Elisabeth Hasselbeck - "The day I was FIRED from The View"

Joy Behar

Hasselbeck makes reference to a February 2018 social media post shared after Behar mocked Vice President Mike Pence.

The controversy began in mid-February, when the hosts reacted to a scene on CBS' "Celebrity Big Brother" in which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said Pence "thinks Jesus tells him to say things."

At the time, Behar remarked, "It's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to you. That's called mental illness."

"Using the spatula of humility would have come in handy when I originally began talking to my 'View' cohosts about Jesus," Hasselbeck says in "Point of View." "But I was using a rigid tool of pride instead."

She says she and her former colleague had a "Godversation," which she defines as "a conversation minus condemnation when talking about God."

In her Instagram post, Hasselbeck reflected on her past conversations with Behar.

"For 10 years she and I debated, and reacting in those situations perhaps I could have offered a more tender witness to this awesome God- instead many times- I reacted," she wrote. "Did I always show grace...sometimes not. And sometimes I felt the need to stand firm and be bold... For now, I pray to always be able to have grace filled #Godversations like this..."

Behar apologized for her comments last March.

Rosie O'Donnell:

Representatives for Hasselbeck did not immediately respond to an inquiry from USA TODAY as to why O'Donnell wasn’t mentioned in the new book. O'Donnell co-hosted "The View" with Hasselbeck from 2006-2007 and often sparred with Hasselbeck over politics.

The day prior to the release of "Point of View," another book about the talk show, "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of 'The View,' " made headlines as it revealed O’Donnell "loved" Hasselbeck. In the work from Variety's New York Bureau Chief, Ramin Setoodeh, shared with the outlet, O’Donnell said she wanted to educate her colleague.

“Here’s what I said, ‘I’m the senior. She’s the freshman. I’ve got a really good player on the freshman team, but I have to teach her how to loosen up,' ” O'Donnell said, according to Variety.

O’Donnell also said in "Ladies Who Punch" she had "a little bit of a crush,” on Hasselbeck. “But not that I wanted to kiss her. I wanted to support, raise, elevate her, like she was the freshman star shortstop and I was the captain of the team.”

They decided to go less political? How's that working out?

The most shocking thing in the article is that the cows on THE VIEW each have an office.....or stall as the case may be.

R4 they have a dressing room that doubles as an office

[quote]O’Donnell also said in "Ladies Who Punch" she had "a little bit of a crush,” on Hasselbeck.

I don't like Hasselback at all but I do feel sorry for her reading this and imagining Rosie fingering herself thinking about Elizabeth.

Lol, she is such a drama queen. She writes like a parody of a self righteous suburban Frau. And I don't believe for a second that she and Whoopi are friends.

I could see the sexual tension between these two passionate gals.

God told me to hate Elisabeth.

Does Elizabitch love Trump?

The Holy Ghost told me to say really stupid things!

Look how PC I am! I'm friends with a black woman! Whoopi has brown skin, and yet I treat like she's just as good as me or any other whitey!

This sounds like bullshit. Most people have agents and managers, contracts are negotiated and people are notified through their representation if they are renewed or not. Typically a producer does not come in and say "hey you are not being renewed." With Star, she was told well in advance through her people and was given the opportunity to tell any story she wanted as to why she was leaving. Hasselbeck was let go because Bill Gedde was leaving and he was her champion. He would give her conservative talking points, articles to read and even had a direct earpiece to her. Bill was Barbara. He was her voice. Barbara was very conservative (she dated Roy Cohen for god's sake). Bill let Barbara be the right wing nut job she was but appear to be neutral.

Barbara was also losing her mind.

[quote]I could not breathe — literally, could not breathe

Oh no, not again

If one believes that God is imaginary like I do, Elizabeth is the craziest of the crazy. She couldn't make a single statement without pivoting to the holy spirit. Mike Huckabee is less full of shit.

[quote] Most people have agents and managers, contracts are negotiated and people are notified through their representation if they are renewed or not.

It is possible that her agents were notified in advance, but maybe Bill Geddie intervened and told them to let HIM tell her, as it might have been better coming from a friend like him? Rather than through an agency after the fact.

Republican Barbara's keeping Satan waiting, she needs to drop dead and join him in hell where she'll burn for all eternity

R18. Oh my.

I couldn’t stand Elisabeth. Such a screeching skank. She’s and Meghan must be sisters.

[quote]At the time, Behar remarked, "It's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to you. That's called mental illness."

Behar is not wrong and should not have apologized.

Speaking to god, praying to god, imploring god are signs of faith, conviction, or even devotion.

Thinking that he's talking back or telling you what to do is narcissism, arrogance, or mental illness. Funny how god ALWAYS answers back to do EXACTLY what YOU want to do, rather than what may be the right, righteous, difficult, or truly pious thing.

The spatula of humility????

I remember when Haselbitch made some cunty remark about Erin Andrews lady 's ball gown she wore on that silly dancing show. That it was whorish or something. I thought it was kinda hypocritical because Elisabeth burst onto the scene on Survivor dressed in essentially a loin cloth and makeshift bra. When she was on Survivor she would always prattle on about how one the older male contestants was her "Outback Daddy " or maybe it was "island daddy ". Either way she's a skank. Anyway, there was a bit of a brouhaha over her remark and she released this over the top,flowery apology about how she felt so sorry and she cried for hours with her daughter, blah blah blah.

[quote]I could not breathe — literally, could not breathe

If only.

This has-been cuntress...

I had no idea she was such a holy roller. God this, Jesus that... It hurts my brain to think about having to invoke the name of god in everything you say and do.

Hasselback is a nasty imbecile. Rosie was too intelligent for that show.

Hasselback was the weakest link in the View throughout her time there. She just spouted right wing talking points no matter how inane they were. It's been reported that she had daily calls with some right wingers (Hannity?) to get the talking points straight.

And she thinks God listens to her bull shit??

[quote]Does Elizabitch love Trump?

How could she not? At this point every conservative is clinging to him like he's the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Str8 white gentile entitlement knows no bounds.

anyone else

I think Gedde was gone before Hasselbeck. She should have expected it, Barbara stepping down, new producers, writing is on the wall.

This bitch is NUTS. No one actually likes her, they tolerated her based on necessity.

"I could not breathe — literally, could not breathe," she shared, revealing she "asked permission" to retrieve her inhaler. "I was bent over — shock, asthma and betrayal all stealing my wind."

And yet you didn’t die. How unfortunate.

She was a breath of fresh air as a guest on the show today.

She is the worst kind of Republican. She puts a pretty, cute, likable face on hate, wraps it up in GOD and pushes a racist, homophobic agenda.

Is she homophobic? I remember her being very pro-marriage equality, which was surprising.

She is hardline evangelical. She is pro-family in the traditional sense. Like I said she just puts a pretty face on hate.

R25, same here.

I like her but I don't have a patronizing, I must mentor her so she can be what I want her to be because I see myself as the captain of the team and her the moldable rookie kind of way.

She certainly did NOT approve of Marriage Equality. She turned her attitude around after getting such constant negative feedback.

She is actually worse than My Dad Meghan, she cloaks everything in "God this" and "God that". Meghan is just a ball busting rich bitch.

[quote]"I could not breathe — literally, could not breathe," she shared, revealing she "asked permission" to retrieve her inhaler. "I was bent over — shock, asthma and betrayal all stealing my wind."

Honest question to DL asthmatics: If one is in the midst of a shock+asthma episode where one "literally" cannot breathe, exactly [italic]how[/italic] does one ask permission to retrieve one's inhaler?

Sign language, perhaps? Semaphore? A quick round of charades?

All the breathless, histrionic details tell me this was $ettled of court.