I believe they actually wanted her. The ratings of The View have been higher since Rosie joined than ever before. Everyone I know that actually watches started watching after Rosie joined. When Rosie leaves, what's left, some middle aged, conservative farts sitting and bitching about how America is immoral and the Bush administration is the only thing standing between us and oblivion.

Eli is far from middle aged and Joy and Baba Wawa are far from conservative.

Rosie is annoying.

Then why make it three years or nothing? Sign her for another year and hope that she'll stay on after that. If they really wanted her, they wouldn't have insisted on three years -- they would have taken what they could get.

My money is on they're glad to see her go, but they don't want to come out and say that.

Eli is old before her time, that or incredibly naive. Joy and Barbara are def. conservative, maybe not as far right as Eli, but they aren't liberal. Walters has a love of Murdoch!

Joy is conservative compared to who? Howard Dean?

Joy Behar is on the record as being pro-same-sex marriage and opposed to the Iraq war, has called the Bush Administration a bunch of "liars and murderers," and claimed that Sen. Tim Johnson's health problems just might be part of a Republican conspiracy to retake control of the Senate, saying "I know what that Party is capable of."

That's your idea of a conservative?

Happy Dance that she is leaving! i cannot stand her loud mouth, bitter ,and mean comments about everything and anything! I will start watching again once she is gone but in the mean time Happy Dance!!!!!!!

ROTFL! I knew I wasn't the only one getting on the "good foot."

But I still won't be watching the show after she's gone. It remains utterly wack.

Rosie and I both can't stand D-Hair.

I don't Joy (boy, was she misnamed!); I hate when someone is saying something and then Joy has to open her big mouth and make a sexual comment. Give it a rest! If you want all the laugshs, go back to standup all the time.

Eliz -- okay...

Barbie -- okay....

It's interesting I can get all the Atlanta channels except Channel 2 (ABC) on my little handheld tv and my tv/radio in certain places.

I don't know if ABC wanted to keep her or not.

But for those who are celebrating, the broadcasting "trades" have at least some speculation that she (or ABC or someone else) may be working on a solo host show for her.

Or maybe they could pair her up with Don Imus. In my opinion, they both have a great face for radio.

Yes, I did. Do you believe that spinmakers exist?

Well that's that. Everyone in the world watches the show only because Rosie was on there, just because everyone you know does.

i can deal with rosie on her own show - i actually like her most of the time. i just hated her interaction with the other hosts on The View. It hasn't been the same show for a long time (which isn't rosie's fault).

I'm just trying to reiterate that the ratings for the veiw have been higher since rosie joined, and they will probably drop when she leaves. Read much?

Yes, causation obviously equals correlation . . . or you could, y'know, listen to what other people are telling you.

Selection bias much?