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1:28 pm - 11/15/2011
Hasselbeck was none too pleased with a joke Maher made at her expense last February, in which he suggested sending her to Egypt in exchange for CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who’d been assaulted while covering that country’s democratic uprising.
“The View” co-host told Maher she didn’t find his joke to be funny, and he explained that it wasn’t meant as a personal attack on her.
But things got even more contentious from there.
“Would you say that again?” asked Hasselbeck.
Maher replied, “If I had a crystal ball and knew I was coming here and had to spend my whole segment talking about it, no.”
When Hasselbeck continued to question Maher about his joke, Barbara Walters interceded, saying, “We’re done, can we move on?”
After the group began to talk politics, Hasselbeck sarcastically said to Maher, “Wow, I actually feel smarter sitting next to you.”
To which he replied, “Really? I feel like I’m in high school sitting next to you.”
TO CLARIFY ONTD -
On the Feb. 4 episode of 'Real Time,' as the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square were unfolding, Maher made the following joke about Logan and Hasselbeck. "New rule: now that Hosni Mubarak has released Lara Logan, he must put her intrepid hotness on a plane immediately. In exchange, we will send Elisabeth Hasselbeck." Over a week later, on Feb. 15, the public would learn that Logan had suffered a brutal sexual assault on Feb. 11 in Tahrir Square. When Maher told the joke, he couldn't have known that Logan had been raped.
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Bill Maher and Elisabeth Hasselbeck Get Into Fight on The View
Hasselbeck was none too pleased with a joke Maher made at her expense last February, in which he suggested sending her to Egypt in exchange for CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who’d been assaulted while covering that country’s democratic uprising.
“The View” co-host told Maher she didn’t find his joke to be funny, and he explained that it wasn’t meant as a personal attack on her.
But things got even more contentious from there.
“Would you say that again?” asked Hasselbeck.
Maher replied, “If I had a crystal ball and knew I was coming here and had to spend my whole segment talking about it, no.”
When Hasselbeck continued to question Maher about his joke, Barbara Walters interceded, saying, “We’re done, can we move on?”
After the group began to talk politics, Hasselbeck sarcastically said to Maher, “Wow, I actually feel smarter sitting next to you.”
To which he replied, “Really? I feel like I’m in high school sitting next to you.”
TO CLARIFY ONTD -
On the Feb. 4 episode of 'Real Time,' as the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square were unfolding, Maher made the following joke about Logan and Hasselbeck. "New rule: now that Hosni Mubarak has released Lara Logan, he must put her intrepid hotness on a plane immediately. In exchange, we will send Elisabeth Hasselbeck." Over a week later, on Feb. 15, the public would learn that Logan had suffered a brutal sexual assault on Feb. 11 in Tahrir Square. When Maher told the joke, he couldn't have known that Logan had been raped.
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I can't fault her for sharing her opinions because I would want to be given the same freedoms in her position, but the way she chooses to talk to people is childish and abrasive
I think it's very tasteless that he used sexual assault as a "jokey threat" to someone he didn't agree with. Very low.
Was the comment offensive in hindsight? Absolutely. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.
I won't even watch the video, because I'm sure all the smugness on both ends will be annoying to watch. lol
that's too far imo.
Come on, people get offended over "jokes" like that...it's easy to understand.
Edited at 2011-11-15 07:07 pm (UTC)
She is so childish and I'm embarrassed for her.
can they please kick her off