Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who co-hosted The View from 2003 to 2013, took shots at her former colleagues during a recent appearance on Hannity as she criticized “mainstream media” for shifting the news cycle away from the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The conservative television personality claimed “mainstream media is in manipulation mode” amidst the recent news that President Biden dropped out of the race and will instead be endorsing VP Kamala Harris to become the next Democratic presidential nominee.
“Thatâs why this announcement came right now. They donât want us talking about what happened. They donât want us talking about a resilient man who faced a near-assassination and stood up with resiliency,â she claimed. âSo what do they do? A text break-up and a switch-a-roo.”
She added, “Here we are today, and The View is, of course, doing what The View does best: Theyâre going to pump the girl candidate no matter what when all of a sudden gender matters to them.â
Hasselbeck called out Ana Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg, in particular, saying Navarro is âa woman who supports a party that has been all about gender fluidity, and now weâre supposed to believe that gender is a pillar for our voting reasoning? You gotta be kidding me.â
By focusing on Harris’ gender, Hasselbeck claimed, The View was trying to “reduce the decision-making power of the female viewersâ mind thatâs watching them by saying just because sheâs a female and a girl that we should be voting for her.â
Hasselbeck: The mainstream media don’t want us talking about that. That’s why the timing of the announcement, and the proceedings going forward with Joe Biden, that’s why this announcement came right now. They don’t want us talking about what happened pic.twitter.com/yuYRcCsxZy
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Hasselbeck’s criticisms come as no surprise considering the former View host openly clashed with her ABC colleagues, even when she was still on the show.
In one instance, she reportedly quit during a commercial break after Barbara Walters urged her to discuss sensitive topics such as emergency contraceptive “in some sort of rational way.” An audio recording from the event showed Hasselbeck repeatedly quitting after exclaiming, “F*** that! I’m not going to sit there and get reprimanded on the air.”
She later got into another argument with her co-hosts about abortion when she later returned as a guest host in 2022.
While she felt “proud to sit at that table,” Hasselbeck noted on Hannity that she used to ask “God to help me each day because I often didnât have kind thoughts about my colleagues.â
Hasselbeck offered a conservative viewpoint on The View, establishing a perspective that the show has maintained since her exit with the likes of Meghan McCain, Candace Cameron Bure, and now Alyssa Farah Griffin. But she was let go in 2013 because the show was reportedly “going in a less political direction.”
The television personality went on to co-host Fox & Friends before she eventually retired from television in 2015.
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