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ROSIE O’DONNELL STICKS UP FOR FRENCHIE: ‘View’ host says ‘Idol’ producers are racist for booting Davis while leaving tone-deaf Barba.
*On Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” co-host Rosie O’Donnell said she thought “American Idol” producers were down right racist for allowing white contestant Antonella Barba to remain on the show despite her presence in racy photos, while previous African American contestant Frenchie Davis was given the boot for her appearance on a porn Web site.
“I think it’s racist, I really do,” Rosie said of “Idol’s” perceived double standard. “I think it’s because she’s black that they kicked her off.”
Co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck countered: “Is it because Antonella…she’s hot?”
“Well then [the show is] weight-ist too,” Rosie said.
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Rosie O'Donnell
Commenting on Frenchie’s fuller figure, co-host Joy Behar chimed in: “But there are people who go for Frenchie’s type. I mean [race] is really not relevant.”
Rosie fired back: “One girl is nude on the Internet, she gets kicked off the show and she’s humiliated and disgraced and limps away with her tail between her legs. And the other girl is still on. Can’t sing a note, by the way.”
See clip of exchange, courtesy of TMZ.com: http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1862800
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