ABC’s domestic quarrel and verbal fisticuffs pit Barbara Walters and Star Jones Reynolds in the headlines. The news coverage of Star Jones leaving The View after nine years may be more amusing than the program ever was, but I’m no judge. I catch it only when a cold or the flu keeps me home. The nauseating gab just makes me sicker.
Debbie Schlussel of FrontPage magazine has the lowdown…..She seems to be one of the few who has nothing better to do in the morning then to watch The View. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Here’s her punchy lead:
So the annoying, insane former tub o’ lard, Star Jones has been fired from anti-male yenta-fest “The View,” a/k/a “The Spew.” One down, 3 more old biddies (and one younger annoying one who pretends to be a conservative but is just an inane airhead) to go.
The best part about this whole thing is that we get to watch the forever annoying Baba Wawa (Barbra Walters to those not in the know) and Jones fighting about it all over the place, not to mention Walters openly lying about the whole thing (and getting caught with a million different stories). It’s like “Alien Versus Predator.”
Schlussel’s catty, rightwing diatribe includes a surprised react that Jones was only fired because of market analysis, not because of foolish thoughts, including:
The day after the 2002 Passover Massacre in Israel, Jones urged understanding of the terrorists because people in “different cultures” deal with their problems in other ways, and “we shouldn’t apply our western mores to them.”
Other complaints about Jones: Her nationally broadcast discussions of her tampon use.
I don’t know if any of this is true, or if Schlussel is exaggerating, but I regret missing this one: Jones’ statements relating the War on Terror to George Bush’s penis and unzipped pants.
Now, that’s a stretch worth watching.
