The people have spoken. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the five cohorts of ABC's daytime talk show The View, will not be returning to the couch next season, following hot on the footsteps of fellow cohost Joy Behar, a source tells Us Weekly.
According to the source, the show's resident conservative voice is being ousted after market research revealed that she isn't popular with TV audiences.
"The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing," the insider tells Us. "People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed."
When reached for comment, a rep for the show told Us in a statement: "Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of The View and has a long term contract."
I put off posting this yesterday because I was not sure how legitimate it was. Especially in light of that statement from the rep.
However since this first story it has been picked by all kinds of blogs and news sites, all of who are treating it as a serious news story.
On TV Newser they even claim to have to independent sources who confirm Hasselbeck's removal from the show.
If true this would seem to be just the latest example of the dreaded Palin curse at work.
Or. perhaps, just another in a long string of bizarre coincidences. You decide.
Goodbye and good riddance.
ReplyDelete$carah looks as though she smells something very unpleasant in that photo!! Elizabeth has the same nails on a chalkboard voice as $carah.
DeleteShe is just plain "obnoxious"! Of course she will play victim and claim b/c she is a rw the libril media, yadda, yadda, yadda.
DeleteShe is so flippin' obnoxious. And what exactly is her claim to fame? Survivor?
Whatever! She is an actual voice of reason on that show. That show is filled with dreamers of hopey change that aren't realistic about what we are facing. Now I will give you she does get a bit "too much" but hell so does Whoopi (I love her) Joy, and everyone else that is sucking at the Obama teet. We are being lied to people and it is time we realize it and do what is right. Get off your stupid high horse and see that you cannot redistribute wealth, you cannot tax your way out of problems, and you cannot run everything against out Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Oh and how about the fact that the DEMOCRATS are shutting him down at every turn? What does that say?
DeleteNo coincidences. I hope she got the axe. Good riddance.
ReplyDeleteI don't know---I don't think they should fire her. When you silence other people's point of view---even a wingnut-- you have lulled people who have the opposite point of view into a false sense of what the world is.
ReplyDeleteThere are people like Elizabeth everywhere. I want to know where they are so I can see them coming. If she is fired, are they going to get another conservative? They should. Whoopie is pretty libertarian, Behar was uber liberal, Sherry is a socially conservative democrat and Elizabeth was most assuredly conservative but she could be openminded on some things--like sexuality. Barbara just sucks the toes of any guest that is there so she doesn't count.
It has very little to do with points of view, it has to do with market share and a gradually dwindling audience. The channel did the research and it showed she was a liability. Out she goes.
DeleteI totally agree, angela, on Walters. I used to respect her journalistic integrity but those days have long since passed. She's no different than Oprah in my book.
DeleteAngela,@ 4:20am:
DeleteI'm glad I didn't read all of the comments because you're expressed my opinion in your first couple of lines that we're better off being exposed to ideas different than our own because it makes us more mindful and thoughtful., etc--- all the things that we really want to exhibit on a personal level with others. Liz might be the wrong fanny in the seat to be that voice. There's a balancing act between quality of content and ratings, and when ratings is the only priority that drives the content, we've proven that we will cause a fender bender rubbernecking at a wreck on the other side of the highway too otten, metaphorically speaking, and that's just not healthy. Count me as one of the worst here, so I know Intimately that which I crititcize. It's just not our nature to seek differing viewpoints unless there's an upside with some entertainment factor involved.
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Angela, I agree with your observations about the other co-hosts and can see where Elizabeth would contribute to a diverse panel, but on the other hand...
Delete...it can be kind of like trying to find solutions to the climate change problem but you can't move forward because the guy who believes Adam and Eve co-existed with dinosaurs keeps voting it down. I see Elizabeth's removal as a response to viewers who are no longer willing to put up with such a level of discourse.
Water seeks its own level, and Teabaggers and old, white men will always be happy with Fox-level television programming. It's nice to see that young housewives and mothers are demanding more intelligent viewing.
Fantastic comment, and I agree with your analysis.
DeleteShe could be civil on a (very) few points, but - over the years she got bolder, and bolder and bolder with her talking points. I stopped watching 2 years ago. Don't forget, Barbara's politics also run to the right.
The thing is, I believe Elizabeth will be scooped-up by her initial Bible-beating mentor, Mark Burnett - possibly for a reality show.
She'll be the his new reality TV star. Won't that chap Sarah's saggy ass?!?
Maybe the view is going to hire stoopid sarah?
DeleteWho runs that dumbass show anyway? Babba wawa?
She likes Sarah.
Oh no :(
You guys who want differing view points might get your wish.
But it won't last long. That's for sure.
I agree that it makes for better television to have differing points of view, but they should be reasonable and intelligent. EH was not very bright, but always willing to share her narrow-minded ideas with little to back them up beyond the usual right wing talking points.
DeleteIt would be great for them to find an intelligent co-host who can represent the more conservative point of view without alienating a good percentage of their audience.
Then again, finding an intelligent conservative seems to be nearly impossible these days and this is not, after all, a political show anyway.
lol,She IS the reason I don't watch that show - for about 6 years now. When the kids were little and I was home every morning I would watch. Hasselbeck is/was intolerable to me. Who TF is she anyway? Big deal she was on Survivor or something and then gets to be a talk show host?
ReplyDeleteBuhbye.
Rosie was great - love her or hate her, she introduced the anomalies of 9/11 official story to a broader audience but OOOPS can't have THAT so they canned her.
I won't watch the show anymore unless an extreme liberal, critically thinking potstirrer joins, which is unlikely.
I guess the Quiverful moms that Hasselbeck WOULD appeal to are too busy homeschoolin their small town of biological kids or too damn tired to watch her on tv lol!
Please let thos be true. Gone!!
She should have been fired a long time ago. Her views are moronic and childish and have little substance. You can have a commentator who is showing the other side of the coin, but not one who uses fear, lies and distortions of the truth to "prove" their point.
DeleteBut joy Behar is also gone so maybe they want to take out the politics?
ReplyDeleteYes, I've noticed lately that they haven't discussed many political stories on Hot Topics so you could be correct. Lots of fluffy entertainment news, etc., but very little debate as regards to what is happening in the political arena.
DeleteI don't watch the show because of her (well, and because I think Barbara needs to retire; she ceased being a journalist long ago.) Still, this surprises me, because she was handpicked by Geddes, and reprtedly, his favorite. I have already seen comments on HP insisting that if she was fired, it's becuase she 'is a beautiful conservative woman, and that drives ugly liberals crazy.' Right.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this yesterday I cheered!! Wrote to the show when she first came on the show, she was to, way too,Rethug.Maybe i can now watch the show? Just maybe!!
ReplyDeleteShe is too right wing, but it is also the fact that she is really stupid and her arguments are stupid. She also has a tendency to try to talk over anyone who disagrees with her. Also all her whining about her kids and her husband are irritating. I say good riddance. Barbara needs to retire too.
ReplyDeleteAs to Joy, she has had 2 shows of her own and is now in the works for another one.
I don't mind people with conservative points of view. I mind people who have conservative points of view that they themselves don't understand. Like Elizabeth Hasselbeck. What a screech.
ReplyDeleteAnother one bites the dust....Palin curse for sure.
Deletetotally agree, she was an annoying bubble-headed spewing talking points
DeleteYou forgot option C, another dreary, whiny teabagger complaint that attempts to show how they are victims under attack.
ReplyDeleteBlonde, conservative, and stupid- Fox News will give her a contract and I believe they have an opening now that they've fired Sarah.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Hasselbeck, but at least she figured out more quickly than most Palinbots that the Tundra Turd was a fraud.
ReplyDeleteI loved her smackdowns of Sarah and Bristol. That's the only times I ever agreed with her.
DeleteI don't mind conservatives, but I hate stoopid conservatives or liberals - and EH was pretty dense.
ReplyDeleteBut she could occasionally have a glimmer of intellect, when she would come out with a position reversal - so I think the people who didn't like her were the knuckledragger conservatives (aka 'baggers) - she wasn't , stubbornly, militantly ignorant enough to please them.
Cuntry First!!!
ReplyDeleteDoes Sarah ever notice how much her "looks" have degraded in the past four years?
Sarah looks terrible now - surgeries - loss of weight - her entire face is different. Not the cute little skank anymore and the old, fat, white Republicans guys are dying off - fewer and fewer will be in her corner!!! She's not attracting the young/college kids either!
DeleteAnd to be fair, she also strongly criticized the Palin "crosshairs" ad along with the rest of the panel. No disagreement on that one.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth is a wingnut that conservatives should be glad to see gone from the show. Her vociferous, high-speed, uninformed/misinformed screeching made her a parody of right wingers - certainly not someone a rational conservative would have chosen to present a conservative point of view. She is a typical Palinite - completely devoid of any rational (and possibly persuasive) arguments. I always suspected that her looks and her air-headed parroting of right wing propaganda made her a near-perfect choice to demean wingnuts by example while being stupid enough to happily play right along. The perfect Blonde joke.
ReplyDeleteWatch her end up Faux.
DeleteI don't think Palin and Elizabeth have any love for each other anymore - that happened quite awhile back! Don't recall the reasoning though.
DeleteIf it's true, Elizabeth surely will NOT be missed.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that The View's potential viewing audience would grow by removing Elizabeth, even if viewers who tuned in "didn't like" her. If she's gotten worse and more polarizing over the 9 years, it makes sense to possibly make a change. I wonder if it's really Lizzie who has gotten worse over time and now-former viewers have 'just had enough' and tuned out.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that a show titled The View will have diverse pinions featured from the panel. Maybe the audience is tred of the format or of hearing how Liz expresses those views. If that's the case, I hope that her replacement will still represent a conservative viewpoint, but have a more mature outlook and engage with the others in a respectful, adult manner. No it won't cause most people to switch to a republican mindset or a libertarian set of personal values, but it might yield a better understanding of how those with a completely different set of values sifts through information, data, what and why they filter things, etc.
I think most of us have learned the effects of living in an echo chamber by some groups that are isolated from a good portion of the viewpoints of others who are more open to diverse ideas and diversity in general. We don't benefit by doing the same thing,
But there is nothing more endearing (IMO) than to see people with a different view listen and learn from one another, with the (it's cliche, but applicableintros objective of listening to and learning from a viewpoint of the other as a bigger priority than a person 'getting their say' in a matter. Ok, time for the cliche- "People don't really care how much you know, until they know how much you care." Once they 'know' you, the rules change.
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Gryphen, is your blog on Facebook? I would LOVE to be able to "like" your blog post directly on FB to drive some people whacko :-) I've copied and pasted links to here, but have to rely on them clicking on the links, most wont'. It would be much more effective if your blog were in news feeds and the sidebar thingy on FB :-)
ReplyDeleteOMG, does this mean Kathy Griffin will be a regular guest again??!
ReplyDeleteActually, I hope they just cancel this drivel. The view has been sucking for years, and it's all Bill Geddes fault.
Too little too late. I sent The View an email years ago to let them know I would no longer watch their show because of Lizzie and her senseless screeching. And I have never watched one second of it since. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
ReplyDeleteAnd I too have always thought bad Billy boy is an asshat.
I have mixed feelings about this entire conversation. I used to watch (record) the View everyday, but that was at least a year ago...it is easier to watch when you can zoom past the stupid krap or guests. I really hate the term conservative....these days it simply means Faux viewer, stupid, greedy..evil or Teabagger. If you watch MSNBC, Micheal Steele, Steve Schmidt or Nicole Wallace aren't stupid...they have a different point of view and still recognize reality. Elisabeth is a dumbshit that belongs on Faux...she has nothing valuable to contribute on anything. I agree Babs has run her course but simply knows everyone personally.
ReplyDeleteMy fav has always been Whoopi, no matter where she is and Joy is always smart on the facts...Sheri is just Sheri. For the "View" to work..you need SMART people that discuss the facts, not all the religious krap that is their answer for everything. It seems everyone there except for Elisabeth has a full working life outside the View..so Faux looking for a Palin wannabe seems a perfect fit. It will be interesting to see how they replace the 2, but chances are I still won't watch.
Why does everything that is talked about today have to be viewed as 'political'? Drives me nuts! It never use to be like this folks! Sick, sick nation no doubt about it.
DeleteI don't watch 'The View' (but, have seen it), but glad I'm that moron Hasselbeck is leaving. Good riddance! I'm sure Faux News will be glad to have her! I don't why she is leaving, but if it is because she's too conservative, that's fine with me! I disagree that they need another conservative to replace her, out of fairness. Conservatives already outnumber the Left on t.v., and the radio. That is part of the reason why so many people in this country, are so paranoid, and uninformed. The less right-wingers, the better! The show is already too heavily slanted to the right, anyway. The only true progressive voice on the show, was Joy Behar, and she is leaving, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably time for them to just cancel "The View" altogether.
One more thing" FUCK ELIZABETH HASSELBECK!
That EP loves her. It sounds like with the leaving of Joy and her, ABC is going middle of the road???
ReplyDeleteYou can tell the media in general is leftwing based because of peoples opinions of Eliz in comparison to democrats.
What does Sarah have to do with the View? Democrats are pathetic
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DeleteHey stupid...did you look at the picture posted? Doesn't that mannish face thing standing behind Elizabeth look familiar to you?
Yep...it's the retarded hillbilly with the trampy daughters....please try and stay on topic troll!
"Baldybots are pathetic"
LOL!!!
Come on Gina, be fair. Sarah's son is a tramp too.
DeleteThe funny part, Whoopi and Joy say some weird shiz but because they're Dem, no one cares or listens.
ReplyDeleteThe media is SO left leaning, this is a perfect example
you just think it's weird because you are ignorant.
DeleteI can't stand the view. There's no one tolerable on it and has always been that way, except for Meredith.
ReplyDeleteJust a bunch of ignorant emotional asshats
Sorry, but I love Joy and Whoopi!!!
DeleteRemember when Keith O and Glenn B were fired around the sae time?
ReplyDeleteAnyone think networks are trying to even out?
I mean, out issues derive from 2 party system, reublicans as independent, less govt folk and dems as "must punish successful people"
what a stupid comment. Go read a book.
DeleteNobody cares what you think. Go away and learn to operate whatever it is you're using to spread hate. And then get lost.
DeleteShe's gone because of one thing. Ratings.
ReplyDeleteThey're losing someone that brings in viewers. That is going to impact their ratings.
So there is no way they're going to keep someone that is an anchor dragging their ratings down by alienating viewers.
If people don't tune in because of her, no matter what their reasons are, she's gone.
The bottom line is money. Ratings is money. Ratings gets you advertisers. Without advertisers you don't get any money.
It's not that hard to understand.
Exactly. Same thing happened to $carah's show, oh and Bristles also, too. Nobody was interested in watching. Just like watching paint dry.
DeleteI dont' think it's because she's too conservative. I think it's because she's too much an ideologue. There conservatives I disagree with but seem to struggle with the same facts that I struggle with, and I find them interesting to listen to. I don't think a female James Carville would have done any better. Sheri is pretty conservative on some things, but she's not an ideologue, and she listens, or at least doesn't pontificate from a soapbox. I like Sheri even though she has some flaky ideas. Elisabeth was just a mouthpiece without much heart or soul.
ReplyDeleteLucy
Fox News can always use another blonde sock puppet. Maybe they'll put her on the morning couch with the Three Stooges. She'd fit right in.
ReplyDeleteLizzie was dull and rarely uttered anything worth hearing. It's true she might have felt overawed by the company, but that's another good reason for letting her go and saving the salary.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't personal, it was a business decision. They polled people and the results said that many many, MANY people (add Donald Trump emphasis) don't tune in only because Elisabeth Hasslebeck grates on their last nerve. They only said "extreme right wing views" to be "polite".
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching years ago. The show's become too stale, predictable and boring. If Babs was smart, she'd have ended the show while it was good. Now people's expectations will be hard to meet, and who wants to be the woman that replaced Lis? (Put your hands down, Baldy and Beefy)