According to the New York Post's Don Kaplan, Roseanne Barr is the early favorite to replace the deposed Rosie O'Donnell.Barr is no less of a liberal and almost as controversial as O'Donnell.
According to the New York Post's Don Kaplan, Roseanne Barr is the early favorite to replace the deposed Rosie O'Donnell.Barr is no less of a liberal and almost as controversial as O'Donnell.
Another left winger appeared on "The View." This time it was Roseanne Barr who felt she knew everything because she’s "old," claimed to stump for the middle and working class while admitting she’s rich, bashed the late Ronald Reagan, praised Rosie O’Donnell, and hinted at the left wing election "fixing" conspiracy theory.Roseanne started with her explanation on why she thinks she knows everything, then demonstrated her love for her favorite "View" co-hosts, Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar.
<img src="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKLBarr.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /> Actress/comedian <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001683/">Roseanne Barr</a>, who claims to be a psychic (“I channel the higher mind, the higher universal mind”), used the made-up word “overcomeable” and employed teenage phrases such as “like” and “totally,” insisted on Monday night's <a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/jimmykimmel/index.html"><i>Jimmy Kimmel Live</i></a> on ABC that she would win a battle of intelligence with President Bush. Barr recounted how she's “going around telling jokes about our country and our people and the world and how screwed up everything is. And I just basically bitch.” She soon maintained about Bush: "I could totally win him in a mind contest." Barr, the star of the mid-1980s to early 1990s ABC sit-com <i>Roseanne</i>, elaborated: “Like if it was like a psychic thing and he was like, okay Rosanne, bring your best powers against my best powers, even though he's like totally world-wide connected, and I'm not so world-wide, I could so totally still win on account of like being female, being a grandmother and like, you know, being intelligent. I could totally win."<br /><br />Barr, who made the appearance to plug a new DVD of the first season of the <i>Roseanne</i> sit-com, boasted: “I have been psychic since I was very young, about three-years-old. Whenever I touch someone, I pick up all their vibes and stuff. So that's why I don't like to shake hands or touch people because I see like, you know, them dying in horrible car wrecks and stuff like that and it's depressing." Apparently, that was just a joke. (Full transcript follows.)<br /><br /> <b>Video</b> excerpt: <a href="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKL.rm">Real</a> or <a href="/media/2005-10-17-ABCJKL.wmv">Windows Media</a>