Understand, please, that they keep Hasselbeck around for few good reasons.
1. She’s conservative enough to resemble a hundred-pound heavybag in their eyes.
2. She’s smart enough to realize that her job security relies heavily on her ability to sit down, shut up
and take the hits.
3. She’s dumb enough to be outsmarted on many occasions by the knuckle-dragging GED candidates that fill the other seats around that table-of-hate.

So imagine how pissed they’ve got to be when even this cute little paper tiger can lay the ideological
smack-down upon one of their exhaulted liberal figureheads...?

While going around the table, one question at a time for Moore (with the exception of guest conservative
Star Parker, who was repeatedly shut down and pushed aside by Babawa Wawa.) the usual
“tell us why America sucks so bad” queries were king. These were, of course, eaten up by the View’s
typical “I’m-here-in-the-middle-of-the-afternoon-because-jobs-are-for-those-other-kinds-of-people” liberal soccer-mom audience.

But apparently, Lizzy has been paying attention. Who’d-a-thunk it?
She asked the question so many of us have been asking for so long, now, much to chagrin, I’m sure, of her ABC handlers.

E.B.: I guess what a lot of people are wondering, too, is for someone like yourself who in the past has been, um, having like a huge sense of, um, y-you know, not trusting the government…

M.M.: Right.

E.B.: ...why you would want to give the government control of our health?

M.M.: Sure. yeh. That is, that’s an, that’s an excellent question.  Uhhh… the government used to do things right. I mean really. It’s about the people we’ve elected, that’s the problem. “Heck of a job, Brownie.” Y’know..? Because… think about this…
(Moore then completely changes the subject and starts in on the war in Iraq.)

Note here that, at the beginning of his appearance, one of the first things Moore says is this:

M.M.: So I...I...wanted to make a film that was not partisan in nature… that was not about democrats and republicans…

Alright… so let me get this straight…

First, you want us to believe that Sicko is not at all partisan.  Ooookayyyy…

Then, you pretty much tell us that the poor state of health care in this country is a recent development, stemming from our election of ("Heck of a job, Brownie") the Bush administration.  Ooookayyyy.....

But wait a minute… if your argument is that socialized medicine would work (in spite of the massive flaws and horror stories from nations that currently use it and do not have George W. Bush as their president.) here and now, because the gub’mnt used to do things right, (which, so far, you haven’t given us any real, logical evidence of.) aren’t you then disregarding the fact that these same people are now in power?
Or are you making another statement, maybe?
Maybe… oh, I dunno… maybe you’re saying that it will work if we elect a democrat as president?

< tard >
Oh, ooookayyyyy.... Yeah, I get it, now.
Nope, no partisanship there, at all. Demoracts? Republicans? Nope. Nothing to do with it. Politics are completely irrelevent, here.
This is just about health care, and nothing else. It’s all so clear, now.
< /tard >

I honestly don’t know what pisses me off, more.
Having my intelligence, as an American citizen, openly insulted by this portly partisan prevaricator, or
having to choke down a gag reflex while doing so, becuse I had to watch it on the View…