O'Donnell concluded a rant about Donald Trump by grabbing her crotch and shouting, 'Eat me!'"

That's about the time I wake up screaming.

So...being an optimist (most of the time) I'm hoping this will be the end of the daily Rosie reports. But wait...there is still Alec Baldwin. There is just no end to the entertainment.

Gerard,

I'm not sure Rosie was axed. Her ratings were great. I think she wanted more money and the opportunity to do her own show. I will wager that she'll be b-a-a-a-c-k all too soon.

Gandalin,

I can tell you why. Think Don Imus here. She was a huge lawsuit/boycott waiting to happen with that loose cannon mouth of hers.

If you look at all the signs it was clear that ABC has been trying to get rid of her for the last six months. The first clue of this is when Barbara Walters dissed her in that phone conversation with The Donald. But they could not get rid of her easily because of her contract. If ABC did essentially "fire" her when her brain started imploding six months ago she would have sued their butts off not to mention all the negative publicity and negative public relations with the hyper activist LLL and gay/lesbian communities. It just wasn't worth it to push her out at that time.

What they did was kept on handing her the rope she demanded (while doing what damage control they could) and waited for her to hang herself with it.

She hung herself at that Matrix awards dinner last week. Her "performance" there not only offended alot of very highly placed people but also led to "someone" wanting to have the NYPD look into her performance "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" seeing as there were 17 high school students in attendance. The mere hint of that was enough for ABC legal to jump in and terminate her employment citing the morals clause in her contract. They probably gave her the choice of going right now peacefully and all chummy and they will pay her for the rest of her remaining contract and give her the "warm, fuzzy farewell". Or go very painfully (and alot poorer) when law enforcement stepped in and if they did ABC would wash their hands of her and make it clear that they had been trying to get rid of her for months but couldn't because of her contract. They would also point out to her that if she went this way they were under no obligation to pay her one penny more and would sue her for breach of contract and damages to the reputation of the network. If that would have occurred that would kill off Rosie's career totally. So Rosie took the offer she couldn't refuse and left.

Now I do not think she will pop up with her own show on broadcast/syndication/cable any time soon. No network can afford an obnoxious idiot like her anymore (think Don Imus again-which I remind you she actually defended during the Rutgers thing. Perhaps she saw the handwriting on the wall with that one.) I wouldn't be surprised if she popped up on HBO with another former ABC employee Bill Mahar. You see there are no sponsors on HBO, just subscribers. And HBO can always tell people if they don't like their product they don't have to buy it.

"So we part as friends, and hope that we can entice Rosie back next year to take part in a series of one-hour specials for us like our recent show on Autism."

How about a special on coprolalia? It seems to me that Rosie knows all about that.

"So we part as friends, and hope that we can entice Rosie back next year to take part in a series of one-hour specials for us like our recent show on Autism."

How about a special on coprolalia? It seems to me that Rosie knows all about that.