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It's nice when former enemies come together and make nice. Rosie O'Donnell appeared on Howard Stern's Sirius radio show yesterday morning. She spoke about what really happened during her abrupt exit from ABC's The View last year, and offered to audition to take over the hour after Howard's program.

Way back before Rosie was out and was always talking about how she had a crush on Tom Cruise on her old talk show, Howard used to mercilessly taunt her ass. She even addressed it on her show one time to the applause of her audience. Then, as if by magic, she came out of the closet and started being really truthful and Howard seemed to develop some begrudging respect for her. Apparently, the two have buried the hatchet.

Rosie says that she wanted to leave the View because she wasn't enjoying herself, and that she didn't like the fact that she was paying someone to watch her four children. She claims that producers threatened to sue her if she left early.

An ABC flack says she's somewhat confused.

"That is completely inaccurate," a source says. "It just not true that the producers wanted to sue her." One of those "producers" would be Barbara Walters, by the way. Who just totally effed Ro over in her new memoir. They have been engaging in a subtle war of words since Rosie suggested that Babwa retire in HER memoir.

Another source supports the theory that Rosie isn't remember events accurately.

"Rosie had been rocking the boat for a while. She didn't have much time left in her contract -- there was less drama in having her go than keeping her there," another "ABC insider" says.

Rosie was her usual unafraid of controversy self, and told Howard about her 9/11 conspiracy theory. She says that the World Trade Center buildings could not have fallen on their own and that explosives must have aided in their collapsing. Oh boy.

Howard, perhaps realizing that her brand of outspoken crazy could boost the ratings on his Sirius channel, offered her an audtion.

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Rosie O’Donnell and Howard Stern ended their long feud on June 3 when O’Donnell called in to the Stern’s radio show. Among the topics they discussed were her final days of “The View,” which O’Donnell remembers differently from ABC insiders who were there.

O’Donnell started out by telling Stern she left because she wasn’t enjoying the work anymore — that she was paying people to raise her kids. O’Donnell then added that when she told the show of her decision, producers threatened to sue O’Donnell if she left.

“That is completely inaccurate,” said an ABC insider. “It just not true that the producers wanted to sue her.” (The producers, by the way, would be Barbara Walters — who didn’t get a very fair shake in O’Donnell’s memoir “Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game” — and Bill Geddes.)

Another source within the network said that O’Donnell’s version of her departure wasn’t as contentious as she recalls. “Rosie had been rocking the boat for a while. She didn’t have much time left in her contract — there was less drama in having her go than keeping her there.”

That wasn’t the only hot topic discussed. O’Donnell also maintained her stance on a possible Sept. 11 conspiracy theory. She believes the towers could not have fallen without the help of explosives. We might be in store for more of this type of discussion. O’Donnell also said that she’s been listening more to radio, and is interested in taking over the hour after Stern’s broadcast. Stern offered her an audition.

Think it was staged? O’Donnell responded to speculation in a favorite mode of communication, free-verse poetry-ish blogging: “no / we spoke once / at nobu restaurant / a year ago / that’s it.”

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ROSIE O’Donnell who just won a Blogger’s Choice Award for “best celebrity blogger” for her Web site - has been taking the videos of herself, her family and her beloved dolphins swimming in the waters in Miami with a Flip video, a hand-held, one-button camera. In fact, she has promoted the company so much, it’s now in talks with Rosie to become the camera’s spokeswoman. “She discovered Flip on her own and started blogging about it,” said the company’s rep. “We have started talking to her to see if there can be an official relationship. There was a talk two weeks ago and a talk last week. I don’t know the status yet.”

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Rosie never seems to be able to just smile for the camera, she's always making some wack face. Just show some chiclets, and stop hamming it up! Rosie O'Donnell was in talks with MSNBC to have her own show on the network but apparently someone realized that it would be too much crazy for stodgy cable primetime and nixed that idea.

n her trademark shorthand language, the controversial comedian, 45, wrote:

we were close to a deal
almost done
i let it slip in miami
causing panic on the studio end

2day there is no deal
poof
my career as a pundit is over
b4 it began

and on we go

Lindsay Lohan
has a cocaine nosejob
Her boyfriend
Seems like he might have a momogrammed bong
It's a match made in heaven
If heaven was the town dump

He was probably right.

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ROSIE O’Donnell says Bill Clinton had her bawling like a baby during an emotional chat in which the ex-president apologized for cheapening the Oval Office with his Monica Lewinsky sexcapades.

The sapphic supernova, doing stand-up at the New York Comedy Festival Tuesday night, told the audience how Clinton sent her a card after she slammed him during a performance at the Mohegan Sun Casino Hotel five years ago, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports.

“He disgusts me,” O’Donnell recalled saying at the casino show. “And I know I’m not supposed to say this because I’m a good Democrat, but I didn’t want to [talk] to him because he lied to me when he said, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’ and then put the scarlet-letter [bleep]-job on her for the rest of her life . . . I still hate you!”

When the corpulent comic called the phone number Clinton included with his note, Bubba himself picked up, she said.

“My knees got weak. I was like, ‘Can I [bleep] you?’ No, I didn’t say it, but I felt it - I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa!’ And he said, ‘I was at your show the other night, and I was sorry that you didn’t come over and say hello to me. And I know that you’re still harboring some hard feelings,’ ” O’Donnell related.

“And I said, ‘You know, listen, here’s the deal, dude. I’ve been disappointed by men my whole life. I loved JFK, my mother loved JFK, and you were the JFK to me. And you let me down, man. You killed me and that hurt me a lot, and when you hurt me, I don’t know, I didn’t expect that out of you and I thought you could do better for your wife, for the country and just in general.”

Clinton then worked his charm on O’Donnell. “He goes, ‘I’m sorry for all the men who ever hurt you, I’m sorry that I hurt you. Everything you’ve said to me, I’ve said to myself, and I hope one day you can forgive me, and I hope I can forgive me.’ ”

Clinton’s mea culpa quickly had O’Donnell’s faucets opening up. “I’m hysterical crying,” she recalled.

O’Donnell also joked at the comedy fest about being fascinated with Britney Spears. “I want her to come live with me, but I have to stop saying that. I’m a 45-year-old overweight lesbian. She’s like a 23-year-old hot, skinny sexy girl. I think she’s going to call the police soon, you know. I mean I phone her, I leave her like stalker-like messages at the Four Seasons.”

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