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<blockquote data-quote="GlenM" data-source="post: 3089"><img src="http://defamer.com/assets/resources/2007/06/vivienne-rosie.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />In the end, <a href="http://defamer.com/hollywood/withdrawals/bob-barker-not-so-fast-with-the-odonnell-stuff-270802.php" target="_blank">hosting The Price is Right</a> would remain a wish unfulfilled for Rosie O&#039;Donnell, who <a href="http://www.rosie.com/blog/page/2/" target="_blank">recently announced on her blog</a> that after having met with producers, the stress of uprooting her family and relocating to the West Coast would be too much for the former co-host of The View. (Or as one relieved executive put it once she was safely out of the building, &quot;Oh well--I guess we&#039;ll have to find some other clinically depressed, rageoholic military-hater to man the Big Wheel!&quot;) O&#039;Donnell, meanwhile, posted a photo of daughter Vivienne Rose yesterday, uniformed like a baby Fallujah insurgent preparing to rise up with her like-minded brothers and sisters against the corrupt Hasselbeckian regime. Rosie e-mailed The ShowBuzz to explain how the controversial image was taken during an afternoon of <a href="http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/26/people/main2983824.shtml" target="_blank">innocent, backyard dress-up</a>:The kids pick a new costume from buycostumes.com every few weeks. &quot;They don&#039;t watch TV -- this is how they play/the boys had fatigues and were playing war/the girls wanted some/they run around the house with water guns/shooting each other,&quot; she said. 
&quot;It&#039;s fascinating to me/that an image of a child dressed up as a soldier/evokes so much attention/yet the real soldiers - their deaths - their wounded bodies/doesn&#039;t seem to faze most/or make news,&quot; she wrote.So effective has the image been in eliciting public uproar, O&#039;Donnell has since decided that all family activities will now have to incorporate a strong political message with viral potential. It&#039;s a fun plan with a dual purpose, hopefully helping to further her anti-Bush agenda, while giving her kids the thrill of burning their most recent purchases from <a href="http://www.pinatas.com/" target="_blank">Pinatas.com</a> in effegy for mom&#039;s video camera.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/26/people/main2983824.shtml" target="_blank">Rosie Explains Controversial Photo</a> [Showbuzz]</li>
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[QUOTE="GlenM, post: 3089"] [IMG]http://defamer.com/assets/resources/2007/06/vivienne-rosie.jpg[/IMG]In the end, [URL="http://defamer.com/hollywood/withdrawals/bob-barker-not-so-fast-with-the-odonnell-stuff-270802.php"]hosting [I]The Price is Right[/I][/URL] would remain a wish unfulfilled for Rosie O'Donnell, who [URL="http://www.rosie.com/blog/page/2/"]recently announced on her blog[/URL] that after having met with producers, the stress of uprooting her family and relocating to the West Coast would be too much for the former co-host of [I]The View[/I]. (Or as one relieved executive put it once she was safely out of the building, "Oh well--I guess we'll have to find some other clinically depressed, rageoholic military-hater to man the Big Wheel!") O'Donnell, meanwhile, posted a photo of daughter Vivienne Rose yesterday, uniformed like a baby Fallujah insurgent preparing to rise up with her like-minded brothers and sisters against the corrupt Hasselbeckian regime. Rosie e-mailed The ShowBuzz to explain how the controversial image was taken during an afternoon of [URL="http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/26/people/main2983824.shtml"]innocent, backyard dress-up[/URL]: [INDENT]The kids pick a new costume from buycostumes.com every few weeks. "They don't watch TV -- this is how they play/the boys had fatigues and were playing war/the girls wanted some/they run around the house with water guns/shooting each other," she said. [/INDENT] [INDENT]"It's fascinating to me/that an image of a child dressed up as a soldier/evokes so much attention/yet the real soldiers - their deaths - their wounded bodies/doesn't seem to faze most/or make news," she wrote.[/INDENT]So effective has the image been in eliciting public uproar, O'Donnell has since decided that all family activities will now have to incorporate a strong political message with viral potential. It's a fun plan with a dual purpose, hopefully helping to further her anti-Bush agenda, while giving her kids the thrill of burning their most recent purchases from [URL="http://www.pinatas.com/"]Pinatas.com[/URL] in effegy for mom's video camera. [LIST] [*][URL="http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/26/people/main2983824.shtml"]Rosie Explains Controversial Photo[/URL] [Showbuzz][/LIST][URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/defamer/full?a=8I2Hu0"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/defamer/full?i=8I2Hu0[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://defamer.com/hollywood/explaining-the-disturbing-image/rosie-odonnell-explains-why-her-4+year+old-has-chosen-to-join-the-freedom-fighters-272824.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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