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wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 02:47 PM Sep 2014

Sarah Palin dissed. 'The View' hires Nicolle Wallace

Nicolle Wallace, a longtime George W. Bush communications chief and John McCain senior campaign advisor, is going to be a new host of “The View” alongside Rosie Perez, Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg.

Wallace, one assumes, is meant to fill the conservative chair left when former "Survivor" contestant Elizabeth Hasselbeck was let go, but Wallace, 42, comes off as far brainier than Hasselbeck and a lot less angry than the likes of Ann Coulter.

In the HBO movie “Game Change,” Sarah Paulson played Wallace as someone who had some difficulty tolerating Sarah Palin’s antics. (Paulson was nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Wallace.)

The HBO project revealed that Wallace ultimately could not bring herself to vote for McCain as long as Sarah Palin was on McCain’s ticket.

Wallace disputed much of what Palin wrote about Wallace in the book "Going Rogue"

Wallace’s hiring is not great news for Palin, who over the summer seemed to be campaigning for a regular “View” slot of her own.

"I hear everyone recently got canned from 'The View,'” Palin told The Hollywood Reporter in July. “Maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America's heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue."

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. That's a shame. I'd have become a viewer with Palin on the set.
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 02:51 PM
Sep 2014

Can you imagine the things that would have come out of her mouth?

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
2. I guess word salad wasn't on the View's upcoming menu.
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 02:57 PM
Sep 2014

Pity, that. Palin's a master at coming up with word salads.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
3. Palin would never be a good match for that show because she
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 02:59 PM
Sep 2014

cannot share the spotlight. It's supposed to be an ensemble show, and Palin doesn't seem to play well with others. But it's extra delicious that they picked the woman from McCain's campaign who couldn't bring herself to vote for him because of Palin - LOL!

Mike Daniels

(5,842 posts)
4. If they have to have a conservative voice they could do worse than Wallace
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 03:10 PM
Sep 2014

I don't get her continued support of Christie but on the other hand Wallace can formulate an original thought unlike her predecessor who seemed to get all her talking points straight from Hannity.

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