Rosie: Anna Nicole Was "Balloon Without Tether"

Click to return to TMZ.comRosie O'Donnell and her cohorts on "The View" had their first chance to address the death of Anna Nicole Smith, and while they took pity on Anna Nicole herself, they showed little mercy for Howard K. Stern or the entertainment news shows that paid her for those slurred, difficult-to-watch interviews.

Rosie, for her part, inflamed some viewers by imitating Anna Nicole unfavorably on Thursday's show, which was taped just hours before Anna's death. Today, lamenting the starlet's death, Rosie compared Smith to a Macy's Thanksgiving parade balloon without anyone to hold it back. She charged that Howard K. Stern had an "addiction" problem as well.

Meanwhile, Rosie let fellow comedienne Margaret Cho express her thoughts on Smith's death, posting Cho's own blog posting about the matter on rosie.com. In it, Cho compared Smith to "ripe summer peaches hot from the sun, or rice pudding made from grains boiled for over a day on the stove," and called her "the most beautiful woman I had ever seen."



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61. Rosie has too much to say about everyone - she should keep her mouth shout. Shes ignorant and rude.

Posted at 6:54PM on Feb 12th 2007 by me

62. She is a FAT A@@!!!!! Why is she still on TV. I have never, nor will I ever watch anything she is on. I don't care what it is. I hate her, she is a loud mouth jealous loser!

Posted at 6:07PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Les

63. Rosie is a pig and a stupid one at that. If it is a comedian then it is not funny. The only thing funny about that stupid pig is how it has remained on television. The pig must have made a pact with Pig Satan.

Posted at 6:09PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Rich

64. I'm assuming most of the posters didn't watch the show. TMZ took 5 seconds from a lengthy heart-felt discussion. What Rosie was saying is that we as a people need to take the blinders off and stop pretending people are not self destructing right before our very eyes. You have to be absolutely braindead to not see ANS had a substance abuse problem. We need to stop pretending there's not something wrong with Paula Abdul, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Nicole Ritchie, and Paris Hilton. These people are screaming for help, but yet we use them for our amusement and the media pays them good money to display their disfunction in front of our eyes. Rosie is the only one saying there's a problem in our culture, and yet some idiots criticize her for having common sense and speaking the truth.

Posted at 7:08PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Satan

65. I think the view are nothing but a bunch of talentless cruel women who have no right to judge anyone because none of them are prefect or have half of the willpower or drive to transform their weight. Look at Rosie for example, She has no looks, talent, or heart and is obvious jealous of Anna Nicole. Karma will pay her back for her dispalys of public cruelty. I wish they would fir her from the View and black ball her from television and see how cocky she is after that but misery loves company.

Posted at 8:01PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Sheryl

66. Rosie is a mean, mean ,mean person!!She is a loud mouth!!I stopped watching the view when she came on cause she is annoying to me.People need to stop talking mean about someone who is not here to defend their self!!RIP ANNA!!

Posted at 1:10AM on Feb 17th 2007 by Sarah

67. Rosie needs Overeaters Anonymous. She is as spiritually bankrupt as ANS was...just in a different way. I hope she can commit to the program soon and find some relief from her own pain and suffering.

Posted at 8:59PM on Feb 12th 2007 by patty cake

68. I hope the police will watch Howard Stein. this man is wired. He is Crazy. I still believe that this man have something to do with this two family. when a man wanted to dominate a woman, he will isolate you with your closest friends including family members. Ana, has been taken drugs long time ago including her son why all of a sudden this people are dying like chicken? this man have something to do with this I am sure of that. look at him, Ana was just too fine before with fans this man is sick. and he is not the father of that child. fake ass lawywer. now what? paying him millions of dollars to do interviews for his selfish reasons? believe you me this man do not have a single love for this woman. not a drop. if he loves this woman as he is claiming why he did not help her during this disater by making her go for at least a therapy or something. Howard try to give that child to larry you stupid selfish broke ass lawyer.

Posted at 9:38PM on Feb 12th 2007 by queen

69. I just love how people here who obviously haven’t seen/heard the conversations in question in their entirety still think they are perfectly justified in spouting off with their mean-spirited, ignorant opinions. It’s such a sad commentary about what is happening in our society. Ever decreasing attention spans and tabloids paying for interviews and stories (never mind worrying about pesky little things like facts) and pandering to the lowest common denominator have led to an ever growing number of ignorant fools that actually believe they are getting all the information they need about a person or a topic from a 15 second sound bite taken out of context and very often heavily edited. I love those people almost as much as the ones that insist they don’t watch The View since Rosie joined the show because they don’t like her and then proceed to rant on and on about how she’s ruining the show and how terrible it is now etc etc. You can’t have it both ways. If you don’t watch then you really can’t comment on her performance, now can you? For your own sakes, get your facts straight folks before you open your big (too often vile and homophobic) yaps and prove your profound ignorance.

Not always, but certainly much of the time, Rosie is saying (in her admittedly sometimes aggressive manner) exactly what vast numbers of other people are also saying about a given current event. The only difference is she has a public platform where it is HER JOB to express her opinions. It’s not as though she’s out there volunteering her unsolicited opinions to any available microphone. Is she not supposed to notice the same things the rest of us do? Rosie certainly wasn’t the first person or the only person to notice that Anna Nicole’s bizarre antics over the years evidenced a woman clearly in trouble and heading for disaster in one way or another, or that no one in a position to do so seemed willing or able to intervene. Nor was Rosie the first or only person to wonder exactly why it was we were all being subjected to the unfolding train wreck that appeared to be the life of ANS every other day. If not for the sad irony of Anna Nicole’s sudden passing on the same day Rosie just happened to mention her name as an example of the obsession with useless "news" stories that distract from what's really going on in the world, no one would have given what Rosie said a second thought except to agree with her. Same with the Paula Abdul question. Why does Rosie get called out for saying EXACTLY the same things being said all over the country by anyone remotely aware of the story? It’s completely hypocritical and totally unfair.

She may make me cringe on occasion, but I think Rosie's great. I much prefer her straight forward, calls-them-as-she-sees-them ways to the usual fare of hyper-PC people that, out of fear, never, ever give a straight answer to anything and never say anything at all interesting or revealing. I think Rosie has been a breath of fresh air to that show and the through the roof ratings prove that a lot of other folks think so too.

Posted at 10:06PM on Feb 12th 2007 by LThompson

70. Listen to all of you accusing Howard K. Stern as THE murderer of both Anna and her son. Where is the proof he gave the 20 year old man of Anna's the drugs he died from? He had just came from L.A. DUH? No proof of murder there. Howard Stern Loved and loves Anna, She even appeared much more classy with him lately. In case you don't know NO ONE told Anna what to do. NO ONE! She was out dropping straight shots at the Hardrock til the wee hours of the Morning, Howard went to check on the boat..he wasn't even at the hotel when she died. God rest her sweet soul. You never see Howard wasted in any of those photos..always trying to guard and protect Anna and her son. He had been in her life many years...AT HER SUGGESTION! DUH! No one stayed around Anna that she did not want too. HINT: her Mother or should I say her so-called disgusting Mother...and Anna would turn over in her grave if her Mother got custody of the baby girl. If you want to blame someone...blame all the media that hounded her night and day!!!!!!!! If it wasn't for Howard she would have gone off the deep end sooner. Think about it. Howard is doing exactly what Anna Nicole Smith wanted...carrying out her wishes. It is obvious that he truly loved her. Probably the only man that really does. She was no dummy...she went after what she wanted and GOT it. She was very smart..just acted dumb in that reality show. She
I miss and am very sad she had to die, she was just coming into her own...a complete woman.

Posted at 1:05AM on Feb 13th 2007 by Kalona

71. Rosie calls it as she sees it, and sadly, she is right on about Anna Nicole Smith. I blame her attorney for not intervening over the drug usage. Maybe the reason could be he wanted her like this........there was a method to his madness.

Posted at 11:01PM on Feb 12th 2007 by Denise

72. Regardless of how many of us feel about Rosie O'Donnell, let's remember that there is an innocent 5 month old child out there who doesn't belong to anyone right now! Her mother is dead and her father has yet to be determned. My heart goes out to that poor little angel. I don't much care for Rosie myself, but for now, my prayers are with little DanniLynn. I'm sure she misses her Mommy and to have someone as UGLY and greedy as Howard K. Stern claiming to be her father, oh my God! That's what gets me about these stars; they f**k around, get knocked up and then decide to play games with the life of the innocent who they carry! Do they not realize that these children will grow up someday and feel like crap because their mother screwed around so much!

Please pray for little DanniLynn. Anna Nicole is dead, may she rest in peace, because she certainly left a mess for her baby behind. If Howard K. Stern were any kind of attorney, he would have INSISTED that Anna Nicole make out some kind of will naming him as her baby's legal guardian, regardless of whether or not he is the father. I think the dude is in it for the money. He doesn't care one iota about that poor little girl. And by the way, isn't it strange that he was present when both Anna Nicole AND her son Daniel passed away? Coincidence? I think not!

So forget Rosie for the time being, pray for the baby that was left behind with all this crap to have to deal with later in life. God bless the child.

Posted at 1:46AM on Feb 13th 2007 by Lilly_Sneech

73. I'm tired of Rosie's yammering. I quit watching the View a LONG time ago. the only time i hear about the View is when that fatass slob crotch eating bitch goes off on her own views. The show has become Rosie's View. I couldnt give a crap what she has to say, and i hated her when she had her own show. I truly wish something bad would happen to her like it has to all of the people she bitches about. She's had it way too easy.

Posted at 12:41AM on Feb 13th 2007 by debi

74. poster above me. She was just coming into her own? a complete woman? good lord. She was almost 40. She couldnt raise her own son without being loaded half the time (or all of the time) anyone in the 'real' world would have lost custody of her kid. she needed to grow the hell up. and howard k? he's a letch. when was the last time he actually was anything BUT a wanna be hub to anna nicole?

Posted at 1:11AM on Feb 13th 2007 by debi

75. Wake Up people what rosie is using I s called a Metaphor which means Anna's FAME was large like A balloon!

If you dont have the right people around you to hold the strings to ensure you dont go off course and loose balance like addiction to alcohol, having people around you a tight nit group you can trust.

Everbody Is shocked about Anna!

She was the Media punching bag and now I am sure everyone is feeling It now! Someone could have helped her! :(

Posted at 1:46AM on Feb 13th 2007 by Townsend Agency!!!!!!

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