre dsgspm. Even more bizarre is the idea that conservatives are honest about anything. FOX News denys being a far left-wing propaganda organization and Mitt Romney is the greatest flip-flopped in the history of politics, for two easy examples.

  • http://profiles.google.com/tarchannon Tom Helios

    I think it’s pretty clear to one and all that by ‘backward’, O’Donnel is referring to being stupid, deliberately (or deliberately and proudly in the case of the Teabaggers) heinously ignorant, irrational, illogical, and just plain old hateful. 

  • Gloves Michael Donahue

    Been thinking.
    Since Republicans cannot seem to gain the approval of Wilma Flintstone here, or Nancy Pelosi or Little Debbie Schultz or Chuck U. Schumer, there is only one course of action. Disband and all join the Party of Anything Goes.

    We’ll sneer at all who do not agree that you can do anything that you want, and shun them and call them hypocrites if they don’t toe the same line as us, dammit.

  • Anonymous

    Not on the channel that matter

  • Anonymous

    She’s evidence that there’ s plenty to eat at least.

  • Anonymous

    there is a lot of love in that statement….

  • Anonymous

    Why does anyone watch this garbage?  Who cares what Rosie O thinks of the republican candidates?  You know she is just going to bash and trash them, she is liberal to the core.  Why does Piers ask such stupid questions?  Why does anyone watch this garbage?…oh wait a minute….they don’t and now you konw why.

  • Centrist79

    Same reason Palin offers an opinnon.

  • Anonymous

    Sigh, liberals doing what liberals do best, sounding foolish. Many of them judge all nations, not on silly things like freedom of speech/press, standard of living, property rights, rights of women in society… No, the only thing that matters is how a nation lives up to their own personal view of utopia.

    Challange for the libs: Name as many countries as you can that have both gay marriage and an abortion policy more liberal, or as Liberal as in the United States.

    Just because “patriotism” is something for the yokel-clingers, doesnt mean you have to dislike tour fellow citizens so much that you constantly open up your mouth and spout idiocy

  • http://twitter.com/Nuktubian Andy

     You have it backwards.

    The left is the party of the non-worker; “I can’t get a job because of some corporation or bank, or due to racism, or sexism, or Islamophobia, or homophobia,” and any other -ism that qualifies as a leftist pet-group – in need their protection.

    You are a good shill for the socialist masters that you follow. You spew their talking points so well. Helios is what, Greek? Now it all makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    When Rosie makes more sense than any of the Republicans running for president, we may indeed be a backwards nation.

    Or at the very least, the Republican party is going backwards.

  • Anonymous

    Fat Ass Backwards?

  • Anonymous

    You want everybody to be Libertarians?

  • Anonymous

    Why shouldn’t they? 

    IS AMERICA f****** PERFECT??????????????????????

  • zrodfx

    Being ‘gay’ is not wrong……acting on it,  is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=824189482 Jason Hoang Nguyen

    Being stupid is not wrong. Acting stupid like you, zrodfx, is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=824189482 Jason Hoang Nguyen

    LOL Party of the non-worker, no wonder half of the people in this country who vote is registered Democratic.
    Your hateful criticism is exactly what is wrong with conservatism. The GOP is the party of fear and unrealistic ideology. The Dems is the party of reasons and fairness.

  • Anonymous

    Helios is the ancient greek for sun, or the sun personified as a god.  The ancients equated light with reason and thought.

  • Anonymous

    Are you referring to the “Possum Channel”?  We don’t git that one.

  • Anonymous

    And understanding?

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Rosie  is just pissed she was never able to be an NHL hockey goalie.
    Next time you liberals complain about having religion “shoved down your throat”…..remember what this pig of a lesbian is doing.

  • Anonymous

    I am referring  to ABC, NBC, and FOX.   The important channel.

  • Anonymous

    Who really cares what this washed up, repulsive Bull Dyke thinks?  How are we backwards?  I think we are pretty advanced if we allow trash like Rosie to live here.  I wish she would move to an Islamic land, the ones she always takes up for, and see how long her Dyke style would last!

  • Anonymous

    Its sad this women gets to spew her opinions on national tv to influence generations of her misguided beliefs, down deep this is a sick individual, and really don’t feel sorry for her, actually she is one contributor to the moral decline in America, they use there influence through deception

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    So, conservatives are stone cold bigots and proud to be? Thanks for that insight

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