April 06, 2007

Jonah Goldberg on Rosie O'Donnell on National Review Online

Jonah Goldberg on Rosie O'Donnell on National Review Online:

Renowned metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell proclaimed on TV last Thursday that Sept. 11, 2001, was a more significant date than most of us realized. It was, in her words, “the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.”

This, of course, came as news to steelworkers, blacksmiths, firefighters, manufacturers of samurai swords, and other fools who hadn’t realized that steel is forged in magic furnaces using dragon breath and pixie dust.

O’Donnell made this and other profoundly stupid comments on the daytime talk show The View, ABC’s update of the ancient practice of women chattering around the village well