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January 22, 2007

On Rosie O'Donnell And James Joyce

Topics: Human Interest

We all have seen all the circus surrounding Rosie O'Donnell and her antics at The View, the last of which has been her exchanges with Donald Trump. Now, I'm no fan of the Donald, but let's face it, as always, hateful Rosie started it. If she dishes it out, then Rosie should be "man" enough to take it...as she so often proclaims in her lesbian, ballsy, bravado.

The Donald has only been the last in a long line of people, religious views, values, etc. which Rosie has virulently attacked, gratuitously, regularly on The View at will, shielding herself behind the "Carte Blanche" of her supposedly being a "commedienne" (don't make me laugh) and uttering such attacks as supposedly comedic vehicles; though for the life of me, I can't remember anything Rosie has said, any situations and or monologues of hers that have ever been even remotely funny, other than disgustingly pathetic!

But, what has struck me about her and the influence her Irish background has had on her life in spite of herself, having read James Joyce at length, is how much she resembles some of Joyce's tormented characters in his books, and the hold that stern, Irish Catholic teaching seems to have had on her; even if in reverse, if just in prompting her reactionary, rebellious, excessive, hate-mongering, gratuitous, sacrilegious behavior, her unnatural sexual aberrations, and all her destructive self-loathing.

She must be haunted by dreams of the imaginative hellfire of her ancestral Irish forbears, and just like Joyce's characters, see in retrospection how repugnant an abomination and worthy of that hellfire of her stern Catholic teachers she sees herself to be in her own inner eyes!

And what does she do? She rebels. She becomes a scandal mongerer and a purveyor of all that is hateful and perverse. She proclaims publicly conservative Christianity to be as dangerous as murderous Islam, becomes a rabid activist against all forms of religious expression, and proclaim her abnormal sexual inclinations to be the new accepted social norm conducive to the new godless, secularist, "family order" where anything goes!

Rosie may loudmouth, bully, and offend as much as she pleases in The View, and in other venues that give such hateful garbage a platform to advance the secularist agenda, but I am sure in the back of her mind a little Irish voice still reminds her of what an abomination she's become to the very beliefs of her forebears, and her own eyes cannot deceive her, but see the abhorrent, hateful image of what she has become every time she looks into a mirror. Donald may not have been very gallant in his stark assessment of Rosie, but he sure was right about her being a slob by any aesthetic standards, and even worse inside!

Something else the Donald is right about, and which incidentally is part of many of the internal tragedies in Joyce's characters, is how eventually Rosie will come around to self-destructing herself, her career, and eventually wind-up, even if but in her own mind and perception, finally immolating herself and burning in that Irish hellfire she so repudiates and wishes to disbelieve, but that yet so allures her like a moth to flame, and burn in hell as she so rightly, inwardly, feels she deserves.

Sad, though there will be very few tears shed for her, and many will in sooth say "good riddance" to finally be done with all her venom.

Posted by Althor at January 22, 2007 6:06 PM

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