Elisabeth Hasselbeck Compares Arguing with Rosie to Playing Softball
Although Elisabeth Hasselbeck mentioned her cover article in Pregnancy magazine yesterday on The View, she did not discuss the details of what was in the article, which is on newsstands now. Here is some of what she told the magazine.
On her final argument with Rosie O’Donnell:
I almost had the same feeling in me as when I had a championship [softball] game and I was up to bat and the pressure was on. I’m very lucky that tears didn’t come out … Unfortunately when a woman cries, it’s never seen as a sign of strength and never seen in a positive light.
On being a conservative:
Being a conservative mother isn’t the challenge. Being a conservative in New York City on television is the challenge.
On being a mom:
And as a mom, now I want to make sure that the decisions I’m making and the votes that I’m casting are going to create long-term benefits for Grace and my next child and hopefully more to come after that.
Rosie O’Donnell, The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, pregnancy
September 20th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Another laughable Elisabeth quote I read at Just Jared:
“When a woman cries, it’s never seen as a sign of strength and never seen in a positive light. A man cries and he’s sensitive, and a woman cries and she’s week. So even when you’re debating another woman, the first person to cry pretty much loses.”
Yeah, this is what she thinks determines the outcome of a debate.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
She says it’s hard to be a conservative on television…….my question is “WHY” is she on television???
September 20th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Every time I read an EH quote I want to laugh. She seems to think she’s coming across as articulate when really she’s just making herself sound foolish.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Suck it Elisabeth!
(Hmmm….. doesn’t make an impact like Suck it Jesus but that’s all I got folks)
September 21st, 2007 at 8:28 am
LOL……..viva, good one
September 21st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I always thought that being a mother would make a person more sympathetic to other people’s suffering….guess I was wrong
September 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I think if a person’s nature is selfish, having a child only gives him/her more justification to be selfish. I think Elisabeth would be an Ayn Rand fan.
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
Yesterday a fan wrote this to Rosie:
“It’s funny how much The View goes out of their way not to say your name even when they are telling a story that involves you… how quickly they forget all the good times!!!!!
Rosie responds:
yes
like lord voldermort
odd
really
Today she wrote this on her blog:
“its sad 2 me
the opponent
pretending it didnt happen
as it did
there was love there
we have video tape
2 prove it
remember
u watched
reality tv
some r not ready
or able to wake .”
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
kc: What an interesting comment you made! When you mentioned Rand I first thought of her novels, which my fellow liberals enjoyed as teens; not one of us then or now is even remotely similar to EH in our political or social views. I did not read any of Rand’s nonfiction, though, & wonder if EH would even have the intellectual curiosity (or stamina?) to read those works.
I still maintain that EH is a dangerous, insidious person to have on a highly watched & monitored TV show about ideas. She reminds me in a way of the William Hurt lightweight anchor who kept climbing the ranks in the wonderful movie “Broadcast News.”
By the way: So many people on this site make very very interesting & smart observations. My hat is off to so many of you. You say so many things I agree with but can’t express as well as you. Thanks.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
rainlillie: Our posts must have just crossed. I too read Rosie’s blog & saw her Lord V comment, but not the longer one you cited. It certainly seems like a fair enough and mild response, but it will be interpreted by the media & blogosphere, once again, as Rosie “trashing” EH.
The dust has settled from the last showdown between Rosie & EH. The message we are getting from it is: Rosie, and speaking up and not always nicely & in conventional-wisdom sound-byte terms, is bad. So don’t do it. I think Whoopi (& maybe Joy?) have gotten this message & take it seriously. We will not be hearing any more spontaneous, original thoughts and fears about Bush’s War. They will just repeat the gossip & complaints by the mainstream media, and will move on to other topics.
Rosie continues to be SwiftBoated, no matter what. Her comments in her upcoming book about Babs needing to retire have not helped; they have made The View close up ranks even more and treat her by their silence as irrelevant.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I like that Joy is sitting next to Whoopi and the two of them seem to be enjoying trading funny quips together. They could probably have a two way show and entertain the heck out of me. Sherry gets in a lick or two but has to not act so “out of the loop” when it comes to knowing about our planet. EH can continue sitting on the couch edge or go work with her hubby at Fox.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Peaches: Ayn Rand is on my mind this week because of all the publicity over one of her follower/admirer Alan Greenspan who of coursed dated BW. Small world! I was alluding to EH as being an example of someone who believes her success at other’s expense is right and justifiable. In Rand’s world view, I believe Rosie would be a pitiful figure who drags the world down by her personal unhappiness and unnecessary empathy for the sick and the poor.
They are certainly doing pre-emptive strikes against Rosie, aren’t they? First, leak the book and make it sound scandalous and vindictive, then critique her every move as irrational or “self-destructive” or dare I say, “cowardly”. EH is just a symptom of the disease in the mainstream media.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
kc:
I must have had, as Sherrie would say, “a brain poopy moment” after reading your comment. I stopped in my tracks & tried to visualize EH in her limo on the way to ABC (after dropping off hubby at Fox). reading a copy of Rand’s “Virtue of Selfishness” or “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.” Actually, if she were to do that & discuss these works in her own words instead of regurgitating the pap of Hannity & his band of Foxes, I would have a little more respect for her. (I think.)
I am not equipped to deconstruct or discuss Rand’s books & philosophy at all; it has been too long! I think I recall the appeal for me of “The Fountainhead”s character was his not going along artistically with the status quo. I should reread this one.
Yes, the game being played over Rosie’s new book is very predictable.
I’ll bet that woman (forgot her name) who is the PR person for Rosie AND Babs is needing a strait jacket to do her job these days.