Is Rosie Hitting Home With Women?

I don't know the answer to that, but I was startled when I noticed what was going on at some of the blogs using the Rosie O'Donnell tags at Technorati.

Judith Howard of Seek Answers writes:

Rosie O’Donnell just blatantly exposed Building 7 at the World Trade Centre – 9/11 on The View. It is so refreshing to see intelligent conversation on important issues. Now Rosie is under fire from ABC for exercising her First Amendment right to express her right to free speech.

And there have been others before Rosie like Bill Maher for expressing his opposition to the Iraq War and the network axed his show “Politically Incorrect”. Phil Donahue spoke out against the Iraq war and lost his show too, who like Bill and Rosie were expressing his First Amendment right.

For the 1,000th time, free speech does not mean your employer cannot fire you or people cannot protest against if they don't like what you're saying. It just means the government cannot arrest you if they don't like what you're saying. And Maher got in trouble for comments he made even before the war in Afghanistan started.

The 13 Graces (which certainly appears to be written by a woman) says:

Well…it’s not that I’m a huge Rosie fan, although I respect her shutzpuh. It’s because someone who has access to a huge audience has finally (thankyouLawd) brought up 9/11 in a way that makes sense. And (perhaps finally), the Truth shall set U.S. free.

Ironically, it’s in the ’sense’ that incited my brother to tell me I had lost my mind a year ago, when I attempted to bring up the subject at Easter Dinner. Ah, well. I take comfort in the fact that Jesus was called demon possessed and insane by the same sort of upstanding and ‘holy’ folk of His day, too.

:) Comparing yourself to Jesus?

God is a Dyke (yikes!) says:

O'Donnell, basically stated (implied) that 9/11 was an 'inside job'. The World Trade Center was brought down to ruin by the Bush Administration, in order to start a war and to cover up the Enron Scandal. I don't find this hard to believe.

I'm the Loud One sounds off:

Rosie is saying what all the other media cowards won't say. The Glenn Becks, the Bill O'Reilly's, and I am sorry to say, even the Anderson Coopers. They know about all these questions and all the speculations and they won't bring them up. They are a part of the problem. They are sheepherders and the majority of the American population are sheep. Rosie is not like them and for that she is being ostracized.

In fairness, it does seem that several of these blogs are written by gals who were Deniers before Rosie came out. But I do think that Rosie is going to have a significant impact.

Yet Moron Rosie

Matt Jones covers the story well:

She makes numerous other idiotic statements, this is just one. She also challenges any physicist to come on and tell her something different. I REALLY hope someone takes her up on that offer. Until then, the fine folks at Popular Mechanics have offered up Rosie O’Donnell 9/11 Conspiracy Comments: Popular Mechanics Responds. There they shut her down.

Over at AOL, there's a poll on whether Rosie should be fired. Currently over 130,000 votes, 63% of whom voted to sack the lardbutt.

Surf Now, Apocalypse Later says:

So according to Rosie O'Donnell the British set up their own people to be kidnapped to incite another war. This nutty theory goes along with O'Donnell's contention that 9/11 was a conspiracy and that terrorists mean us no harm.

A poster over at My Pet Jawa points out that Rosie forgot about the diesel fuel tanks in WTC-7:

New York City's Emergency Control Center was located in WTC 7. The center required fuel for the emergency generators in the event of a power failure. Thus, huge fuel tanks were located on the second floor.

She also makes a point that I had not heard before:

The walkway between WTC 7 and the North Tower over Vessey street (second floor again) had huge steel trusses, about 80 feet long, that took over two weeks to put in. When the North Tower went down, these extremely heavy trusses were unsupported on one end, placing additional strain on the exterior steel columns around the second floor, which transferred the weight to the internal columns.

I'm pretty sure the pedestrian walkway just connected with the plaza level of the WTC complex; it certainly did not connect directly with the North Tower. It is however quite possible that the support on the south side of the walkway was demolished when WTC-1 collapsed and that the unsupported walkway then did put additional pressure on the building.