by Brian C. Noell

Created on: January 13, 2007   Last Updated: February 07, 2010

Miss USA, the Donald, and a Pig Named Rosie

Whatever happened to journalistic honesty, integrity, and truth in both print and television? Is the American public that starved for entertainment that the on-going war of words between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump has become nightly fodder for conversations around our dinner tables, in our newspapers, and on our nightly talk shows?

For those of you that may not know of their feud, it all started when questions were raised in December about what many considered to be immoral behavior on the part of our current Miss USA, Tara Conner. Apparently Conner was seen at several nightclubs in the New York area partaking in underage drinking, dirty dancing, and kissing the current Miss Teen USA Katie Blair.

After these allegations came to light, Trump being a man that desperately needs more face time on television immediately held a press conference to announce that since he was the owner of the Miss USA Pageant, he had decided not to use his trademarked and overused phrase of "You're Fired!" on Conner and that every one deserved a "second chance". To that, a tearful Miss USA took the podium, apologized, and announced that she was checking herself into rehab. A course of action that these days seems to be the answer for every celebrity, politician and sports figure who does something stupid regardless of whether they were under the influence or not. If I had checked myself into rehab every time I did something stupid, I wouldn't have been released until I was 38 years old. Perhaps I'll have more on that subject at a later time.

The next morning Rosie O'Donnell, being the crass, loud-mouthed, pig that she is, poked her snout into the whole affair by announcing on "The View", a claptrap, feminist television show produced by Barbara Walters, that Trump's decision was wrong and Conner should be dethroned. An act I might add, that certainly never hurt the career of former beauty queen and now singing and acting star Vanessa Williams.

That's when all the name calling and adolescent behavior began. Both of these pea-brained nitwits should shut up now. Don't get me wrong, I think Donald Trump is an egotistical, arrogant, mouth piece wind bag whose time as a television personality should be coming to an end, but I find O'Donnell to be one of the most offensive people to ever grace network television. Why Barbara Walters and the American Broadcasting Company would ever endorse her racist and anti-social behavior on their programming is truly beyond me. She has proven to the American public that she is nothing more than a mean spirited bully as evidenced by her interview with Tom Selleck, (http://www.nrawinningteam.com/norosie.html) when she had her own talk show a few years ago, and attacked Selleck for doing an advertisement for the National Rifle Association on gun safety when he was merely on her lame excuse for a television program to promote his latest movie.

It's time for these two second rate celebrities to ride off into the sunset, if not separately then together; they certainly deserve each other. Trump should go back to developing real estate, and O'Donnell should concentrate on producing poor Broadway productions as she has in the past.

Then maybe we won't have to be subjected to their petty indifferences on a daily basis.

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