After Kathy Griffin made such an, achem, splash on CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper, we started imagining other possible straight-laced-host-meets-wacky-celebrity pairings, all of which would surely spike ratings. Because as the saying goes: opposites attract audiences. CONTINUED »
Within minutes of hearing the news that Barack Obama would be the next President of the United States, my mind went to a dark place: "Take that, Elisabeth Hasselbeck!" I couldn't wait to turn on The View this morning and watch the show's resident crazy cry in shame and weep for the state of our nation. Unfortunately, she threw us for a loop and acted like a classy, intelligent human being. Who knew?
Bonus footage includes Sherri Shepherd crying tears of joy in response to last night's election results. It's quite sweet, actually.
Full video after the jump.
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According to Mother Earth Whoopi Goldberg, the blond bitch Hasselbek gets more death threats than anyone else on The View. But they don't all hate her, as the Chicago Sun-Times implied! "Politically we could not be more opposite, but I respect her tremendously. Truth is, we could not have a dialogue without Elizabeth."
Right. Because then someone else on the show would have to become the ridiculous scapegoat, and Sherri Shepherd already wrote it in to her contract that she doesn't want to be "the most dumbest one."
The View was awesome yet again this morning, thanks partly to Elisabeth waking up on the wrong side of the bed and also because of Whoopi's absence. Poor Barbara Walters had to mediate between Joy and Elisabeth, which was ineffective and led to one of the more intense shouting matches we've seen as of late:
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Amidst rumors that Elisabeth Hasselbeck might be leaving ABC for more Republican-friendly pastures, the lone dissent on The View cleared up any ideas that she'd be moving to Fox. And she did not enjoy Joy Behar's comparison of herself to another hate-fuckable blond conservative:
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Does it strike anyone else as a bit odd that the most spirited political discussion these days is coming for those five overly percolated women on The View? Sure, Bab's show has always been fun to watch, in that "what would Sex and the City be like if they were all old and didn't like each other and not everyone was white" sort of way, but never before this election show actually contained something resembling a serious political discourse that is being as closely monitered in the papes and blogs as, oh say, an Olbermann/Matthews feud.
We're on Day Three of resident Republican and stereotypical blond Elizabeth Hasselbeck's futile promotion of John McCain and the Republican party. Once again, the usually ditzy Sherri Shepherd is on the attack, playing off yesterday's feud, and now she has Joy to back her up again, and threatening to flash everybody.
This is a Joy Behar nation folks, we just live in it:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I watch The View morning after morning in hopes of witnessing something amazing. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the moron who gives Republicans everywhere a bad name, had a minor meltdown during the show's first segment today. She was so beyond help that not even Barbara Walters came to her rescue. The topic, of course, was the idiocy of Sarah Palin, which turned into another session of Elisabeth spouting off nonsensical remarks to defend her beloved McCain/Palin ticket. After Barbara correctly likened Palin's preparation for the debate to a high school student cramming for an exam, Elisabeth became extremely angry, which is when this happened (inciting a round of boos from the audience):
Former prez and frequent misspeaker Bill Clinton appeared on The View yesterday to talk about politics and shiznit. Billary is trying to repair his image after several "testy" interviews with the press; the fact that the politically conscious ladies (including self-proclaimed "fundit" Joy Behar) handed John McCain's ass back to him when the senator appeared on the program probably didn't hurt either, insists Jacques Steinberg.
We say: Billary was just hoping that Barbara would call him "sexy" like she did to Barack, and maybe convince that little Hasselbeck tease to come over and play ball for his team ifyouknowwhatimean.
