As you know, I’m no Rosie O’Donell fan, but then, I’m not exactly one to feel the love for Bill O’Reilly either. Personally I think they’re both immature loud mouths and attention whores. But I digress…
As the story goes, Rosie was doing a book signing and O’Reilly sent one of his peeps in with a camera to find out if Rosie really believed 9/11 to be an inside job.
O’Donnell was taken aback when O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters interrupted her as she was signing “Celebrity Detox” for more than 500 fans at the Huntington Book Revue on Friday, reports Page Six’s Marianne Garvey. “This is for Bill O’Reilly,” said the producer. “He wants to know if you regret saying 9/11 was an inside job.”
Watters then bombarded O’Donnell with questions about why she ignores calls to appear on O’Reilly’s show and why she chose not to do an interview with talk queen Oprah Winfrey about the book.
O’Donnell kept her cool while the tape rolled, even allowing O’Reilly’s crew to stay for a few minutes.
“He knows how to find me. If Bill wants me he should phone me himself,” O’Donnell calmly told the producer. “He’s a big boy.”
Uhh….but he’s been calling and calling and you’re not answering, Rosie.
O’Donnell even convinced her brother, Ed, not to toss the bullying duo, because, “It makes it all worse when he puts it on the Bill O’Reilly No-Spin Zone.”
“Don’t throw them out,” O’Donnell said as her fans waited patiently in line behind them, including a young boy with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair whom O’Donnell comforted following the incident.
“Ed, it’s OK. Everybody stop. That’s what they want you to do,” she said.
But O’Donnell repeatedly asked the cameraman to “turn it off - can you turn the lens to the floor?” as a security guard covered the lens with his hand. The security men finally had enough and made O’Reilly’s men leave, prompting O’Donnell to tell the pair, “Goodbye, goodbye,” adding, “Sir, you’re done. Skip home happily, you got it.”
And you just knew Rosie would blog about it…
Last night O’Reilly aired his version of events, calling the segment “Rosie’s Rage.” But O’Donnell beat him to the punch, blogging about it over the weekend. “BO [bleep]wipes showed up. Cocky young white men. They were bullied out not soon enuf4 my liking,” she wrote.
I think they’re both idiots.
O’Really?