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‘View’ Insider: Barbara Walters Giving Elisabeth Hasselbeck ‘Enough Rope To Hang Herself’
2:40AM Seth | Our breathless coverage of the backstage bitchfights befalling The View in these tense days leading up to the election have elicited what will surely go down as the Golden Age of View-Issued Denials. From Whoopi on Regis and GMA, to a very special “We All Love Each Other!” Hot Topic, to a show rep chuckling off our McCain T-shirt ban story, to Sherri Shepherd telling CNN the tales are as flat-out wrong as the Earth itself is flat, never before have the ladies doth protested so much. And yet, further reports of animus come. The Chicago Sun-Times ran a story yesterday claiming that things had “gotten so ugly, they only speak on air or when a camera is anywhere in their vicinity.” Accurate? Yes, says a Defamer source who’s managed to penetrate their inner kaffeeklatsch sanctum: I can confirm for you that this story is indeed true. In spite of the declarations of “peace and love” on camera, these two ladies do not speak to each other off camera anymore. Elisabeth has pretty much burned her bridges over there with the non-stop, right-wing rhetoric. It has gotten so bad that even Barbara had to warn her about not attributing statements to Barack Obama without proof.
ABC Bans Hasselbeck From Sporting All Unflattering McCainwear
6:10AM Kyle Buchanan | When Elisabeth Hasselbeck wore a John McCain-boosting T-shirt on Tuesday’s instalment of The View, little did she know it would set off a 24-hour, Defamer-consuming chain reaction that would lead to booing, a now-notorious backstage conflict, and a through-the-looking-glass emergence of this humble blogspot as one of the show’s Hot Topics (also, it introduced us to Sheetzucacapoopoo — thanks, Elisabeth!). Now, as Hasselbeck prepares to introduce vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at two Florida rallies this weekend, one of our agents at The View informs us that the problematic T-shirt was the subject of a contentious ABC conference call today: More »
‘View’ Catfight Of The Century Part 2: Joy Tells Hasselbeck ‘You Make A Fool Of Yourself!’
2:24AM Kyle Buchanan | To your left, witness Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar in happier times at the 2006 launch party for Behar’s book, which was for some reason entitled Sheetzucacapoopoo: My Kind of Dog. Sadly, peaceful scenes like that may be few and far between now, thanks to constant on-screen warring and, most especially, backstage battle royales. Yesterday, we brought you word from a Defamer operative about a behind-the-scenes fight between Behar and Hasselbeck that went down after cameras for The View stopped rolling. Now, another tipster has written in to corroborate the account, as well as add new details: More »
