Oh Barf. Ya been watching too much Star Trek Meghan.
Posted on 09/07/2009 11:52:22 PM PDT by GoldStandard
The Daily Beast’s Meghan McCain joins Barbara, Whoopi, Joy, and Sherri on the couch this week as a guest host. Here, she reflects on what the show means to women of all ages and backgrounds.
This week, on Wednesday and Thursday, I will be returning to The View as a guest host. I’m honored to be asked back, along with a handful of other women who will be filling Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s seat while she is on maternity leave. Over the years, I’ve loved the show for many reasons but above all because it’s one of the first programs to allow a group of women—and women only—to discuss, analyze, and argue about the news.
Soon, two of the three evening news anchor chairs will be filled by women—Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer— but for a long time, The View was really the only place where I could watch women of different ages and backgrounds talk about current events in an open forum. The show has had such an impact on TV that original co-host Merdith Vieira is now co-anchoring the Today show and Joy Behar, who has subbed for Larry King many times, will soon have her own news program on CNN.
And last week, the ladies finally won a Daytime Emmy for Best Talk Show Host. I believe this has to do with the 2008 election and the guests they had during the campaign season. The View was one of the few shows where stay-at-home moms could listen to other women’s points of view about the 2008 election cycle.
What makes The View so special, I think, is each host’s role (and relatablity) to the viewer. Whoopi Goldberg is everybody’s wise friend who mediates both sides of an argument. Joy is the feisty New Yorker, who always has the perfect punchline to any setup. Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth are the panel's two moms with young children who see eye to eye on a lot of things, except for politics. And Barbara Walters, well, Barbara is a legend. It’s easy to see with such a diverse group of women how the show has lasted more than 12 years with ratings that are now better than ever.
Among the guests this week is former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, which for me is kind of like putting a piece of chocolate cake in front of someone on the Atkins diet.
Stay tuned.
I suppose it does kinda make sense for a staunchly pro-sex Republican to fill in for a Republican on maternity leave.
I was going to but, nope, decided to be nice about it.
Oh Barf. Ya been watching too much Star Trek Meghan.
Although I’m the same gender as is Meghan McCain, I don’t get the attraction of watching four women discuss anything, especially when three of them aren’t particularly bright.
I suppose the fact that they're all functional idiots - with the exception of Elisabeth Hasselbeck - doesn't really matter.
The Airhead’s view of the airheads.
What a suck up.
Uh, Elizabeth 'aint too bright either.
Ping.
She should feel right at home.
As long as they have the same plumbing as you it doesn’t matter what they say, think, or do-right? That’s progress
to you..
Bingo.
Does Whoopi use an EpiLady on her eyebrows?
I, and others of course, have concluded that a person can't possibly consistently vote for Democrats and still be a clear thinking, mature, and responsible adult. One must be dysfunctional to continue to return other dysfunctional people to political rulership. If these "ladies" were clear thinking and mature they would see in Barak Obama the things that they hate in males. And then they would do the responsible thing and stop voting Democrat.
Meg, maybe you should not compare your attraction to female Marxists with your obsesssion for choclate cake.
Oh, like, this show will be, like, so good for women of all ages. Sarc/
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