So Rosie O'Donnell is getting that NBC variety show, even though it seemed impossible that this woman is still a ratings draw.
Starting next Wednesday, Rosie Live will air at 8 p.m., and is sure to include some fun guests. Not, though, any ladies of The View, who took their turns sharpening their claws against their former coworker today.
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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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Not only are late-night comedians harder on John McCain than Barack Obama, but so are daytime talk show hosts.
But daytime and late-night shows have been an underrated factor in this campaign, and an undeniable advantage for Obama. Ellen DeGeneres, David Letterman and panelists on "The View" all confronted McCain, while Obama has basically joked and danced his way through such appearances, including a "Daily Show" stint last week in which Jon Stewart asked him about "the whole socialism/Marxist thing." If anyone doubts there is a liberal entertainment establishment, it has been vividly on display.
Maybe the truth of the matter is that Barack Obama would just be a better president, and it doesn't matter which softball show the candidates are on, John McCain just won't come off nearly as likable as his opponent.
Or maybe that Ellen character has something to hide from a McCain administration. Hmm…we haven't seen her with a boyfriend for awhile…
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck was invited to introduce Sarah Palin at Florida rallies over the weekend, presumably because the McCain camp knows Lissy is the best attack dog available who still believes the nonsense the right wing has been spewing. This time around she defended Palin's wardrobe, saying it doesn't matter how much money she spends as long as she wears that tiny flag pin, the sign of a good president or vice president. This was an obvious dig at Barack Obama, who is clearly a terrorist who wants to blow up America because he chose not to wear the flag pin. Genius, this lady. The most laughable aspect of this is Elisabeth's hypocrisy, claiming that Democrats refuse to focus on the REAL ISSUES when day after day she sits on The View and spews that Bill Ayers/terrorist agenda.
After years of ambulance chasing companies like PETA, The National Enquirer, and her bosses at ABC, bypass-tastic Star Jones has finally gone on the warpath with something that can't find back: her own apartment.
The former View co-host is suing her Upper East Side building for $700,000, after her triplex penthouse was found to have mold in it. And a leak.
This isn't Star's first brush with the court's when it's come to her living situation: in 2003 Star was sued by a landscaping company after she failed to pay them for working on her rooftop garden. She had promised a name-drop for the company when Architectural Digest did a profile on her digs, but never followed through.
Btw, this is the same "unlivable" apartment that Digest called "unapologetically glamorous," which you just know is how the diva likes to think of herself.
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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Welp, not there was any dount who everyone's most love-to-hate member of The View cast was, but the satirical Onion decided to go one step further by replacing Elisabeth Hasselbeck all together with a giant squid:
According to fans of the show, the squid's most memorable moment thus far occurred last week, when it got a little testy during a discussion on whether teenage girls are getting "too sexy too soon" and squirted 12 gallons of ink onto Sherri Shepherd. The antic was met with laughter and applause from the studio audience.
We could get behind that: the shrill noises on that program would be cut in half if Hasselbeck was replaced by a maritime creature…or a parrot.
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:
Sherri Shepherd, bless her heart, reared her slightly empty head today on The View to stand up to resident crazy Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The ladies' Friday show was pretaped, so today they threw in extra chirping about Thursday night's debate. Can you guess who Elisabeth thought did the best job? She tried to convince the other women, which is when Sherri "I haven't thought about whether the earth is flat or round" Shepherd got riled up and spewed some semi-coherent thoughts for the first time in her life. We never thought we'd say this, but: Good for you, Sherri!
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.
We have good news and we have bad news. First we'll start with the good: Shrewish conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck is considering leaving her chair at The View round table. The bad news: She's still going to be gracing our television sets.
The latest ruckus caused by Sherri Shepherd has nothing to do with the shape of the earth — this time, the View co-host is admitting that she’s “had more abortions than [she] would like to count.” Scandalous! Except that didn’t bother us as much as this quote from Shepherd:
Picture it, the women on The View are discussing the dreaded n-word. Whoopi Goldberg is explaining why black comedians use it and why they should be allowed to — she’s very frustrated. Elisabeth Hasselbeck doesn’t understand. She starts to cry and seems to make the argument that we can’t move forward in race relations if black entertainers keep using the word. I roll my eyes. Barbara is uncomfortable and interrupts. If you can’t picture it, check out the video after the jump.
If anyone was going to ruin Michelle Obama's appearance on The View last night, it was going to be Elisabeth Hasselbeck, right? After all, isn't it Hasselbeck who so has it in the bag for John McCain that she'd only welcome Michelle at an arm's length?
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Including the Us Weekly cover, the New York Times article, and, of course, today's hosting of The View. Not part of the makeover: Ending the fist bump.
On June 18, Michelle Obama will guest host The View, joining the ladies who laugh for an hour of gabbing. She was originally scheduled to merely appear as a guest on the show, but after John McCain's wife Cindy got the chance to guest host, Michelle wanted her turn, too. So exec producer Bill Geddie signed her right up. As co-host, Michelle will have a chance to interview guests and participate in the show's opening "hot topics" segment, where Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets a chance to talk about being a mother for the umpteenth time and Sherri Shepherd gets a chance to show how poor an example she sets for other women, blacks, and humans. Though no guests have been booked for Michelle's appearance, might we suggest Wanda Sykes, if only so she can explain how to get Barack some pretty hair.
We've tried our damndest to remove The View from our cultrual radar. Enough with Sherri Shepherd reminding America she's functionally retarded. Or Elisabeth Hasselbeck reminding America that she had a baby and loves George Bush. Or Whoopi Goldberg reminding everybody that she can barely stand to be there.
But then producers whipped up this genius segment: In discussing the possibility of booking Dina and Ali Lohan, who want to promote their Living Lohan show, the decision was made that they'd be allowed on the show … only if they were willing to discuss Lindsay. CONTINUED »
Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been interrupting every conversation on The View that's remotely related to childbirth, child rearing, and milk to talk about her own pregnancy.
Now, she's continuing the marathon in the pages of Fitness, but not before she slims down and poses in a bikini for the cover.
Except given that a monthly like Fitness needs to ship two to three months ahead of time, and given that Hasselbeck gave birth six months ago, that either means these photos were snapped : 1) three months ago, which is a J-Lo amount of time to slim down, but still doable; 2) before she got pregnant, misleading readers about the whole possibility of slimming down post-pregnancy; or 3) three months ago, and went through a heavy dose of Photoshopping.
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