Not that anyone will care, but I am announcing that from henceforth, other than an occasional peek at Sunday Night Football between Corinne watching "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters", and occasionally watching the NBC local evening news (because they have a hot anchor-person), I am swearing off watching the National Broadcasting Company, the Peacock Network, otherwise known as NBC.
This is not an easy thing for me. I have been an NBC man since, as a child, my family lived so far back in the hills of Kentucky and Virginia that we didn't even know ABC existed. I was twelve years old before I ever watched an ABC program. But the once-proud home of "Saturday Night at the Movies", Huntley & Brinkley, and John Chancellor has, in my opinion, fallen off the table of good taste and common decency in programming.
Why do I say this? This Wednesday, November 26, 2008, Thanksgiving Eve, NBC is returning the obnoxious loudmouth Rosie O'Donnell to the airwaves in some sort of "live" variety show. Rosie's allotted 15 minutes of fame have long since expired, and she has deteriorated into another one of those former celebrities who continue to think the world gives a damn what she has to say. Her schtick stinks like three-day old fish in a newspaper.
Thanks to a cloying celebrity media that includes such broadcast tripe as "Entertainment Tonight" and "Entertainment Weekly", there are still people who will be there when Rosie shoots off her mouth again. Makes me sick. These are the same people who are there when some celeb is wheeled in or out of a hospital, or that climbs light poles to photograph Heath Ledger's dead body being wheeled out of his apartment building, or that snapped photos of a dying Princess Diana instead of trying to help her. Jackals, every one.
But I digress. Rosie O'Donnell dumped in her own mess kit years ago when she started the habit of ambushing guests on her former talk show. For example, poor Tom Selleck was a guest to promote his HBO movie, "Ike", when Rosie verbally assaulted him ad nauseum about his NRA membership. It was embarassing. She continued to wear her far-left politics on her sleeve, and the show got killed. Then Barbara Walters tried to resurrect Rosie's career on "The View", and ultimately all she could do was pick fights with co-hosts, and even since leaving that show continues to toss insults Walters' way. I'm no Ba-Ba Wa-Wa fan, but one with any sense does not constantly insult a TV industry icon and last for long.
Now NBC is giving this social misfit her own show. How unbelievably low did the Peacock Network have to sink to resort to this? And on Thanksgiving Eve? This has nothing to do with Rosie's sexual orientation, either. Ellen DeGeneres is funny, entertaining, and a pleasure to watch perform. Rosie is obnoxious, offensive, and has long since exhausted what little talent she had as a stand-up comedienne. It has nothing at all to do with whom they might choose to share a relationship; it has everything to do with knowing when it is time for certain celebrities to ride off into the sunset, for good.
So, NBC Entertainment, see ya'. It's been nice, but I'm gone until you ditch Rosie. Shouldn't take too long.
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