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Rosie O'Donnell's debut

Drudge is reporting:

Rosie O’Donnell’s first morning as co-host of ABC The View seen by 4.2 million viewers, roughly 54% more than VIEW a year ago.

The former standup comic debuted as the “moderator” of the ABC squawkfest on Tuesday.

Speculation is rampant as to whether O’Donnell will “take over” the show and make it her own.

Well… we watched as much of the show as we could stomach and, during one segment, they cut to a shot of one of the show’s crew (The floor director? The producer?) and we spotted, just over his right shoulder, standup comic Janette Barber. Barber was head writer and comedy producer for O’Donnell’s old syndicated talk show. Hmmm…