Virgie Bell's View: Fair and Unbalanced

I didn't see the show on Fox where Greta Van Susteren asked her viewers to send e-mails into her concerning their reactions to Rosie O'Donnell's goofy remarks about the supposed torture that goes on at Guantanamo, but in her postings today, Greta said she got hundreds of comments, but trying to find a balanced view to her question was hard. It seems the public is so very much against Rosie. Greta said she also had a hard time finding even one to print because some were expressed in such unprintable language.

How America became fascinated with someone like Rosie O'Donnell is beyond me. I don't watch American Idol until maybe their last two programs. As I’ve said before, this is simply because I do not enjoy watching people make fools of themselves. I don't know how I ever acquired the one copy of the magazine that Rosie was head of, but I did run across one here a while back. When I glanced through it, I wondered then what all the hubbub was about. What the fans of hers found so appealing.

I caught a little of her show a couple of times and really was trying to find the appeal. I certainly had no preconceived ideas. I was searching for something that would make her one of the most popular women on TV. It was only after the 9/11 attacks that I found even one thing that appealed to me. I mean she is typical Dyke. She walks, talks, and carries herself in a way that would not do credit to male or female, so it was definitely NOT those attributes. But instead, what impressed me was that I had read a quote in which she’d stated that she was so taken with President Bush and the way in which he led our nation. She said that he had literally held us together as a nation. She also said that if overweight women past age forty were profiled as suspects, then she wanted to be searched every time she boarded an airplane. She even told how she choked with pride when President Bush threw the first baseball when baseball season began.

I have tried to find her reasoning for her very different opinion at the present time. What has happened? When we were attacked on 9/11, war was declared on us. How insane do you have to be that you would think otherwise? What else do you call an attack on a sovereign nation—if not war?

There are two choices to make in a situation like that one. They are fight the war or surrender. There is nothing else. It’s one or the other. Were we to surrender without firing a shot? How insane is that? Next, we had to have a battlefield. Iraq suited me fine. I saw the pictures of the Kurds he gassed. I watched him take over another nation. I saw the thousands of oil wells on fire when he was driven out of Kuwait. We had a choice of battlefields. New York City or Baghdad. For us to have chosen solely Afghanistan would have been insane. It would have been about as useful to house a superpower as I would be to accommodate the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at my house. So now we were to just do really stupid things. To not even try to fight for our country. To be a superpower and give up to Al Qaeda. That is all that I can comprehend. I heard Senator Clinton when she was shaking her fist and yelling that if Bush didn't stop this war during his administration she would....OH? SUPPORT THE TROOPS!