Rosie O'Donnell took offense to her former "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck's comments about the Black Lives Matter movement. Earlier this week Hasselbeck, a conservative TV personality, suggested that the movement was just a hate group.
O'Donnell, a passionate supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, did not agree with Hasselbeck's comments and shared her thought on the matter on Twitter.
"Hasselbeck asked, 'Kevin, why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group? ...' some r slow 2 wake," the comedian wrote.
Hasselbeck asked, “Kevin, why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group? ..." some r slow 2 wake
— Rosie (@Rosie) August 31, 2015
On Monday's episode of "Fox and Friends" Hasselbeck and commentator Kevin Jackson discussed the death of a police deputy in Texas by an African-American suspect. "Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?," she asked Jackson, according to the Daily Mail. "I mean, how much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?" Hasselbeck took to Twitter to defend and explain the comments she made on the Fox News show. "My question was NOT my opinion it was for my guest & was @ the St Paul group (NOT entire BLM) calling for cops to be 'fried like bacon,'" she wrote.
My question was NOT my opinion it was for my guest & was @ the St Paul group (NOT entire BLM) calling for cops to be "fried like bacon". — elisabeth hasselbeck (@ehasselbeck) September 1, 2015
Hasselbeck's words were not the first time she came under fire, reported the New York Daily News. In July, she suggested that Sandra Bland, who died in jail of an apparent suicide following an altercation with police in Texas, possibly threatened the cops. Last year, she was blasted when she compared the NFL domestic abuse scandals to the Obama administration's handling of the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American Consulate in Libya.
O'Donnell and Hasselback have had a long history of political disagreements steaming from an epic 2007 battle when they were both co-hosts on "The View."
