A washed-up comic flees to Ireland, lands a TV gig, and the press ignores the economy Americans are struggling through.
The entertainment press spent the week fawning over Rosie O'Donnell's return to late-night television — and in doing so, revealed exactly what they'd rather not cover: the economic wreckage ordinary Americans are still living through.
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