Why Elizabeth Hasselbeck is my Hero pg 2Daily and Weekend Results at the Domestic Box Office
But Elisabeth Hasselbeck is without even the slender excuse you can offer for Lopez. What kind of pressure is Hasselbeck under, except for almost sharing a name with a murdered character on Law & Order (that’s a funny one, but I’ll let you find it for yourself)? She’s just not very nice, or smart, or rather, she’s only smart enough to be sure of her opinions without knowing how little she actually knows. She’s my hero because she proves that pretty isn’t good, that blond isn’t innocent, and that slender isn’t full of health in all its possible manifestations. But that her narrow black & white views often make points with the View audience, well, there’s a reason she’s on the show, after all. She allows the show to skew across the great left-right divide. And she’s pretty. She’s the reason I can’t watch The View, because I don’t think immature opinions and lack of ability to converse without falling into dogma and shouting have any place in a casual talkshow environment. I want to watch people intelligently bringing differing opinions to a mature discussion, where listening is at least as much a part of the process as speaking. I want a Rosie on each side, with a Babs in the middle, even if one Rosie has to take on an opinion she doesn’t believe, like you did in debates at school. At least the issue would be looked at from both sides, instead of being lost in petulance and whining. Thank you, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, for making it more difficult for a woman to be hired for a talk show based on looks alone. Maybe someday the networks will even go back to hiring serious, experienced journalists instead of pop tart girls as news anchors. I cringe when I hear those Fox chickies mispronounce the name of a country or run an interview like they’re having coffee with a girlfriend. Barbara Walters was never like that. And please, do it soon so I can have a woman hero because I respect her, not because, by making the world a little worse, she may just make it a little better. From Jen, for your viewing pleasureElisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie fight on The View Elisabeth is so not cool with infidelity Barbara explains to Lizzie how to fight like a grown-up Return from Jen Frankel - Elisabeth Hasselbeck to WILDsound Filmmaking Feedback Events home page
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