Barbara Walters at 0:22 is awesome. You can hear her disgust with Elizabeth Hasselbeck just oozing out.

All I hear is a bunch of cackling hens

That whole clip after about 1:30 is awesome… Sherri Shepherd giving it to Elizabeth at 3:30, Barbara at 4:00. What on earth am I going to do when this election is over? Even The View and Katie Couric have become relevant and entertaining…

But Obama. We know he's capable of fighting. But will he? Or will he roll over, thinking that he can merely rise above incessant attacks on his character? I guess we'll see.

it'll be great if she leaves the View and moves here to be with her hubby, then we can torment her daily--if someone wants to move over to Woodinville that is.

This is like watching my mother and her friends after four bottles of wine.

Good luck with that. Josh Marshall on McCain's town hall debate dilemma.

she's not married to matt hasselbeck, has been, she married to his brother, tim, a former quarterback who most recently played for arizona.

Secretly, this is Mr. Poe's favorite show.

@5---She's not married to the Seattle QB, she's married to his brother...so Woodinville is an unlikely destination.

E. Hasselbeck is a twit. She actually said the financial crisis was due to Democrats giving out subprime loans-LOL! She looks ridiculous and silly playing that Republican victimhood role.

Hasselbeck and Palin would be a lot more palatable locked in a 69.

By her own rhetoric, doesn't her association with the Seattle QB make them as good as married also?

Someone should inform her that duplicitous matrimony is akin to terrorism in some circles.

This is how the gloves come off:

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5963751

Goddammit. I hate it when I agree with Whoopi, but there it is.

elizabeth hasselbeck is a fucking idiot.

I want to to see someone slap that dumb bitch across the face!

Elizabeth H. is as dumb as a bag of hammers. She's from the "If I'm Shrill, Then It Must Be True" school of broadcasting!

barbara, the keating 5 is as relevant as anything. you said yourself that 'people are terrified'.

from what? ECONOMIC TERRORISM perpetrated by ECONOMIC TERRORISTS.

its ayres that's irrelevant.

@2 - I LOL'd. I aweso hewr a BABAWWA WAWA!

I hate to admit this, but I would totally fuck that Hasslebeck broad.

Also, bravo to Baba Wawa for putting everything in perspective.

Jesus Christ. I wish Sherri would've just socked Lizzy.

I thought it was a good discussion. (Full disclosure: I've never seen "The View" or any part of it before.) One thing I don't agree with is BW's equation of partisanship with "mudslinging." There's nothing wrong with partisanship. It's why we have political parties to start with. ("Party" = 'partisan,' same root word.)

People who say they're 'non-partisan' and try to make a virtue of it are in denial, and terrified that their opinions might offend somebody. So what? I doubt there's any regular SLOG reader who's afraid of opinionated speech.

Maybe this is the Texas in my coming out, but Elizabeth needs her ass whooped.

Rosie was so ahead of her time on that show.

Walters should cunt punt her.

I look forward to when we have President Obama and the Socialist Republicans have gone off into the wilderness for forty years, so we can stop having token "conservatives" on shows.

Really.

Enough with the lame morons!

Well said, Will. There's no place for dissent in a democracy, after all.