Going at it with The Donald didn’t get nearly enough attention, so now she’s after one of America’s sacred cows:

“It’s terribly sad to me,” O’Donnell said during a harsh six-plus minute Idol attack broadcast on Thursday morning’s The View. “I don’t think America likes to watch people be ridiculed, made fun of, and called ugly monkeys, or that they’re too fat or they’re a degenerate… it’s an absurd concept that this is what’s tolerable now as consumption in America for mass media.”

She then, of course, turned to ad hominem attacks on the judges, which makes no sense whatsoever if she wants to bring any kind of humanity back to television: O’Donnell described the judges as “three millionaires…one who’s probably intoxicated” — a reference to her previous comments that she questions what Paula Abdul drinks from her omnipresent Coca-Cola cup. “If you keep serving people crap and telling them its a meal, eventually they’re going to think it’s a meal,” said O’Donnell. “But humilation, in this capacity, of people who are obviously not able to make a decision on whether they are strong enough to handle national humilation, I dunno.”
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