March 5th Recap: Rachael Ray and Bob Woodruff
Elisabeth Hasselbeck said that she does not know what to do when her daughter Grace says embarrassing things. They were at an ice cream parlor over the weekend and they were playing I-spy. Elisabeth said “I spy someone with an ice cream cone,” to which Grace replied “the man with the wrinkles?”
Rosie said that she was in an ice cream store several years ago and a woman said “I didn’t know you were pregnant!” Rosie replied, “with twins!” and then told the woman she was going to name them “Ben and Jerry.”
The women talked about the recent controversy at Walter Reed Hospital. There are more wounded soldiers in this war than ever before because the advances in medical care means that more injured soldiers are living. The government is not giving the facilities enough money or caregivers that they need for full rehabilitation. Joy Behar says that it “shows that this Administration does not support the troops.”
They also talked about how Rudy Guiliani’s son, Andrew, told the press that he has had trouble with his father since he divorced his mother, but does not believe that means that he could not be a good president. Should a presidential candidate’s relationship with their children be taken into account when determining whether they will be good president?
Barbara Walters said that she does not think it should matter if the person has a good relationship with their children. Elisabeth said it is certainly something that people will look at. Joy Behar said that raising children should be the most important thing in a person’s life and it says something to her when someone is neglectful of their children. She then went off on a tangent to say that Thomas Jefferson “was probably raping his slave and we still think of him as the greatest president.”
Rosie said that it is difficult to balance work with caring for your children. When her son Parker was four (and she was still doing The Rosie O’Donnell Show), and she had to go to a charity event, he asked her where she was going. She explained to him that she had to go to a fund raiser to raise money for children who did not have any medicine. Parker, in his innocence, said “why don’t you just take care of us?” She said that really made her re-think whether she was spending enough time with her children and led, in part, to her leaving her very popular talk show.
Rachael Ray appeared on the show to talk about her various projects. She said that she typically tapes three hours of her talk show a day, so that she can bank episodes, because she still has her shows on the Food Network to do. She said that because she has been married for a year and a half and is 38, people always ask her when she is having children. She joked that it would have to be an immaculate conception, because she never sees her husband. In addition, she said that she does not think it would be responsible for her to be a parent, because she does not have the time to devote to children. She says that she feels like a lousy parent to her dogs, so she could not imagine the guilt she would feel if she was neglecting her children.
Rachael revealed that she will be starting a charity to feed hungry American children and also teach them how to eat properly. She said that wants to have children in her life, just not to be a mom herself. She said that she remembers how difficult it was for her own mom, who worked in restaurants when she was growing up. Her mom took her to work with her everyday.
Rachael said that she does not really watch what she eats and Joy said that was good because she doesn’t “trust a skinny chef.” Rosie said that is what is wrong with America, because Rachael is a size six, and yet Joy is saying that she is not skinny.
Bob Woodruff and his wife Lee appeared on the show to talk about his recovery from his injury in Iraq, as well as promote their new book, In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing. Bob was injured while reporting for ABC News, after an IED exploded near his convoy. His wife, Lee, was told by the doctors not to hope for a full recovery. She was told that he wouldn’t be able to speak because a rock went through his throat. She was also warned that he would have a change in personality, short-term memory loss, and an inability to remember things. Lee joked that sounded like the Bob she knew. After being in a coma for 36 days, Bob woke up. The first thing he said to his wife was “sweetie where have you been?”
Bob said that he has had a long rehabilitation and has lost some words and names, but speaking with people and getting back to work has helped him to get better. Bob thinks that his role now is to speak for the injured soldiers and said that the government is not acting fast enough to help the soldiers. He said that part of the reason we don’t hear about the injured soldiers on the news is that it is politically damaging to those in power. Bob and Lee have set up a foundation to help wounded soldiers, called the Bob Woodruff Family Fund.
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March 7th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I don’t believe that Rachael Ray is a size 6. She is at least an 8, maybe a 10.
March 18th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
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