Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Big write-up in yesterday's Post about Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Written by New York Post writer Maureen Callahan it took up the better of two pages. The article, "The Survivor", points out that she has lasted longer than most of her View co-hosts, Meredith Vieira, the original Star Jones and Rosie of course. Liberalism has become so accepted these days at least in certain quarters that getting abortions and committing adultery is now considered normative, small wonder that conservative Hasselbeck comes across as an oddball for saying such erstwhile traditional things as adulterers make bad parents. Sarah D. Bunting, co-editor in chief of the website Television without Pity, has a very popular forum on "The View" in which people sound off on, it seems, mostly Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Bunting: "If I were one of the women on this show I would just be tired of her at this point. Joy Behar, I think, is even done trying with her." Funny but I find Behar's political views, or the expression of them, to be downright obnoxious with her own rigid and overly broad characterizations of conservatives (and btw most female comics are not the least bit funny). Geez, you'd think this was some supermarket job and Elisabeth was some seafood manager not pulling her weight so seriously do some people take this show. Why its continuance is basic to the survival of the Republic escapes me. Of course two of her former "Survivor" co-stars have nothing but bad things to say about her (where are they now?) and even the Donald chimes in with she is "one of the dumber people on TV and an imbecile" (pot-kettle-black). Last season "Law and Order" even had an episode where a victim of rape and murder was named Elisabeth Hassenbeck.

It's only a show, it's like she's getting the Dan Quayle treatment or something. As the libs like to say don't like it change the friggin' channel.

6 comments:

  1. Are you serious about the Law and Order thing? That is just terrible!

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  2. yeah yeah, I see right through you z. If she wasn't married to a football player with a kid on the way you'd do her in a Brooklyn heartbeat.

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  3. It's true Beth and when she found out she even called one of the producers of the show and he hung up on her. Imagine if a right-wing show (not that there are any) had done the same thing with a prominent female liberal celebrity!!!

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  4. Laura Ingraham gets pounced on too from time to time, it's not right.

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  5. I gotta agree with the z-man on this one, the right-wing women look a whole lot better than the liberals. Even Maggie Gallagher is cute in a pudgy sort of way. Word.

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  6. Getting back to the "Law and Order" Beth why wasn't this more of a scandal? Nobody, and I mean nobody, came to her defense, she had to go it alone. Tells you something, Babs should have devoted a whole show to it. She should leave "The View" already and be given a radio slot on WABC where Sean is.

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