C.J.: Let's dish up a healthy helping for Rosey's mom

Emmy winner Doris Rosen could use your prayers, encouragement and good thoughts.

The mother of WCCO-TV's sports anchor Mark Rosen is dealing with new health problems. "She's been going through some anxiety but she is calming down a little," Rosen said Monday.

Note that I'm not being more specific. As my mother always says: "You don't need to know the details to wish somebody well."

"Your mom is a wise woman," said Rosen. "My mom doesn't have any idea how many people like her, love her out there. I get that all the time." Mark and his sister Barb Rosen are supporting their mom "like kids do all the time," he said. "You do it out of love. We consider ourselves fortunate to still be in the same city as our mother."

In 2011 Doris and Rosalie Vascellaro, mother of WCCO-TV anchor Frank Vascellaro, won Emmys for their grandmotherly take on the "Grammys."

Get well, Doris!

Locals turned on 'Talk'Even though Minnesota and WCCO-TV anchor Amelia Santaniello got short shrift from Rielle Hunter on "The Talk," local viewers gave the CBS network show its highest ratings ever in this market.

Santaniello has to feel loved. But when I ran into her Friday night all she talked about was disappointment about not getting a chance to talk about WCCO, Minnesota and, of course, to razz-in-absentia her husband and co-anchor, Frank Vascellaro.

"Talking up Minnesota and WCCO is what the plan was for the first segment," said Santaniello. Instead they jumped right into Hunter, who's written a book about being John Edwards' former mistress and mother of his child. "I get it. She's the hot topic of the day. It's live TV. She was on 'The View,'" said Santaniello. "She has guts coming on knowing she's going to get hammered with questions, but why is she even bothering? She isn't even answering anything."

Hunter was treated with kid gloves on "The Talk."

"The Talk" producers "wanted [us] to ask tough questions but maintain a civil tone," said Santaniello, even though "very few people are supportive of her."

CNN's Soledad O'Brien did an outstanding, civil interview that still caused Hunter to whine "harsh." Twitter's @Soledad_OBrien said she intended no harshness. She was thoroughly on-point seeking explanations for Hunter's contradictory answers and behavior.

Credit where it's dueLast week, I mistakenly gave WCCO Web producer Sara Boyd credit for a Twitter remark that was actually the original thought of the Pioneer Press' @AmyGustafson. "@WCCOAmelia is not buying Rielle Hunter's answers," wrote Gustafson in a remark that Boyd repeated while Santaniello was on the "The Talk."

Frank wants equal timeWCCO-TV staffers playfully tortured anchor Frank Vascellaro with the memory of his wife touching hunky Adam Rodriguez on national TV.

"I want to pet somebody," said Vascellaro, reacting to his wife's interactions with Rodriguez.

Rodriguez started it, reaching over and touching Santaniello while he was on "The Talk" promoting the movie "Magic Mike," which did very well in weekend box office numbers.