Celebrity Feuds
Rosie Calls O'Reilly an "Imbecile," Murdoch "Big Brother"

Posted Apr 2nd 2007 8:10AM by TMZ Staff

Rosie O'Donnell spat back at conservative talk-show pugilist Bill O'Reilly after he called for her firing from ABC last week, comparing him to a character in George Orwell's "1984" who is "a fattish ... man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms."

She didn't reserve her fire for O'Reilly, however. On her blog at Rosie.com, Ro accused O'Reilly of being a totalitarian puppet of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, as she put it, in her lower-case verse, "like 1984/molding the facts/2 suit the needs/of big brother rupert." And Rosie also revealed that when she and co-host Joy Behar made reference on "The View" to a sex scandal involving O'Reilly, they were told they had to can it about O'Reilly or else "bill o would 'go after' all the hosts" of their show.

Rosie Gets PhysicalWell, Bill O. did go after Ro at least, as TMZ noted last week, calling Rosie "nutty" and "irresponsible" and suggesting that ABC should oust her from the show. Rosie went all literary-nasty on O'Reilly, comparing him to Parsons, a fellow employee of protagonist Winston Smith, whom Orwell says is "one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended."

Response from O'Reilly is awaited.

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1. You make me sick! Barf!

Posted at 10:29AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by California Dreamin

2. OH yes she will either be fired or not return after her contract is up
And I pray she does not get her own show.

Posted at 10:30AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Andrew

3. Bill O'Reilly is one of the very worst people in the world. Everyone needs to be reminded that he's a pervert who loves his phone sex just a little too much.

Posted at 10:31AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by HerpesHilton

4. what a BITCH, rosie go home, raise your kids, and SHUT UP! the veiw should get rid of you. you have caused many people to leave the veiw. get the hell out of dodge.

Posted at 10:33AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by pattie

5. Typical BS from the "blubber-mouth" queen of really bad PR.

Posted at 10:33AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Lee

6. It was a little awkward to see watch Rosie go on about a conspiracy theory. But it is The View and it is hers! Bill O can have his opinion too. There's room in America for everyone's opinion!

Posted at 10:35AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Just an opinion

7. I wish they would both disappear.

Posted at 10:35AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Rita

8. I can't stand either one of these blowharts.

Posted at 10:36AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Dottie

9. It just never ends does it. Ratings must be low for Fox News to come up with this one. Bill O has been a joke for years. Why do we listen to what he has to say? I may not always agree with Rosie, but I never agree with Bill O. How many people have gone round and round with Bill O? Lot's. He's loud and obnoxious and why Fox has him there, I don't know. If people respond to him, it's more of a platform for him. Just don't respond to him. Let Him Go!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 10:38AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Rick

10. If you do not like Rosie, stop watching. O'Reilly thinks he can say anything but let a women have an opinion he does not agree with and that horribe, mean mouth flys open. And you people all bite.

Posted at 10:39AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by CINDY

11. Somebody please tell her there's a difference between social controversy and intellectual constipation.

Posted at 10:39AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Lee

12. She is a nut case & hanging upside down isn't going to help get rid of her anger. She needs to be fired. I've never liked Rosie.

Posted at 10:40AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Molly

13. Rosie's quote about Bill O'Reilly is a better description of herself than it is of him!

Posted at 10:40AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Canucki

14. rosie is a bully - she has taken over the view and those ladies that have been there for years can't get a word in edgewise

i dont have a problem with her opinion, everyone deserves a laugh, but she shoves it at you like you are stupid. some of the nonsense that comes out of her mouth is ridiculous - bush burnt up buildings and in his short 8 months in office he came up with this big plan and with the help of his "bad boys" made it happen!! get real

it is okay to disagree with your president, but it is not okay to trash them. i hope when her children are teenagers and they dont agree with her, that they bash, trash and totally disrespect her. honor thy mother and father does not have to apply when you are a know it all.

too bad she's such an idiot because she can be a real hoot!!!

Posted at 10:41AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Moe - no relation

15. Can ya'll just imagine how very warped her children are going to be--how will they ever fit into society!

Posted at 10:41AM on Apr 2nd 2007 by concerned!

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