Abba Zabba

A few months ago, I complained about the band Stuck Mojo. Or, more specifically, about their new fans. They released an anti-Muslim song, and all the anti-Muslim bloggers declared them the greatest band in the history of the universe. At the time, I called it just a conservative phenomenon.

Turns out I was wrong. Rosie O'Donnell is getting fired from The View. Naturally, I don't care. And I'd assume that other intelligent Americans (ie, not fans of The View), also don't care. But I overlooked the fact that there are as many wackos on the left as on the right. See, Rosie likes to talk about politics on her show. She's said repeatedly that she thinks Bush should be impeached. And on at least one occasion, she said that the official 9/11 explanation is a conspiracy, because fire can't melt steel. As a result, she's widely praised among certain leftists. (Such as the ones on the site that inspired me to write this article.)

The people are making the same mistake as the Jihadwatch crowd did for Stuck Mojo. It's possible to admire what someone says without admiring the person for saying it. Rosie O'Donnell is annoying. She's always been annoying. She was a loud, mediocre stand-up comic, then one of the most obnoxious TV personalities of the 90s. And now she's on a crappy morning show for housewives and the chronically unemployed, yammering about celebrities and fashion. The fact that she occasionally throws in a standard Noam Chomsky point along with the discussion of Britney's new hairdo (or lack thereof) doesn't make her a hero. If anything, it makes her into even more of a caricature, and makes it easier for the mainstream media to ignore the left.