There are dangers in having a fundamentalist like Elisabeth Hasselbeck speak on a television show everyday. Her ignorance cotaminates our society - something we can do without. It's disturbing that her ignorance has remained steadfast despite wise women like Joy Behar and Rosie O'Donnell, not to mention the rest of the world, providing her with countless facts and truths.
“I’ve learned so much from these women. They’ve made me clarify my thoughts. Being challenged by them is an unbelievable gift.” – Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Today’s Christianity July/August 2006).
Elisabeth, amongst a list of other negative traits, is a liar. For nearly a year, Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar, her co-hosts on The View, have given her thousands of facts on what the Bush administration did wrong and illegally, not that she needed them to present her with proof. The majority of the country is aware of the administration’s undemocratic behavior, of their continuous harmful actions that have led to disastrous consequences at home and around the world. Yet despite the stack of “lists” circulating the globe on this subject, Elisabeth learned absolutely nothing. Her thoughts were not clarified one bit, and embracing the challenges as unbelievable gifts? Yeah, right.
Elisabeth is a fundamentalist. And like all those who have a strict adherence to a set of basic ideas or principles, she is unable to learn. To maintain her extremist ways, she must do everything in her power to not alter, not even slightly, her ideal beliefs that were bestowed upon her by a higher power, like President Bush and Jesus Christ.
Elisabeth is a hypocrite who remarked on May 23rd, during perhaps her last feud with Rosie, “I am all about facts,” and accused Rosie of trying to steer her towards emotions. But Elisabeth has never taken one fact into account, brushing it off as if it’s a fuzz ball irritating her nose rather than evidence that the government, directly and indirectly, is hurting millions of people. She wept over the morning pill and got reprimanded for it by Barbara Walters when everyday, with a straight and determined face, she encourages that countries be blown up so she could feel safe.
Elisabeth is a coward, and Rosie was right in calling her that. “Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.” [Earnest Hemingway “Men at War” 1942]
Elisabeth is ignorant. Once, while once again defending the war, she had added that at least the Iraqi women were not raped as often today as they were during Saddam’s days. My family and I were infuriated. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq as a minority Christian and came to America at age ten. I visited Iraq seven years ago, when the Iraqis were suffering under different types of conditions caused by the U.S. imposed sanctions, and the country was safe. People could walk the streets without the fear of being killed, kidnapped or raped. Today my female relatives in Iraq are housebound as a result of the war.
Had Mrs. Hasselbeck ever read or viewed material outside of Fox News, had she educated herself during her spare time rather than watched The Bachelor – crying over who was kicked off the segment – she would have discovered that Operation Iraqi Freedom enslaved Iraqi women whereas under Saddam’s regime women had more freedom and were better educated than women in their neighboring countries. Iraqi women today can’t work, go to school, take a walk or wear western clothing or makeup. Their men have closed their business for fear of the insurgents, U.S. soldiers and suicide bombings. The war has created 2 million refugees and another 1.7 million people displaced in Iraq. As for the illegal elections that everyone boasts about, the Iraqis came up with a new riddle after the winner was announced: If 60% of Iraqis are Shia, 35% Sunni, and 15% Kurds, who voted for the Kurd?
Elisabeth is prejudiced. She was outraged when Rosie brought up the innocent deaths of 650,000 Iraqi civilians because she does not want to acknowledge those lives, wishes everyone would just forget about them. Again her main concern is that she is safe, and that Bush continuously gets cheered on and receives blind support, despite the senseless deaths of women and children and our US soldiers who could have put their energies protecting our country right here at home without sacrificing their lives and destroying the hearts of loved ones.
Many have called Rosie a bully and oftentimes more disrespectful names, and they have even included Joy in their name calling. But if it were not for their wisdom, their humanitarian and educated outlook on life, we would have Elisabethians (little children in an adult body who are given power through the media or by the government; Bush, for example) running around, editing children’s books during bedtime story, voting to bomb a country here a country there, telling women what to do with their bodies, accusing adulterers of not loving their children as much as those who never cheat, and worshiping and defending President Bush as a brainwashed wife would her controlling husband.
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