Elisabeth Hasselbeck Moves from The View to FOX & Friends

The good news is, Saturday Night Live's Vanessa Bayer will barely need to change her wig to go from Gretchen Carlson to Elisabeth Hasselbeck in their FOX & Friends sketches.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Exiting The View for Fox and Friends Gig — Who Should Replace Her?

The View might be looking a little more to the left later this week. The show’s resident conservative panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who began her broadcast career as a contestant on Survivor, will exit Barbara Walters’ ABC chat-fest after Wednesday’s installment to begin a gig as host of Fox and Friends. The news was broken by The New York Post. . . .
 
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Jon Stewart's Reaction to Barbara Walters' Reaction to Herman Cain

Gotta go to a Christmas party, so not much time for blogging. But this is worth it! Very funny. Jon Stewart dissects Barbara Walters' response to Herman Cain in an interview. Made of awesome.

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Is Sarah Palin Really Running for President?

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Could she take the pay cut? Seriously, since Sarah Palin bailed on the Alaska governorship, she's been raking it in, both personally, and via SarahPAC. She's released two ghost-written books, gotten a gig on FOX "News"--as all 2012 presidential candidates seem to do--and her own reality show on TLC. That's in addition to her daughter's tea bagger-fueled sure-to-win appearances on So You Think You Can Dance  Dancing with the Stars, and who knows how many other paying gigs.

I'd like to say, "Bring her on!" I once thought that a Palin candidacy would be a sure-fire way to get Barack Obama a second term.  I still lean that way, even after the GOP/Tea Party 2010 tidal wave. After all, the most extreme candidates for the most part lost. Still, Rand Paul got in. For that matter, so did the should-have-been unelectable George W. Bush, twice.  For all the bloggy goodness a Palin candidacy could bring, the possibility that this woman could actually become President of the United States scares the crap out of me. That's a charge often levelled at liberals like me. "You're SCARED of Sarah Palin!" Damned right I am.

For all the nay-saying about Barack Obama being the "chosen one," and his cult of personality, it doesn't touch the Palin cult. Not by a long shot.  There is nothing she can do, no flub too big, no faux pas that is disqualifying. They love her no matter what idiocy dribbles from her lipsticked mouth.  I'm moderately confident that the GOP won't allow it, and that if she does squeak by, that the American voters won't go for her. She is more polarizing than even Hillary Clinton after all. But after biting my nails for several months over Sharron Angle, I'm not one who wants to take that bet.

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Watch: Sarah Palin Tells Barbara Walters She's Considering Presidential Run and Believes She Can Beat Obama



Sarah Palin tells Barbara Walters in a Nightline interview (airing December 9 — they're already teasing it) that she's considering a Presidential run. . .
 
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Glenn Beck, Lying Sack of Dog Mess

Earlier, I said "No one but no one deserves a skewering more than Rush Limbaugh." I may have spoken too soon. Limbaugh has been around for 20 years after all, and there is probably nothing that could be said about him that would even make an impact. Glenn Beck is a much more recent creation, or rather, his popularity has ascended recently. We are in real danger of Beck filling Rush's enormous chair if his bubble isn't popped.

Leave it to the ladies at The View to show what a clod he really is. I'm not a fan of the show at all (though I love a few of the ladies individually). And how close do you think Whoopi Goldberg came to full-on Tourette's when she called Beck a "lying sack of dog mess?" I'll fondly remember a scene from Jumpin' Jack Flash while you watch this. . .

Rachel Maddow on The View

You know the drill. I don't watch The View, though I love Whoopi Goldberg. And I love Rachel Maddow too, so two reasons to inflict the other ladies of the show on you now.

Ladies of The View Talk About Rush Limbaugh

I hate to subject you to The View, a show that wasn't even on my radar until conservatives started railing against it. But one of the members of the show--Whoopi Goldberg--is a favorite of mine. And try as I might, I cannot write off my fondness for her because she is on questionable program.

Here, Whoopi--a sort of moderator on the show--frames the current tit-for-tat war of words between President Barack Obama and drug-addled gas-bag Rush Limbaugh. First, she reads his words. Then, the other ladies discuss them: Joy Behar from the liberal side and Elizabeth Hasselbeck from the blonde bimbo conservative side. Barbara Walters provides the gentle middle ground. Sherri Shepard doesn't know what's going on, and is mercifully silent. And then Whoopi whoops ass. It's toward the end, if you want to zoom through it.



And for absolutely no reason, other than I'm talking about Whoopi, and that this is one of my favorite movies (which I recently re-watched for like the 85th time), here is a clip from Jumpin' Jack Flash. Whoopi (Terry Dolittle) is trying to decipher the title song by the Rolling Stones, to figure out a spy's password. Just watch.

Ann Coulter on The View

I haven't watched this clip yet, but it dovetails nicely with the previous post about pundits. And the combination of the ladies from The View and poisonous harpy Ann Coulter was just creepy enough to inspire morbid curiosity. Watch at your own risk. . .

Keith Olbermann Looms Over Ladies on The View

I can't stand The View. But I love Whoopi Goldberg. And I love Keith Olbermann. What to do, what to do?

Gilda Radner & Madeline Kahn: Baba Wawa

In my previous post, I mentioned Saturday Night Live's Gilda Radner, and her character, Rhonda Weiss. It got me interested in what SNL clips were available of Gilda Radner. And yes, I know I featured one a few days ago. But I love Gilda, and this clip features another of my all-time-favorites, Madeline Kahn.

Madeline had been featured as the "Teutonic Titwillow," Lily Von Schtupp in Blazing Saddles, and one of Gilda's most-loved characters was her take on Barbara Walters, Baba Wawa. Both have exaggerated speech impediments--though Madeline performed here as "Marlena Deutschland." Just terrific.

And if you're too young to remember, this was at a time when Barbara Walters had secured an anchor position on the news with Harry Reasoner--a big deal at the time.

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