Lay it down Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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Lay it down Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Hasselbeck, 31, served as the official emcee at a luncheon for Cindy McCain just hours before John McCain's big speech. Hasselbeck also showed off vintage-style "McCain '08" T-shirts she designed herself, and spent time on the floor of the convention taping a segment that will air on Monday, Sept. 8, on The View. "She was a bit of a rock star," a source tells PEOPLE. "The Republicans were all over her, fawning over her, telling her she was the best, clapping and cheering at her speech at the lunch. She wrote it herself, by the way." [People.com, RNC, by Mark Dagostino –Sept. 5, 2008].


Elisabeth Hasselbeck, LAY IT DOWN! Who are you? No, seriously, who are you and where did you come from? What did you do before you joined The View? And why do we care about your viewpoints?

I guess the same can be said about me right? But there is a difference. I actually think about what I’m going to say before I say it. By the way, did you notice People had to emphasize that she wrote the speech herself! I guess that must be a notable accomplishment for her.

I know The View needs you - someone must serve as the resident narrow-minded, lame-brained idiot. I have watched The View a number of times and leave with the same dissatisfied feeling lamenting the hour that I will never get back. I watch it hoping that the few moments of insightful comments from Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters and the humorous simpleton comments from the simple minded black lady (who I can’t for the life of me ever remember her name- oh yeah, Sherri Shepherd) can counter the obnoxious and ill-thought out comments from Hasselbeck.

Your scant life experiences and sheltered background compounded with your ill-read worldview collectively produce some of the narrowest minded comments to be spit out on TV. I invite different viewpoints as much as the next person, but come on?!! Are you kidding me?

I understand that you are a conservative, but you walk the party line like a mindless drone. All I’m asking is for you to THINK a little. Are you reading from the Conservative’s Daily Digest? Were you given a list of talking points? I consider myself an independent so don’t try to lump me in the liberal box. Contrived and regurgitated.

You the reader, might ask what am I doing at 10am during the weekday to have time to watch the View anyway. Well, my work schedule is flexible enough that it allows it! And at 10am, my options are limited. After watching an hour and half of CNN Headline News (which loops every 30 minutes) and Your World Today, my options are down to baseball highlights on ESPN, the start of the soap opera lineup, the various court shows (Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown and the like).

Your appearance outside of the View, at the Republican National Convention, as a self-appointed spokesperson, is a just a little too much for me to swallow. So please, for the sake of sanity, LAY IT DOWN!