Top 10 Donald vs Rosie Moments

At this rate it will trump some Las Vegas shows, which normally never happens.

Now that it's been a month since the two had started this mudslinging, let's look back on the month of the greatest war between two giants that ever was.

10a. Late Night With Conan O' Brien, NBC. On the popular talk show for sophisticates and students, O' Brien certainly put his foot in his mouth with some of the things he asked Trump. For once, Trump actually seemed to show some class-until he uttered the words "she's disgusting..." thus adding more fuel to the already towering inferno. Pouring more fuel to the mystery of the encounter were the admissions that O'Brien and his staff had been told the Donald would answer no questions whatsoever regarding his battle with Rosie. If ever there were a swear word uttered in this exchange it would have leapt to the top of the list in a heartbeat.

10b. Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC. On the grossly politically incorrect-but often hilarious-talk show, the former radio host and former FOX NFL Sunday smart-alecky man probably knew a little something about controversy (after all he went to UNLV...the basketball hotbed for that type of thing). So he wasted milliseconds in telling his guest The Donald, that he sympathized with Trump and his "battle with this horrible, horrible monster...and her legion of doom." Trump replied in part, "I think you need to be a little bit nicer to Rosie." Oof! But all peace and happiness ended when Trump blurted, "She's disgusting." There would be joy in Mudsville, my lovelies...

9. Statement after The View, ABC, aired and co-hosts Barbara Walters and Rosie proclaimed to the world "we're OK," after receiving a statement from The Donald. "It was sad to see Barbara read her statement off a cue card. Rosie just pushed her out like a ("pathetic") puppet," it read. And so on the statement went with such gems like, "Barbara has become a sad figurehead dominated by a third-rate comedian," among other notables. If it were addressed to the subject of his venom, or Rosie, then you could see it achieve a higher ranking. Also, the statement (adjoining photo) has lots of loaded language and spin, which the open letter written previously does not.

8. Star Jones alliance. If anyone thought that Star Jones, the embattled African-American former co-host of the show and former owner of the chair in which Rosie is now sitting (better known as "The View" co-host's chair) would not take sides, you're totally nuts. And The Donald wasted little time in proclaiming what must have been at least a small victory, albeit symbolic, by proclaiming "I just got a congratulatory phone call from Star Jones," to TheNewYorkTimes. It's amazing what a little publicity can do, isn't it?

7. Surge in viewers to TheView, ABC. This must have ticked The Donald off to no end; having heard that the Nielsen Company says ratings for the morning show has picked up about 77,000 new viewers in markets it is monitoring is not exactly a victory for him. Well, nobody likes a good fight better than American viewers and there is no better place to find it than The View. Though the victory for Rosie was impressive, the war is far from over, as evidenced by the far more impressive evidence below.

6. Barbara Walters is at it again, supposedly calling Rosie a "pig," advising The Donald in a telephone call to "never get in the mud with [pigs]." Though dirty slinging of things is far from new in the media, it is also hard to confirm, meaning that if the above information in the phone call were verifiable, this tidbit of information would have leapt to the forefront of the Top 10. Instead it settles in the middle.

5. The "Ever-ready [sic] comb-over bunny" remark that Rosie made on-what else?-The View, ABC, in reference to The Donald. I was really hard-pressed not to move this jab up to the top of the list, because of its comedic potential. After hearing this actually come out of the mouth of the comic/co-host-though knowing network TV, it was probably rehearsed-Rosie wasted no time ringing in 2007 when in her first appearance of the year she I really wanted to give it its just due, because it was verifiable and B. it was hilarious. But in all things warlike, there are some things that "trump" [sic] others. And once again Barbara called The Donald a "liar," so the reason that it didn't get a higher rating is because, again, Walters is not funny-and she spit on the fire that Rosie had created. Bummer.

4. The infamous "fuel to the fire" commentary by Meredith Vieira to The Donald on Today, NBC. Yep, General Electric subsidiaries are at it again, as Trump once again calls some NBC media-type a liar-which isn't new. Then Vieira, The View alumna, wasted little precious time accusing The Donald of adding to the battle. After all, the lady may have a point: He did it to ABC and word on the street is he may do it to CBS, since they're the only ones left. (By the way, he did it to FOX too, but they're only No. 4-and I'm counting) Of course nobody knows for sure, yet if I were a betting man, I would say yes he would.

3. Larry King Live, CNN. The Donald phoned King to tell him the battle between he and Rosie was comparable to the Iraq War. After Rosie claimed The Donald went bankrupt, a charge that he refuted, Trump countered with this gem. "When people lie, Larry, I like to go after them. And I think, frankly, more people should be like that. I mean you look at this country, look at the problems we have -- lots of lies got us into the war in Iraq." I really have nothing else to say.

2. The View, ABC. Sometimes things are better left unsaid. In the case of Rosie, that proof is in the pudding-or the expression. After The Donald called her a "pig," the co-host fought back without even saying a word. She pulled back her nostrils to reveal a pig face, and pig-faced, she called to her partner Kelli, sitting in the audience. "I was afraid to leave her home in case someone with a combover
But wait...there's more...

1. Open letter from The Donald. This wonderful piece of literary, though subtly nuanced sophistication may end up in The Smithsonian-and I'm not even half-joking. When historians look back at the year 2007 they will find some reference to this epic war between The Donald and Rosie. And, you ask, what topics does it cover? Social class? Check. Culture? Yep. Sexual orientation? That's a big 10-4, good buddy. And so on and so forth...

It starts out with "I hope you had a wonderful vacation with your wife-you needed the rest." After the knife, er, words, were pulled out of Rosie's chest, since her partner is not her wife, legally speaking, The Donald went on the offensive yet again, referring to Rosie's boss Barbara Walters, proclaiming "in fact, she lied to both of us!"

What it really did, was set the stage for an underhanded smack down at everything Rosie, at the end of the second paragraph. But later in that second paragraph, it read: "After your maniacal and foolish rant against me two weeks ago, Barbara called me from her vacation (I did not call her) in order to apologize for your behavior." We're only one and one-thirds of a paragraph in, folks, so hang on. For YOUR behavior? Them sounds like fightin' words to me.

Then as you trudge through the second paragraph The Big D goes on the offensive, saying Walters said "working with her is like living in hell," and things like that. To make matters worse, the real-estate mogul kicks it into high gear with words like "more pointedly," while aiming his pen, uh, sword at the throat of the letter. There he sliced out complete sentences that Trump said Walters told him in that phone call like "Donald, never get into the mud with pigs" and the coup d'etat, "don't worry, she won't be here for long."

And for a little punch in the stomach, Trump recalled a chance meeting with Walters at Le Cirque restaurant in Manhattan in which he asked her how Rosie was.

He said she replied, "Donald, do you have to ruin my meal?"

And The Donald didn't stop there, no. "In any event you have good reason to be angry," he told arch-nemesis Rosie in the letter.

And it looks as if there will be plenty more of that to come in the battle between Rosie and Donald.