Elisabeth Hasselbeck Is Now Thisclose to Braining Barbara Walters With Her Floral Coffee Mug

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Kyle Buchanan

10/01/08 04:25PM

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Looks like that cooling-off period didn't take! On today's episode of The View, outnumbered McCain booster Elisabeth Hasselbeck finally let out the pent-up rage she'd so coolly kept under wraps during yesterday's Bill Maher appearance, lashing out at Whoopi Goldberg for voicing skepticism about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.Sensing an opportunity to restore order in the most patronizing way possible, Barbara Walters immediately leapt into the fray (though not with hugs), lavishing backhanded compliments on Hasselbeck while muttering that she's "trying so hard" to understand her point of view. Sadly, Hasselbeck immediately blew whatever sympathy she'd gained from Walters's condescension by dodging a question about Sarah Palin with an answer that inspires booing from the audience. Defection to Fox News coming in 5, 4, 3...

The View [ABC]

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HandsomeBwonderful Kyle Buchanan 10/01/08 06:06PM

Wow, she's a nazi? Ah, the tender embrace of the left, compassion all around.

Losin_it HandsomeBwonderful 10/01/08 06:14PM

@HandsomeBwonderful: If liberals learn to be gracious in the midst of their upcoming victory, they might be on top a long time. Early signs are not encouraging.

HandsomeBwonderful Losin_it 10/01/08 06:58PM

@Losin_it: Hard to be graceful when you're (not you personally) so angry. That's the problem with the most vocal of the lefties: Jeneane Garaofalo, Maher, any chick on the view, etc. Not to mention dipshits who are too stupid to know anything, but have a mic in their face— Hulkster's daughter, ANY singer/actor/rapper. Their uniformed cheapshots just galvanize the right. They are going to fuck this one up too. Just watch.

bess marvin, girl detective Losin_it 10/01/08 07:11PM

@Losin_it: okay so on both sides, we have fuckin nutjobs but after 8 years of what i presuming to be your party, i would gladly take crazy leftists anyday.

@HandsomeBwonderful: because the right are any better. you got guys in the republican party that are actively redefining what it means to be horrible human being. give me a fucking break.

emberglance HandsomeBwonderful 10/01/08 07:19PM

@HandsomeBwonderful: Seems like Hasselback's the one who can't control her rage here and is getting booed because of it. And you're lumping "lefties" in with Hulkster's daughter and "ANY singer/actor/rapper"? What's your point?

NoWireHangers Kyle Buchanan 10/01/08 05:20PM

Well of course talk of Sarah Palin touches a nerve in Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Both are attractive women of limited intelligence who have stumbled into the national spotlight and are widely mocked and criticized for their astounding stupidity.

Losin_it NoWireHangers 10/01/08 06:06PM

@NoWireHangers: I think it's unlikely that Palin could have had the success she's had by being so amazingly stupid. By contrast, pretty but dumb people are more likely to go far in media, where you don't actually have to run anything. You just show up wearing lip gloss.

JudyPaceFace Losin_it 10/01/08 10:25PM

@Losin_it:

Oh my gosh, I take it you don't follow politics all that closely. There isn't enough space on the Internet to list all the amazingly stupid politicians who have gotten re-elected year after year

What I Meant Was... Losin_it 10/02/08 11:09AM

@Losin_it: Palin also wanted to be a weather girl. I'm sure alot of pols have a deep desire to be in the spotlight.

Sinisterbill NoWireHangers 10/02/08 02:50PM

@NoWireHangers: Awesome!

Fapitup! Fapitup! Kyle Buchanan 10/01/08 05:42PM

Amazing how far a woman can go just as long as other religious fundamentalists want to fuck her.

emberglance Fapitup! Fapitup! 10/01/08 06:01PM

@Wrapitup: Hey! Not just religious fundamentalists! I'm a goddamn liberal who just happens to think she's a cute little Nazi tart, albeit one with a shrill voice, pointy little teeth and jet black gimlets for eyes.

What I Meant Was... emberglance 10/02/08 11:10AM

@emberglance: I guess that would be a hate fuck?

shaved ape What I Meant Was... 10/02/08 05:17PM

@Rob_Peter_to_Pay_Paultard: although I have never partaken in any hate fucking, I imagine it's great. Couldn't understand why Larry David skipped his chance in CYE, but it might be because it's hard to turn a fuck into a hate fuck in mid-air.

handsydandy Kyle Buchanan 10/01/08 05:33PM

I love that she answers Barbara's question with a question to buy herself some time to actually think about why Sarah Palin is a qualified candidate. Then (once she remembers the list the Repubs gave her) she rattles them off, ending with the all-too-telling catch phrase of the week "Alaska: The Microcosm of America".

Matthew_Maurice handsydandy 10/01/08 06:57PM

@silvarga: Yeah, I heard that too, and almost spit out my coffee. Alaska ain't NOTHING like my neighborhood.

showboat handsydandy 10/01/08 08:23PM

@silvarga: Texas was also a microcosm, we saw how electing their governor went.