"The View,"
recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Talk
Show," is ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, featuring a team of
dynamic women of different ages, experiences and backgrounds
discussing the most exciting events of the day.
The
View is an American talk show broadcast on
the ABC as part of ABC Daytime. Created by Barbara
Walters and Bill Geddie, who both also serve as the
show's executive producers, the program features a
panel of women as co-hosts. Currently, Whoopi
Goldberg moderates discussions while the rest of the
panel consists of Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
Sherri Shepherd and, part-time, Barbara Walters.
Since debuting in 1997,
international versions of The View have
premiered around the world.
Another day, another
example of rampant idiocy on the set of ABC’s The View.
Just one day after View
co-host
Whoopi Goldberg declared to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she’d enjoy a threesome with
her and Pelosi’s husband Paul, who was sitting in the
audience, Goldberg saw fit to chide conservative co-host
Elisabeth Hasselbeck over her anti-abortion views.
Justin McCarthy
writes:
Is Whoopi Goldberg
becoming the Rosie O’Donnell type bully? It appeared
that way on the October 3 edition of “The View.” A
discussion about Hillary Clinton’s $5,000 a baby
entitlement plan quickly descended into a heated
exchange between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi
Goldberg about abortion.
When Hasselbeck noted
that $5,000 a baby could lead to fewer abortions in
the world, Whoopi told Hasselbeck to “back off”
because Hasselbeck has never “been in a position”
where she “had to make that decision.”
The transcript:
HASSELBECK: I was very-
at heart, I’m very against this policy because I
believe it’s more of a gift.
BEHAR: Are you against
Social Security, too?
HASSELBECK: No. Against
this policy, but then I realized that there is a
benefit because I feel like this could maybe cause
less abortions in the world. You know, people would
keep having kids instead.
GOLDBERG: Elisabeth,
Elisabeth, can I ask you one question–can I ask
you a question? I just have to ask you this question
since you opened this door.
HASSELBECK: Sure
GOLDBERG: Have you ever
been in a position to have to make that decision?
HASSELBECK: Never,
never.
GOLDBERG: Okay, then
back off a little bit. Back off a little bit. Very
few people want to have abortions.
HASSELBECK: I’m sure
they don’t.
GOLDBERG: See, I was
listening.
HASSELBECK: I was just
affirming what you said.
GOLDBERG: Most people
do not want to have abortions. Most women do not
have them with some sort of party going on. It is
the hardest decision that a woman ever- wait- ever
has to make. So, when you talk about it, a little
bit of reverence to the women out there who have had
to make this horrible decision. And one of the
reasons that, that we have had to make this decision
is because so many women were found bleeding, dead,
with hangers in their bodies because they were doing
it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe
and clean. That was the reason the law came into
effect. That was why it was done.
I read about Nancy Pelosi’s
visit on The View earlier today but didn’t have time to
blog about it at the time so I saved the articles in my
NewsGator clippings so I could write about it tonight.
First, as we all know, The
View is nothing more than a
feminist mouthpiece for the Democratic party,
so it’s no surprise to see House Speaker Pelosi making
an appearance. From what I’ve read about her time on the
show, all kinds of topics were discussed – including one
that would have been more befitting had the discussion
taken place in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. More on
that later.
ABC’s
Political Radar reported on
Pelosi’s interview on The View, and noted her comments
about Clarence Thomas’ book – one she admittedly never
read but nevertheless described as “revisionist” (View
co-host
Joy Behar agreed). From the
Political Radar:
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., called Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas’ new autobiography a “revisionist”
book and offered her support to Anita Hill, who
accused Thomas of sexual harassment 15 years ago.
“I have enormous
respect for Anita Hill for her courage and she
really changed the way the workplace views sexual
harassment and we’re all in her debt for that,”
Pelosi said in a rare live appearance on ABC’s ‘The
View,’ a daytime talk-show targeted toward women.
“I think the book is a
revisionist book,’ Pelosi said, noting, however,
that she has yet to read it. “Whatever he’s writing,
the fact is is that this courageous woman changed
things for women in the workplace.”
Oh really? For purposes of
discussion, let’s just suspend reality for a second here
and pretend that Anita Hill’s claims had some validity.
Looking at it from that angle, how exactly is it that
Anita Hill’s testimony before Congress “changed” things
for women in the workplace? By showing that if you feel
like you’re being sexually harassed you don’t
report it to the powers that be? By showing that you’ll
wait until your boss has been nominated to be on the
Supreme Court to finally step forward – after
pressure from liberal groups to do so? Yeah, that took
HUGE amounts of courage, Speaker Pelosi. Boatloads. Not.
Continuing:
The Speaker’s position
on the Iraq war was challenged by The View co-host
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who have been supportive of
the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
“All the generals tell
us, the retired generals, that if you’re going to
have stability in the region you must begin by
redeploying the troops out of Iraq to end the
occupation,” Pelosi said.
“Even though today we
had news that the surge is actually working, that
civilian deaths in Iraq are down, like, 53 percent?”
Hasselbeck said.
“Elizabeth, if I may,
with all due respect, there’s still a lot of people
dying,” Pelosi said. “The cost in lives is of course
the most important to us, over 3,800. Tens of
thousands permanently injured of our troops. We’re
talking about a cost in reputation in the world,
we’re talking about a cost to our readiness to be
able to meet any challenges to our security.”
Um, but won’t it cost our
reputation if we leave before the mission is complete in
Iraq? Isn’t cutting and running from a hostile, deadly
environment one of the main reasons Osama bin Laden
cited as inspiration for his jihadi war against the
west?
Why yes, it was. After all this
time, this woman and all too many members of her party
still haven’t learned the lesson that cutting
and running before a mission is completed only
emboldens the enemy to fight harder, and to wage war
longer. And we’re somehow supposed to believe that
Democrats know how to wage an effective war on terror? I
don’t think so.
More from the Political
Radar piece:
Pelosi said the Bush
administration’s desire to continue to war in Iraq
denotes “misplaced priorities.” In New York to
receive an award for her support of breast cancer
research, Pelosi said not enough federal money is
spent on cancer research.
“All cancers,
550-thousand Americans [die each year], and we spend
$5.5 billion dollars on cancer research in a year —
two weeks in Iraq,” Pelosi said. “We are threatened
by cancer and other disease and we have to make a
war on that disease.”
Er – can’t we do both?
Fight cancer and wage a war on terror? Last I
checked we could. I really hate these types of
arguments, because Democrats have proven time and time
again in history that money is no object when it comes
to bringing home the bacon to their respective
constitutencies for their pet projects, yet the only
time the see fit to balk at spending massive amounts of
money is when the US does it for defense purposes. Odd,
that.
But if you think that
portion of Pelosi’s appearance on The View was bizarre,
what til you read
this (emphasis added):
Paul Pelosi is
accustomed to playing second fiddle to his famous
wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But on Tuesday’s
episode of the daytime talk show “The View,” Mr.
Pelosi stole the show.
“We have an older man
in the audience who I think is so attractive” said
Barbara Walters, one of the show’s five female
panelists. “You wanna take a look at Nancy Pelosi’s
handsome husband?” she asked as cameras turned to a
bashful Paul Pelosi and the audience cheered.
“I see you
eying me” quipped Whoopi Goldberg, another panelist.
“That’s cool.”
After a few ads for
home pregnancy tests and shower gel, the Paul Pelosi
adulation continued.
With Speaker
Pelosi now seated on the panel, Walters quipped
about Goldberg, “I think she’d like to do your
husband.”
Retorted Goldberg, “I
would do her, as well, but we should wait on that
because you’re still in office; I don’t want to
cause a problem.”
Lovely, eh? The House
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is
being told by the a co-host of one of the stupidest
shows on television that she’d enjoy engaging in a
threesome with her husband. What does Pelosi say in
response? Nothing. She laughs.
I swear, you cannot make
this stuff up about the left.
“Therefore hell hath
enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory,
and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall
descend into it. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But
the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.” —Isaiah 5:14-16
The View is an American talk show broadcast on the ABC as part of ABC Daytime. Created by Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, who both also serve as the show's executive producers, the program features a panel of women as co-hosts. Currently, Whoopi Goldberg moderates discussions while the rest of the panel consists of Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and, part-time, Barbara Walters.
