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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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Rosie O’Donnell, who abruptly left “The View” on ABC last spring after drawing attention and ratings for her opinions on everything from the Iraq war to her co-hosts, is in serious discussions to return to television atop a new soapbox: a prime-time show on the cable news channel MSNBC, according to executives on both sides of the negotiations who have been briefed directly.

Under one scenario, Ms. O’Donnell would be given the 9 p.m. slot each weeknight on MSNBC, where she would go head-to-head with two heavyweights of cable talk: “Larry King Live” on CNN and “Hannity & Colmes” on Fox News. Her show would replace “Live with Dan Abrams,” a relatively low-rated program that only recently replaced “Scarborough Country,” which was also little-watched.

But NBC executives, speaking on condition of anonymity because the conversations are continuing, cautioned that there were many elements of a potential deal yet to be resolved. These include when such a show would appear, what Ms. O’Donnell would be paid, and whether she would also be seen on the NBC broadcast network.

Ms. O’Donnell alluded somewhat cryptically to a possible new job in a speech she gave at a book-signing on Sunday night in Miami, according to a report that appeared on a website, lyingonthebeach.com. A podcast on that site described Ms. O’Donnell as saying that she would soon begin competing against “the guy with the suspenders and the long, long face,” an obvious reference to Mr. King.

NBC has been courting Ms. O’Donnell in recent months for any number of jobs, including host of a possible new game show.

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BILL O’Reilly has once again targeted Rosie O’Donnell, sending a cameraman and a field producer to her latest book signing on Long Island to taunt and tape her while she autographed copies for adoring fans.

O’Donnell was taken aback when O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters interrupted her as she was signing “Celebrity Detox” for more than 500 fans at the Huntington Book Revue on Friday, reports Page Six’s Marianne Garvey. “This is for Bill O’Reilly,” said the producer. “He wants to know if you regret saying 9/11 was an inside job.”

Watters then bombarded O’Donnell with questions about why she ignores calls to appear on O’Reilly’s show and why she chose not to do an interview with talk queen Oprah Winfrey about the book.

O’Donnell kept her cool while the tape rolled, even allowing O’Reilly’s crew to stay for a few minutes.

“He knows how to find me. If Bill wants me he should phone me himself,” O’Donnell calmly told the producer. “He’s a big boy.”

O’Donnell even convinced her brother, Ed, not to toss the bullying duo, because, “It makes it all worse when he puts it on the Bill O’Reilly No-Spin Zone.”

“Don’t throw them out,” O’Donnell said as her fans waited patiently in line behind them, including a young boy with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair whom O’Donnell comforted following the incident.

“Ed, it’s OK. Everybody stop. That’s what they want you to do,” she said.

But O’Donnell repeatedly asked the cameraman to “turn it off - can you turn the lens to the floor?” as a security guard covered the lens with his hand. The security men finally had enough and made O’Reilly’s men leave, prompting O’Donnell to tell the pair, “Goodbye, goodbye,” adding, “Sir, you’re done. Skip home happily, you got it.”

Last night O’Reilly aired his version of events, calling the segment “Rosie’s Rage.” But O’Donnell beat him to the punch, blogging about it over the weekend. “BO [bleep]wipes showed up. Cocky young white men. They were bullied out not soon enuf4 my liking,” she wrote.
O’Reilly had no comment.

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NOBODY says no to Oprah Winfrey - except Rosie O’Donnell. Insiders say Winfrey wanted to have her on her show to talk about O’Donnell’s book, “Celebrity Detox,” which bashes Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Donald Trump and others. But while many would kill to be on Oprah’s program, which sells books by the boatload, O’Donnell declined. “She’s doing an interview with Diane Sawyer instead,” our spy said. Cindi Berger, O’Donnell’s rep, said, “Rosie has always been booked with Diane. We gracefully declined Oprah’s offer. I’m sure Rosie will do Oprah’s show another time.”

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"Pssst, beat it, ya sour old bag!" Rosie O'Donnell's new memoir, "Celebrity Detox", is about to be released. In it, Rosie purportedly tells Babwa that that's a wrap. She delves into the whole "View" mess, and thinks it's time for Barbara to retire.

In her upcoming memoir, "Celebrity Detox", which sheds light on, among other episodes in her life, the TV star's tumultuous stint last season on The View, O'Donnell, 45, addresses Walters, 77, to say, "And Barbara. At some point, a person gets tired. It's inevitable," the New York Post reports.

"Barbara Walters is almost twice my age," the book (which is to be published Oct. 9) is quoted as saying. "At some point it becomes necessary to step back. Everyone has to go. Going is part of the gig."

Rosie writes that the differences between her and Babs are "obvious". Well yeah, she's a crone and you're self-righteous with no "off" switch for the squawking. You seemed so nice on the cruise, shut up now! Rosie also relays a story in which an audience member at "The View" yelled out "I love you, Rosie!' and Babs castigated the lady. She told her that it wasn't fair that there were four women up there and she was only yelling to Rosie. Get over it, battleaxe! People loved your ass in your heyday, too! Stop the jealousy and knit a tea cozy! God, if Rosie's book is written in that haiku form she uses on her website, I'm not going to be able to read it. I can't even get through an E.E. Cummings poem and he had talent.

Rosie O’Donnell has some words of advice for Barbara Walters: Go, already.

In her upcoming memoir, Celebrity Detox, which sheds light on, among other episodes in her life, the TV star’s tumultuous stint last season on The View, O’Donnell, 45, addresses Walters, 77, to say, “And Barbara. At some point, a person gets tired. It’s inevitable,” the New York Post reports.

“Barbara Walters is almost twice my age,” the book (which is to be published Oct. 2) is quoted as saying. “At some point it becomes necessary to step back. Everyone has to go. Going is part of the gig.”

O’Donnell also reportedly states, “I would be less-than-honest if I were to say that there is no trouble between Barbara and I. I mean, our differences are obvious.”

O’Donnell writes that during commercial breaks on The View, audience members would sometimes shout out, “I love you, Rosie” – “and Barbara politely tells them in a schoolteacher tone, ‘It is impolite to say I love you to one person when there are four of us up here.’ ”

As might be expected, O’Donnell’s book also tosses barbs at her old feuding partner, Donald Trump. Of their fight, which started when she commented on his handling of the Miss USA scandal, O’Donnell writes, according to the Post’s Page Six column, “I honestly did not anticipate the malice of his response.”

This time defending Walters, whom Trump called a “liar,” O’Donnell reportedly writes, “I did not anticipate that he would be cruel enough to do what he did to Barbara. She should have been left alone.”

Asked for comment on what her former co-host has written, Walters on Monday told Extra, “Rosie sent me the book with a note telling me how much she loved me. I have read the book – and I would like to concentrate on the love that she sent.”

O’Donnell’s publicist, Cindi Berger, is also quoted as telling the Post, “Rosie loves and adores Barbara and always will.”

For her part, rather than scaling back, Walters is, in fact, stepping up her professional activities. On Tuesday SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that, staring Sept. 17, she will host Barbara Live, a weekly live call-in show on SIRIUS Stars channel 102, Mondays from 6 to 7 p.m. ET.

O’Donnell’s blasts, meanwhile, arrive a week after Whoopi Goldberg, 51, made her debut in the chair vacated last May by O’Donnell and as the latest member of the show, Sherri Shepherd, 40, joins the panel.

Not that O’Donnell isn’t squawking a bit about the book herself. As she posted on her blog last Thursday (spelling and punctuation hers):

so i just got my first hard copy of my new book
CELEBRITY DETOX

there on the front flap
in print

“when rosie odonnells mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1968, ten year old rosie thought fame could cure her”

i was born in 1962
my mother got sick in 1973

WTF !!!!!!!!!!

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