Rosie O'Donnell is talking about Lindsay Lohan once again on The Today Show ... this time comparing her to Whitney Houston.

Earlier this week, the outspoken 50-year-old talk show host came under fire after saying that Lilo shouldn't have been given the role of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime's upcoming Liz and Dick.

This time around, Rosie said the following to Matt Lauer:

"I (was) watching Whitney Houston's funeral, and I remember thinking why didn't more people say what they knew? We all knew, when she would not show up to do this show, not show up to do my show, we watched 'Being Bobby Brown' and it was like watching Sid and Nancy, they were people who were in the throes of addiction. But all that anyone cared about was that the show was getting ratings, not that this woman, this talented individual, this human being, this mother, this daughter, was worth saving... To look at Lindsay Lohan you can't help but feel for her. I don't think she is not talented, I think she's quite talented."

In our X17 poll, we asked if you agreed with Rosie's comment about Lindsay being "incapable" of playing Elizabeth Taylor.

Overwhelming, 62% agreed with Rosie, 19% of you thought another actress should play Elizabeth Taylor and 10% said O'Donnell was being too harsh.

Lindsay Lohan has officially been signed on to play Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming Lifetime movie, Liz and Dick.

The casting announcement came while Rosie O'Donnell was appearing on The Today Show with Matt Lauer and guest Donny Deutsch.

After hearing Lilo had landed the role, O'Donnell said:

"I feel very sorry for her ... I think she needs a lot of time away ... She's had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including SNL. She was out and not in rehearsal. I think she's not in a place to work."

Deutsch said to Rosie, "She's our generation's Elizabeth Taylor."

Rosie replied:

"You're out of your mind! You're a crackhead! The last thing she did good she was sixteen. I don't think she's right for the role and I don't think she's capable at this point to portray that character."

Yikes! The movie's producer, Larry Thompson, feels differently. He tells E! News. "Well, we have more than a Plan B actually ... [because] Lindsay Lohan may be the most insured actress that ever walked on a soundstage."

Rosie O'Donnell has sold her Chicago townhouse for $2.5 million ... and she's only lived there for less than a year.

The talk show host, who purchased the 6,000 square-foot pad last year for $2.25 million, bought the Lakeview area home after landing her gig with the Oprah Winfrey Network.

After one day on the market, it was snatched up! The townhouse features five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, eleven foot ceilings, formal dining room, profession kitchen, a movie theater and a game room.

O'Donnell, who is now dating Michelle Rounds, split from her wife Kelli Carpenter back in 2007. The two are the parents to four kids.

Rosie O'Donnell and girlfriend Michelle Rounds are engaged!

At Friday's taping of The Rosie Show, the 49-year-old comedian told her audience that she and Rounds will say "I do" over Christmas. A source told Us Weekly, "[Rounds] is very attractive and friendly. Rosie was really proud and showing her off ... They seem really happy."

O'Donnell has four children with ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, and after they split in 2009, O'Donnell dated Tracy Kachtick-Anders. O'Donnell made her first public appearance with Rounds in September, so it seems like these ladies aren't interested in taking it slow!

OWN

Rosie O'Donnell's new talk show, The Rosie Show, debuted on OWN Monday night, and the ratings are in.

How did it do? Though the network's first daily talk show got fairly positive reviews from critics, it didn't score with audiences.

Rosie, airing at 7 p.m., garnered only 497,000 viewers.

This is bad news for OWN, which has basically seen ratings only decline since its debut earlier this year.

Rosie O'Donnell's return to the talk show world is a bit different than her last run.

The comedienne hosted the The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996 through 2002 in her home state of New York while dating then-partner Kelli Carpenter.

Now, she's shooting The Rosie Show in Oprah's old Chicago studio and a new lady love, Michelle Rounds.

In an interview with Nightline, Rosie, 49, explained that her "gaydar was way off" when she first ran into Michelle. She said:

"So I walked into a Starbucks in the summer and she was holding a little puppy, and I was about to get another little puppy for [my daughter] Chels because we're here in Chicago and I have a little 4-pound Chihuahua. And there's this little 4-pound Pomeranian in her arms, and I thought she was a 28-year-old heterosexual girl, because that's what she looked like to me. And she's a 40-year-old gay woman."

Turns out, it was a good thing that Rosie's first impression was a bit off. "I think if I had known that she was gay, I wouldn't have been brave enough to talk to her," she said in the interview.

Aw!

The Rosie Show premieres Monday night on OWN.

Koenig & Strey

Rosie O'Donnell is settling into Chi-town for her new talk show gig on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network -- The Rosie Show.

Oprah's famous Harpo studios in Chicago has put O'Donnell's talk show on its sign, and now, Rosie's got another new house to live in!

She bought a 6,000-square-foot townhouse, listed at $2.5 million, on the city's north side. She'll be living, fittingly, near Boystown -- Chi-town's gay area.

The three-story home has five bedrooms, five full and two half-bathrooms, a fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows, steam shower, home theater, a heated, three-car garage (for those nasty Chicago winters) and a 2,000-square-foot rooftop terrace.

Rosie's Twitter profile now reads, "I LOVE CHICAGO !!!!!!" Home sweet home, Rosie!

Chris Brown has found an unlikely defender for his GMA outburst in former View co-host Rosie O'Donnell.

On her Sirius radio show, Rosie revealed that she understood Brown's chair-throwing antics after GMA host Robin Roberts brought up the Rihanna incident ... because she often felt like doing the same on The View.

"Part of me wanted to take a chair and throw it through the window at The View after all that happened," Rosie said, referencing her infamous fight with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck which eventually led her to quit the chat show.

"I don't know why this kid seems to be held to a different standard than anybody else," O'Donnell said, forgetting that celebrities are routinely questioned about regrettable things they may have done in the past whether their publicist forbids it or not.

"I felt mildly angry at Robin Roberts," she continued. "I felt like writing her and going: 'Can you take a look at this again and see if maybe you find -- in any way -- your responsibility in this?'"

Read what else Rosie had to say about her ex-employers ... after the jump.