It's too bad because I've only been watching them over the last six months or so and they've lost me already. The thing that gave them relevancy and interest was the election and now that it's over they've become irrelevant again. I'm sure their increased popularity at the end of last year will linger for a while but unless they change their ways I think people are going to start heading for the exits with me.
Today was a perfect example of why they are no longer worth watching. First of all I was very excited to hear Whoopi bring up an actually important topic this morning. She talked about the fact that our President has said that he isn't against investigating torture and the folks who authored it. The crowd responded with a cheer showing that they agree with our President and then the whole thing went right down the crapper.
The ladies on the show allowed Elizabeth Hasselbeck to filibuster the response! What???? It's not as if we don't already know what that idiot thinks. Did Whoopi, Joy, and Barbara (Sherry's not worth mentioning when discussing anything requiring serious thought), think that Elizabeth was going to offer anything more than her usual Republican talking points? So, thanks to her co- hosts, we were all treated to her usual method of don't stop to breathe or somebody might get a word in edge wise defense of the indefensible.
Elizabeth actually said that Barack Obama would do the same thing if he thought it would save the country. What kind of an idiot comment is this? If Joy, Barbara or Whoopi can't step in at this point and say something obvious like "how the hell do you know that?" then what are they there for? I guess Joy managed to point out to Mrs. Hasselbeck that her past favorite candidate, John McCain, didn't believe in torture or that torture worked. Elizabeth had no response to that except to continue to defend the behavior. What a good Christian!
It would seem obvious to anybody that the country is not for torture and they think it should be looked into. Perhaps we can look to the last election where even Republicans (not Elizabeth clearly) steered away from the candidates who screamed the loudest for blood and instead did the opposite of what Rush wanted and nominated John McCain. Polls consistently show that Americans don't support and never supported torture.
If "The View" wants to hold onto it's new audience they better start giving us more than one 'view.' Especially if that particular view is one that is only espoused by a small minority of Americans. We can find that on Fox News.
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