Elisabeth Hasselbeck likes 'The View' just fine

No way, no how: Elisabeth Hasselbeck is not leaving the "The View."

The day after "The View" co-host and executive producer Barbara Walters got into a little tussle over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's qualifications to be president of the United States, Hasselbeck's "people" issued an official statement assuring that Hasselbeck is not leaving to join Fox News.

"While Elisabeth has a great relationship with Fox News, there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that she is leaving "The View," said IMG agent Babette Perry, who represents Hasselbeck.  "Elisabeth is passionate in her beliefs and enjoys being a part of this dynamic group of women and engaging in daily conversations. "

ABC also issued a statement: "Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, executive producers of 'The View,' consider Elisabeth to be vital to the program." Walters did not appear on the show Thursday, but that didn't mean that Palin and the election didn't come up in conversation. Whoopi Goldberg opened the show by asking her co-hosts what they would ask Palin and Sen. Joe Biden during tonight's debate. Later, co-host Joy Behar brought up Palin's sometimes halting answers to questions by CBS News anchor Katie Couric in recent interviews, including an exchange in which Couric asked Palin to name the newspapers and magazines that help to shape her world view and Palin replied: "All of them. Any of them that have been in front of me over all these years."

On Thursday, Behar quipped: "Come on, you can't even come up with the Moose News?" Co-host Sherri  Shepherd gave Palin the benefit of the doubt, arguing that the governor has been cramming too much information in her head since Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate.

Hasselbeck offered another explanation: "That was about someone from the media asking her to give an endorsement from magazines and newspapers and she decided neither to endorse certain publications nor to put some down. I think that was a wise move on her part. What was she supposed to say? 'I read the New York Times, which slams me every single day'?"

A few minutes of loud back and forth followed, with Hasselbeck admonishing her colleagues for focusing too much on Palin, and Goldberg ended the discussion by reminding Hasselbeck that the nation has had little time to get to know Palin.

--Maria Elena Fernandez

(Photo courtesy Steve Fenn / ABC)

Comments

[alf t]

dump hasselbeck!

[Carla]

I watched this today and Elisabeth reached new levels of disgust for me. Where did she come up with this endorsement crap? Who wrote that for her?

Elisabeth: in case you are not aware----Katie Couric asked Palin about her reading because Palin claimed that even though she has not traveled internationally except to Mexico and Canada (her state visit to a base in Iraq doesn't count as globe-trotting), she reads a lot and has established her world view from reading and studying. When she was asked what she reads, she was not asked to endorse anything. Just to cite some publications. You are a robot, E! A robot!

[dawn]

I cant stand the view anymore. Before i didnt like elisabeth but now I feel for her. The view is so one sided about Obama that i cant stand to watch it anymore. Its either the Obama way or the highway. Their view is either agree with us or we will tear you apart. Plus I can't stand Joy. It seems like she really tries so hard to make a joke all the time that she says such stupid and off the wall things to try to get a laugh.

[jaime]

Look at it this way: put all joking and political affiliations aside:the facts are pretty straightforward and quite simple

75% of the American population has an IQ lower than 110 and "are not competitive for most professional and executive-level work".
+25% (1 out of 4) of Americans have an IQ of below 90: "Current military enlistment standards exclude any individual whose IQ is below about 85" e.g., they are very limited in their trainability and functional capacity.

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html

Elisabeth Hasselbeck certainly is the "average" American.

[Jadelaw]

Although I am not, I must repeat not a conservative like Elisabeth Hasselbeth. I think her spot on the view serves a purpose. She represents a different (excuse the pun )view on topics and conversations had between the four ladies.And I have to admit sometimes its the reason I watch because when talking politics How many people actually have the same opinions ?

[Sheila]

I was so disappointed with the lead-in sentence of the above article because I am sick and tired of listening to Elisabeth on The View. She needs to go to FOX where they appreciate women of her "caliber."

[KK]

I used to watch the view regularly but not any more thanks to Joy Behr. That woman has some real big personal issues. I really like and respect Elisabeth Hasselbeck, though. She is the only on on that show that I think has any common sense. I say get rid of Joy and keep Elisabeth.