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Hey Whoopi, Joy, Sherri, and Barbara: leave Elisabeth alone!

by Bob Sassone, posted Oct 6th 2008 2:09PM
Elisabeth HasselbeckI don't know if the rumors about View host Elisabeth Hasselbeck going to Fox News Channel are true or not (Hasselbeck and the show deny it), but at this point I wouldn't blame her one bit.

Hasselbeck has had a lot of battles on the show with her co-hosts, from Rosie O'Donnell months ago to Barbara Walters. But today was the day I actually felt bad for her. The group was talking about the election, and how nasty the election could soon get in the final few weeks (Joy wasn't on the show today, so it was Elisabeth, Whoopi, Sherri, and Barbara). After playing the funny debate sketch from Saturday Night Live, the women discussed Governor Palin's attack on Barack Obama over the weekend, linking him to Bill Ayers (probably a desperate gambit by McCain but a fully legitimate one, I believe). Now, this has been brought up before, most notably by George Stephanopoulos in a debate and also by Hillary Clinton if I remember correctly, but the McCain campaign is bringing it up again.

So when the women discussed it, you can pretty much guess what happened.

Elisabeth was ganged up on. Now, it's fine that the other women on the show have their views, but they hardly give Elisabeth a chance to even give her opinion for any solid block of time. Whoopi gets a full two minutes to keep talking and talking, and then Elisabeth tries to talk, and after about 30 seconds the other women start screaming over her, and then they go to a commercial for Pampers or something and after the break they've moved on to another "Hot Topic."

It doesn't help that Elisabeth probably isn't the most articulate person on the show. She gets very flustered and upset and emotional and her words come out too quick, but I can't imagine being the only person on a national TV show who has a certain point of view and is teamed up against by the others (and then has to deal with the audience clapping wildly for the others). At the same time, while I think Joy makes a lot of good points for her views, how can McCain possibly answer a question like Whoopi posed on the show a few weeks ago, about whether or not she has to worry about slavery coming back? I mean, seriously? But Whoopi gets claps and laughs instead of being dumped on for even bringing it up in the first place. As for Barbara, well, you can see she runs the show with an iron fist.

Elisabeth, hang in there.

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Kodi

Why is it that everyone who is a right wing or Republican is a hater of something I am a very loving person and have many friends Democrats and Republicans and we all get along and we do not call her each other B------. or say we are going to do nasty things. If your a Democrate and a left wing to me so what that is your opinion, but I don"t hate you for your voice or should I maybe I don't know what this world wants anymore. We complain when we see crime and hatred on t.v. but then we all sitting here have hatred towards each other and we don't even know who the heck we are talking to. What happened to just talking and listening?
This world is going to crash big time soon because we are distroying our ownsleves slowly but surely.
It must be something in the water.

October 30 2008 at 2:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kodi

I finally heard Barbara Walters sat to Joy yesterday to stop the cutting in on Elizabeths views that people were writing in and she got so mad she said then lets fight about Palins clothes. Elizabeth just told her that the clothes were never hers and that they were going to charities some for children with problems and other ones.
A aide spent that amount of money and the Democats with their research could find nothing else but what the sales clerk did not tell them is that the Aide returned most of them they did not fit.
I think that Joy is probably jeaslous she is older and heavier and not even cute, her comedy acts leave a lot to
be desired saw them and not funny.
Whoopie I always regarded as intellectual and funny and she used to look at both sides and she is supposed to be the mediator- not good- she is in on it too.

She seems very hateful if you disagree, Barbara get the show on another subject or get off the air, life is too important to sit and bicker with used to be friends over the election. I hope that the tickets are not too expensive the view audience doesn't get to hear anything over all the screaming. Stop it ladies........

October 30 2008 at 2:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mh.hutchins

I, too used to buy into poor little Elizabeth, and maybe that was once the case.........but watch the beyotch now!! She NEVER listens, she never acknowledges that just maybe the old broads have seen more of the world than a spoiled little TV chick!!
She is a typical right wing hater. Period. "Betcha" her connections get her a FOX show of her own!! There she can "spin" her own poisonous "View".

October 29 2008 at 11:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
queenjean

The View should go through a show NAME CHANGE:
"don't disagree with my view" or we will hurt you , OR

My View is the only View" don't disagree or we will send Guido to mess with you...

I used to watch the show, but my opinion after every other view slams Elizabeth's view, the "view" should be cancelled... What a bunch of hippocrites, yes, I and talking to you, Joy, Woopipe and Barbara... "shame on all of you" Your own personal view is no longer entertaining!

October 29 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Malegxy

The only reason it seems like everyone is "ganging up" on Elisabeth is because they all oppose her views, so it's many against one. As for shouting her down, I don't know how that's possible because once she opens her mouth, she doesn't stop talking when someone else interrupts. She just continues to ramble her thoughts so that neither she, nor the other person, can be heard. And I don't know about you, but when I am having a conversation with someone, I want to discuss the issue at hand. It seems VERY childish to hear her constantly say "What about when Obama..." "What about when Obama..." It just proves how she doesn't have anything intelligible to add to a conversation at the time. When disagreeing with someone else's opinion, all she has to do is present a decent argument. It's very tasteless to point out the opponent's faults in order to defend your own. Isn't that what's hurting the McCain campaign?

While I don't condone cutting someone off when they're speaking, I guess they do have to resort to it since they're on time constraints and we're not going to pretend that Elisabeth doesn't cut people off (on the regular). As for her not having time to talk, maybe you should tape the show and just LISTEN while giving the TV your back. Even while they interview celebrities, she does the MOST talking. Sometimes I have to mute the TV when she's flapping her gums. She's just so monotonous. Maybe that's why they give Whoopi a whole two minutes to talk. She knows how to do it with grace, patience and maturity. It's much easier on the ears than the cackling hen effect.

October 29 2008 at 9:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kodi

Your right about the view I have had it to hear with the bickering if it is the view why is it 4 to one. Barbar Walters had an affair that she made public with black representative, who cares? Sherri she is in imbo she said she does't know if the world is flat or round maybe she thinks we are going to fall off. Whoopie I like her or did more before she did that to McCain he did not even get sitting down right and she jumped him about slavery. He has never said anything about that what year is she living in? Probably most whites will be the slaves if things go as Obama plans but I am not predijuced, or racist I have members of family who are muti-colored.
Elizabeth seems decent enough and everytime she tries to say anything that horrible cmedian Joy shouts at her and rants and raves about issues she has no clue about.
For the first time I heard Barbar say that it had to stop that all the remarks were terrible and she was ashamed of them.
O'Reilly told them to their face he said Barbara you sit there and it is your show with your face on the floor and treated McCain and his wife horrible. He said Joy you were so nasty and mean looking the man could not say anything you were constantly being mean. I watched it and I thought that they owed him and his wife an apology.
If he can come on and talk to them why can't the be social this show has gotten out of hand with the remarks.God help Elizabeth they will probably hang her up with a rope like they did with the hate Palin manequin in California because she opposes gay marriage but she said that they can have a civil union.

October 29 2008 at 4:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dima

E Hasselbeck always interjects her opinions then expects others to fall in line with the things she deems are correct. She is the only host on the show that has gotten into heated arguments with every one else so that let's people know where the problem lies. It isn't everyone else with the problem it is E. She is an immature loud mouth who seems to not be able to have a civil relationship with others. It is people like her who refuses to believe that other people has beliefs unlike hers. Elizabeth creates her own problems. She needs to grow up and realize everything does not relvolve around her.

October 27 2008 at 9:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sharon

Get rid of Elizabeth---personality of road kill and brains of a gnat.

October 27 2008 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dimsum

I refuse to watch the View because Elisabeth is so offensive. She is too emotional and is a very judgemental woman. One of those maniacal Christians who pass judgement on all those who do not believe as they do.

October 23 2008 at 2:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kay

WHEN I KNEW BILL WAS GOING TO BE ON I KNEW I COULD NOT MISS THE VIEW TODAY.
HOW DID YOU LIKE BILL TODAY JOY??
SURE GLADE YOU GOT YOURS. I LOVED SEEING YOU GETING SLAM. YOU ARE SO GOOD DISHING IT OUT. NOW TAKE IT. I FEEL BAD FOR YOUR BOYFRIEND. HE MUST BE A WIMP.

October 22 2008 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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