Video: Elisabeth Hasselbeck talks Imus and Rosie on H&C
posted at 8:34 am on April 13, 2007 by Ian
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“The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck joined “Hannity & Colmes” tonight to discuss the Imus mess and working with Rosie. Unlike Sean AND Alan, she thinks the decision to fire Imus was the correct one. As for Rosie and her “ching chong” remark, well, that’s a little different.
Nice to see her in a friendly environment for once. She’ll be back on Fox on Monday morning to fill in for Gretchen Carlson on “Fox & Friends.”
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Can’t believe it. I’m on Colmes’ side.
Kevin M on April 13, 2007 at 8:46 AM
I wonder…….
Is she job shopping?
If not, I’m sure she will get a lot of grief on the View set for co-hosting on Fox & Friends.
ChipDaddy on April 13, 2007 at 8:54 AM
She was on Glenn Beck’s radio show a few days ago.
It’s clear Elisabeth is more on the social conservative side of conservatism. I disagree with her moralizing.
VinceP1974 on April 13, 2007 at 8:57 AM
Ameritrade order for today:
Sell 400 shares of Hasselbeck at market.
Valiant on April 13, 2007 at 9:01 AM
I thought she was an intellectual coward for strongly backing the firing of Imus but weaseling out of calling for the same thing with Rosie.
Conservative yes. Courageous no.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 13, 2007 at 9:06 AM
Colmes nails it: “Is anybody really ’scarred for life, here?’” No, of course not.
Jaibones on April 13, 2007 at 9:11 AM
I have never been a Hasselbeck fan but she totally lost me forever with this bull. I agree with Sean and Alan. Elizabeth’s inability and cowardice and unwillingness to castigate Rosie for the same thing Imus did is just unacceptable. She is a tool and not a very sharp one. I am so done with her. This may all come back and bite her in the cutsie behind if she ever finds herself one day blurting out something on the air that is not politically correct. Phooey.
Glynn on April 13, 2007 at 9:23 AM
She seems a little naive at times (probably because she is quite young). Perhaps she needs to understand the heirarchy of liberalism. In liberal venues, who is above a white elitist liberal loud mouth (exercising his first amendment right) making an insulting, derogatory remark about black women? Answer: the liberals will dump the white elitist liberal loud mouth so fast it will make your head spin. However, it is still liberals eating liberals.
lynnv on April 13, 2007 at 9:27 AM
So Rosie’s “ching chong” was not malicious but Imus’s intent was? Pretty weak defense but then again she is known for putting up weak defenses.
Kahuna on April 13, 2007 at 9:28 AM
Sorry. Elizabeth seems like a nice person, and she does tend to lean conservative; HOWEVER…
She has never substantially rebuffed Rosie on The View. She comes across as weak, submissive and needy: “But, but…that’s not true!…now wait a minute…well I don’t think that’s nice…”
Her spirited monologue on H&C last night is the most I have ever heard come out of her mouth at one time. The fact that she refused to utter a single word against Rosie and her venomous outbursts made my skin crawl. She has been continuously slapped around by Rosie on the View and all she could come up with were spiffy little statements about how much she loves doing the show.
And her double standard re Imus v. Rosie is dead wrong.
Pfft.
IrishEi on April 13, 2007 at 9:29 AM
I don’t think either Rosie or Imus should be fired.
Rosie ought to take a chill pill, but I don’t think either one should be fired.
Truth is, I get offended by people take offense all the time at just about anything. I suppose the comments Rosie made were pretty bad, and so were the comments Imus said. On the other hand, if someone is saying things like that all the time - that’s one thing. If they make a comment, regardless of their PERSONAL beliefs once, but do not continue it, then.. you know they have a right to their speech too.
If I want to call someone a name, well, that’s on me. Not on the person to whom I call the name. In other words, it makes ME look bad, NOT that person I called a name.
I guess what I am getting at is pretty simple. Mom used to say “Sticks and Stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me”, and you know what? I’ve been called a lot of things over the years on Web sites and BBSes, and I’m no worse for it. However, the people who called me names will have their comments live perhaps for a LONG time on the internet, so they continue to look bad.
Rick Donaldson on April 13, 2007 at 9:33 AM
I see her leaving the “Left-Wing’s View” and going to FNC soon. Fox has an opportunity to do a View type of show and do it right; 4 women with two conservative and two liberal. Not the one sided 5 liberal and one conservative that is the View.
zerodamage on April 13, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Took the words right out of me Glynn!!
bernzright777 on April 13, 2007 at 9:35 AM
IrishEi you hit it right on the head…she relaizes where her paycheck comes from.
I’d still love to see MM on that show, even as a guest. She would clean house.
Malpaso on April 13, 2007 at 9:37 AM
She is a ditz.
EnochCain on April 13, 2007 at 9:38 AM
she’s looking like a new jersey mafia bride.
jummy on April 13, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Honestly, people…they should’ve known better than to ask Elisabeth to call for Rosie’s firing. Who do you think would more likely be the one to be fired in that scenario…Rosie or Elisabeth? I don’t blame her at all for not pooping where she sleeps.
James on April 13, 2007 at 9:43 AM
Sean’s right, this is an issue of free speech for everyone. Elisabeth is dead wrong on this issue; the market should have determined whether or not Imus kept his show.
“Did he lose his freedom of speech?” Now she’s just parroting left-wing talking points.
Allowing Rev’s Jackson and Sharpton to get away with the filth they do, but calling for Imus’s head, is a huge hypocrisy.
It was Rosie’s decision whether or not to resign, but not Imus’s?
dalewalt on April 13, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Then can you at least blame her for being a duplicitous twit? It’s a little silly to portray moral and ethical umbrage when you are admitting to a double standard. Sometimes you have to take a stand. Ah, well, this is the lovely Elizabeth. Vacuous but lovely.
Glynn on April 13, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Next, she’s gonna become Keith Ellison’s press secretary.
Drum on April 13, 2007 at 9:52 AM
Why the hell are so many people defening Imus? He’s a dumbass and it’s about time he got what was comming to him.
Darth Executor on April 13, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Getting “what was comming (sic) to him” is fine, but it shouldn’t been the market that determined what he got; not people afraid of manufactured outrage.
dalewalt on April 13, 2007 at 9:56 AM
I’m not defending him in the slightest. I could honestly care less. The problem I have with this whole situation is the BLATANT hypocrisy. If Imus should be fired for “nappy headed ho’s” then Rosie should be fired for “ching chong”. Libs want it both ways. If Imus should be fired then the ENTIRE rap industry should be summarily blown up in a warehouse. But we can’t question their “culture”. Wrong. If the word is wrong, then it’s wrong everywhere. If the intent is wrong with Imus, why isn’t the rap intent of “ho’s” wrong?
So, if they are allowed a pass, then he should be allowed one as well.
Darksean on April 13, 2007 at 10:02 AM
I had no idea Elizabeths white guilt ran so deep.
“We have had a history of just, persecution”
Great way to “make up” for that Elizabeth. Scapegoating Imus. When it comes to the Black community our worst enemy, is ourselves.
The marketplace has yet to speak. I hope Imus will be back.
Theworldisnotenough on April 13, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Snoop explained that yesterday; the rap ‘artists’ are talking about ho’s from the hood, Imus was talking about collegiate ho’s.
dalewalt on April 13, 2007 at 10:07 AM
Come on guys! Of course she isn’t going to diss Rosie. It would be like you going off on your boss or a co-worker.
This is a great job. She is paid alot of money. She isn’t going to screw that up.
I’ll be interested to see what she says once she leaves the show though.
Rightwingsparkle on April 13, 2007 at 10:09 AM
A number of people (including my beloved lizzy) say the market should decide. I disagree. It is the CBS overlords and they alone who determine what Imus gets and that’s the way it should be. The market doesn’t own CBS. CBS decided they didn’t want him, so they canned him.
Others are saying that if Imus got canned, others should. I agree. Skid marks on the underwear of humanity like Jackson and Sharpton should be gone. However, whether other people do it too doesn’t make it OK for Imus to do it as well.
Darth Executor on April 13, 2007 at 10:13 AM
Agreed, but then she has no credibility on this subject for anyone and her opinion on Imus loses gravitas.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 13, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t think what Imus said is OK. But CBS and MSNBC knuckled under to pressure generated in large part by Jackson and Sharpton.
dalewalt on April 13, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Probably, and I don’t really care why they cut Imus off. If they wanted to knuckle under pressure, they have my blessing to do so. I think Imus got what he deserved.
Darth Executor on April 13, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Then she should have kept her mouth shut about Imus. It shows nothing but craven cowardice to kick someone who is down and who can’t strike back while giving a pass to another who had done the exact same thing many times only because of personal reprecussions.
Good for the goose, good for the rotund blob of goo.
JackStraw on April 13, 2007 at 10:25 AM
So, does this really just boil down to, unless you are a lying seditious traitor liberal democrat, an “apology” for anything is meaningless?
NRA4Freedom on April 13, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Mmmm. Oy. Ok, you know what it takes for me to say this…..I agree with Colmes, too.
amerpundit on April 13, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Any intellectual strength there at all?
Ameritrade order for today:
Sell 800 shares of Hasselbeck at market.
petefrt on April 13, 2007 at 10:38 AM
The difference between Rosie and Imus are the presence of the race hustlers.
I wonder how much Mooves is going to pay “Shakedown” Jackson?
Had Hasslebeck uttered “ching chong” does anyone doubt she’d be gone long ago?
drjohn on April 13, 2007 at 10:49 AM
No, I can’t. What I can do is say that she should’ve firmly declined to comment on internal policies at her company because she is not authorized to speak on such matters. Not every question that an interviewer or host asks must be answered. It’s only professional.
James on April 13, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Here’s the really wild part. By taking what most of us consider the wrong side, she has forced Rosie and Joy to reflexively disagree with her. So when they come for Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Boortz…, there will be lefties on record saying it’s wrong.
Yes, O’Donnell, Behar, and Colmes are on the opposite side from The Irreverent Sharpton and Jackson.
You’ve got to love that.
The Monster on April 13, 2007 at 11:06 AM
You think you got problems? I found myself agreeing with Ann Coulter. Sweet mother of God!!!!
honora on April 13, 2007 at 11:13 AM
“A friendly face,” Ian? Do you agree with Al Sharpton? On Monday, this absolute ditz and FAKE conservative was cheering on Al Sharpton and how happy she was that he was involved in pressuring for Imus’ hiring. Even Baba Wawa and Joy Behar were aghast at her cheering for him and her utter ignorance about Sharpton and his racism and anti-Semitism. This girl’s only achievements were coming in 4th on Survivor and marrying the worse quarterback brother of a terrible quarterback. She’s a total dummy until she gets the talking points.
Just love how she attacks America’s “history of persecution of large groups,” too. Too bad we don’t persecute ditzes. They’re a large group, and they even have a representative on the View (her).
And FYI, she praised Al Gore’s fake-umentary, a soap opera’s promotion of a transsexual character, and a number of other liberal things.
Ian, with “friends” like this airhead, who needs enemies?
Debbie Schlussel on April 13, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Actually, she’s 30. Not so “young.” Just a dummy . . . regardless of age. Don’t look for that to change when she’s 40 or 50.
Debbie Schlussel on April 13, 2007 at 11:44 AM
Is see why ‘The View’ has Elizabeth seated as the ‘token conservative’. She also fills the seat of ‘token rock’.
Wade on April 13, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I do not understand what Sean Hannity sees in this naive uninformed bleach blond.
Watching her last night, was like listening to a 16 year old talk about racism after 10 years of attending our reeducation Government school system.
She was supposedly hired to express her opinions but she spouts nothing but talking points and really has no POV of her own.
She rationalized real racism while supporting the hypocrisy of firing Don Imus after the thundering storm of piling on by the real race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson
What a spineless, disgusting, passive dolt.
ScottyDog on April 13, 2007 at 12:20 PM
I felt like I was in a parallel universe watching this show last night. I thought Alan Colmes forgot what side of the argument he was supposed to be taking and when he said the things that I had been saying I felt like checking my cigar to see if it was stuffed with green plants. I’m not sure what I think of Hasselbeck other then the fact that I love to look at her.
Zetterson on April 13, 2007 at 12:26 PM
I was actually talking about this whole Imus thing with my girlfriend who is a very liberal social worker. We both said our peace and as usual disagreed but later when we were watching this show could not stop laughing at the fact that the same things I was saying to her were coming out of the mouth of Alan Colmes and the same things she was saying to me were coming out of the mouth of Hasselbeck. It was truly strange and quite hilarious.
Zetterson on April 13, 2007 at 12:33 PM
What I’ve gotten from all this is that its’ okay for black men to call black women nappy headed ho’s in rap music but it’s not okay for white men to call black women nappy headed ho’s. The entire rap music industry would be shut down if we applied the same current high standards to black rap “artists.”
Mojave Mark on April 13, 2007 at 12:50 PM
So, there is a double standard.
Who’d thunk it?
Kini on April 13, 2007 at 1:54 PM
Her spirited monologue on H&C last night is the most I have ever heard come out of her mouth at one time.
This is exactly what I was thinking. She can talk over Sean Hannity but not Rosie? Suuuurrre.
PattyAnn on April 13, 2007 at 2:42 PM
I may agree with Colmes, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Black Adam on April 13, 2007 at 3:27 PM
I used to think you were kind of hard on Elisabeth, Debbie. I now see you were right all along. I never thought she was the brightest. Now I see not only is she not the brightest, she isn’t much of anything at all.
Glynn on April 13, 2007 at 3:43 PM
In my opinion, she should have declined to comment on anything at all if she wasn’t prepared to take on everyone who is doing it. What’s only professional? Compromising your principles to keep your job? I am not sure I follow here.
Glynn on April 13, 2007 at 3:44 PM
A lot of hatin’ tonight. I caulk it up to being gun shy for what she goes through everyday on the view. Plus I don’t ever hear Hanity railing about Colms when he’s interviewed, come one poeple sheesh. I honestly don’t think Michelle was as hard hitting when she first started out or even The Hammer for that matter. Give her a break already. Conservatives are really bad for eating their own when they don’t live up to perfection.
- The Cat
MirCat on April 13, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Debbie Schlussel said it best, Lizzie’s age and all.
Indeed. She couldn’t even explain the term ‘conservative’, if pressed hard.
Miracles happen…Imus bringing people together…
Entelechy on April 14, 2007 at 1:03 AM