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Ann Coulter Says Single Moms Are Bad For Society

Brett Singer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT

Ann Coulter, the woman who once called John Edwards a "faggot" and then defended it by saying that it wasn't a gay slur, has now turned her warped mind to single mothers.

Coulter has been out promoting her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America." She is a bizarre creature who appears to exist purely to spew venom at the world. It's not clear what possible purpose she has on this planet other than to sell her own books and appear on talk shows, which, in turn, helps her sell her own books. The promotional pattern is the same every time – "make outrageous statement in book, repeat statement on a channel other than Fox News, then go on Fox News and defend the statement." And it works – her latest tome is currently number 21 overall on Amazon.com.

One of her latest "points" is that single motherhood has now become "acceptable," despite the "fact" that it is "a recipe to create criminals, strippers, rapists, murderers." Nice.

Over on The View, Coulter was her usual charming self. She attacked Barbara Walters for the way she read the book aloud, and actually did a very nice job of playing the victim, accusing The View co-hosts of attacking her while she wasn't there. Unfortunately, everyone on The View talks at the same time so it's hard to tell what was being said during most of this clip. But it does mark the first time I can honestly say that I agree with Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (Thanks to Sassy Smith for posting this clip over at Famecrawler.)

As someone who was raised by a single mother, I have nothing but respect for any parent, male or female, who is raising a child alone. I'm married, we're lucky enough to have grandparents who live nearby, and I'm still exhausted. I often ask my mother what the hell she did with me during school vacations and half days. She always says that she "figured something out." In other words, she did what she had to do because she was a mother. That's it. What exactly would Ann Coulter like these single mothers to do? Give their kids up for adoption? Get a mail-order husband?

There are one or two words that I don't like to use. One of them fits really Coulter well. It starts with a "c". And I don't mean "cookie".

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Babble Podcast for November 10, 2008

Brett Singer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Here is the third Babble Podcast.

You can either listen right here

or download the MP3 file by clicking here.

On today's episode:

1.   Quick news update
2.   The Week in Blog
3.   Comment of the Week
4.   The Last Word

Notes on this podcast:

Songs parodied:

- Mamma Mia, Abba
- Only The Good Die Young, Billy Joel
- Welcome to the Jungle, Guns N Roses
- Copacabana (At The Copa), Barry Manilow

Posts mentioned:

Do Men Really Have a Pregnancy Fetish?

Morning News: Yes, He Did!

Sarah Palin Gets Pranked By Canadian Radio Hosts – Video

Star Kid: What Did Malia Obama Wear On Election Night?

How to Get Something (Free) for Conception

AirborneMini Tuning: The Ultimate In Pimp-My-Bugaboo Stroller Style

Is Brad Pitt Cheating on Angelina?

Vanity Fair: Kate Winslet Bares It All

Ashlee Simpson Gives Birth?

The View Feud: Who Goes? Joy Behar Or Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

UPDATE AGAIN: Palin Prepper Defends The Gov

Mississippi Students, Postal Worker, Punished For Wearing Obama Shirts

Have you ever told your kids to shut up?

11 names for private boy parts

Unusual toddler gifts

Past Podcasts:

Babble Podcast for November 3, 2008

Babble Podcast for October 27th, 2008

Morning News: Palin's Had Enough of the Clothes (and John McCain!)

Madeline Holler — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Republican BFF Elisabeth Hasselbeck hit the campaign trail over the weekend and, for once, got to deliver the GOP message without getting interrupted by her co-workers.

Daily Palin: Hasselbeck calls the focus on Sarah Palin's wardrobe expenditures "deliberately sexist" and then says Sarah Palin "sure is a woman who knows how to dress." And accessorize. Liz's evidence?

A flag pin, which is not in the expense report, because it's priceless. Mmmkay ... huh? Liiiiiiz, as long as it's free or priceless or whatever, it doesn't have to show up in the expense report.

Anyway, McCain says the cost to outfit his running mate isn't nearly $150K. More like, $100K, because they're returning a bunch of the stuff. (Fine. File the receipts.)

Now, McCain didn't say what the true cost of Palin is to his campaign, but his aides aren't holding back. Top level advisers are saying Palin's gone rogue. Following Hasselbeck's wardrobe comments, Palin explained to the crowd that the clothes weren't her property. A McCain campaign aide said (we can only imagine with slumped shoulders and shaking head) that those "were not the remarks we sent to her plane this morning."

That maverick thing is biting the original maverick in the ass. So while John McCain's political future implodes, Palin is trying to preserve hers for 2012, insiders say, right before they call her a diva.

Salon calls her the ultimate reality TV star (which brings us full circle back to Elisabeth!).

In Florida over the weekend, Palin criticized Barack Obama and the media and said the "coronation is already set." Wait ... she knows we don't do that in the U.S., right?

Incidentally, her hometown paper, the Anchorage Daily News, made its endorsement yesterday. They picked Obama. (Awkward.)

Some polls are reporting that Obama's lead over McCain has dropped five points (they credit the fact that McCain actually started talking about the economy). Nonetheless, some are reporting the Illinois senator will makes his closing arguments today in Canton, Ohio.

It might not matter what the polls -- or the voters! -- say. Salon's Machinist blog reports a bunch of screwed up ballots cast during early voting. The machines are vote-flipping. So if you cast your ballot for Obama, it's going to McCain (or the Green party).

In happy news, Amy Poehler had her baby, live from New York on Saturday Night! Actually, it's kind of sad news, because she's not going back to SNL. But, wait, there's another bit of happy: she and husband Will Arnett named the boy a Morning News approved Archie Arnett. Awwwwwww.

Video: YouTube.com [via The Page]

Morning News: Palin, Hasselbeck Can't Answer Simple Questions

Madeline Holler — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Yesterday was not such a great day for two of John McCain's biggest fans: Sarah Palin and Elisabeth Hasselbeck -- we've got video in a sec. Also, guess which one's approval rating is tanking?

In the Morning News Daily Palin: Sarah Palin fumbled (again) in her interview with Katie Couric. And as if to say, "no, she's really that unable to talk about big national issues," they edit in segments of Joe Biden answering, quite thoughtfully, the same essential questions. We should be totally used to this by now, yet, yet, we still couldn't help but drop our jaws that she couldn't name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with (though what do you want to bet she uses the line "legislate from the bench" in tonight's debate?).

Elisabeth Hasselbeck got all tongue-tied and pissy with Barbara Walters on The View yesterday when she was asked why she thought Sarah Palin would make a good president and then got all hysterical and head-shakey [via Jezebel] and said she'd been studying for that particular question on the pop quiz for a while. Tip to Liz: Take a page from Palin and get increasingly adorable when you're stuck!)

Sarah Palin's approval rating in Alaska has dropped significantly. She's not in George W. Bush territory by any means. But she used to be in the 80s. Now she's in the high 60s.

Judging from the polls, Obama's approval rating by voters is going up and he has taken a significant lead. Think Dems will settle down now?

Momcrat Liz takes us inside the world of political ice-cream and begs to differ with the candy red states in the Straight Talk Crunch, what will all the swinging that's suddenly going on.

Gwen Ifill, tonight's debate moderator, is having to defend her independent, fairness cred to the McCain camp. They've suddenly decided that Ifilll, who is writing a book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, won't be fair to Sarah Palin in the debate. If you've ever watched Ifill, and we're embarassed to say we have, you know she'll be so overprepared and fair it'll ruin half the fun (but only half!). And she won't smile at either of the candidates. And also, she's a good friend of Condi Rice's. And she has laughed plenty at Joe Biden.

Speaking of Condi Rice -- and really, it's been so long since anyone has -- she's had another personally troublesome trip to NYC.

The Senate did what the House wouldn't: it passed a bailout bill. $700 billion. We'll see what the House does today.

Finally, in personal health disasters: turns out some U.S. cereals are more than half sugar by weight. One serving of at least 11 popular cereals (Honey Smacks, for example) have as much sugar as a glazed donut. (And we all know no one eats just one serving.)

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Political Nanny: No Cat Fight, But Liz Sheds Some Tears

Madeline Holler — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:02:00 GMT

Michelle Obama was guest co-host this morning on ABC's The View. It was her first appearance on the show. The other hosts -- well, those who didn't burst into tears (more on that in a sec.) -- we're visibly thrilled to have her on.

So there was fist bumping, and Matthew Broderick interviewing, and Laura Bush-praising. But, for those with a love/hate thing for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the show was ultimately disappointing. No meltdowns, no cat fights, no pro-Iraq War diatribes, no talk of the Democratic candidate being "not brilliant."

However, ABC News reports behind the scenes that Hasselbeck cried hard between segments:

At one point during the show's commercial break, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the most conservative of the co-hosts, burst into tears while talking about how she was about to leave her new baby alone for the first time since his birth.

Sitting on the couch, Obama noticed Hasselbeck was trying to compose herself and asked Sherri Shepherd if she was okay.

Hasselbeck, who supports the Iraq war and spoke at the 2004 Republican Convention, grilled Barack Obama during his appearance in March over his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

During Wednesday's show, Hasselbeck said it was ridiculous for people to anticipate a "girl fight" between herself and Michelle Obama.

"We must be enemies because we disagree politically?" Hasselbeck asked rhetorically.

On the air, Obama said of Hasselbeck: "This girl is solid, she's got great kids, she's funny."

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Political Nanny: Hasselbeck Thinks Obama 'Not Brilliant'

Madeline Holler — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Likewise, Elisabeth, likewise.

The View Hot Topic indeed got heated, this time (or is it everytime?) about how nobody will let Elisabeth finish her sentence. All of it couched in "intelligent" political "discourse," naturally.

In a nutshell: Joy says Obama's brilliant. Liz says she doesn't think so. Whoopi says we don't know anything about the candidates yet. (Really?)

Antics ensue.

Here's Political Nanny's problem with the entire segment: none of the women seems more than superficially informed, each just kind of parroting the talking points of their favorite personality.

On the "where American's get their political news" hierarchy, Political Nanny is hoping The View ranks way, way lower than Comedy Central and, say, the Lincoln, Nebraska Penny Saver.

Photo: ABCnews.com

Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Boobs are Hard

Madeline Holler — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:31:00 GMT

The View hostess and resident babymaker Elisabeth Hasselbeck told the audience this week that her boobs were hard. Seems she's experiencing a bit of engorgement due to the weaning of her second child, son Taylor.

Hasselbeck does a hint of fondling early on in a video of the segment ... but it's Whoopi who steals the scene with her lack fo sympathy for formerly nursing mother or frustrated baby. Co-hosts Joy and Sherri are slightly more sympathetic and understanding when Hasselbeck calls it "withdrawal."

Sure wish Barbara had been on the show that morning. Isn't she a huge fan of breastfeeding?

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Whit Honea — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

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Political Nanny: Cindy McCain Says Husband Doesn't Have a Temper

Madeline Holler — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:09:00 GMT

Posted by Political Nanny

Cindy McCain played co-host on ABC's The View this morning where she told the ladies -- including a silent and reverend Elisabeth Hasselbeck -- that John McCain doesn't have a temper. And he's never unleashed that non-temper temper on her (so the c-word was a term of endearment ... now we get it.)

Oh, Cindy, come now. Political Nanny has watched your Johnny enough to know that his nickname "McNasty" isn't irony.

She also says the biggest misconception about her is that she doesn't like her role as campaigning spouse. She loves it. Then goes on to say, kind of aw-shucks-y, who could imagine a girl from Phoenix ... growing up ... being in her position.

Lady, you're a beer distributor magnate's daughter. You're rich. On behalf of all able-minded people, Political Nanny would like to say WE could have imagined it. It's actually very imagineable.

Still, it's fun to hear her talk. She hasn't been terribly vocal, like the other spouses. So it's nice to put a voice/speaking style with the face.

Political Nanny will search for the video and post it, and also try to uncover what Whoopi was so anxious to ask. Go here to watch the video.

Hasselbeck says wives need to bring sexy back

Brett Singer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:15:00 GMT

I take it all back. Everything I said. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the most amazingly wonderful woman in the history of the world. She is a true intellectual, a raconteur of the highest order, and above all: she knows that men need sex.

Of course, Elisabeth doesn't think this applies to "Tainted Guv" Eliot Spitzer and his wife. Of course not. That's why she mentioned the fact that wives need to keep their hubbies happy in the sack while she and her "View" pals were discussing that particular topic. But in general, her attitude is:

"If your guy needs sex, OK, I may not be in the mood, but we're gonna have sex?"

I mean, that's how it is in my house. Isn't it that way in yours?

Another Reason To Hate Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Brett Singer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:15:00 GMT

I'm going to dive right in here:

First of all, she spells her name with an "s". Who does that? (Probably lots of people, but when she does it, its annoying.) Second, she's a big dope who is only on "The View" because she was a contestant on "Survivor" (although she does seem to know that the world is round, unlike newer "View" moron Sherri Shepherd). Now she's pimping her new baby out to the highest bidder, and encouraging parents to take their underage offspring to the theater:

Week of January 28: FINALLY! A DATE!

With Grace! We hit Broadway running, as Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID filled our afternoon with magic. I had Grace on my lap for most of it, and for two hours, my otherwise independent little girl was my baby again. Just to have one on one time was the greatest gift.

Where to start?

Let us begin with a question: why is your ~~infant~~ under 4-year old child (thanks to commenter Christina for the correction) at the theater? Imagine paying upwards of $400 ($100/ticket, family of four), not including dinner or transportation, to see a show and have it be disrupted by a petulant rugrat. I'm all for introducing young people to the arts, but (a) a huge Disney production is so commercial that it's only nominally "art" and (b) at that age they won't remember the experience. I don't want to be a "hater," but it's just inconsiderate. UPDATE: In fact, it's the theater's policy that "Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre."

Next: unless I'm missing something, the wife of the less-talented of the two Hasselbeck brothers (Matt Hasselbeck plays for the Seahawks and went to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, Tim is a career backup who was dumped by the Giants and is now the third-string guy on the Arizona Cardinals – not a lofty position) seems to be saying that, in order to have "one on one time" with her baby girl, she needs to be in a dark room with a thousand other people. Much like this drawing (don't go there, it's one of those things you can't "un-see"), that's just disturbing.

And another thing: "I had Grace on my lap for most of it." So the rest of the time you checked her with your coat?

By the way, I found Hasseldreck's blog on Strollerderby; Madeline Holler agrees that it is awful, but also somehow draws you in, like a restaurant with terrible food and portions that are too small. FYI, Elisabeth is done posting, but we're fairly certain she'll find some way to annoy us again very soon.

Strollerderby Playdate: She's Leaving the Group

Madeline Holler — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:32:00 GMT

So this is it. It's over. One of my guilty pleasures is to be no more. My conflicted feelings over loving to read Elisabeth Hasselbeck's parenting journal, curiously over on the Dreft laundry detergent website, is to be no more.

She has written her final entry. And she has bid the blogger playgroup in my mind farewell. Dammit, Elisabeth. I was just starting to like you.

Her final entry is a whirlwind of ideas and activities and subtle clues about the woman who we know so well from Survivor, and that one E! show where she went shopping for cheap clothes, and now as the guardian of all ideas red, right and conservative on ABC's The View. Before she waves good-bye, she confesses that she doesn't easily say "no," bites off more than she can chew, and hasn't written thank-you notes to those who sent her newborn gifts (he's now 3 months old). She tells us she is overwhelmed with preschool applications for her unpotty-trained, binky-loving 3-year-old. Human, are we? I KNEW it!

You're going to miss Elisabeth too, right? It's not just me? I know I could start watching her on The View, but it won't be the same. I've accepted that we'll now only see each other when she's made a gaffe at work. But we had some good times, me and Elisabeth. Some good times.

Hasselbeck and Her Super Tuesday Foibles

Madeline Holler — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:36:00 GMT

Poor Elisabeth Hasselbeck suffered the worst of all indignities when she went to vote this morning. After her babyweight management morning run, she zipped into her designated polling place, was escorted to her district and asked her name and address. So far, so good.

However, her name was not on the list.

So they handed her a paper ballot. She grabbed it -- clock ticking -- and went to a corner to vote. Behold! It was a Democratic ballot. As if!

She describes the shock (!) the horror (!) of everybody else in the room when she returned to get a Republican ballot. Seems poll workers had to do a bit of scrambling to come up with one.

Elisabeth, it's tough out their for an Upper West Side Republican.

For more campaign musings, check out Political Nanny's election scrapbook -- we have candidate baby pictures!

Strollerderby Playdate: The Awful Blog I Can't Stop Reading

Madeline Holler — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:32:00 GMT

How can it be that I am a regular reader of this blog? I mean, you could hardly call it a blog -- she posts only once or twice a month, it's not terribly interesting, it's surrounded by ads for gentle yet overpriced baby laundry detergent that you don't even need.

And it's her! Her! I don't even like her! I am not interested in her! I do nothing but criticize and disagree with her. I didn't watch her on TV before and, now that she's back, I still don't. I won't! Yet, I read her blog. I check it for updates, feel let down when there are none. I find myself identifying with her truly mundane stories and smiling at -- and I mean this in the rudest ways -- the very unfunny funny things she strains to write. Please, what is wrong with me?

Somehow, I have let Elisabeth Hasselbeck get under my skin and into the heart of my web browser. Bafflingly, I don't consider the three minutes I put in each month checking out her posts -- she doesn't even have links or games or a photo album to look through! -- wasted time. How could I? I love reading it! But shouldn't I hate myself a little more for loving it? Shouldn't I want to soak in a tub of scalding hot water and gentle Dreft soap bubbles?

It's like the playgroup I go to again and again. The membership is dwindling, the only mom who shows up is the one you have nothing in common with. Nothing! But I keep going -- once or twice a month -- to not connect, to not agree, to not enjoy. Why go? Why not.

Best of Famecrawler: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Makes Pro-Lifers Look Like Total Idiots

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:02:00 GMT

Posted by HerBadMother

I don't have anything personal against Elisabeth Hasselbeck, I really don't. I'm not sure what it is, exactly, that she has to offer the world, but I also wondered that about Star Jones, so whatever. So I generally don't pay much attention to the crap that she spews. It's not crap on a level with the fecal spewage that escapes the likes of Ann Coulter, so it's pretty easy to ignore.

But then she had to go and start spouting nonsense - apropos of nothing at all - about the reasons that women get abortions, and as much as I tried to plug my ears and chant LA LA LA LA LA LA to block the grating din of her asshat opinion, I just couldn't STOP. THE. NOISE.

According to Elisabeth Hasselbeck, it should be difficult for women to get abortions. Women, she says, get abortions for superficial reasons. If abortions were harder to come by, then women wouldn't just, you know, kill babies for no good reason.

As Whoopi Goldberg so astutely pointed out in response to Hasselbeck's nonsense, unless girlfriend has been in a position where she's had to contemplate such a decision - because of poverty, because of social sanction, because of sexual assualt, because of lack of support, because of fear, because of any one of the innumerable, painful reasons that pushes women and girls to make such a terrible decision - she can just shut her mouth. It is the very, very rare woman who makes that decision lightly, and it is the very, very rare woman who leaves that decision lightly: most women go into it gripped with sadness, and come out of it the same way, save for whatever measure of relief has been afforded them for being able to escape circumstances that they feared would be far worse. Nobody wants to get an abortion, Hasselcrack. It's not a weekend in Vegas. Oh, hey, I think I'll go get an abortion this weekend - I could use a coupla days of rest, and I didn't want this baby anyway!

It's one thing to be 'against' abortion (which is fine, but isn't everybody 'against' abortion in the sense that we all wish that it didn't have to happen? Nobody is FOR abortion; they're for the right of women to access it if they need it); it's quite another to suggest that women who get abortions are vapid, self-absorbed twits.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a vapid, self-absorbed twit. Whether she's an evil one, or a stupid one, I haven't quite figured out yet. I'll keep you posted.

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Celebs Have Pregnancy Cravings! And So Do We!

Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:02:00 GMT

It makes me feel a lot better about how quickly celebrity mamas slurp in the post-partum jelly belly and slide back into size --2 (surely, that's a size now, right?) pre-preggers jeans to know that they are craving the same crazy shit we normal mamas still wearing the post-partum jelly belly years later are.

Halle Berry's chowing down on pickles and salty stuff (and so my love for her grows that much deeper), Usher's wife Tameka Foster's chomping on lots of ice (seriously?), Drea de Matteo's got a hankering for Italian cuisine (mmmm, lasagna) and the Gen X representative of the strange and conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, is downing gluten-free cookies (what? does this mean she too has crunchy granola moments?) and watermelon sprinkled with salt and lime (and possibly frat boy moments? hello, fruit salad tequila style!). I know for sure, we can beat these paltry celebs at the craving game. So while they're sneaking into Costco to buy crunchy dills and Nature's Best cookies, let's make our own list of kooky crap we craved while we were pregnant.

The Strollerderby staff is happy to kick it off with this list of hormone-induced must-haves:

1. Kelly got down with a sandwich made in the OCD style only women growing human beings can come up with. Check this: "Roast beef deli sandwiches on dutch crunch rolls, extra mayo and pickles. You open the sandwich and layer cheddar cheese ruffles potato chips inside, then seal it back up and eat that shit. Aw yeah..." Thanks for (bluuurp) that, Kells. Kelly also adds that she craved never being pregnant again. Good stuff!

2. Redsy apparently turned into a high school sophomore at lunch in the school caf while she was with child. She was all about the coke (COLA, people! we're not that loose around here, gawd) and Ruffles of the sour cream, onion and cheddar variety (what's with those? did a pregnant woman come up with that barfable flavor?).

3. Karen played it safe and meaty while she was boasting the bump. She was all about pineapple and cupcakes (aww), all kinds of meat (even though she all veggie and whatnot) and bananas with Tootsie Rolls (huh?).

4. I honestly did crave more than porn. Really! It was red meat, Thai food and McDonald's soft serve cones for me all. day. long. Too bad I didn't know any pregnant celebrities then, because I so would have brought them over to the dark side of gaining good, solid prenatal weight the right way.

5. I don't know it for a fact, but I have it on good authority that Mike craved his blankie and oak-barrel aged scotch during his wife's pregnancy. You and Nicole Richie, Mike. You and Nicole.

What about you? What crazy stuff did you crave that could easily elevate you to pregnant celebrity status?

A View From "The View": Earth Might Be Flat

Madeline Holler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:33:00 GMT

I don’t look to ABC’s "The View" for intellectual debate or insight. A good thing too, because they never feature any. (Just Google “O’Donnell Hasselbeck The View” for past examples of hostesses pushing around words and making hand gestures in place of fact or reason.)

The latest example of ignorance parading as a respectful, point-counterpoint, relevant discussion is this clip of their new host Sherri Shepherd confessing, with no signs of shame, that she doesn’t know whether the earth is round or flat.

“I’ve never thought about it, Whoopi” she repeats for clarity. “But what I’ve thought about: how I’m going to feed my child.” On behalf of moms with stocked fridges everywhere, I’d like to state for the record that it is no burden to make a sandwich while also knowing the earth is round.

The flat-earth debate (truly, I never thought I would type those words) was co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s follow-up challenge to Shepherd’s earlier acknowledgment that she doesn’t “believe” in evolution. Whoopi lays out her own merger of round earths and heavenly fathers (“I believe that!” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck chimes in off-screen) and gives Shepherd a chance to back-pedal. She doesn’t.

The whole damn thing is a two-and-a-half minute, five-person demonstration of the failure of American science education. It’s disheartening that these notions – flat earth, non-“belief” in evolution – have a platform on a mainstream television program.

Joy Behar thinks it’s a load but she won’t say it. Barbara Walters wants us to know her abiding respect of The Bible, not wanting to upset, I suppose, the new co-host after she quickly parrots fundamentalist dogma regarding evolution. The camera lingers a moment on poised, thoughtful, smart, smart Elisabeth Hasselbeck, as she leans forward to consider the “question,” weigh the “dilemma,” really feel the gravity of these “issues.” (Wait, did I say gravity, because that brings up another issue of, well, “science.” Who needs “gravity,” Mr. Newton, the world is flat!)

Is it truly possible that a discussion questioning the earth’s shape and evolution’s validity took place -- between literate adults on a television show with a national audience -- and not a single person stood up, pointed at these people and screamed, heckled or laughed? True, true, it wasn’t funny enough to laugh at. It really wasn’t funny at all.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck to Produce Another Young Republican

Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:29:00 GMT

Amidst confetti and courtesy smiles, Elisabeth Hasslbeck, the co-host on The View who sits opposite Rosie O'Donnell on all things political, announced she's expecting a second child. She is mother to two-year old Grace Elisabeth and is reported to have long wanted to add to her family with New York Giants QB hubs Tim Hasselback.

What's creepy/predictable about the announcement is that Barbara Walters seemed most excited that the birth will take place in November, just in time for sweeps. And since the attention-starved ratings-hiker herself Rosie O'Donnell will soon leave the show, I imagine Babs fuhreaking out about who or what will bring in The Viewers.

I personally abandoned the show when the only interesting and non-nerves-grating woman (love you almost as much as Matt and Ann, Meredith) bailed on what seemed on all counts to be a sinking ship. Strangely, people kept tuning in to see Star's abrupt resignation (firing, "contract blunder," whatever"), a revolving door of guest co-hosts to fill her chair, Joy's supposed comic commentary and regular looks of complete disinterest, self-promotion after self-promotion for Barbara's slow-dying specials, O'Donnell's fourth grade rants and, of course, Hasselback's mini-soapboxes as scripted by the conservative Right.

Dang it. Clearly, I know way too much about this show that I really can't even stand to flip past as I make my way over to Martha Stewart cooking up croissants with a bumbly Josh Duhamel. Truth be told, I'll probably even read the write-up in Us Weekly when Hasselbeck is wheeled off in her green gown to give birth to baby #2. Don't worry, though, all this attention giving will be duly countered by a rising sense of self-hatred for semi-celeb gawking addiction.

[photo credit: Heidi Gutman/ABC]

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Puts Rosie Feud Rumors To Rest

Alisyn — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:18:00 GMT

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, by far the most annoying member of the hideous View roundtable in my opinion (and that's saying a lot), put to rest rumors of a rift between her and co-star Rosie O'Donnell. Since Ro took over for the sorely missed Meredith Viera, she's been mouthing off left and right, and even when what she says is true, which it often is, she's so obnoxious. Elisabeth takes the bait every time, butting heads with Rosie and standing up for conservatives everywhere in her simpering, captain-of-the-debate-team little voice.

But talking to People magazine this week, Elisabeth admitted that even she was suprised when she and Rosie developed - gasp! - friendly feelings for one another. "I've been to Rosie's house. We went swimming with the kids. We hang out. It's a nice friendship, and it's one that no one would have expected - even us."

Aw. That's kind of nice. Putting aside their differences for the sake of the kids and the show. Good for you, gals! I had a higher opinion of Elisabeth after reading that. Then I read the part of the interview where she talked about "prepping" her body for another pregnancy (daughter Grace is almost 2), which pretty much canceled that higher opinion out. "I just need to get to a place where my body is ready to have another child. I think I'm the only TV person who's trying to put on 10 lbs.! I tend to train really hard."

She went right back to being annoying.

[Via CBB]