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The Associated Press

Rosie O'Donnell returning to The View is the best development for daytime television since Rosie O'Donnell's short run on The View in the 2006–2007 season.

O'Donnell is politically inflamed, funny, angry, does not care what the audience thinks, and, whether you agree with her or not, her combustible style is riveting. There has never been a talk show like The View when O'Donnell was on. Personal and political disagreements spilled onto the air regularly and increasingly — most saliently and uncomfortably with her boss, Barbara Walters, and with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck — until O'Donnell quit the show.

Here's the fight with Hasselbeck that hastened O'Donnell's departure. She had already announced she was leaving, but after this argument about the Iraq war, she was like, See ya, I can't even stay here another three weeks.

Afterward, O'Donnell said it wasn't because of the fight itself, but because of the executive producer's decision to use a split screen, pitting her against Hasselbeck.

On her blog, O'Donnell wrote then: "a split screen, new heights, or lows, depending on who u ask." Interestingly, Hasselbeck, from her new perch on Fox & Friends, said this week that O'Donnell wanted to "redo the split screen" at the reunion show for Walters' retirement — and Hasselbeck refused. (She sounds like she loathes O'Donnell.)

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