<p>Singer Madonna released her first statement on Monday following her hospitalization last month after reportedly being revived with Narcan.</p>
<p>Madonna <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuheQvlOgmo/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading">thanked</a> fans on Instagram for their &#8220;positive energy, [p]rayers and words of healing and encouragement,&#8221; saying that she felt their &#8220;love.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn&#8217;t want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>She said that her focus was now on getting better so she could get back out on tour.</p>
<p>&#8220;The current plan is to reschedule the North American leg of the tour and to begin in October in Europe,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be more grateful for your care and support.&#8221;</p>
<p>The “Material Girl” singer was found unresponsive late last month and was rushed to the hospital, suffering from what her longtime manager Guy O’Seary described as a “serious bacterial infection.”</p>
<p>However, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madonna-was-revived-with-narcan-before-being-rushed-to-hospital-report">report</a> from RadarOnline said that the infection may have been more serious than even he let on.</p>
<p>Sources reportedly told RadarOnline that the performer had to be revived with a Narcan injection when she was first discovered. While Narcan is most commonly used to treat narcotics overdoses, in Madonna’s case, it was believed to have been used for an entirely different reason: to reverse septic shock as a result of severe infection.</p>
<p>The sources did not indicate that the singer showed any signs of drug abuse or overdose, and her representatives have thus far declined to comment.</p>
<p>She has been released from the hospital, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosie-odonnell-says-madonna-is-good-and-recovering-at-home-after-icu-stay">according</a> to longtime friend Rosie O’Donnell — and while she is still suffering the effects of the infection, she is on the road to recovery.</p>
<p>“She is recovering at home — she is very strong in general,” O’Donnell said of her “A League of Their Own” co-star.</p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/madonna"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madonna</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s longtime friend </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rosie-odonnell"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rosie O’Donnell</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> gave an update on the pop icon&#8217;s health following her ICU stay last month.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">O&#8217;Donnell shared a photo of herself with Madonna from the cult classic 1991 sports drama, “A League of Their Own,” with the caption, “remember when?”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many commenters expressed their good wishes for the 64-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recording artist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with one person saying outright, &#8220;@Rosie give us an update.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;She is recovering at home &#8211; she is very strong in general,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell replied.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;God bless her I hope she’s ok, I don’t care about the tour,&#8221; another account posted in the comments, which prompted Rosie to reply with a heart emoji and the comment, &#8220;shes good.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madonna was admitted to the ICU in June after developing a &#8220;serious bacterial infection,&#8221; according to her team.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;On Saturday June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which lead (sic) to a several day stay in the ICU,&#8221; Madonna’s talent manager Guy Oseary </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuC6w1TPH_l/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shared</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wednesday on Instagram. &#8220;Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care. A full recovery is expected.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We will share more details with you soon as we have them, including a new start date for the tour and for rescheduled shows.&#8221; </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The unexpected illness forced the “Material Girl” singer to postpone her upcoming Celebration tour, which was scheduled to kick off in Vancouver on July 15. Madonna previously canceled several shows while on tour in 2019 due to a knee injury. She wound up wrapping up the tour early.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, she discussed the Celebration tour with Page Six. Madonna was reportedly rehearsing up to 12 hours a day in preparation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for,” she told the outlet, </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madonna-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-found-unresponsive"><span style="font-weight: 400;">explaining</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> how her world tour would feature songs from all her prior albums beginning with her self-titled debut album that was first released in 1983.</span></p>


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Rosie O’Donnell Says Madonna Is ‘Good’ And ‘Recovering At Home’ After ICU Stay

Rosie O'Donnell Says Madonna Is 'Good' And 'Recovering At Home' After ICU Stay

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<p>Rosie O&#8217;Donnell said she told her daughter that you can be a girl and still &#8220;like all the boy stuff&#8221; during a chat about gender identity, adding that she was a &#8220;tomboy&#8221; who &#8220;loved being a girl.&#8221;</p>
<p>The comedian shared the story with actress Mayim Bialik on the May 9 <a href="https://www.bialikbreakdown.com/watch-podcast/rosie-odonnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of the &#8220;Bialik Breakdown,&#8221; Bialik&#8217;s podcast about mental health.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell said she was responding to her daughter telling her mother that her stuffed animals are &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; meaning they identify as neither a girl nor a boy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like, here we go. Here we go!&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1661381118455578626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;I said, well that&#8217;s fantastic,&#8221; she said she told her daughter. &#8220;You know what&#8217;s funny is that I&#8217;m a girl who people used to call a tomboy because I liked all the boy stuff when I was little. And you know what&#8217;s weird? I still do really like the boy stuff. I like football, I like riding a motorcycle. I like to do a lot of stuff that boys traditionally like to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell added that she &#8220;never was confused&#8221; about whether she was a boy or a girl.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell said she also told her daughter, &#8220;But you know what else? Never was confused about thinking if I was a boy or a girl. Always knew I was a girl and loved being a girl. So you can be a girl and feel any way you want or you can figure out what it is.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like rambling and rambling and she said, &#8216;Are you done?'&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell is a lesbian who has been married twice to two women.</p>
<p>She is a foster and adoptive mother who has <a href="https://people.com/parents/all-about-rosie-odonnell-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">welcomed</a> five adopted children since 1995. Her youngest daughter is nine. She is also a grandmother.</p>
<p>The comedian is also a liberal Democrat who has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates. Some of her donations in 2018 even <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/rosie-odonnells-campaign-donations-to-dems-went-over-legal-limit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went over</a> the legal limit.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell has had a massively successful career in comedy and television that includes a famous years-long <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/donald-trump-keeps-insulting-rosie-odonnell-heres-how-their-feud-started.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">feud</a> with Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Critics of gender ideology <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-tomboy-is-tagged-transgender-transsexual-gender-dysphoria-children-hormones-clinic-terminology-expectations-11663872092" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worry</a> that girls who would simply have been &#8220;tomboys&#8221; in previous generations are now assumed to be transgender. Those girls are pushed towards puberty blockers at 10 or 11, then cross-sex hormones when they are teens, and finally genital and chest surgeries, critics say.</p>
<p>Parents of trans-identifying children often cite their children&#8217;s preference for the activities of the opposite gender as a reason they knew their child was transgender.</p>
<p>One mother who testified this month against a Louisiana bill that would ban sex change surgeries for minors <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/woman-says-knew-biological-daughter-meant-trans-food-choices-odd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she knew her 18-month-old daughter was a boy when she wanted to play with &#8220;boy toys.&#8221;</p>
<p>That mother said she is discussing puberty blockers for her now 10-year-old daughter.</p>
<p>Hundreds of teen girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.</p>


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Rosie O’Donnell Says She Told Her Daughter You Can Be A Girl And ‘Like All The Boy Stuff’

Rosie O'Donnell Says She Told Her Daughter You Can Be A Girl And 'Like All The Boy Stuff'

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<p>Former “The View&#8221; co-host Rosie O&#8217;Donnell didn&#8217;t speak fondly of her time on the daytime talk show and said it is &#8220;not something&#8221; she ever plans to do again after last appearing as a host nearly a decade ago.</p>
<p>During the &#8220;Now What? With Brooke Shields&#8221; <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-now-what-with-brooke-shie-102101467/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> on Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rosie-odonnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61-year-old actress</a> made clear fans shouldn&#8217;t expect to see her back at the table on the ABC show any time soon or in the future.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know this — it&#8217;s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosie-odonnell-takes-swipe-at-chappelles-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-to-focus-on-trans-people-disputes-claim-about-a-war-on-comedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">O&#8217;Donnell</a> told Shields.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was not something that I would ever do again,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s nothing I&#8217;d want to do again. I can say that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The &#8220;A League of their Own&#8221; star also touched on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosie-odonnell-talks-about-crush-elisabeth-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on-air drama</a> she went through with former co-host, conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck, in 2007 over the Iraq War and later with Whoopi Goldberg regarding Bill Cosby, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/rosie-odonnell-trashes-the-view-not-something-id-ever-do-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on there and Bill Geddie was the producer of an all-women&#8217;s talk show with supposedly a woman&#8217;s voice was a man, an old, cis, white man, Republican who was against everything that I believed in and stood for, and he loved Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and would go into her little dressing room and give her notes and talking points of the Republican press that they would release daily,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said.</p>
<p>&#8220;She had the talking points,&#8221; the former co-host added. &#8220;I was trying to get her to feel more than to fact.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;And then one day on the show, she [Hasselbeck] kind of threw me under the bus and I was like, &#8216;Are you f***ing kidding me?’” O&#8217;Donnell continued. “I finished the show, got my coat, walked out, and said, &#8216;I&#8217;m not going back&#8217; — and I didn&#8217;t until a few years later when they asked me to come back. And Whoopi [Goldberg] was on it and we clashed in ways that I was shocked by.&#8221;</p>
<p>The comedian first appeared on the show as a co-host during the 10th season of &#8220;The View&#8221; from 2006-2007. She returned in 2014 to the ABC daytime show as a host once again, but her stint was very short and she left months later.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosie-odonnell-is-upset-about-response-to-east-palestine-train-disaster-in-now-viral-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rosie O’Donnell Is Upset About Response To East Palestine Train Disaster In Now-Viral Post</a></strong></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trans-identifying</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> influencer Dylan Mulvaney just did an interview with </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rosie-odonnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rosie O’Donnell</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> following the controversy with </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alcohol" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bud Light</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, breaking silence in the wake of ongoing boycotts after their brand partnership became public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mulvaney claimed to be an “easy target” for critics because of only “transitioning” in the past year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The reason that I think I am so…I’m an easy target is because I’m so new to this,” the TikTok star told O’Donnell on Tuesday’s </span><a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-onward-with-rosie-odonnel-110519338/episode/dylan-mulvaney-112743681/?embed=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">episode</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of “Onward.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think going after a trans woman that’s been doing this for like 20 years is a lot more difficult. I think maybe they think that there’s some sort of chance with me … But what is their goal?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“These people, they don’t understand me and anything that I do or say then somehow gets taken out of context and is used against me and it’s so sad because everything I try to put out is positive,” the influencer added. “It’s trying to connect with others that maybe don’t understand me. It’s to make people laugh or to make a kid feel seen.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bud Light received </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boycott" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">intense backlash</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> earlier this month after Mulvaney announced a brand partnership with the beer company. The brand sent Mulvaney a custom beer pack that featured the influencer&#8217;s face on the cans to celebrate the first anniversary of Mulvaney’s &#8220;transition.&#8221; Mulvaney has also partnered with multiple other brands, including Olay, KitchenAid, Kate Spade, Ulta Beauty, Tampax, and recently, Nike women’s athletic wear. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mulvaney told O’Donnell about trying “to be the most uncontroversial person this past year” despite advertising for products specifically made for women, such as bras and tampons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The social media star didn’t mention the controversies directly, but O’Donnell did. “Beer companies have been supportive of the LGBTQIA community for decades. This is not the first time. Who do you think sponsors pride? Gay people, trans people, we drink beer, too, man. Put down your gun, Kid Rock, it’s in bad taste,” she said, referencing a video the rock star made of himself shooting at cases of Bud Light. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s just a heavy time. And it’s time to step up, for sure,” Mulvaney said, insisting that critics are of no concern.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was the first time Mulvaney addressed the controversy so directly. Last week, the influencer posted a video of the song “No One is Alone” from “Into the Woods.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s hard to see the light now, just don’t let it go. This song felt fitting for the week I’ve been having,” Mulvaney wrote in the </span><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney/video/7219406266404212010?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">caption</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Thank you all for making me feel supported, i am not alone️️ #trans.”</span></p>


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Dylan Mulvaney Claims Being ‘Uncontroversial’ Is The Goal In New Interview Following Bud Light Partnership

Dylan Mulvaney Claims Being 'Uncontroversial' Is The Goal In New Interview Following Bud Light Partnership

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<p>Rosie O&#8217;Donnell said &#8220;nothing&#8217;s being done&#8221; about the ongoing disaster resulting from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epa-orders-norfolk-southern-to-handle-all-ohio-train-derailment-cleanup-pay-triple-if-they-cut-corners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio train derailment</a> — and she blasted the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s</a> response in a post that&#8217;s since gone viral.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rosie-odonnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year-old actress</a>&#8216; <a href="https://twitter.com/merissahansen17/status/1627025539977613312?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rosie/video/7201273821343796526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, the &#8220;A League Of Their Own&#8221; star didn&#8217;t beat around the bush when <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/02/20/rosie-odonnell-blasts-official-response-to-east-palestine-train-disaster-nothings-being-done/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she called</a> the EPA&#8217;s response &#8220;infuriating&#8221; and said the agency told those who live near the &#8220;toxic&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chemical-emitted-in-ohio-train-crash-breaks-down-into-world-war-i-chemical-weapon-when-burned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">train derailment</a> in East Palestine that &#8220;everything&#8217;s okay,&#8221; &#8220;nothing to worry about&#8221; in a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-orders-norfolk-southern-conduct-all-cleanup-actions-associated-east-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. She captioned her post using words like &#8220;toxic, tragedy, and criminal.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;This is a tragedy of epic proportion, and it&#8217;s criminal negligence by that chemical and train company,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell shared.  &#8220;And nothing&#8217;s being done about it. It’s not on the news enough. It&#8217;s not something that people are talking about. It&#8217;s like being pushed to the back burner.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The EPA comes out with a very non-alarmist, everything&#8217;s okay, don&#8217;t worry about a thing statement,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And it&#8217;s infuriating. I don&#8217;t trust the EPA. I don&#8217;t trust them. After 9/11, I don&#8217;t know how anyone could.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There was no cleanup. There was dust everywhere,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell continued.  &#8220;Toxic, horrible, cancer-causing. And they lied to the American people. I don&#8217;t believe the EPA.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a second video she posted on TikTok and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Coyv2XLA5gx/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>, the former &#8220;The View&#8221; host hit back at some who said the comedian &#8220;finally woke up.&#8221; She also disputed that her stance was either Democratic or Republican, and said it was simply about being an American.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn’t finally wake up. This is exactly how I felt at all national tragedies,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell explained, as she listed things like 9/11, Columbine, and more. &#8220;This is what I feel — compassion for my fellow man; disappointment in a government that doesn&#8217;t take good enough care of its people; and frustration at the way corporate entities seem to have impunity in this country now.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not a Democratic or Republican stance,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This is who I&#8217;ve always been and it is always what has mattered to all Americans. We have to stop with the right and the left. We have to come together, soon.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosie-odonnell-takes-swipe-at-chappelles-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-to-focus-on-trans-people-disputes-claim-about-a-war-on-comedy">Rosie O’Donnell Takes Swipe At Chappelle&#8217;s &#8216;Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder&#8217; To Focus On Trans People, Disputes Claim About &#8216;A War On Comedy&#8217;</a></strong></p>


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Rosie O’Donnell Is Upset About Response To East Palestine Train Disaster In Now-Viral Post

Rosie O'Donnell Is Upset About Response To Palestine Train Disaster In Now-Viral Post

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<p>Actress <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/republic-saved-alyssa-milano-rosie-odonnell-head-trump-impeachment-task-force/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</a>, a former regular cohost on ABC&#8217;s long-running midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; took to social media to explain why she chose not to appear in a tribute for the show&#8217;s late creator, journalist Barbara Walters.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell, who sat at the table from 2006 to 2007, said in a video that she shared on both TikTok and Instagram that she did not want to risk breaking down and getting overly emotional in such a large group of people.</p>
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<p>O&#8217;Donnell <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/01/03/why-rosie-odonnell-skipped-barbara-walters-tribute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began the post</a> by touting Walters&#8217; career and life, saying, &#8220;Very sad to hear about Barbara Walters passing. Although, 93, man, who wouldn&#8217;t take that?&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;League of Their Own&#8221; actress went on to detail some of Walters&#8217; accomplishments as a journalist before turning to their more personal connection.</p>
<p>&#8220;What a long and eventful legendary life she had,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was lucky enough to be in her orbit for a good many years and we saw a lot of Broadway shows together … May she rest in peace and may everyone remember just what barriers she broke down for women. She really did. She was the first and will always be remembered.&#8221;</p>
<p>O&#8217;Donnell confirmed that she had been invited to participate in the tribute — which included a number of current and former hosts like Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Lisa Ling, Sherri Shepherd, and Meredith Vieira (who joined the show by phone because she was not feeling well).</p>
<p>And although her publicist had initially stated that she had been traveling and unable to change her plans, O&#8217;Donnell suggested that there may have been another reason she preferred not to attend the event.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, I didn&#8217;t want to be in a big group of people, and I don&#8217;t know, I was worried I would get upset and didn&#8217;t want to do that, so, there you go,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said — and a number of friends and fans were quick to support her decision.</p>
<p>Actress and friend Debi Mazar <a href="https://people.com/tv/rosie-odonnell-reveals-missed-the-view-tribute-barbara-walters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that she preferred the idea of grieving privately, commenting on O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s Instagram post, &#8220;Mourning is personal &amp; PRIVATE A display for PR purposes is kind of vulgar, in my opinion. Barbara ADORED you. Remember when she came backstage after your wonderful performance in The Vagina Monologues? She came just for you.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-barbara-walters-legendary-abc-news-journalist-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walters</a>, who created &#8220;The View&#8221; in 1997 and participated as a panelist herself until 2014, passed away on Friday at the age of 93.</p>


‘I Was Worried’: Ex-‘View’ Host Rosie O’Donnell Explains Why She Skipped Barbara Walters Tribute

Ex-'View' Host Rosie O'Donnell Explains Why She Skipped Barbara Walters Tribute

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<p>Comedian Rosie O&#8217;Donnell took a swipe at Dave Chappelle, who she said has an &#8220;obsessive-compulsive disorder&#8221; to focus on trans people even after being attacked on stage, and disputed the claim that there&#8217;s a &#8220;so-called war on comedy.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/to-the-chopra-wife-i-apologize-rosie-odonnells-tiktok-apology-to-priyanka-chopra-after-embarrassing-moment-makes-the-situation-worse">60-year-old actress</a>&#8216; interview for <a href="https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/in-conversation-with-the-legendary-rosie-odonnell/">Outspoken magazine</a>, O&#8217;Donnell was asked about the &#8220;controversy&#8221; these days surrounding comedians and if she believed &#8220;there is a so-called war on comedy.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/1536380191408132101?s=20&amp;t=kj1KEdppkBKO1WSeK9a0hA">Rosie tweeted</a> out the article on Monday in a piece that was recently published.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the comedy world is divided just like the nation is divided,&#8221; the &#8220;A League of their Own&#8221; star shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m all for freedom of speech, yet Dave Chappelle&#8217;s outbursts and focus on trans men seems to be an obsessive-compulsive disorder of his because he can&#8217;t stop talking about it.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Even when that guy ran on stage and knocked him down, and he did have a weapon by the way, when he got up, he said, &#8216;Oh, that was a trans man,’” she added. &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s like, &#8216;He didn&#8217;t say that,&#8217; and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;How come I have the video right here where he did?’”</p>
<p>&#8220;Once you start censoring comics, it&#8217;s a slippery slope,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell continued. &#8220;Sometimes, comics do provide the courage for a society to be able to look at difficult issues, and they can sort of change how the nation views who they are. Take a look throughout time. Lenny Bruce pushed it, and then George Carlin had his seven words you can&#8217;t say on TV. There are so many comics who talk about the silencing of comics. It&#8217;s a real thing, but I think it&#8217;s more of this oppressive political stalemate that infects every other part of our lives.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the time, Chappelle had joked after that the person who tackled him was &#8220;a trans man.&#8221; The video was posted by <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1521866646595391488?s=20&amp;t=7sTnut5nGvenGC3uNVc0QQ">TMZ</a> on social media.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Someone rushed the stage and attacked Dave Chappelle during his Hollywood Bowl performance &#8230; and the surreal moment was caught on video. <a href="https://t.co/kFf1BvJDvt">https://t.co/kFf1BvJDvt</a> <a href="https://t.co/tQzrt6tMLj">pic.twitter.com/tQzrt6tMLj</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;I am going to kill that n*****. &#8230; It was a trans man,&#8221; Chappelle joked in the clip.</p>
<p>The comedian was smiling at the time, making it pretty clear it was a joke. And the audience appeared to take it the same way as his comments drew laughter from the audience.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-backed-prosecutor-seeks-slap-on-the-wrist-for-alleged-dave-chappelle-attacker">Soros-Backed Prosecutor Seeks &#8216;Slap On The Wrist&#8217; For Alleged Dave Chappelle Attacker</a></strong></p>


Rosie O’Donnell Takes Swipe At Chappelle’s ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’ To Focus On Trans People, Disputes Claim About ‘A War On Comedy’

Rosie O’Donnell Takes Swipe At Chappelle’s ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’ To Focus On Trans People

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If Rosie O’Donnell were a conservative, she’d be called a disgusting racist based on a public apology she just made on TikTok.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outspoken comedian made an apology </span><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rosie/video/7066961123521776942"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> recounting an incident that happened at Nobu Malibu. O’Donnell explained how she recently &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; her son, his girlfriend, and Fran Drescher after she approached Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra, who were also dining there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said she &#8220;had always assumed” the former Bollywood star “was Deepak Chopra&#8217;s daughter.&#8221; But the “A League of Their Own” star didn’t know Priyanka’s first name at the time or when she made the video.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Seated next to us was Nick Jonas and his wife &#8216;someone&#8217; Chopra, which I always assumed was Deepak Chopra&#8217;s daughter,&#8221; she said in the video. “So, when I said, &#8216;Hi, Nick Jonas, you were great in &#8216;Kingdom,&#8217; and &#8216;Hi, I know your dad,&#8217; she goes, &#8216;You do? Who&#8217;s my dad?&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Deepak&#8230;,'&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell said in her TikTok video. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;She&#8217;s like, &#8216;No, and Chopra is a common name.&#8217; &#8230; I felt so embarrassed.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Didn&#8217;t you think that Nick Jonas was married to Deepak Chopra&#8217;s daughter?&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell asked. &#8220;Am I the only one who thought that?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She went on, making matters much worse by forgetting or not bothering to look up Chopra’s first name for a second time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nick Jonas, I apologize and to the &#8216;Chopra wife&#8217;, I apologize, too,&#8221; O’Donnell said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chopra was not thrilled with the apology, especially because the comedian didn’t seem to care about researching her name before recording it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have never taken myself so seriously to think everyone would know who I am, or my work for that matter. But if you wanted to make a public apology for a very awkward private encounter, I think probably best to take the time to google my name before doing it or even try to reach out directly,” the “Matrix” alum </span><a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/02/24/priyanka-chopra-responds-to-rosie-odonnells-public-apology/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shared</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to her Instagram Story Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We ALL deserve to be respected for our unique individuality and not be referred to as ‘someone’ or ‘wife’ especially in a sincere apology,” the post continued. “If we can learn to respect our differences in an authentic way, the world we raise our children in, will be amazing.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chopra concluded by saying, “PS – As I’ve said before, not all Chopra’s [sic] are related to the great Deepak, just as not all Smith’s [sic] are related to the legendary Will Smith.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">O’Donnell attempted to apologize again after getting some pushback from fans on social media. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“People thought that she was rude. She wasn’t rude. It was just awkward. I’m sure she gets sick of that. I’m sure I’m not the only one. According to the comments, a lot of people thought that, too, but she’s apparently a very well-known actress and more famous than him, people were saying. So I’m sure it felt weird to her, to begin with,” O’Donnell said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Anyway, Priyanka is her name. Priyanka. I hope I’m pronouncing that right. I just want to apologize to her and to everyone who thought that it was really inappropriate of me. Sorry, sometimes I f*** up. I did at Nobu,” the comedian concluded.</span></p>
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‘To The Chopra Wife, I Apologize’: Rosie O’Donnell’s TikTok Apology To Priyanka Chopra After Embarrassing Moment Makes The Situation Worse

<p>Some of the biggest names in comedy are rallying to Judy Gold’s side. Think Chris Rock, Rosie O’Donnell, Lewis Black, Kathy Griffin, Jon Stewart and Margaret Cho.</p>
<p>They’ve all given blurbs for Gold’s upcoming book, one with a title tied to the Cancel Culture zeitgeist.</p>
<p>“Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble” shares a welcome message for free speech supporters – from a rock-ribbed liberal, no less.</p>
<p>The aforementioned comics clearly cheer Gold on, both for her decades in show business and, more importantly, her vital message.</p>
<p>Consider:</p>
<p>&#8220;Judy Gold’s years of blazing free speech trails serve her well in this thoughtful funny book.&#8221; (Stewart )</p>
<p>“The fact that the world needs a book like Yes, I Can Say That is appalling. That the marvelous Judy Gold has written it is a gift.&#8221; (Black)</p>
<p>“Judy Gold warns us all what happens when they come for the comedians. She shows how urgent and critical it is that we, as comics, speak truth to power—before it&#8217;s too late. Yes, I Can Say That is funny and insightful—pure Judy!” (O&#8217;Donnell)</p>
<p>What do these comedians all have in common?</p>
<p>Yes, they’re all reliably progressive. Lewis is a <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/article/20160418/entertainment/304189804">self-described socialist</a>.</p>
<p>That’s not the connecting tissue that matters. Each has been virtually silent on free speech, Cancel Culture and a society in recent weeks, a time when simply sharing an opinion can get you fired or, in the case of New York Times writer Bari Weiss, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">bullied out of a gig</a>.</p>
<p>Let’s start with Stewart. The former “Daily Show” host has been mostly off the radar in recent years, toiling on feature films instead of his signature Comedy Central platform.</p>
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<p>Yet he’s been making the press rounds for the last few weeks to promote “Irresistible,” his mostly fair and balanced satire starring Steve Carell and Rose Byrne as D.C. swamp creatures.</p>
<p>Surely Stewart could have spared a word or two about Cancel Culture, media groupthink and the pressure comics face to tell the “right” jokes. Heck, the best way to promote a film that’s ideologically neutral is for an avowed progressive like Stewart to rush to Conservative Nation’s defense.</p>
<p>Nothing doing.</p>
<p>If Stewart said anything like this, it’s been buried by the press. Instead, we watched as Stewart slammed the Trump administration and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-why-joe-bidens-humility-makes-him-right-leader-us-1300362">reluctantly backed Joe Biden</a> during various interviews.</p>
<p>The most he could muster on the vitally important subject of free speech, alas, is a book blurb for a pal.</p>
<p>The same holds true for Black, Cho, Griffin and O’Donnell. They’ve been on the free speech sidelines while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gervais-says-the-woke-mob-wants-to-shut-you-up">Ricky Gervais</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-adam-carolla-gets-raw-about-our-all-woke-no-joke-culture-friendship-with-jimmy-kimmel-truth-about-trump">Adam Carolla</a> do the heavy lifting.</p>
<p>Griffin’s Trump Derangement Syndrome can’t be measured by man-made instruments. Here’s part of her book plug:</p>
<p>&#8220;In this staunch defense of comedians, Judy skewers a corrupt administration that regards the First Amendment as a nuisance.”</p>
<p>Remember when Griffin ran to the rodeo cowboy’s defense when he got fired for poking fun at President Barack Obama?</p>
<p>No one can … because it never happened.</p>
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<p>Still, Griffin could side with those being canceled for saying the “wrong” thing. She’s lived that tale herself, thanks to her cruel, laugh-free image holding Trump’s severed head in grand ISIS style.</p>
<p>Why not take a page out of J.K. Rowling’s pristine playbook and become a warrior for free speech, not just a single Trump term?</p>
<p>She’d rather summon all of her courage for a single book blurb, apparently.</p>
<p>Rock may be the worst offender on the list. The revered comic is perfectly situated to speak out on Cancel Culture. He’s a legend in the field, and as a comic of color he has more gravitas than his white peers in the social justice universe.</p>
<p>Plus, he previously spoke out about why many comics don’t play colleges anymore. Students are too easily triggered.</p>
<p>Then again, Rock shared those views in 2014, a lifetime ago in cultural terms and an era when speaking back to the woke mob had few consequences.</p>
<p>Yet Rock is mum these days. Even worse? When fellow comic Jimmy Fallon got hammered for a 20 year old “blackface” sketch Rock didn’t rally to Fallon’s side.</p>
<p>Why would he? Well, Fallon was doing an impression of Rock and added face paint to complete the illusion. Surely Rock could have supported a peer and said something like, “yes, blackface is now off limits, but clearly Fallon meant the moment to poke fun at me in good humor.”</p>
<p>Instead, Rock stayed silent while Fallon groveled for forgiveness. Repeatedly.</p>
<p>Imagine the blow to Cancel Culture Rock could have struck with one sharp, sincere statement.</p>
<p>The Amazon page for Gold’s book indicates she’s targeting conservatives with her tome, but a recent interview with Adam Carolla suggests something else.</p>
<p>The Progressive Left, she told Carolla, bares the blame for <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/judy-gold-progressive-left-free-speech/">corrupting free speech</a>. We can also blame the progressive left, with but a few exceptions, for standing down when free speech needed a helping hand.</p>
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<p><em>More from Christian Toto:</em> <strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-resistance-actor-channels-trump-swipes-at-halle-berry-for-caving-to-cancel-culture">‘Resistance’ Actor Channels Trump, Swipes At Halle Berry For Caving To Cancel Culture</a></strong></p>


Chris Rock

TOTO: Jon Stewart, Chris Rock And Rosie Don’t Want You To Know They Hate Cancel Culture, Too

Jon Stewart

Kathy Griffin

<p>Have you ever wondered why the political left is so inconsolably angry these days? Why does it consider President Donald Trump to be such a threat and his supporters so contemptible?</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t my imagination. While most people expressed their New Year&#8217;s greetings in positive terms, the celebrity left defaulted to its Trump-hating form. Every day is a new day to rage against Trump, so why should their New Year&#8217;s Day pronouncements be any different?</p>
<p>Breitbart assembled a list of celebrity tweets illustrating the point. Rob Reiner tweeted, &#8220;Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a 2020 that doesn&#8217;t include an ignorant corrupt soulless liar occupying the People&#8217;s House.&#8221; Stephen King tweeted, &#8220;Of his lies we&#8217;ve had plenty &#8230; Kick his a— in 2020.&#8221; Rose O&#8217;Donnell couldn&#8217;t quite make it through a New Year&#8217;s tweet without denigrating Trump. &#8220;HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL,&#8221; she tweeted, adding the hashtag #2020removeHIM. Rosanna Arquette said: &#8220;Putin is not my president. happy new year.&#8221; In an interview with CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper, Linda Rondstadt likened Trump to Hitler and the Mexicans to &#8220;the New Jews.&#8221; And the examples go on and on.</p>
<p>What is wrong with these narcissistic malcontents? It&#8217;s not like things are terrible in America. Economically speaking, we couldn&#8217;t be doing much better. We&#8217;re certainly better off than we were during the Obama years — by leaps and bounds.</p>
<p>Trump is also sticking up for America again, rebuilding our defenses; taking decisive action when our people or soldiers are in harm&#8217;s way, as with his immediate response to the attack on our embassy in Iraq; pressuring other countries to contribute to our mutual defense pacts; and expressing his pride in this country — as opposed to trotting around the globe and apologizing for it.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s not to like? His tweets? Fine, but do you really think that&#8217;s what is driving them mad?</p>
<p>How about his alleged abuses of power? Please. They&#8217;ve been pressing for impeachment since before &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; became their favorite mantra and long before they could identify Ukraine on a map.</p>
<p>They don&#8217;t hate Trump for having acted outside his constitutional authority — because he hasn&#8217;t. That was Obama. They don&#8217;t hate him because they believe he is extremely partisan. And if they were to believe it, they would have no credibility, for few presidents have been more partisan than Barack Obama, despite the progressive mythical narrative to the contrary.</p>
<p>You might recall how Obama used lawless executive orders to implement policy that Congress declined to legislate, forced Obamacare down our throats and smugly told his Republican opponents, &#8220;I won the election,&#8221; and that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;want them to do a lot of talking.&#8221; And surely you won&#8217;t forget how he bulldozed his stimulus package through Congress with less than a handful of Senate Republican votes after meeting with congressional Republicans just one day before the Democrats had drafted the 1,073-page bill.</p>
<p>They revile Trump because they can tolerate only one viewpoint — their own. They resent that they can&#8217;t cram down their ideas in all sectors of our society, our culture and our government. It&#8217;s not enough that they have virtual monolithic control of the messages disseminating from Hollywood, academia and the mainstream media. They want total power everywhere, without any dissent. They are furious that red-state America won&#8217;t roll over and surrender its sovereignty to them so they can complete the fundamental transformation of America into a socialistic, authoritarian state, and finish converting its culture into a post-Christian utopia. They are like agitated babies who&#8217;ve had their toys taken away and who militantly refuse to take a nap.</p>
<p>Trump is not just an annoying speed bump on their way to total societal and political domination but a force of nature to be reckoned with, wildly beyond their expectations. Having no respect for Trump or his ability, they wrongly assumed they could steamroll, marginalize or oust him and restore themselves to power.</p>
<p>They had no idea Trump would be so formidable an opponent. More importantly, they had no inkling that he represented something far greater than himself: a seemingly silent majority of everyday Americans who had had their fill of the left&#8217;s political and cultural tyranny.</p>
<p>Even though they&#8217;ve also directed their ire at Trump supporters — kicking them out of restaurants and other public places, and trying to suppress their liberties — they still seem to be operating under the illusion that if they can just remove Trump, they&#8217;ll easily recapture power.</p>
<p>Little do they realize that the more they mistreat Trump, the more they alienate his supporters — freedom-loving patriots from shore to shore. Or maybe their animus against him and us is so intense that they just can&#8217;t help themselves, and they don&#8217;t realistically consider the potential political fallout.</p>
<p>Or could it be that they are so cloistered in their elitist bubble that they still don&#8217;t realize the magnitude of support Trump has from tens of millions of people who will never give up on this nation as the world&#8217;s model for freedom and prosperity? The more they hate him, they more they abuse him, the greater our resolve to defend him — and America!</p>
<p><i>David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.</i></p>


New Year celebration in NYC.

LIMBAUGH: Trump-Hating Leftists Usher In New Year Of Trump Hatred

Donald Trump

Leftism

Rob Reiner

<p>Comedienne Rosie O&#8217;Donnell tried to troll her arch-nemesis Donald Trump — only to discover that the joke was on her.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the woman who famously called the president a &#8220;s*** stain with a tinge of orange&#8221; launched a Twitter poll to see how many people favored impeachment; as it turned out, not that many. Out of 272, 582 people, only 42% said &#8220;Hell Yes&#8221; when questioned if Trump should be impeached while another 58% said &#8220;Hell No.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oopsie.</p>
<p>As a result of the epic fail, Rosie deleted her Twitter poll, though it now lives on in the archives of our collective screenshots:</p>
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<p>The trolls on Twitter had a field day mocking O&#8217;Donnell for not only launching a poll designed to diminish Trump, but also for deleting it when her plan backfired.</p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-vw2c0b r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8220;Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> provides the polls, until they don&#8217;t go her way. Then she deleted the results &#8230;&#8221; said one user. </span></p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-vw2c0b r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8220;Rosie O’Donnell</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> should delete her whole account. Every time she tweets Trump looks a wise man and I’m not a Trump’s supporter,&#8221; said another user. </span></p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8220;Patriots are coming out THIS HARD over a f***in </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-vw2c0b r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> Twitter poll &#8230; imagine our drive when it comes to election night! N</span>ever be discouraged you beautiful deplorables, the Dems have no chance,&#8221; said another.</p>
<p>Rosie&#8217;s poll comes shortly after she insisted there are <a href="https://www.lifezette.com/2019/06/rosie-odonnell-insists-there-are-over-100000-concentration-camps-in-america/">over 100,000 concentration camps</a> in the United States due to President Trump&#8217;s border policies. &#8220;Actually, legitimate scholars who study genocide say, yes, these are, in fact, the criteria for concentration camps, they meet them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There are over 100,000 camps in nearly every state. There’s between 10,000 and 13,000 children, that could fill Radio City Music Hall twice. That’s how many children [are] unaccompanied, alone, in these camps.”</p>
<p>In terms of real, non Twitter-induced polls, a recent CBS News poll showed that a majority of Americans likely does not actually support the impeachment of President Trump and largely see the latest push by the Democratic Party as a mere tactic to sabotage his 2020 re-election chances. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-poll-shows-majority-of-americans-across-all-parties-think-latest-impeachment-talk-just-to-hurt-trumps-re-election">reported</a> on Wednesday:</p>
<blockquote><p>As media outlets rushed to report recent polls showing Americans favor an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a closer examination of those polls reveals far more about their bias.</p>
<p>It first should be noted that it is expected that after weeks of the media blasting headlines about Trump’s alleged crimes and violations it comes as no surprise that polls indicate Americans also think Trump has committed crimes. Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson went a step further, diving into the CBS poll, which showed a majority of Americans favored the impeachment of Trump.</p>
<p>Attkisson looked into the poll for <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463751-a-deeper-dive-into-one-poll-shows-what-americans-really-think-about-impeachment">her column</a> at The Hill, and discovered that while a majority did claim they favored an impeachment inquiry into Trump (55% to 45%), the poll overly sampled Democrats.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;A check of the poll data shows it interviewed 124 more Democrats than Republicans. That’s a statistically significant difference — 6 percentage points more Democrats than Republicans,&#8221; Attkisson wrote. &#8220;Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Democrats and Republicans generally respond along party lines, a sample that looked at 6 percentage points more Republicans instead of Democrats would blow the &#8216;headline&#8217; that &#8216;a majority of Americans&#8217; favors the impeachment inquiry. It would, theoretically, change the pro-impeachment inquiry majority to a minority: 49% favoring the impeachment inquiry, and 51% opposing.&#8221;</p>


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FAIL: Rosie O’Donnell Deletes Twitter Poll After 57% Say No To Trump Impeachment

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