BUT WHAT ABOUT SPAGHETTI CAT?! • "Look for Barbara Walters to name Barack Obama her 'Most Fascinating Person of 2008.' Right now, the ABC News empress isn't even acknowledging that the President-elect will appear on her annual roundup of newsmakers, which airs Thursday."
Tonight's the night! Tonight's the night where we see what Babs had to say to president-elect Barack Obama and Michelle on ABC, although the clips going around right now just involve Obama saying auto-industry CEOs that charter their own private planes are "a little tone-deaf," and then talking more about keeping his BlackBerry once he gets into office. Sort of a weird juxtaposition don't you think, ABC? Like that's actually the order the interview goes in: first question, automotive industry CEOs and the hypocrisy of those in charge; second question, what are you going to do with your cellphone provider once you are leader of the free world?
Rosie O'Donnell, keeper of Mollygood's trolls, pranced over to The Today Show to discuss with Meredith Viera her upcoming (and ill-advised) variety show that is scheduled to torment your television sets this week. Naturally, the two former View moderators discussed Rosie's latest feud with Barbara Walters, which is likely not going to end anytime soon seeing as how Ro just can't keep her mouth shut. Time must have run short, because Meredith forgot to ask about the infamous Mollygood Celebrity Encounter that everyone's talking about (441 comments and counting, really?). Better luck next time.
Official Mollygood sweetheart Rosie O'Donnell is at it again, this time responding to Barbara Walters' response to Rosie's statement that the ladies of The View don't always like each other. The fact that she can sit around and do stuff like this all day makes us confused — do we laugh and think it's awesome or cry and think it's sad?
Once again, there's trouble on The View. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and America's desire to ship her over to FOX News — no, this time around, the source is none other than Mollygood's sweetheart, Rosie O'Donnell. You see, Rosie told some reporters that all is not rainbows and sunshine over at the morning television henhouse: "I'm not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera." Barbara Walters, of course, had something to say about that and took a moment from humiliating Elisabeth during Hot Topics to defend their lovefest (around the 2:45 mark).
Donald Trump, care to comment?
Barbara Walters released the names of some of her Most Fascinating People for 2008. Among the lucky losers are Will Smith (uh, why?), Tom Cruise (again, why?), Miley Cyrus, Tina Fey, Frank Langella, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Phelps. We agree with a few, but overall it looks to be another snoozefest.
After the jump: Mollygood's Most Fascinating People for 2008. Feel free to add to the list. CONTINUED »
'PREGNANT MAN' PREGNANT AGAIN • "Thomas Beatie, the controversial 'pregnant man' who gave birth to a daughter earlier this year, reveals to Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview that he is pregnant again with his second child."
Sadly, not everyone made it through election season with all of their senses intact. The View mediator Whoopi Goldberg issued a cry for help on today's show when she proceeded to read a letter to Barack Obama — "written" by her cat, Oliver. Barbara Walters voiced her concern, but Whoopi soldiered on, delivering a solid three minutes of awkwardness and uncomfortable giggles (skip to the 2:15 mark).
Someone needs a vacation.
Within minutes of hearing the news that Barack Obama would be the next President of the United States, my mind went to a dark place: "Take that, Elisabeth Hasselbeck!" I couldn't wait to turn on The View this morning and watch the show's resident crazy cry in shame and weep for the state of our nation. Unfortunately, she threw us for a loop and acted like a classy, intelligent human being. Who knew?
Bonus footage includes Sherri Shepherd crying tears of joy in response to last night's election results. It's quite sweet, actually.
Full video after the jump. CONTINUED »
The View was awesome yet again this morning, thanks partly to Elisabeth waking up on the wrong side of the bed and also because of Whoopi's absence. Poor Barbara Walters had to mediate between Joy and Elisabeth, which was ineffective and led to one of the more intense shouting matches we've seen as of late.
The tension begins around the 4:00 mark, where Joy attempts to explain why Sarah Palin's likability has plummeted, which — of course! — Elisabeth takes personally and uses as an excuse to announce her respect for George W. Bush. Yeah, seriously. She believes W is the reason America has stayed safe from terrorism for the past seven years, but implies that the country will be blown to smithereens under an Obama presidency. Even Barbara takes issue with this, which leads to an even more glorious moment of Elisabeth getting snippy with her boss.
The segment ends — after much screeching — with Elisabeth offering Joy more "Obama kool-aid," because she's that mature. The only person who escaped this argument unscathed? Sherri Shepherd. What a strange, strange world this has become.
Hero merman Michael Phelps is rumored to be dating Barbara Walters' assistant, with whom he went to college. The young lady's very accordant name? Marina.
It's not as if this hasn't been made clear in the past, but Star Jones reiterates in a new Essence interview that there is no love lost between her and her former co-hosts on The View. At least she left before Elisabeth Hasselbeck fell in love with Sarah Palin and Bill Ayers.
Jones also talked about her divorce from Al Reynolds, whom she admits she no longer loves.
You guys? I have a problem. I wake up every morning watching the clock and waiting for it to strike 11 so I can experience the latest explosion on The View. Each episode over the past week has been like a ticking time bomb, with the ladies' hatred for Elisabeth Hasselbeck growing stronger. Today was another argument over Barack Obama's ties to "American terrorist" Bill Ayers — and, once again, Sherri Shepherd stepped in and gave Elisabeth a huge smackdown (around the 2:15 mark), causing EH to get extremely defensive and snippy. Joy Behar, who was back in her seat after having yesterday off, barely got a word in, but that's OK. The damage has been done. Elisabeth will surely be running to FOX News any day now.
Here's the video from today's episode of The View that we were talking about earlier. Elisabeth Hasselbeck got in on the political discussion with some new talking points from her friends at FOX News, all but calling Barack Obama a terrorist. This angered the ladies (minus Joy Behar, who was disappointingly absent) — even prompting Whoopi to nearly curse on the air. Instead, Sherri and Barbara attempted to reason with her while controlling their rage, which is entertaining in itself after last week's fiasco.
At this point, it's blatantly obvious that everyone hates Elisabeth and wants her gone. The sooner the better.
Sherri Shepherd, bless her heart, reared her slightly empty head today on The View to stand up to resident crazy Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The ladies' Friday show was pretaped, so today they threw in extra chirping about Thursday night's debate. Can you guess who Elisabeth thought did the best job? She tried to convince the other women, which is when Sherri "I haven't thought about whether the earth is flat or round" Shepherd got riled up and spewed some semi-coherent thoughts for the first time in her life. We never thought we'd say this, but: Good for you, Sherri!
The transcript of the smackdown is after the jump. Things got much more heated later in Hot Topics when the discussion turned to Obama's "terrorist ties," but asking someone to transcribe that mess is like asking someone to walk on water. It ain't happening. Hopefully there will be video for you later in the day.
Update: Video here. CONTINUED »
SHOCK JOCK GETS THE GIRL "Howard Stern and his longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky were married in New York City on Friday night, according to guests who attended the celebration. The guest list for the wedding, held at the restaurant Le Cirque, included Joan Rivers, Barbara Walters, Billy Joel and wife Katie Lee, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and Stern's radio co-host, Robin Quivers. Stern, 54, and Ostrosky, 36, were joined in a ceremony officiated by Mark Consuelos, the husband of Kelly Ripa, who also attended. Billy Joel sang two songs, and Chevy Chase delivered a raunchy roast, said one guest."
Here's the thing about The View that really annoys me (and no, it's not the ladies' constant competition to see who can squawk the loudest): Just when the show is getting good, the producers put the kibosh on it. After yesterday's fight heard 'round the Internet, the ladies came back from commercial break with a completely different topic. Look, Whoopi, we don't care how much you hate going to the dentist — we want to hear more of Elisabeth's inane tirades.
So it should come as no surprise that today's Hot Topics never once mentioned the controversy from the day before, despite the fact that it's being talked about just as much as any other big news scandal. Instead, Barbara was absent and Elisabeth tried her darnedest to be on good behavior — even coming close to admitting that Sarah Palin is not always right (re: her Supreme Court blunder). Looks like someone's struggling to keep her job. How disappointing.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK V. BARBARA WALTERS We've updated this morning's insta-notorious The View post with video of these two arguing over Sarah Palin. Watch it here.
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