Let's end our day with a spoonful of Joe Biden, just to make us all feel a little better.

In emotional moment on @TheView, Joe Biden consoles Meghan McCain, whose father was diagnosed with same cancer Biden's late son Beau had. "There is hope. And if anybody can make it, your dad [can]." pic.twitter.com/tQUy11X5sV

— ABC News (@ABC) December 13, 2017

I am by no means a big fan of Meghan McCain, but she is a human being, and she is suffering.

Joe Biden demonstrates such abundant humanity in how he interacts with her, and his ability to even make her laugh while she is falling apart on national televisions speaks highly of the kind of heart our former Vice President possesses.

When Joe and Barack ran our country we were in many ways the best we have ever been.

They embodied the type of decency that we are sorely lacking these days. 

I miss them both, and know that whenever I share a story about what either one of them is up to these days that it will be both uplifting and hopeful.

The Mooch is demanding a paternity test in latest chapter of his bitter divorce from wife number two.

Courtesy of Page Six: 

Anthony Scaramucci’s divorce is turning nasty, because he believes the newborn son whose birth he missed during his historically-brief tenure in the White House is not his – and he is demanding a paternity test. 

A source tells Page Six The Mooch believes estranged wife Deidre Ball could have been impregnated by someone else while he was away building his now famously-failed political career for President Donald Trump. 

Deidre, we are told, is horrified by the claim and insists the child is Scaramucci’s. And she has upped the stakes by hiring top Manhattan divorce attorneys Bernard Clair and Dan Rottenstreich from the powerful firm Cohen Clair Lans Griefer Thorpe & Rottenstreich LLP in order to make mincemeat of The Mooch in court.

Where's Jerry Springer when you need him?

Actually paternity should be fairly easy to establish.

If the infant babbles a mile a minute, and demands his own hair and makeup person, it's the Mooch's.

In other Mooch news it appears he now has a co-hosting gig on The View.

As if I needed another reason not to watch that damn show.

According to Nicolle Wallace she would not be surprised to see either Monica Lewinsky or Sarah Palin showing up as hosts for The View.

Nicolle Wallace is currently pimping her new book "Madam President" and during an interview with People Magazine was asked about the prospect of having Lewinsky or Palin assuming hosting duties on The View:  

People: Is there anything to the buzz about Monica Lewinsky being considered as a View co-host? 

Wallace: I've heard her name and I've talked about her. I watched her TED talk three times. So I would love to have her on. No idea if she's on anyone's radar as a host. 

People: What about Palin, who was once pretty open about wanting the job? 

Wallace: (Laughs.) I think I'm all the Republican they can handle right now. I've never heard Sarah Palin's name, but I would not be surprised to see her there one morning. This process is sort of like a Republican White House – it's shrouded in secrecy and there are no leaks. 

Yeah the day that Nicolle Wallace shows up and sees Sarah Palin seated on the couch is the day she runs screaming from the studio. 

Besides as we know Palin does not want to actually work for her money, so the idea of her taking the job is a non-starter.

As for Lewinsky, I could see her wanting a gig like this.

I think either one of these choices would be nothing more than a casting gimmick, but I imagine that once Lewinsky got past all of the questions about Bill, and stained dresses, she might have something to contribute.

And let's face it if this were to take place during the 2016 election cycle, with Hillary running for President, it would certainly attract viewers just waiting to hear what Monica had to say about Hil.

Rumor has it that Kathy Griffin might be up for a hosting gig on The View.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News: 

Kathy Griffin made a big impression on “The View’s” producers as a guest last Monday. They’ve now batted around the idea of asking the comedian to consider a regular guest-hosting gig, which might lead to a full time position on the show, Confidenti@l has learned. 

“She was great and has Whoopi (Goldberg)’ s backing. Whoopi loves Kathy,” says our insider at the talk show. “ ‘The View’ would be a perfect fit if Kathy wanted to fly to New York weekly. It’s a Monday-through-Thursday job and she can tour on the weekends, the best two nights to sell tickets.”

Gee I bet that Sarah and Bristol's feet are still swollen from their victory dance last week over news that Kathy quit, or as the Palins put it was fired from, her gig with the Fashion Police. And here she is with a potential new job already.

Maybe it is just the mean girl side of my personality, but how cool would it be to see Nicolle Wallace and Kathy Griffin sitting side by side trading barbs about the Palins?

Just seeing Sarah Palin still gives Nicolle Wallace PTSD. Tell me about it.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

As O’Donnell explained, Palin found herself on the wrong side of PETA after she posted a photo of her young son Trig standing on top of the family dog to reach the sink. 

When Wallace started to defend Palin by saying “her kids are beautiful,” Griffin shot back, “Don’t play the kid card!” To that, Wallace admitted, “I’ve got nothing else except the kid card!” 

After playing a clip of Palin trying to turn the whole thing around on President Barack Obama during an interview with the Today Show, O’Donnell asked Wallace, “Do you have PTSD when you see her?” 

“A little bit,” Wallace said, laughing. “I start to sweat out.” O’Donnell said she could see the color “drain” from Wallace’s face. “Who do I get to try to kill me today. PETA or Palin?” Wallace wondered aloud.

I like the fact that Wallace points out that using the kids to defend Sarah Palin is the only card that she has in her deck.  (Clearly she and Palin are playing from the same one.)

However that statement about who to get to try and kill her today was really stupid.

And that last remark about Palin's looks MIGHT have been true in 2008, but not anymore.

Today The View featured two Nicolle Wallaces. And a look back at our favorite scene from Game Change.

Loved seeing my friend @MsSarahPaulson today pic.twitter.com/PNL2CAovCD
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) October 7, 2014

Just wish I were as tall as my beautiful pal @MsSarahPaulson !! pic.twitter.com/BtxusziK6B
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) October 7, 2014

So as you can see Sarah Paulson was on The View this morning, which allowed her the rather unique opportunity to be interviewed by the woman she played in a movie on cable television.

I actually found the exchange quite interesting, especially when they showed the iconic moment in the stairwell where Paulson's Wallace is trying to reason with a hysterical Sarah Palin ("I am not your puppet!") played by the wonderful Julianne Moore.

I also loved it when Wallace said "That was not a dramatic interpretation of events." And that Palin thought when she said sarcastically "Because you're just like Hillary Clinton" Palin took it seriously and agreed that she was.

You can watch the clip for yourself by clicking here.  (It's the fifth clip down.)

P.S. By the way I am a huge fan of American Horror Story and have watched every season, and Paulson is magnificent in it every single time.

"Comedy is hard." The ladies of The View mock Palin for her Values Voters speech.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

The co-hosts of ABC’s The View on Monday mocked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s weekend speech at the Values Voter Summit, wherein the former Republican vice presidential candidate mistakenly referred to the White House address as “1400 Pennsylvania Avenue.” 

During the speech, Palin cracked a joke about President Barack Obama‘s now-infamous “latte salute” and, when talking about the president’s current home, gave the wrong address. 

“She’s proving once again that comedy is difficult,” said Rosie O’Donnell after the show aired a clip from Palin’s speech.

As you see it is left to poor Nicolle Wallace to come to Palin's defense. Which I think we all  know must really burn her ass.

You know I predicted way back in 2009 that someday Palin's name would only turn up as a question on Jeopardy or the punch line to a joke.

Nice to see how close we are to those predictions coming true. 

Today hosts of The View discussed the Palin family brawl. Nicolle Wallace could not be less surprised. Update!

So this morning Whoopi brings up the Throwdown at the Hoedown:

"Sarah Palin has broken her silence about her family's recent brawl at a party supporting her children in a gushing Facebook post that reads 'I have to say this as a proud mama: right up there with their ethic and heart for those less fortunate, my kids' defense of family makes my heart soar.'"

Then Whoopi turns to Nicolle Wallace, who of course handled Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, for her thoughts.

Wallace: "I worked with Sarah Palin, I have political staffer version of PTSD. So whenever I hear that she is breaking her silence I sort of, my heart stops."

Whoopi then asks Wallace to share what she has heard:

"This was a brawl of some sort?"

Wallace: "Yeah sometimes with the Palins it's exactly what it looks like right? This was a family night out it would appear. And um one of the kids, one of the sons, got into a fight and the family rushed to their defense. Which is admirable I think up to the point when you know every one is punching other kids in the face. And it has been reported, though she has denied, that she screamed out 'Do you know who I am?', which I think they did and I think therein lay part of the problem for them. Right? Maybe?"

I think that Wallace certainly has Palin's number, in that no matter how crazy the story you hear about her and her family there is often a kernel of truth to it.

However I was a little surprised that she seemed unsure which son might have been in the fight.

Because unless little Trig is known to toss aside his juice box and throw down at the slightest provocation, clearly it had to be he PTSD counselor himself, Track Menard Palin.

Personally I am just happy that here we are a two weeks out, and this drunken brawl is STILL getting national coverage.

(P.S. Here is the site that had the video, but let me warn you that it is the conservative site Newsbusters. So it is up to you to decide if you want to give them a click to here the above conversation for yourself.)

Update: Okay Mediaite has the video. So if you want to see it click here instead.

So the season premiere of The View happened today, featuring their new cast, and guess whose name came up? Update!

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t get through asking about Palin with a straight face, and Rosie Perez jumped in with a few questions of her own. She asked Wallace, “One, what was it like when you first met her? Two, did the winking get on your nerves? And three, when did you want to just pop her?” 

Wallace laughed a bit before explaining that the first time she met Palin, she was on Vicodin and had absolutely no idea who she was. And while Palin was “cool” at first, Wallace said, “Our relationship really erupted and exploded, and it was irreparably damaged after the Katie Couric interview when she thought I set her up for failure and I felt like the questions were pretty fair.”

Here is the video:

You know all I can think when I look at this lineup is "Could you just imagine how quickly these women would destroy Sarah Palin if she had the cojones to sit on that couch?"

But of course she doesn't.

For some reason it does not seem that the ladies of The View brought up the drunken brawl, which I find inexcusable, but that does not mean it is not still receiving plenty of attention.

Famous award winning TV news anchor Deborah Norville talked about it briefly on a South Florida radio show:  

Norville’s appearance started out by her asking the hosts, Paul Castronovo and Young Ron, if she could play their trademark Q&A games. 

Of course, the hosts obliged here request to play the game, and to limit it to one “easy” question. 

Castronovo: What northern redneck thing was Sarah Palin’s family involved in? 

A) A drunken fight at a snowmobile party 
B) Midnight moose hunting 
C) Eskimo hunting 

Norville: It should be all of the above, but the actual answer is ‘A’ 

(Palin’s son Track and daughter Bristol, were both involved in a fist fight a few days ago) 

Norville: Ok, let me ask you that, just as a follow up, wouldn’t you want to ask John McCain if he is sorry now? 

Castronovo: Of course he is. 

Of course he is, the only question is when will he admit it?

Perhaps my favorite mention of the drunken brawl comes to us courtesy of that defunct website Breitbart, which of course ignores all of the sourced reporting by various blogs and news sites, and instead uses that Real Clear Politic's schmoe as their primary source:

By now you've all heard about the infamous drunken brawl the Palin family was supposedly involved in last week. While Sarah Palin screamed "Do you know who I am!" (which she didn't), the Governor's 20 year-old son Track (a Veteran), 50 year-old husband Todd, and 23 year-old daughter Bristol, were all bloodied up in a beer-soaked melee they started (which they didn't). Fun fact: according to the media, the left-handed Bristol rains down blows with her right.

Then to drive home their point they bring up the IRS "scandal" and Benghazi as more important stories that the left leaning media is simply ignoring.

Yeah go figure.

To help out the Washington Post's Jonathon Capehart even offers two graphics to keep the stories straight.

First the Palin's version:

Then, you know, every other person's version:

Well you know what, that does kind of help.

Thanks Jonathon!

P.S. By the way apparently Palin did not get the memo that she is now a national laughingstock and politically poisonous because she actually went and endorsed another candidate today.

You know what they say, denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Update: Check out Palin's newest Facebook post:

Feel bad for the poor paparazzi hounding outside my truck this morning hoping to capture a tabloid "exclusive" of me coming out of Bikram Hot Yoga. How about we take away their "exclusive" and I'll give you the photos first, for free! Yup, here's what I looked like sans makeup, drowning in sweat when the camera rolled; looking much like a sheepdog, I'd say. No one said workouts were glamorous!

Hmm, so there is a tabloid up here taking pictures of Palin? That is VERY unusual.

I wonder if they asked her any questions as well?

Update 2: Mystery solved it was Radar Online that snapped the pics.

Update 3: Oops the Daily Mail has the pics too, as well as a longer article.

By the way both articles mentioned Palin's missing wedding ring.

Nicolle Wallace will officially join The View on September 15th. Because everybody hates Sarah Palin.

Courtesy of Deadline:

The search is over. Final details are still being worked out but I’ve learned that actress Rosie Perez and political commentator Nicolle Wallace are expected to take the vacant seats on The View when the ABC daytime talk show returns for a new season September 15. 

They would join Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg. Perez and Wallace would succeed co-hosts Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy, who exited last month.

My headline is sort of tongue in cheek but you have to admit that the new lineup of this show has got to work as extra strength Palin repellant. 

I mean can you imagine ANY scenario that would have Palin voluntarily sharing the couch with Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, AND Nicolle Wallace?

Oh hell to the no!

Not only that but Perez is not exactly a huge fan of the conservative point of view either, so all in all it would be an incredibly uncomfortable visit for a woman so prickly that she literally started her own blog where she can choose the questions she answers, and NEVER has to worry about any "gotcha questions," like "what do you read" ever again.

So apparently Sarah Palin launched the Sarah Palin Channel to help Nicolle Wallace get a job at The View, and another of her endorsees succumbs to the Palin curse.

I'm sure you all remember our animated conversation yesterday about the possibility that Palin was angling for a job at The View.

Well as it turns out it appears that the story was pure bullshit, or she is just really bad at angling.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

It is one of the hottest gigs in daytime television. 

And MailOnline can reveal that producers of The View will surprise audiences next season, when they replace departing hosts Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd with two relative unknowns. 

Political commentator Nicolle Wallace and October Gonzalez (wife of NFL star Tony) are expected to join Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell in September. 

Now I am sure that everybody remembers that Wallace was the McCain staffer assigned to Palin during the 2008 election, and who later spoke out about how crazy she was on just about every news outlet that would have her on.

She also helped the writers of Game Change, and was portrayed in the HBO movie by Sarah Paulson.

Yeah Palin hates her.

So if it was reported accurately yesterday that Palin launched her new channel website blog, in order to convince the producers of The View to offer her the job, then it appears the only person it helped would be Nicolle Wallace, who it seems is getting the conservative spot that Palin was, according to her own spokespeople, longing for.

Now it should be noted that other sources have not guaranteed that it is Wallace who has the job, but it should also be noted that none of them identify Palin as even being in the running.

If that wasn't enough to keep Palin from crawling out of bed today, there is also the news that yet another of her 2014 endorsees has lost their primary: 

Incumbent Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander won his primary tonight, defeating tea party challenger state Rep. Joe Carr in the Republican primary. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Alexander bested Carr 49.7 percent to 40.5 percent, according to the Associated Press.

This race marked the tea party’s last best chance to beat an incumbent senator and with Alexander’s victory, it marks the end of months of trying, as well as millions of dollars spent, to oust a sitting senator by an insurgent intra-party challenger. They tried in Kentucky, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, and earlier this week in Kansas, but came up short each time.

Of course it was only last month that Palin went all in and endorsed Carr. Which may or may not have been his undoing.

So how many losers is this now?

Did Sarah Palin launch her website in the hopes of using it as leverage in order to get a gig on The View?

Courtesy of Radar Online:  

Tea Party darling Sarah Palin‘s recently launched video channel is not just a place where she can express her controversial conservative views: RadarOnline.com has learned that it’s an audition tape of sorts because the former Alaska governor is openly competing for a spot on The View! 

“Sarah has been in talks with The View to become a part of the cast as the voice of the far right,” an insider revealed. “During talks, it was brought to Sarah’s attention that mainstream Americans haven’t heard from her in a while, despite her appearances on Fox News. Being very media savvy, Governor Palin decided to launch a video channel as a way to engage with more Americans, and prove to network executives that she can create buzz.” 

“The one sticking point in the talks is how much time she will have to spend in New York City and away from her native Alaska,” the source continued. “She has proposed that she work three weeks a month in NYC, and then go back to Alaska. During sweeps, she would of course not take time off.”

I have already expressed my doubts that Palin would seriously consider taking an actual  job on network TV, and especially the View. And after it was revealed that Rosie O'Donnell was coming back I thought that pretty much drove a stake through any idea that Palin would be on the show.

Not to mention that Rachel Maddow's executive producer is taking over The View.

However if Radar Online's sources are to be believed, it would appear that Palin is actively pursuing the idea, and that ABC is seriously considering it.   

“Whoopi Goldberg has given her seal of approval for the hire, but Rosie O’Donnell isn’t sold on it,” the source continued. “She is concerned that Palin is just too controversial, and the show will become all about her.”

Yeah I can imagine that Whoopi would be all over the idea of having Palin to  verbally bitchslap every morning, but why Palin would put herself in that situation is somewhat harder to imagine.

Unless of course that her money situation is even worse off then we have previously reported.

Still after watching how Elizabeth Hasselbeck was ridiculed and shut down over and over on the show, it would be hard to imagine that Palin would put herself on that panel.

Especially since she has spent her time since 2008 isolating herself as much as possible from any possible embarrassing questions, and making sure that she is surrounded by like minded people who will not judge her on her stupidity.

I mean going so far as to charge sycophants for the right to see you respond to current events and answer questions from the safety of a vanity website is just about as far removed as one can get from seeking public scrutiny.

All I can say is that if ABC is serious they better put a clause in her contract saying that if she quits halfway through she will have to pay them a truckload of money for their troubles.

Joy Behar asks "Shouldn't Sarah Palin be turning letters over on some game show at this point? "

Courtesy of Extra TV:  

Extra” was with Joy Behar at a special preview of “Lipshtick” at the Venetian Las Vegas on Thursday, where the comic commented on rumors that Sarah Palin might be joining “The View.” 

Behar quipped, “Shouldn’t Sarah Palin be turning letters over on some game show at this point? Why is she even relevant? She and Dick Cheney need to just sort of say bye-bye and disappear, so I don’t really see her on any show, frankly… I wouldn’t watch.”

Behar has a point about the letter turning. You know if in fact it could be proven that Palin knows her alphabet.

After all she does have the outfit for it.

By the way Palin will not be "slaying salmon" in Bristol Bay this weekend (Yeah, like she ever did!) because she will be appearing tomorrow in  Denver, Colorado to speak to a room full of Right Wing paint chip eaters along with the likes of Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Allen West. Jim DeMint, Ralph Reed, Tammy Bruce, well you get the picture.

The conference will be focused, I believe, on Obamacare, the IRS scandal, Benghazi, and maintaining the proper dosage during an episode of schizophrenia.

Palin's presentation is entitled "Seize the day."

How a woman who quit her job as governor to hawk a poorly written book, star in a poorly received reality show, and is currently engaged in a long slow tumble toward irrelevancy has anything to say about day seizing is beyond me.

But then again I am not a Right Wing lunatic.

Rosie O'Donnell to return to The View. Sarah Palin's head to explode in 3..2..1

Courtesy of ABC News:  

It's official -- Rosie O'Donnell is returning as a host for "The View." 

The show tweeted out the news today saying, "ABC confirms Rosie O'Donnell returns as co-host of #TheView w/ moderator Whoopi Goldberg for Season 18." 

The host is back after being on the show before from 2006 to 2007. While on the show, she famously clashed with Donald Trump and even some former "View" co-hosts like Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

I don't usually cover this kind of thing on IM, however since Palin set tongues a wagging about the possibility that SHE might like to join the show it made this news just too delicious not to share.

Not only is Rosie back on for sure, there is also talk that Meghan McCain might be offered a slot.

Now there is a truly evil side of me that wants desperately for Sarah Palin to feel the need to promote something that convinces her to be a guest on The View.

Simply the idea of Palin being interviewed by the likes of Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, and Meghan McCain is the kind of thing that liberal bloggers can only dream of having the opportunity to watch.

Sarah Palin responds to e-mail interview with incoherent babble, which somehow convinces people she wants a job on The View.

So apparently the Sportsman Channel is thrilled that Palin helped the channel nobody can find to attract six more viewers, so they are renewing "Amazing America" for a second season. (I wonder if this next season will see Palin actually do something out in that amazing America, and not just in front of a green screen?)

So to celebrate Palin agreed to an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

Not a face to face interview where she might say something stupid mind you, but an e-mail interview where she can have her answers edited for her by one of her SarahPAC paid writers, in the hopes that she will seem slightly less like a dipshit.

"Slightly less" being the key phrase here.

First the Hollywood Reporter asks her which episode was her favorite and of course she answers the one with the military hero, because you know mom of a combat veteran and all that crap.

Then HR asks her about plans for next season.

Her reply: 

We're really excited about the second season of Amazing America! We’re working on stories about people that go above and beyond to help others, really inspirational stuff that will encourage the entire nation. We’ve also got some amazing craftsmen lined up as well. I love showcasing skill and work ethic that deserves to be rewarded. It’s going to be a great season, families will love it together. I guarantee it! 

In other words it is going to suck just like this season .

HR then asks which shows she watches with her family, and she of course answers Amazing America because she is really never home to watch TV with her family, and this is a better option than admitting that fact.

HR then asks her if there are any other shows that she would like to do.

Her answer: 

Maybe. But the politics would have to be interspersed with a whole lot of fun and real life and inspiration showcasing American work ethic, because those topics are all pretty much the antithesis of today's politics, which I find incorrigibly disastrous! It'd be so much fun to shake it up taking on issues that make audiences objectively consider all sides, and I'd do it with my own real-life groundedness, candor and commonsense that I'm known for.  (Hah!) Media needs that today, versus the condescension that oozes from TV and radio. I hear everyone recently got canned from The View, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America's heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue. 

"Incorrigibly disastrous?"

"Condescension that oozes?"

"Knock some humble sense into their scripts?"

Who talks like that?

Anyhow this completely nonsensical bowl of tossed word salad piqued the interest of HuffPo who teased the idea that she might be serious about joining the cast of the View, before deciding later that she was probably full of shit.

However it was Palin's final response to a question from HR that really demonstrates why Palin can never actually have a real on air hosting job for a reputable network.

HR asks her whether she has read Hillary's book "hard Choices."

Her answer (Which I bet most of you can predict.):

So far just the passage about me because an attorney sent the passage to me. (Of course.) Hillary wrote about the 2008 campaign when the Obama camp asked her to basically engage in their familiar "politics of personal destruction" just hours after I was announced as the GOP's first female VP candidate. They couldn't attack my record as an executive, a Mayor, a Governor, an energy resources commissioner, nor a wife and mother, (Actually they could have attacked her on all of this. And in fact I believe that I and others did just that.) so ratcheting it all down she surmised the attacks would be based on gender! How passé. (Oooh, is that French?) How mighty hypocritical. Hillary refused to engage. I appreciated her boldness in explaining that behind-the-scenes campaign tactic of Obama's. (Now here is where the word salad gets deep and covered in a rich dressing of batshit crazy.) I've since pointed out there's no "war on women" if one doesn't react to that immature shot across the bow from the Liberal Left like America saw during that entire campaign. Don't retreat from such a shot. Just reload like I've been blessed to have the opportunity to do. And hey, I'm still standing! So flipping proud to be an American where I know first hand that anything is possible if you work hard, put your life in God's hands, serve something greater than self, and live life vibrantly! 

Damn!  Even if you wanted to write a parody response for Palin you could not do a better job than that!

No Sarah Palin is NOT going to be offered, or accept, a job on The View. (Could you imagine what Whoopi would do to her?)

However it does appear that she is actually going to return to cable televisions in her barely watched capacity as the green screen host for a show that features the hillbilly version of that 1980's classic "Real People."

And you thought cable TV could not get any worse.

What? Elizabeth Hasselbeck is moving to Fox News? Who saw THAT coming? Oh, everybody?

Courtesy of Fox News:

“The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be joining Fox News Channel in September to co-host the top-rated morning show “Fox & Friends.” 

Hasselbeck will be replacing current co-host Gretchen Carlson, who will begin anchoring her own daytime show on Fox News Channel in the fall. 

“Elisabeth’s warm and engaging personality made her a star on The View,” Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said in a statement Tuesday. “She has proven to be an excellent conversationalist and I am certain she will make a great addition to our already successful morning franchise.”

Wow! A permanent slot on the Fox and Friends couch!

Gee Palin was only invited on one time, and then sent back to doing remotes.

Gotta sting!

As for Hasslebeck now she gets to spout her Right Wing nonsense without more intelligent people telling her why she is wrong.

Fox News, where being ignorant and misinformed is a job requirement.

CNN is now interested in hiring Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

Courtesy of TV Newser:  

TVNewser now hears that CNN has reached out to Hasselbeck’s team about her possibly joining the channel in some form when she leaves “The View.” Another option on the table–according to a source close to the host–is to have her “gracefully exit” the daytime program by having her stay with the show, but cut back on the number of days she appears, while allowing her to pursue work elsewhere.

You know if CNN makes this move they will have made a huge leap from being simply Fox-lite to becoming an actual Fox News competitor. At least in the realm of having the most empty headed blonde bimbos on staff that is.

And this news does not come at a good time for CNN either, since currently they are under fire for their overly sympathetic reporting after the Steubenville trial:

Remember the CNN broadcast a few days ago, when Candy Crowley and friends bemoaned the fates of the Steubenville rapists? That didn't go over well, and nearly a quarter million people want the network to do something about it. In the two days since the verdict was read, a Change.org petition asking for CNN to make an on-air apology — okay, several on-air apologies — has gained over 215,000 signatures (As of this post it has actually reached 266,10.) and looked to be on track to reach the self-assigned goal of 300,000 in a matter of hours. In other words, a lot of people are not happy with how CNN covered the Steubenville trial, and they're not going to forget about it any time soon.

Siding with rapists, reporting GOP slanted news, and now considering a bubble headed blonde conservative bimbo. I am not sure there will be ANY daylight between Fox News from CNN anymore if this keeps up.

It looks like the rumors about Elizabeth Hasselbeck are true.

Courtesy of the New York Post:  

Elisabeth Hasselbeck “is toast” on ABC’s “The View,” sources tell us, despite show doyenne Barbara Walters insisting the conservative blonde isn’t getting fired. 

Rumors swirling that Hasselbeck was on her way out forced Walters to say last Monday, “We have no plans for Elisabeth to leave this show.” But a source tells us, “ABC is desperate to freshen the show. Ratings are going soft, and research numbers on the stars’ likability are scaring network execs. 

“Dumping Joy Behar, who was there 16 years, and Hasselbeck would be the fastest way to do it, they decided. After giving Behar the bad news last week and letting her bow out gracefully, someone leaked the Hasselbeck thing. Some enemies she has on the show saw their chance to get back at her. Barbara was spitting mad that it got mishandled, and called off the firing over [last] weekend.” 

While we heard Hasselbeck would go when her contract is up next year, the source added, “It could be earlier, because the ABC brass believes the show needs to be younged-up fast. They easily could coax her to go early.”

I have no problem believing that  she has enemies on the show, the woman is so unbelievably arrogant and one sided most of the time, that it completely takes away from any attractiveness she might possess.

And even when she finally gets fed up, like she did with Sarah and Bristol Palin, she still cannot help but stand up for other conservatives icons that are equally as bad.

Personally I think they are dumping Joy Behar to provide cover for their firing of Hasselbeck. That way they still appear to be balanced.

Stay tuned for Hasselbeck's new job as pundit and commentator for Fox News. You know it's coming. Where else does she have to go?

Rumors swirl that Elizabeth Hasselbeck has been fired from The View. Ostensibly because she is "too extreme and right wing."

Courtesy of US Weekly:

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.

Bristol and Mark visit the View after getting booted off Dancing with the Stars.

Essentially Bristol is just as wooden and expressiveness here as she was on DWTS, again essentially making Mark work extra hard to answer the questions and compensate for her lack of ability and desire to put forth any effort.

I kind of felt sorry for Mark who tried to cover for Bristol by suggesting that his foster brother Derek did not choose HIM for the team dance and that he will get him back later, rather than have to admit that they simply did not want anything to do with Bristol.

I liked how when Joy was asking about Bristol's relationship with Levi that she slipped in that she "knows about the whole story basically."

Of course Bristol attempts to refuse the question at first saying that "people are sick of hearing the story," at which Joy says "No they're not." And then admits that she is "sick of being asked about it."

But then Bristol gives her usual canned answer, that she is "raising Tripp by myself" and working on building a relationship with Levi, which of course is pure mooseshit.

And now that she is not distracted by DWTS she will undoubtedly start actively working to interfere with Levi and Tripp's relationship again.