Binside TV: BARBARA WALTERS BASHES ROSIE O'DONNELL ON THE VIEW

Barbara Walters lashed out at her former View co-hosts and aimed a specific comment at Rosie O'Donnell who has been telling everyone that people aren't friends behind the scenes of the View. Star Jones spoke out about her treatment on The View in the November issue of Essence magazine. “Those girls were hateful,” Jones says of her former co-hosts. source

Watch Barbara blow a gasket on the View. The fallout from this is probably going to be pretty big. There are rumors of backstage bickering which reached new heights with Elisabeth Hasselbeck's screaming matches during the presidential election. Click on the image to watch Rosie's video reply to Barbara Walters on her blog.

Rosie O'Donnell's reaction videos to the feud are pretty entertaining too. Rose made light of the Barbara Walters feud during her appearance on Conan O'Brien.

Rosie O'Donnell isn't done dissing "The View." Last night on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", Rosie couldn't keep her mouth shut when it came to Barbara Walters and her co-hosts.

O'Donnell, sarcastically, informed O'Brien she "didn't have a career before the show" and she is "very thankful" for the boost the show gave her career. Before her brief stint Walter's ABC talk show, Rosie won multiple Emmys for her own "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." The days of flying Koosh balls and The Queen of Nice are long gone.

The root of this whole beef? Babs is angry over Rosie's claims that Walters sugarcoats the relationships between the ladies of "The View." Rosie told Conan, "She now loaths me. I still do enjoy her... I'm not sure I'm going to be a guest on that show again." source

It’s Rosie O’Donnell vs. Barbara Walters, and sorry: Rosie will get the last laugh.

O’Donnell is set to take TV by storm next Wednesday when she debuts her "Rosie Live" show on NBC at 8pm. The live variety show — which will undoubtedly get a lot of press and viewers — is a try-out for Rosie’s planned weekly "Ed Sullivan"-like show that should start by February.

But yesterday Barbara Walters, the ancient mariner of "The View," didn’t like it when Rosie spoke about her rollercoaster year on the show. Rosie’s been responding to questions about the show while doing publicity for 'Live' show. She told reporters that there isn’t a lot of camaraderie on "The View" among the co-hosts. No kidding.

Barbara’s slick answer? She took two of the co-hosts — Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg — to dinner Wednesday night at Le Cirque. It might be the first time the three of them have been seen in public together not at an ABC event ever. Of course it was an event—a well staged one in fact considering the backstage bickering at that show that has had nothing to do with O’Donnell.

In fact, the noted absence of dopey Elizabeth Hasselbeck and loose lipped Sherri Shepherd from the Le Cirque gathering spoke volumes. Hasselbeck, a former reality TV star who’s been very lucky, fought with Walters and the others for months leading up to the recent presidential election. Shepherd has long been rumored to be on the chopping block at the show.

In fact: O’Donnell — Goldberg (whom I love) notwithstanding — brought more life to the turgid, fawning "View" in her one year than ABC could ever have hoped for. The network offered her $10 million to stay, but wanted a three year commitment. O’Donnell was wise enough to cut her losses and get out when the going was good.

"Rosie Live" should be an enormous hit if O’Donnell can keep the show tightly rehearsed and scripted, family friendly and most of all, positive in its celebration of Broadway, New York, and the arts. That isn’t to say that we won’t see the "other" Rosie — the cutting edge one. But "Rosie Live" is going to be about comedy, something she excels at. source