Rosie O'Donnell Compares Lindsay Lohan to Whitney Houston: Accurate or Inappropriate?

by The Big Question Posted 2012/04/27 00:30:13

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george 2012/04/27 14:12:22

Inappropriate

+9
She must really be hurting for exposure to go down that road. A more accurate comparison would be Rosie O'Donnell to a pig but that would be a huge injustice to the pig.

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Giantfighter 2012/04/29 07:26:00

Inappropriate

Both were talented & had addiction problems, so it's obviously accurate, but Rosie has a big mouth & it is inappropriate to make a comparison when it was so recent of Whitney's death & the fact that she has a daughter who may not find apprecia derrogatory comparisons about her mother, even if they are true.

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Jan Nel 2012/04/28 10:20:03

Inappropriate

Most definately not!

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BlackwinterG36C 2012/04/27 22:32:58

Inappropriate

+1
Thats not a fair comparason!! Whitney had Talent!!!

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Stef and the City 2012/04/27 20:43:53

Inappropriate

I think Donald Trump already said all there is to say about Rosie O'Donnell.

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LaiLaiHart 2012/04/27 20:22:36

Inappropriate

Whitney did crack and bobby brown. Lindsay did crack, cocaine, meth, pills........pretty much everything and everybody else. Horrible comparison.

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ღ♥ღ ℒea ღ♥ღ 2012/04/27 20:05:07

Inappropriate

anything she does is inappropriate.

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Ev Rom to ღ♥ღ ℒea... 2012/04/27 20:31:10

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She is spot on.....

Her point: Someone should have helped Houston, and someone should be helping Lohan rather than getting her back to work playing Elizabeth Taylor in "Liz & Dick."

"Watching Whitney Houston's funeral," she said, "I remember thinking, why didn't more people say what they knew? We all knew."

Chalk it up to "motherly concern," the 50-year-old O'Donnell said Wednesday on Twitter.

When "Today"host Matt Lauer had asked her Tuesday about the wisdom of casting Lohan as Taylor, Mama Grizzly O'Donnell hadn't held back: "I feel very sorry for her. I think she needs a lot of help, she needs a lot of time away.... I think she's not in a place to work."

Oh, Rosie also said she wasn't a fan of Lindsay's recent" Saturday Night Live" turn either. As a matter of fact, according to Ro, "The last thing she did good, she was 16." (The one time O'Donnell met Lohan, she said Thursday, was for an interview on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" around the time of the 1998 film "The Parent Trap." Lindsay was in the neighborhood of 12 years old at that time.)

That said, O'Donnell appears to have faith in the girl, according to a Wednesday blog post that she closed rather kindly: "lindsay lohan is worth saving / she is the only one who can do it / before it is 2 late / i hope she can finds her value ...

She is spot on.....

Her point: Someone should have helped Houston, and someone should be helping Lohan rather than getting her back to work playing Elizabeth Taylor in "Liz & Dick."

"Watching Whitney Houston's funeral," she said, "I remember thinking, why didn't more people say what they knew? We all knew."

Chalk it up to "motherly concern," the 50-year-old O'Donnell said Wednesday on Twitter.

When "Today"host Matt Lauer had asked her Tuesday about the wisdom of casting Lohan as Taylor, Mama Grizzly O'Donnell hadn't held back: "I feel very sorry for her. I think she needs a lot of help, she needs a lot of time away.... I think she's not in a place to work."

Oh, Rosie also said she wasn't a fan of Lindsay's recent" Saturday Night Live" turn either. As a matter of fact, according to Ro, "The last thing she did good, she was 16." (The one time O'Donnell met Lohan, she said Thursday, was for an interview on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" around the time of the 1998 film "The Parent Trap." Lindsay was in the neighborhood of 12 years old at that time.)

That said, O'Donnell appears to have faith in the girl, according to a Wednesday blog post that she closed rather kindly: "lindsay lohan is worth saving / she is the only one who can do it / before it is 2 late / i hope she can finds her value - off camera / and then - when she returns - on camera / she will wow us all / once more."

I came to admire Rosie after her Howard Stern interview, how can people give their nasty opinions about her when it is clear they don't listen to her?

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Ev Rom to Ev Rom 2012/04/27 20:32:18 (edited)

This is one of the best interviews, she is honest open and made me a fan.

I suggest you listen to both parts and maybe you will come to see and understand why she is the way she is, she mothers people because hers died. That is not a bad thing.

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Ev Rom 2012/04/27 20:03:16 (edited)
MOMMA THOMAS 2012/04/27 19:43:05

Inappropriate

TOO DIFFERENT TO BE ACCURATE...

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Freeranger 2012/04/27 19:27:55 (edited)

Accurate

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Accurate, yet in different ways.

As for Lohan, the reason she acts like such as douche is for attention. She wants a meaningful role in film......she's not worked in anything really of any import-----and like the recalcitrant child or the squeaky wheel, you get grease based on need, only, no one's really been lubricating her.

Houston's demise is the greatest tragedy and I find myself shocked more than anyone that I nod my head to O'Donell and her big mouth for not coddling to Houston's fans in glossing over her drug & alchohol addiction, rather, acknowledging what others were too polite to say.
The tragic difference is that Houston was a woman who's talent and charisma shot her to the top, and were it not for her addictions, she could have continued a long career.

Where the comparison meets a fork in the road is attention vs. addiction. Lohan, decidedly less talented, acts out for to be noticed, where Houston had achieved......and sadly, squandered her God-given gift, and instead chose the path of self destruction.

So much for "success." No person who has good family & friends is impoverished me thinks.

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Stan Kapusta 2012/04/27 19:19:11

Inappropriate

Is there such a thing as making someone go back into the closet? Sorry Rosie I don't think anybody cares.

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heartsonfire 2012/04/27 19:16:08

Inappropriate

I think it's really inappropriate. Whitney didn't even pass away that long ago. Rosie has a very big mouth and really needs to stfu. This is just a way for her to stay relevant since her show was cancelled.

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dianne615 2012/04/27 18:48:50

Accurate

Any person, rich, poor, black or white with more talent in their fingernail, than the average person but can’t see pass the drugs that control them needs a verbal wake up slap. For me if you hooked on drugs you’re in the same small boat with the rest of them. Drugs don’t care what color, shape status you are and if the younger celebrities can just stop a look at what drugs have done to so many of the idols, maybe there’s hope.

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cjd 2012/04/27 18:37:30

Inappropriate

usual for Rosie

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mae 2012/04/27 18:23:13

Accurate

+2
Lindsay is pretty, talented, and also pretty self-destructive. She's also coming up on her 27th Bday in 2013--remember the deaded 27th year, and how many talented, self-destructive rising stars have taken their lives in their 27th year due to drugs and ETOH?She has lots of people working behind the scenes to help her through the years to come, but if she really decides to do return to drugs and alcohol, she will. Nobody can stop a determined addict but the addict themself.

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the jud... to mae 2012/04/27 18:36:17 (edited)

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Could not have written it better.Forgot the 27 year curse. And now reports of a Glee meltdown.

http://www.usmagazine.com/ent...

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mae to the jud... 2012/04/27 18:39:18

I have not heard about that--what happened?

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the jud... to mae 2012/04/27 18:45:27

+1
heard she showed up at Glee & was not coopertive,late,and other things.

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mae to the jud... 2012/04/27 18:49:46

Good Lord. so sad. She is reminding me of the British singer who they found dead last year in her apartment, after finally getting cleaned up.

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the jud... to mae 2012/04/27 18:50:41

+1
Amy Winehouse.

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mae to the jud... 2012/04/27 18:54:29 (edited)

Yes--I haven't had a cup of coffee yet, so the synapses are kinda slow--thanks for Amy's name, and Thanks for your rapid replies and good punctuation and spelling ; )

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the jud... to mae 2012/04/27 19:02:41

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Thanks. if you wnt to read about Lindsay check the link on my answer above.

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Ev Rom to mae 2012/04/27 20:07:11

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Everyone saw this coming and people cheered Amy on to her death. If you listen to Rosie on her radio show people would know that she has a big heart and her nature is of a nurturing mother, she has a need to be a mother and treats people like that, she doesn't say it out of hate or ratings she says because she doesn't want to see this kid die,

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mae to Ev Rom 2012/04/28 03:39:07

I've been a Rosie fan since her earlist days on TV and in Movies. You are right. She has taken an interest in Brittney Spears, and now, Lindsay Lohan. Rosie is very mothering. I hope she has some influence on Lindsay. I have not dissed or disagreed with Rosie.

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Margaret Jacobson 2012/04/27 18:08:49

Inappropriate

+1
WHITNEY IS DEAD,.........Lohan is just plain STUPID AND VERY TROUBLED........EX -DISNEY MOUSEKETEER............Seems like they ALL have problems

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the jud... to Margare... 2012/04/27 18:37:26

And whitney was not. Prescibed drugs & cocaine & DENIAL.

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Huntclan 2012/04/27 18:08:39

Inappropriate

They are different colors.

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Jessica 2012/04/27 18:08:35

Inappropriate

Rosie, Rosie Rosie... MAN you need a smack in the face for saying that.

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davyd god loving patriot 2012/04/27 17:51:19

Inappropriate

she would do anything to get a lap in, I thought she had the hots for older women, Hillary, Oprah, Barbara, etc. Typical liberal lesbian..............

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cherryphi 2012/04/27 17:48:27

Inappropriate

+1
Consider the source.

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Aqua Surf 2012/04/27 17:38:11

Inappropriate

Big Rosie, a whale who needs to be beached. She and that Garafalo thang need some SuperGlue Lipstick.

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fcombs 2012/04/27 17:37:38

Inappropriate

I think comparisons are usually inappropriate because they are different people with different lives and different problems.

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Edensasp 2012/04/27 17:32:48

Accurate

Rosie's opinion is her own. and mine is mine.... and yours is yours.

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the_old_coach 2012/04/27 17:29:04

Accurate

+2
And I NEVER agree with Rosie...like they say, there is an exception to every rule...

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MiinaNiemi03 2012/04/27 17:22:40

Inappropriate

The only room Rosie O'Donnel has to talk, is about the size of a small closet. That's as far as her words should be allowed to travel.

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JERSEYDUDE 2012/04/27 17:18:19

Inappropriate

+3
accurate but inappropriate

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Bibliophilic 2012/04/27 17:16:47

Accurate

+4
When a woman says something that we dislike let's all attack her appearance and her sexuality. So what if she's chubby and a lesbian? STFU and get a life.

Her comparison is apt imho.

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fairiefang -annoying fashio... 2012/04/27 17:13:25

Inappropriate

Houston may have had issues....but at least she also had talent. Lindsay does not. Her biggest reason for being so well known is the fact that she's so f**ked up and does idiotic things for attention.

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