Dan Frisa
Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Talker Rosie ODonnells ratings have sunk so low they nearly match the level she herself occupies in the political gutter.
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 T.V. 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, ODonnell 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: /http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/6/172805

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 common sense, 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's time for ODonnell to go down, and its good that she'll be gone.