I don't watch The View. I tend to avoid it whenever possible, unless there was a celebrity on there I happened to want to see interviewed by four women who tend to speak more than the person they happen to be interviewing.



I can appreciate the concept of the program, as a feminist, but as a woman I am generally turned off by the incessant cackling that takes place in the shape of important discussion.



Had it not been for Rosie O'Donnell's inclusion into the panel I probably wouldn't even know about any of their current topics.  Not because I tuned in, but because I couldn't have avoided the subject even if I wanted to.



Casting someone like Rosie O'Donnell was shrewd. I'm not convinced that her role was not made clear at the onset, and her personality given free reign to create as much controversy as possible to draw viewers to the show.



Because even though many people bitch about her presence there, many still watched the show.  This was not unlike that moron who staged a "hunger strike" in protest of Sanjaya Malakar's continuing success on American Idol.  Controversy creates buzz.  Buzz creates an audience.



I only caught a couple of skirmishes between Ro and Ms. Elizabeth Hasselbeck, reason number one I will not endure that show on any long term basis. There's not enough Prozac in the world for me to subject myself to her self admitted closed mindedness.



It's not that I can't tolerate another point of view. It's just I cannot tolerate other points of view that cannot tolerate my point of view. The kind of rhetoric she regurgitated in the few segments I've happened to witness sound as though they come straight out of the pages of an Ann Coulter Right Wing Handbook on how to deal with "The Liberal Agenda".



If you're going to engage me in a debate, have the cajones to think for yourself, rather than repeat - almost verbatim - what you've been told to think along the Party Line.



Yet, I do not blame Elizabeth for Rosie's departure. Rather, I blame Rosie herself.



If you're going to be the Liberal voice in a diverse panel of commentators, it doesn't do our cause justice when you act in such a way it can be perceived as a raving lunatic.



I'm one of those weird Liberals who believe that any extreme point of view is counter productive.



As evidenced by the fact that she will now exit the panel and any level headed discourse is going to have to come from wise cracking Joy Behar.



God help us.



It is my hope that another Progressive/Liberal will be included in Rosie's stead. Note to Barbara Walters, I am available.



Provided you have a good medical benefits package with a hefty and "liberal" prescription plan.