TMZ is EXCLUSIVELY reporting the BREAKING news we’re all probably going to hear in about an hour anyway that Rosie O’Donnell is going to announce her departure from The View after almost a year’s worth of hilarious hijinx, idiotic name-calling with Donald Trump, pseudo-scandals involving racism and/or homophobia, hyperbolic liberal bleating, and scaring the ever-living bejeezus out of Elisabeth Hasselbeck every single day. We’re really going to miss Rosie, if for no other reason than she was our Old Faithful for crazy daytime TV clips. Judge Mathis is really going to have to step up his game now. TMZ also reports that the show’s producers are already searching for someone to fill Rosie’s big gay shoes, which should prove to be pretty difficult. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for the re-animated zombie corpse of Anna Nicole Smith.