The Washington Put up would really like you to fake together with them that they’re the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don’t play favorites. Then you definately discover that their Sunday Arts & Type part carried a sprawling four-page unfold with ten coloration pictures on the wonderful Rosie O’Donnell and her passionate loathing of Donald Trump.
The Put up summarized the puff piece on X: “Donald Trump’s first administration took an emotional toll on Rosie O’Donnell. She didn’t assume she may endure a second time period. This time, O’Donnell had a plan: she moved to Eire.”
So let’s give Rosie credit score for finishing up the risk to depart America, in contrast to many exquisitely delicate celebrities.
“She’s a delicate soul, an enormous uncovered nerve who has posed, efficiently, for many of her life and profession as a brassy Lengthy Island toughie,” gushed Put up arts reporter Geoff Edgers. The primary Trump time period “took an emotional toll on the die-hard liberal, at the same time as she tweeted and marched and spit invective in opposition to the president each likelihood she obtained.”
So no less than we get the time period “die-hard liberal,” and the correct observe on “invective.” However these solely make her extra lovable to the shoppers of The Washington Put up.
She moved to Eire for her little one: “O’Donnell, 63, anxious about life below an administration that has been hostile to homosexual rights and gender-nonconforming individuals normally; her youngest, 12-year-old Clay, is nonbinary.” It was “her daughter Dakota.” Then Edgers dropped a pile of compulsory “they/their” phrases on Clay.
Edgers pitched O’Donnell vs. Trump as two “vivid triborough loudmouths” who may ship “late-night bluster.” He quoted Rosie attacking Trump’s private life: “Left the primary first spouse, had an affair, left the second spouse, had an affair. Had youngsters each occasions, however he’s the ethical compass for 20-year-olds in America.”
The Put up laid out a similarity right here, however didn’t make it direct: Rosie left the primary spouse, after 4 adopted youngsters. Rosie left the second spouse, after adopting another. The second spouse later dedicated suicide. That’s not talked about on this big article.
Edgers isn’t going to mock Rosie’s ethical compass. No, her drawback is she cares an excessive amount of. We’re advised “This impulse to assist – anybody, wherever, at no matter value – is a continuing supply of frustration for her buddies.”
Even now, Trump enjoys mocking Rosie, and that’s painted as one way or the other bizarre, when it’s not bizarre in reverse. When the Irish prime minister got here to the White Home, Trump mocked her in response to a query from the Actual America’s Voice community.
Edgers turned dramatic: “All of the sudden, what had as soon as appeared like a traditional showbiz rivalry — a Joan Crawford-Bette Davis slap struggle rebooted for the fact TV period — was starting to really feel extra ominous than absurd.”
Ominous? Like Trump was going to ship a goon squad to tough her up? Leftists like to dish it out in opposition to Trump, however they will’t appear to take it.
The Put up story is accompanied by a Rosie portrait of Trump the place she scrawled the phrases “Felon, Criminal, Creep, Liar, Loser, Completed.” However that’s not ominous?
In fact, the Put up wouldn’t use phrases that will be upsetting about Rosie’s unusual views, like “9/11 conspiracy theorist.”
This isn’t the primary time Geoff Edgers has traveled to Eire for a puff piece. In 2020, he supplied the identical routine, an enormous Sunday tribute to leftist singer Sinead O’Connor, beloved for tearing up an image of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Evening Reside. She was “one among modern music’s biggest and most unique artists.”
These girls are very a lot alike — “delicate artists” at battle with everybody The Washington Put up hates.
