Thanks for the beautiful picture of Rosie O’Donnell on your Part 2 cover
of Newsday issue, 31 January 2007.
Rosie O’Donnell is a friend and role model to many people in many ways.
The Newsday article of 4 paragraphs of quotes from Montana Miller in Ohio,
who I am sure has never met Ro, and the best that the Staff Writer Denise Flaim
can compare The View then and now “as a placid estrogen pool” of the intellectual,
savvy, and successful female co-hosts, whose biggest challenge “was not sloshing their oversized coffee cups while readjusting themselves on the sofa” is an outright insult to all women and especially these women who are financially successful and appear regularly
on daytime TV.
Rosie relates to millions of women. You quote from her hometown…two women, one 56 from E. Northport who never personally knew her, and someone from Deer Park, not Ro’s home town, but just shopping in Commack. She is born and bred in Commack and
has risen above all of the negative and positive things that are part of her life. She is an
excellent softball player and in 8th grade was on the winning team of the Girls Athletic
League (GAL-Smithtown) in the final playoffs. She was a leader in her highschool and Senior Class President. She was a natural in the movie “League of her Own.”
The View is a unique program. I see no 4 men co-hosts who have successfully risen to a male program equal to it.
Leave the girls alone. If men voiced similar opinions (they would not be called “antics”).
In America there does not exist an “Old Girls Club” that will ever match the likes of
“The Old Boys Club.”

Carolyn Gehlbach
Commack New York