Debbie Woodell | Rosie, heavy on the thorns

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, May, 2007

WILL THE REAL Rosie O'Donnell please stand up?

Is it the out-and-proud Rosie who runs cruises for gay parents and their kids, or is it the woman who makes a spectacle of herself with obscene gestures and comments about rich white guys?

Is it the Rosie who tells us to go easy on Paris Hilton because she herself has driven while drunk, or Rosie the structural engineer, who can scrutinize the collapse of World Trade Center building No. 7 on 9/11 ("it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved")?

The one thing she shouldn't be is Rosie the Spokeslesbian, because she doesn't speak for me.

I can count on one hand the times I've watched "The View," with or...