The View Without Rosie .... Zzzzzz

So Rosie is gone and with her she took the life, the spontaneity and excitement. Or at least that's how it seems when watching the View since the new permanent co-hosts entered their tenth season on ABC. Whoopi is not the problem, it's the others. Goldberg is a welcome addition with her raw comedic talent and thoughtful opinions she is a much needed cerebral addition to the often estrogen infused hysteria that plagues the View. Whoopi is plain funny and she makes me laugh out loud at least once every episode, like Rosie used to back in the day. Whoopi's opinions are calmly and thoughtfully delivered on any range of topic from Britney's' crotch to the war in Iraq; I find her perspective to be a breath of fresh air when compared to the emotional ranting of say Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Barbra Walters. If not for Whoopi I would've stayed tuned out after Rosie left.

The other new permanent co-host is Sheri Shepherd and she doesn't believe in evolution because the bible says so. Every second word out of this thumper is some religious verse from the bible, like says God says the earth was created in seven days or the bible was written by God Himself. If not for her bible, I fear that Shepherd would have no opinions on anything. But back to the fairytale of Evolution, Sheperd is very suspicious of scientists and if it's not in her bible than it's not real. When asked if she still believed the world was flat she said she didn't know if the world is flat, that she's never even considered the topic. An empty headed blind bible believer on a platform to deliver her ignorance to millions of viewers, it seems to me we don't another one of these unthinking religious wing nuts having a megaphone to blast their uninformed, uneducated and archaic beliefs. What is most infuriating is how proud she is of her intellectual myopia and ultimately it's what so infuriating about most of the bible thumping population: their pride in their ignorance. If anyone else were to read one book and then base their entire belief system and life choices based on one book, we would call them krazy, institutionalize them and throw away the key. No, that is not a spelling error, there is regular crazy and then there is krazy, and religious fanatics are Krazy.

Shepherd maybe ignorant and blind but she's sitting next to the pregnant Elizabeth Hasselbeck who has a bazooka in one hand and a grenade in the other and she uses her platform for the promotion of imperialism, war mongering and the further subjugation of peoples of color in their own nations and then calls them terrorists. It's perverse to see a pregnant woman and mother to a toddler be a mouth frothing, blood thirsty war promoter, it is perverse to see the symbol of life and creation be a mouth piece for death and destruction. What is most disturbing about Hasselbecks pro-war stance is that she's not qualified to have a platform of millions of people to promote her Republican garbage. What has this prom queen done in her life to warrant such power? Let's see; she starved herself half to death to get on TV and well, she graduated from college and she married a millionaire sports player. That's it. She is mediocre in every way and that is what makes her so dangerous and reckless, the only way to differentiate herself from the masses and create an inner dialogue that prevents self-acceptance of her limitations and mediocrity is to decide to be a right wing republican. It's a manufactured way for her to feel special and not so ordinary which is what she is; a coddled, average white American female. She's a dime a dozen. Except for the bazooka and swelling belly of course.

Muted seems to be the goal of the new co-host's as they all smile and pretend to be more bland then their predecessors, the mantras seem to be 'don't ruffle any feathers', 'agree to disagree' and all the ladies fall over each other to be accommodating and not step on any toes so as to avoid conflict or confrontation or sparks or good television. With a plastered smile on her face, shepherd has gone so far as to repeatedly say, 'we may disagree but, we still love each other'. Why do they have to love each other? Why can't they disagree and hate each other and still sit next to each other? That's a ridiculous standard forced on women because men would never attempt to 'love each other' on an opinion based program. They would just express their opinions and go home and show up the next day and do their jobs. Doesn't it say in the bible to love thy neighbour? That must be where shepherd gets it from because we all know she doesn't express original thoughts, only repeats what she read in the bible.

That leaves Joy Behar and Barbra Walters. The mummy wrapping came unravelled from Walters's right hand on several occasions, when she poked a boney finger at both Hasselbeck and Shepherd to reprimand them for having an opinion not previously approved by the matriarch. Behar is the least telegenic person on television, no one else but Walters would ever hire her to be in front of the camera; she's the opposite of poised, she has strange facial tics, often forgets the camera and the audience is there when she whirls side to side or fluffs her hairdo and she has an unnatural obsession with Hitler. Behar is loud, gruff, rough and a little too ghetto for TV but, both of these colourful characters are disappearing into the muteness of the new View.
It's bland, boring and banal.