Rosie O’Donnell’s blue humor made faces red when she emceed the Matrix Awards in front of 2,000 feting New York’s most accomplished women in media at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom yesterday.
The loose-lipped lesbian dropped the F-bomb as Barbara Walters lowered her head on the dais and covered her face with her hand. O’Donnell concluded a rant about Donald Trump by grabbing her crotch and shouting, “Eat me!”
O’Donnell also said she was sad when Trump called her “disgusting” and “fat” because, “it was always my dream to give an old, bald billionaire a boner.”
The annual luncheon of N.Y. Women in Communications – which honored Cindy Adams, Meredith Vieira, Joan Didion, Susan Lyne, Arianna Huffington and Lisa Caputo, among others – featured as presenters News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch Joy Behar, Nora Ephron, Martha Stewart and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Also on hand were 17 sweet-faced high school girls who won scholarships to pursue their dreams of careers in media.
“I was offended by how vulgar and common O’Donnell was,” said Robert Zimmerman, a Democrat active in progressive causes. “It was especially inappropriate with young people present.”
Brandon Holley, editor-in-chief of Jane magazine, said, “I wasn’t personally offended, but I thought it was fun to watch other people be offended.”
“I cringed and dove under the table when she said, ‘Eat me,’ ” said one woman attendee who declined to be identified.
Among those in the crowd were Judith Giuliani, her predecessor Donna Hanover, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Helen Gurley Brown, Sue Simmons, Geri Laybourne of Oxygen Media, Jane Friedman of HarperCollins, and Hearst president Cathie Black.
O’Donnell’s publicist, Cindi Berger, told us: “When you ask for Rosie, you know what you’re getting. She’s not a shrinking violet. She’s a stand-up comedienne. She says things that are provocative.”
N.Y. Women in Communications was evidently happy with O’Donnell. The group’s managing director, Beth Ellen Keyes, sent an e-mail to her handlers saying, “Rosie was fabulous. Please let Rosie know how much we appreciated her being there. She was just great.”
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This story was meant to drive public ire over Rosie O’Donnell’s candor. Were the few instances of nay-saying by the audience members worthy of a whole piece or was this story created to stir the pot?
4/24/07
I wonder why Rosie O’Donnell is allowed to get away with these disgusting commenets. If this kind of person is whom Beth Ellen Keyes thinks is “fabulous” and “great,” then I lose complete respect for the women in media who were present.
It is especially inappropriate for Rosie to have made some of her comments with young teens present.
Rosie is self-destructing before the nation–someone please stop her from inflicting her mental illness on us.
Please erase my entire comment. If Rosie can make the outrageous statements in public that she can, if you are trying to stop me from saying what I feel, then I don’t want to be part of this blog.
Joann
I am only surprised that anyone was shocked by Rosie’s crude and vulgar antics. Why she would be chosen to host the Matrix awards is a mystery! What you see is all there is, an uneducated, hateful, obscenity walking. And, unfortunatly, talking as well.
At 50 years old and someone who really doesn’t get upset from any politician or individual in show business, I must say this individual, Rosie O’Donnell, appears to have some sort of underlying paranoia that her position in “stardom”, if that’s what you want to call it, might be coming to an end. The sad thing is that the majority of our country continues to hate President Bush, no matter what, that they will continue down this thriving and politically orchestrated road aligning themselves with ideas and policies, not because they support them, but because the President doesn’t. Oh well….as a parent of two teenage boys there comes a point in time when you just have to let people learn the hard way….and I feel in about ten years, the Democratic party, that exemplifies this misguided anger, will commisserate with each other and words along the line of ” What were we thinking?”
immoral,enormously screwed up pig
that is either uneducated or lacks common sense-hateful, destructive, and is the quintessential personification of everything I hate in a person-wish she would please go away
I loved Rosie when she had her show. She has sinced become mean. I’m not sure if it’s a coinsidence or not, but it seemed to happen the same time she announced she was gay. She has become a very mean and seemingly sad sad person. They keep saying she is a stand-up comedienne, but I don’t find her very funny any more. It seems that announcing she’s gay has also made her sad.
I do not consider such uncouth vulgarity funny and she like Imus should be held accountable for fouling the airwaves.She lacks class
and her brand of humor escapes me
Rosie is full of herself and should grow up! Television is the only place where the genuinely emotionally disturbed can be successful. She believes her Celebrity automatically makes her an authority on everything. Her pronouncements on 9/11 and Iraq show how really ignorant she is. Did she major in Physics in high school? The bottom line is that Rosie is not a nice person. Yes, she can be funny, but so are lots of people working at Wal-Mart; and they are at least good and decent people. And there but for the grace of god she would be working if it wasn’t for some good luck and ordinary talent.
Vulgar, crass, lewd, and absolutely the LAST person to be representative of a role model for women! Whoever asked her to speak at this ceremony should truly have their head examined. I am astounded that anyone would think this is what the public wants to hear and SEE at an awards ceremony honoring women in the media!! I hope all the sponsors pull out of next year’s show. Just like when Roseanne embarrassed the sports community by making a mockery of the National Anthem, so does this full-of-herself blabbermouth put a black mark on aspiring and creative women everywhere!! She is not funny nor is she inspirational.
Rosie prides herself at being a parent. Would she want her children to conduct themselves in the way that she does.
Ellen doesnt resort to vulgarity or offensiveness and as a result, is far more respected than Rosie. Saddens me to see how Rosie behaves — she could have been a great role model. I used to support her but wont until she cleans up her act