Does…not…compute! fwoosh
ETA: Seriously, I don’t even watch the View, but my partner’s sister DVRs it and watches it after she comes home from work. It’s all I can do to get through the show without blurting out “SHUT UP, ELISABETH!” at least twice.
Hasselbeck is a creationist. Enough said.
Hasselbeck is abominably stupid and aggressively ignorant, but I think the striking thing is that her co-hosts are so awful themselves that she doesn’t really stand out in stark contrast. Sherri Shepherd is even worse than Elizabeth is; that woman could probably be considered “brain dead” under some definitions of that phrase.
That said, I can’t think of a single time Hasselbeck has ever been right about anything, and I watch the show pretty frequently.
You’re right that the others aren’t any smarter, just incidentally on the correct side more often. I’d like to see a panel of women like Rachel Maddow, Maureen Dowd and Peggy Noonan do a a show. That would be worth watching, and the Bill O’Reillys of the world would be afraid to go near it.
The “View” should be a drinking game:
If Joy or Whoopi say something pro-Obama, take a sip, if Elizabeth says something pro-GOP, take a sip, if Sherri says something STUPID, CHUG!
Be careful there hoss, we don’t want anybody to get alcohol poisoning.
Did you ever have an issue with someone and stopped talking to him? Then he stopped talking to you? Then the issue was forever unresolved, the human connection broken and forever after there was no hope for understanding or compromise?
When two people disagree and it’s an important subject, isn’t it better to work toward resolution or, at the least, a civil agreement to disagree? I think so. The world has enough one-upmanship and conflict without contributing to it. That disconnection in disagreement is what leads to wars, getbacks and festering resentment. Not a healthy response.
It’s becoming all too typical in this “me first” generation. Where is reason and connection?
And Shepherd is a flat-Earther.
In all fairness to everybody involved this wasn’t going to happen: neither O’Reilly nor Behar & Goldberg have ever been wrong about anything. Even if they change their views the fact they’re right remains the same.
My main irritation is that if O’Reilly had walked off they’d have had a field day with it from now until the end of never.
Shepherd also blamed the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the black community on closeted black gay men and refused to retract her statement when everyone in the world called her on being a bigoted ignoramus. She’s vile, and actually bothers me a lot more than Hasselbeck. At least Hasselbeck learns the reasoning behind the talking points she parrots, nonsensical though it may be. Shepherd just throws out utter nonsense based in nothing whatsoever and then throws up the “That’s just my opinion!” shield.
Perhaps not in the world of television because it’s obvious that this was a setup from the start. But people who model their behavior on their idols wouldn’t benefit from this example.
I wonder what useful application that bit of fluff would have to real life.
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Shepherd just throws out utter nonsense based in nothing whatsoever and then throws up the “That’s just my opinion!” shield.
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One of my favorite Walters moments (I don’t watch The View incidentally, except on YouTube and when something on it makes the news) was when Shepherd was asked by Whoopi if she believed the Earth was flat or a sphere and she said she never really thought about it. Pressed she played the “I was a welfare mom” card:
“I was thinking about how I was gonna feed my kid, not whether the earth is round…”
and Walters said in stride “It’s possible to think about both”.
On that ep I was surprised that Whoopi didn’t see her “former welfare mom” chips and raise since she was one herself before her standup specials and Color Purple made her a star. With O’Reilly they even were on the right track when they mentioned the Branch Davidians- they should have asked O’Reilly “If it’s true Muslims killed ‘us’[sic] on 9-11 then is it equally true to say that Christians caused the Holocaust or Christians tortured Muslims at Abu Ghraib?”, if only to see what his response would have been (I’m guessing it would have to do with whether true Scotsmen drink whiskey). Anything’s better than just taking your marbles and going home.
Colbert walked out on the View gang today! Whoopie looked pissed at him too. Someone needs to get that girl a sense of humor!
He was kidding and came back, of course.
My friend, you have an eye for classic moments. I loved that moment so much. Babs really had that deadpan perfect wide-eyed innocent timing that day, boy. Classic.
By the way, let’s all of us posters agree that we don’t need to say “I don’t watch the View, but…” anymore. We get it, we all only absorb the View through friends’ DVRs, youtube clips, The Soup, wife’s T.V., maniacal madman with nefarious plan to force you to watch, etc.
The entire cast of The View are a bunch of pretentious twits. Behar and Goldberg are the worst.
I think Joy and Whoopi are intelligent and apparently keep up with current events, but it seems to me that Whoopi often has trouble verbalizing her opinions and trips over her own tongue. She does admit when she doesn’t know something and asks the others for info. Joy was a teacher ages ago, and I watch her on her show in the evening on HLN; she’s no dummy, but I think she may come across as pretentious or superior as compared to the others. But…Whoopi and Joy (and Sherri) are comedians and they too often interrupt discussions to joke. I think it all has to come back to the producers – Barbara and Bill Geddie. Barbara needs to have a serious sit-down with the others about (1) talking over each other, (2) inappropriate joking, and (3) you don’t walk out on your guests (which is what she said after they walked out on Bill O.). BTW, I just remembered: On one show where they were showing backstage preparations and what goes into producing the show, at one point, there was a replay of a brief moment showing Sherri as she got a message through her ear bud telling her what to ask a celebrity. My respect for that show dropped considerably upon seeing that. Like, what? these women need to do some homework on their guests, read an article or a book (or summary of a book), discuss ahead of time what they’re going to talk about for an hour, but still need someone off-camera to tell them what to do??
I remember her being suspicious about the way the WTC Towers collapsed because “steel doesn’t melt.”
As my wife says… It was attention seeking behavior.
I understand. My brain has to defensively block out the existence of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, too. 
Whoopi’s also the one who said that Roman Polanski deserves some slack because “It wasn’t rape rape,” correct?