Investor’s Business Daily March 30, 2007

Crackpot 9/11 conspiracy theories are usually deemed beneath the dignity of network television. With Rosie O’Donnell now promoting the fringe, how embarrassed are ABC and Barbara Walters willing to be?

Since joining ABC’s all-female talk show “The View” last year, comedienne and film star O’Donnell has exchanged insults with Donald Trump, and been labeled a bigot by Catholic League president William Donohue for what he called her “relentless and profoundly ignorant attacks on the Catholic Church and its teachings.” According to O’Donnell “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam.”

Famed interviewer Walters, co-host and co-owner of “The View,” and ABC might tolerate that kind of controversy. But will they accept her promotion of 9/11 conspiracy schemes?Last week, O’Donnell said the collapse of the 7 World Trade Center building “defies physics” because “it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved.”

In a post on her Web site, she ranted last month about how 7 WTC “contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron’s), U.S. Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon Smith Barney, the mayor’s office of emergency management and many other financial institutions,” not to mention “the U.S. Secret Service’s largest field office with more than 200 employees.”

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