deepak chopra
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Attempts to Sneak In Rare Apology Before Commercial
4:41AM Kyle Buchanan | The other day, The View’s resident conservative/pirate couture expert Elisabeth Hasselbeck chose to assail Deepak Chopra not with any of the clear, New Agey ammunition at hand, but with the ethnically questionable order, “Go light a bowl of incense!” This comment, er, incensed some Indians, who saw it as a potential slur. More »
Peeved Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tells Noted Indian Scholar to ‘Go Light a Bowl of Incense’
7:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Elisabeth Hasselbeck has offended many during her tenure on The View, she’s never quite had what could be called, in the show parlance, a “Ching Chong” moment. So named for Rosie O’Donnell’s Asian language impression in which she shrieked, “Ching Chong Ching Chong!” and stopped just shy of declaring, “That was me, Rosie, playing an Oriental!” the gaffe is the type that incurs the wrath of an entire race, and Hasselbeck may have had her own in this morning’s episode.
