Jonah Goldberg is so "on-the-nosie" on Rosie.
"RENOWNED metallurgist Rosie O'Donnell proclaimed on TV on Thursday that Sept. 11, 2001, was a more significant date than most of us realized. It was, in her words, "the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel."
(This is funny stuff, Jonah!!)
This, of course, came as news to steelworkers, blacksmiths, firefighters, manufacturers of samurai swords and other fools who hadn't realized that steel is forged in magic furnaces using dragon breath and pixie dust."
Read the rest, it's worth it. It would be different if it was "informed" or "intelligent"---Rosie is neither. The truly scary part is the applause that follows her comments. Heads-up ABC/Disney, it's YOUR turn. (Would firing Rosie increase her popularity and lunacy? Probably. Yes, she has a right to her opinions, on "The View" and elsewhere. But Googling is not research and knowledge does not grow audiences or sell newspapers.)
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all argument,
and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
This principle is, contempt prior to examination."
~~ William Paley (1743-1805),
