But before any of O'Donnell's many detractors announce their deep satisfaction at watching the feathered national symbol taking several hungry chunks out of the outspoken Iraq War critic's face, we'd first like to remind them that no one got off more from the sequence than Rosie herself, for whom the near-fatal eagle-pecking was just the manifestation of a lifelong fantasy that began the time a nine-year-old Rosie spent the night trapped beneath the covers with a family of frantic pigeons, armed only with their tiny beaks and a desperate will to survive.