Rosie O'Donnell Defends Fonda, Condemns Bush

Rosie O'Donnell apparently wants to give a little gas to one of her many careers.

O'Donnell has been a standup comic, TV talk show host, magazine publisher and Broadway star, but now she's acting in movies again.

You may have seen Rosie recently in the made-for-TV film "Riding the Bus with My Sister." In it, she portrays a developmentally challenged woman.

While on a promo tour for the flick, O'Donnell took time out to come to the defense of Jane Fonda and her traitorous Vietnam conduct.

Rosie related a tale to Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera about how when she "was a kid and the Vietnam War was on," Fonda was "the only person standing up and saying what every kid that was 9 years old like I was knew -- war is wrong and we shouldn't go over and kill people."

It made me wonder whether the sight of Rosie making an appearance on the supposedly arch-conservative Fox News Channel, shooting the breeze with Geraldo and heaping praise on Hanoi Jane had liberals reaching for their smelling salts.

O'Donnell continued opining militarily, saying, "You know [President Bush] invaded a sovereign nation [Iraq] in defiance of the U.N. He is basically a war criminal! He should be tried in the Hague!"

She disclosed that her publicist recommended she "stop talking about politics."

Rosie is now expressing herself through her blog. In fact she writes that she recently turned down an invitation from the "Late Show with David Letterman" because executive producer Rob Burnett had accused her of trying to steal Letterman's job.

The Left Coast Report can't say it better than Burnett's counter, "The last thing I want to do is get into a fight with a powerful celebrity who has a blog read by tens of people."