Argument starts around 1:00. At 4:30 Hasselbeck snipes at him about something else.

Political commentator Bill Maher was a guest on The View yesterday, during which he got in an ongoing, uncomfortable exchange with cohost and resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Hasselbeck took offense at a tasteless remark that Maher made at her expense on his HBO show in February, where he said that we should send Hasselbeck to Egypt in exchange for CNN correspondent Lara Logan. That would have been despicable, considering that Logan was sexually assaulted by a mob. However, Maher said that over a week before any of that was known at all. On The View, Hasselbeck confronted Maher about it but she didn’t mention at all that he said it prior to when it was known that Logan had been raped.

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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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.”

[From Gossip Cop, ONTD]

Maher should have apologized and said that he was very sorry to have said that, especially in light of what happened to Logan. (Which again he did not know about at all when he made those comments.) Hasselbeck should have clarified that the remarks were made before it was known that Logan was assaulted. She was too aggressive toward him about it, and he got defensive instead. He handled himself well, although he should have emphasized that he said those things well before Logan’s story was known. Also, Hasselbeck was way too snotty and rude toward him later in the show, when he was commenting on Herman Cain and Rick Perry’s most recent gaffes. She shouldn’t have been sitting right next to him because all she did was snipe back at whatever he said. It was juvenile, Maher called it.

(Argument starts at around 1:15 in second video below)

Michael Moore was on The View yesterday. I’ve seen his movies and makes some powerful arguments. I like how he’s so willing to put himself out there with viewpoints that some consider radical. He’s not apologetic, and he tries to back up his points with facts and details. I don’t always agree with him, but I appreciate that he’s making movies and I admire how he makes his case. He stays somewhat calm, and he keeps at his argument. Moore is promoting his new memoir, Here Comes Trouble.

At some points during his stint on The View, their resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck agreed with Moore, particularly when he said that Republicans should pick a more moderate candidate like Utah governor Jon Huntsman. He half joked that “Republicans are so committed to the Tea Party that they’re on the Teatanic.”

Then when Moore tried to argue that we should have put Osama Bin Laden on trial, like we tried the Nazi war criminals, Elisabeth wasn’t having it and she got loud. She tried to make the point that Bin Laden wasn’t a citizen and didn’t deserve the same rights as citizens, which is total bunk in my opinion. You can make the case that the guy is an evil mastermind who killed thousands, has followers that would martyr him or that a trial would cost millions of dollars and be a media circus, that’s persuasive and true. To argue that non-citizens don’t deserve trials, aren’t granted the same rights as Americans and should get some kind of swift vigilante justice is just ridiculous. That’s Elisabeth for you. Moore is just as out there by some estimates, he’s just on the complete other side with more reasoned arguments.

Moore: The way we show the world that we’re different is that we give even the most heinous person their day in court. If we lose sight of that basic American principal. We put the Nazis on trial, we put Manson on trial.

Elisabeth: You’re telling me Osama Bin Laden, responsible for slaughters of how many thousands of individuals, deserves a trial but where in NY city, the site of the slaughter of our own 3,000 on 9/11. Absolutely not. How dare. And why, cause Casey Anthony’s trial went so well?

Moore: What are we afraid of? We’re Americans, man.

Barbara Walters and Joy Behar tell him that “we did not want himn to appear as a martyr.”

Moore: I don’t think the Nazis appeared as martyrs, we hung them high for what they did. You’re missing the point. If we start to say that we’re afraid to hold trials because terrorists will hurt us, we look like a bunch of wusses.

We’re Americans and if you come here and kill us we will hunt you down and we will take you into court and put you on trial, and if need be you will receive the maximum punishment for what you did. What is wrong with that? That’s what we are as Americans.

Hasselbeck: That is the right granted to our citizens. Even those citizens here who do not abide by law are granted those rights. Osama Bin Laden never deserved those rights. Never did ever.

Joy Behar: Besides the rights, Michael, we don’t want his followers to think of him as a martyr or have input in the trial.

Moore: His followers are few, and they are crackpots and the world will always have crackpots.

I get what Moore is saying, but I don’t see where it could have worked. It’s too delicate an issue at this point, and we’re talking about the world’s most notorious terrorist. Moore tried to later explain that he’s a Catholic and they believe “it is wrong to take the life of another person unless it’s in absolute self defense in that moment.” Then Elisabeth asked him if he was pro life and he was like “yes I’m pro life in the sense that I don’t believe you should kill people. Not on abortion.” I guess both sides have their own definition of what being pro life means.

Comments against Elisabeth Hasselbeck start at 2:20

Sharon Osbourne never fails to give obnoxious quotes and start feuds with just about anyone who’ll take her bait. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel last week, Sharon and her filled frozen face made some comments against the token conservative on The View. Sharon is about to star in an all-female panel-based talk show on CBS, which is how the topic came up. She also spoke out against the reality shows her show The Osbournes helped spawn.

On Reality Shows
They are so crap these reality shows now. They just get worse and worse and worse… there’s a bunch of kids that love to party – let’s watch ‘em… Why would anybody watch that? Why would an adult watch Jersey Shore?

On if her new talkshow will be like The View
F-ck no. We’re very different women, we’ve got different opinions and we’re not miserable and dry… it’s totally different… I think ours will be edgier and more real, and not so trying to be politically correct and like you’ve got a stick up your ass and you’re all dry.

On her least favorite member of The View
Oh that little blonde idiot. [faux retches]
You know what she needs? She needs a good shtupping by a football team. She needs to get some humor there, you know it’s like ‘lighten up, bitch.’

Once Sharon gets on a roll there’s no stopping her. I find her kind of tedious, and I won’t watch this new show. The show is a decent idea on paper – in terms of marketshare and potential ratings, etc. It will probably suck in it’s own way, but I doubt that it can be worse than the original. She also has a point with the “stick up their arse” comments, especially when Babs and her disapproving stare are on. Plus Hasselbeck is really humorless and she always tries to drive every point she has into the ground. Leave it to Sharon to tell it like it is. Her schtick will get old fast though once she’s on television for an hour every day. I wonder if she’ll get into any hair-pulling fights with the guests.

Look at that face – isn’t she lovely?

Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues to spew her unique brand of stupid all over The View. While the four harpies were discussing the fact that many women are having same sex relationships later in life after “years of heterosexuality/marriage” Elisabeth chimed in “I’ll tell you what’s happening, a lot of the older men are going for younger women leaving the women with no one.”

Joy retorted “So that’s why they’re suddenly sleeping with women? That’s ridiculous, I’m sorry…”

Elisabeth kept pressing her idiotic point in that manic tone of hers. “You’re looking for a companion that understands you… say you were in heterosexual relationships. You’re looking for that, but the men who are of your age who have had similar experience… [are] chasing a little young one.”

“Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips,” Joy explained. “There are things that people do sexually. I don’t think that you suddenly wake up and say ‘You know, I want to do that.’ You wanted to do that, you were just trapped in a system that said get married… you were gay and you just didn’t admit it, you didn’t acknowledge it.”

“We’ve done studies that women aren’t necessarily needing something sexual, they’re more needing something in terms of companionship at a certain age,” Elisabeth countered.

So what does Elisabeth think, that lesbians are just best friends that have sex too? She’s wrong to think that being gay is a choice made by desperation. It’s sad that she thinks this way, but as Whoopi kind of mentioned it does make it sound like she’s not opposed to having some same sex company – if there are no other options.

This isn’t the first offensive and dumb thing this woman has said, there have been so many other incidents and surely there will be more.

Oh and Obama was on The View yesterday. I haven’t watched it yet and am not sure we’ll report on it. I’m over that show, and as rude as it sounds I’m kind of over Obama too. (Update: thanks to all of you who mentioned that Obama’s View appearance was taped yesterday and airs today. Maybe I’ll watch it then.)

Thanks to the Advocate via Gossip Rocks for this story.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck made some ignorant and offensive comments on The View last week about how Dancing With The Stars competitor Erin Andrews was wearing such skimpy outfits that her stalker probably thought he could have avoided jail time had he just waited to see her half dressed until she was on the show. Erin’s stalker is currently serving a two and a half year sentence for stalking her, taping her nude and posting the video online. He’s victimized at least 16 other women.

Hasselbeck issued a tearful apology on The View the next day and told a personal story about how her daughter asked her why she didn’t just call Andrews and say she was sorry. She then claimed to have done just that, but according to Andrews that’s not true at all. Andrews, who initially called Hasselbeck’s remarks a “slap in the face to victims,” says that she never spoke to Hasselbeck. Andrews’ dance partner and rumored love interest, professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy, clarified that he designs Andrews’ outfits and called Hasselbeck “jealous” and “stupid“:

Erin Andrews is still waiting by the phone for Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s apology.

Last week, Hasselbeck insulted Andrews’ skimpy DWTS costumes in light of the peephole stalker who posted a nude video of her (he is now serving a 2 1/2-year prison term). The next day, Hasselbeck tearfully apologized to Andrews on The View, saying that her 5-year-old daughter, Grace, told her to just call Andrews, “and I followed her advice,” Hasselbeck said.

But Andrews told UsMagazine.com at Monday night’s DWTS: “I didn’t speak with her, no. I never talked to her.”

The ESPN reporter, 32, says she’s “dealt with” Hasselbeck’s remarks. “I’m moving on,” she told Us. “I’m tired of talking about it. It’s a new week.”

Still, she admits she was pleased that partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy had her back. (Chmerkovskiy defended her: “I’m the one designing [Andrews'] dresses for the show, so I’ll just assume that [Hasselbeck] is jealous… and stupid….”)

“It was really nice to have Maks stick up for me and the entire cast and a lot of the media,” says Andrews, who got a 53 out of 60 for her Argentine tango and ’80s rumba. “We got a ton of support.”

[From US Weekly]

I doubt Erin is “waiting by the phone” as US reports, and she sounds completely over Elisabeth’s cruel remarks. She went through so much and was stalked and videotaped around the country for a year and a half. In Erin’s statement to the press following her stalker’s sentencing this March she said she suffered nightmares and anxiety and was still “being victimized every day” by the fact that her nude video would remain online forever. Hasselbeck is such a piece of work to say something so mean spirited and spiteful about Andrews. I’m not surprised to hear that she never called her personally as she claimed.

I tape The View every day, but only watch it occasionally when there’s a guest I want to see because Elisabeth Hasselbeck just bugs the sh*t out of me. It’s not her views, which I don’t agree with, it’s the way she expresses just about every opinion, even the rare ones I do agree with, in this rapid fire vehement way that leaves no room for discussion. She’s rude and interrupts and just won’t shut up. She also gets mad at the slightest perceived slight. Like when Senator Evan Bayh was on after his resignation she jumped down his throat for making a harmless reference to Sarah Palin writing on her hand, something that Palin herself later made fun of. Hasselbeck is just over the top and she’s always rallying against something.

That’s why I find it kind of inevitable that ESPN anchorwoman Erin Andrews is calling her out for a really obnoxious comment about one of Erin’s outfits on Dancing with The Stars. Erin was the victim of a stalker who followed her around the country, taped her nude without her consent and posted the video online. She’s been outspoken about how violated that made her feel, and how devastated she is that the tape still exists for anyone to see. Hasselbeck thinks that’s funny somehow, and made the snide comment that Andrews’ outfit was so small that her stalker must have thought “Man! I just could’ve waited 12 weeks and seen this – a little bit less – without the prison time!” Andrews’ stalker received two and a half years in prison after his sentencing in March. It came out that he’d victimized at least 16 other women. Andrews called Hasselbeck’s remarks “a slap in the face to victims of stalking and sexual predators.” If you watch the video of Hasselbeck saying this, (it’s above and on YouTube) it’s all the more offensive as she’s so self righteous about it.

Erin Andrews‘s waltz on Monday with her Dancing with the Stars partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy was her “best dance yet,” according to judge Bruno Tonioli. But when the ESPN sportscaster found herself the topic of discussion on The View Tuesday morning, she was none too pleased.

Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck criticized Andrews — who has faced two separate stalking incidents in the past year — for dressing inappropriately on Dancing.

“In light of what happened and as a legal [matter] — and as inexcusable as it was for that horrific guy to go in and try to peep on her in her hotel room,” Hasselbeck said. “I mean, in some way if I’m him, I’m like, ‘Man! I just could’ve waited 12 weeks and seen this — a little bit less — without the prison time!’”

In March, a man was sentenced to federal prison for filming Andrews through a hotel peephole and posting nude video of her on the Internet. In April, after beginning her stint on Dancing, Andrews received emailed death threats.

Following the DWTS results show Tuesday night, Andrews told PEOPLE Hasselbeck’s remarks were “a slap in the face to victims of stalking and sexual predators.”

Andrews, who was “very shocked” about the comments, continued: “The thing that I was most upset about is I felt she was mocking a situation,” she said. “As a mother and a woman, I’m disappointed she went there.”

[From People]

There was absolutely no reason for Hasselbeck to bring up what happened to Andrews while complaining that her dresses were too skimpy. Those things are completely unrelated. What if Andrews were a rape victim, would Hasselbeck realize then how inappropriate it was to connect those two events? She’s no mental giant that’s for sure. Plus it’s not like Andrews dresses any differently, or in less clothing, than Pamela Anderson, Nicole Scherzinger, or any of the other female competitors or dancers on the show.

The View was just on in my area and I doubt that there was enough time prior to this report being published for Hasselbeck to eat crow and apologize. I’m not going to sit through the whole thing to find out, either. As much as I love Whoopi she just can’t compensate for Hasselbeck and they need to get that foolish harpie off the panel. They need a smart conservative like Meghan McCain to balance out the panel. (I realize that she’s not as conservative, but she’s the first name I could come up with.)

I can picture Barbara looking at Hasselbeck with her pinched little face and spitting that she needs to apologize. That’s the only reason Hasselbeck is still on that show – she kisses Babwa’s ass regularly.

Update: Of course Elisabeth tearfully apologized, dame Barbara looking down on her the entire time. People has the video. That’s what I get for being lazy and not bothering to watch. Unlike Elisabeth, I’m not too sorry for that. There’s only so much of that woman I can take.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is off the hook in a plagiarism lawsuit regarding her best-selling gluten-free diet book, “The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide.” But it isn’t because she didn’t plagiarize it. It’s simply because the lawyer for opposing party, author Susan Hassett (who wrote “Living with Celiac Disease,” and sent Hasselbeck a copy long before Hasselbeck wrote her book) didn’t file necessary paperwork on time, thus the judge threw out the case. But he also noted that parts of Hasselbeck’s book were definitely lifted from Hassett’s.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck may be a lot of things, but a rip-off artiste isn’t one of them. A plagiarism lawsuit brought against The View’s token conservative was dismissed last week after her accuser’s attorney declined to pursue the case.

The woman behind the initial court action was Susan Hassett, a self-published author who claims that Hasselbeck’s recently released best-seller, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, lifted significant passages from Hassett’s own book on celiac disease.

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed the case last Thursday after Hassett’s attorney failed to turn in paperwork related to the case in a timely enough manner. He later said that while portions of Hassett’s dietary prose were definitely lifted for Hasselbeck’s book, the passages weren’t significant enough to warrant damages. Which is apparently all the lawyer needed to hear to get packing.

For her part, Hasselbeck has long denied the copycat allegations and even addressed them on The View. “I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately,” she told viewers over the summer, when the suit was filed.

As for how the Emotional One would have been privy to the self-published book in the first place, Hassett said she sent Hasselbeck a copy back in April 2008, after finding out the host suffered from celiac disease, along with a personal note. Which presumably did not contain the words don’t, copy or this.

[From E! News]

TMZ has a letter sent by Sue Hassett’s lawyer to Elisabeth, and it has a detailed breakdown of several of the identical (or nearly identical) passages between the books. It’s pretty undeniable that she did take more than just vague themes from Hassett’s book. Obviously when you’re writing about a disease you’re going to cover similar topics as others who’ve also written about it. But there are unique concepts and phrasing that pepper both books. And there are too many of them for it to be the world’s craziest coincidence. Hasselbeck may be off the hook legally, but that doesn’t mean she’s off the hook ethically.

Here’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck at Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala in New York City on May 5th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Generally speaking, I couldn’t care less about The View. The only woman on there I have a genuine affection for is Whoopi Goldberg, and the part I like about her is that she really, really doesn’t seem to care what anyone thinks of her. That being said, I do enjoy reading about what goes on behind the scenes on The View, and this new interview is riveting. The ladies sat down for a cover interview with Ladies Home Journal (story via OK! Magazine) and the results were hilarious. Should I be ashamed for chuckling at several different parts of the interview? I don’t care. These women are cracking me up. From Barbara Walters trying to convince the world that big, burly Los Angels police officers are fans of The View, to Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s snotty attitude about people pitying her, this one’s a classic:

The ladies of The View are quite a collection of characters, and it’s no secret that Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck don’t always get along. The co-hosts are all sharing one thing however — the October cover of Ladies Home Journal. Inside they dish on their chemistry, their disagreements and their success.

On the secret of their success:
Barbara: “The chemistry is the most important thing. We have been imitated again and again – by men, by other programs – and the thought is there should be one older person, one comedian, one black person, and one younger person, and that will make it work. And it doesn’t. Our roles on the show have changed and I think we’re better than ever because of this group.”

On disagreeing on set:
Whoopi: “There are times when you think, I shouldn’t have said that, and I’m sorry. But nobody cares if you say something tough – it’s over and done with. They’re like, No, no, no I know what you meant. The next day you’re back on cue. Or five minutes later, after the commercial, you’re back to being the two of you.”
Elizabeth: “We know what triggers the other person, but we also believe what we believe. It’s all up for discussion, and we know we’re all coming back tomorrow. So we love each other even though we don’t always agree.”
Joy: “We are a reality show of the real kind. You watch the Jon & Kate Plus 8 shows, but they’ve been faking things for two years. We have a real show, we are real people and the audience relates to that.”

About the fighting rumors:
Whoopi: “The idea was put into people’s minds before I arrived – that was played up with [former co-host] Rosie [O'Donnell], and it stuck. I think for a while things got more personal than they should have and people glommed onto that. I think people want there to be feuds. But I am too lazy to fight – it takes too much energy to keep it going.”
Elizabeth: “I typically get two comments. One is, ‘I feel so bad for you.’ Or: ‘That has to be difficult to do every day.’ Neither is true, and I don’t enjoy pity. Anyway, the show isn’t as interesting when we agree.”

On memorable guests:
Sherri: “I love the gorgeous men who come through and that I get to put my hand on their thighs. The guys love it. Robert Downey Jr. put my head in his lap. And they kiss you. What kind of job do I have? Every man I love turns around and gives me a kiss. When [Barack] Obama showed up, I was like, this is it, I am done. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers? I am like a predator cougar on that boy. I will hurt you.”

On their male fans:
Barbara: “I don’t think of us as a woman’s show. I was at the Michael Jackson memorial, and these male cops kept saying, ‘I watch your show every day!”
Elizabeth: “My husband, Tim [Hasselbeck, former NFL quarterback] has played for two or three teams since I’ve been on the show, and every team he’s been on, they all watch the show while they’re icing their legs. They sit and watch and try to get what women are about.”

On Barbara’s little-known expertise:
Sherri: “Barbara gives the best single-women advice…about raising my son and relationships. She also gives good advice about sex.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I now love Sherri a little bit for saying Robert Downey Jr. and Jonathan Rhys Meyers were her favorite boys. I just went and watched Jonathan’s last interview on The View (he’s been on several times, so he must love those ladies too), and they’re all drooling over him. And now I am going to try to work “I am like a predator cougar on that boy. I will hurt you” into my everyday conversation this week. One part that OK! didn’t excerpt was where Sherry claims that John McCain’s appearance on the show was not a happy one. Sherri says, “John McCain was not happy with us. I don’t know if he and his wife thought we were just going to bake cookies or something, but we asked some pretty tough questions.” I can’t believe that excerpt got cut out while OK! made us hear about Barbara’s sex advice!

Here are the ladies of “The View” at the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend in January. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Just before Elisabeth left The View to go on maternity leave (and give birth to a healthy baby boy), it seems she and Barbara Walters had a huge fight. The fight wasn’t what I expected – it was nothing about politics or the strained atmosphere of The View. No, Barbara and Elisabeth fought about Elisabeth having a messy dressing room. Barbara demanded that Elisabeth clean up the mess before she left on maternity leave. The whole thing doesn’t really reek of professionalism, actually. It sounds like Barbara was really condescending to a very pregnant woman who probably had a hard time bending down and picking anything up. That being said, whatever happened to the nesting instinct? Shouldn’t pregnancy make Elisabeth want to clean up her nest?

Talk about tough love! “View” Big Momma Barbara Walters ripped into expectant momma Elisabeth Hasselbeck just before [she] took off on maternity leave to drop her bouncing baby boy – bitching that her filthy dressing room looks like a Dumpster with a door!

Barbara flipped, says my ABC insider, when she stopped by Elisabeth’s between-scenes lair, found it littered with discarded mags, newspapers, junk mail, clothes, etc and screamed at staffers: “There have been rat problems in this building, but you wouldn’t even be able to find them in this mess!”

Walters called Elisabeth in for a big-girl talk and stormed: “Clean your messy dressing room!” Worse, she insisted Little Lizzie had to tidy up her room BEFORE splitting on maternity leave.

Luckily, Big Momma’s scolding didn’t induce premature birth.

[From the National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, August 31 2009]

My biggest “messy” peeve is people who don’t probably dispose of food. That’s the height of grossness for me, people who just leave food laying out, or leave it to rot. But it doesn’t seem like Elisabeth is that person – most of her mess seems paper-oriented, which I can relate to. I’m not a messy person, but I have real problems throwing away magazines. I need to get a better system for my old Vogues and Vanity Fairs, because right now I just have piles of magazines laying around. But they are organized! I have my own system. Don’t yell at me, Babs!

Two of the temporary “replacements” for Elisabeth (while she’s on maternity leave) were just announced today. For much of September, we’re going to be graced by either Meghan McCain, or E.D. Hill. Meghan is the daughter of Sen. John McCain, and she’s been a guest and a guest hostess of The View before, famously telling a weight-critizing Laura Ingraham to “kiss my fat ass!” E.D. Hill is the former Fox News anchor who famously called the Obamas’ fist-bump a “terrorist fist-jab”. So, yeah… these are the women who they get to replace Elisabeth. Should be interesting.

Barbara Walters is shown on 2/4/09. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is shown on 5/5/09. Credit: WENN.com

According to Fox’s entertainment blog, Fox411, Rosie O’Donnell made some verbal swipes at her former co-host on The View and rival, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Rosie was doing stand-up and made some jokes about “The View,” calling it “The Screw,” and went on to call Elisabeth a “tw*t,” claiming “she turned on me.” In late April, 2007, Rosie announced she was leaving “The View” after just one season, saying that contract talks fell through with producers but that she would remain on the show until June 22. Then about a month later, in late May, Rosie and Elisabeth got into a heated argument (link leads to video) on the show over the way the conservative pundits were portraying Rosie’s opinion. Instead of staying to finish her term, Rosie never returned to the show and left three weeks before her contract was finished.

All of that was over two years ago, but it’s what we remember Rosie for since her holiday variety show was such a flop. I guess it’s inevitable that she jokes about it, but it’s hard not to get the impression that there are plenty of sour grapes in that bowl:

Rosie O’Donnell can’t seem to stop talking about her ugly departure from “The View,” and the famous feud she had with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

An eyewitness tells FOX411 exclusively that the former “The View” co-host slammed her former show and called her former co-host a vulgarism that starts with a “t” and rhymes with “swat,” just four days before Hasselbeck gave birth to her third child.

It all happened on August 5 during a stand-up routine as part of O’Donnell’s “Girls’ Night Out Tour” with singer Cyndi Lauper. First, Rosie cracked jokes about “The View,” illiciting roars of laughter from the audience at the St. George Theatre in Staten Island, N.Y.

“Rosie started out by asking the audience, ‘What was that show I was on?’” an audience member tells FOX411. “Then, instead of saying, ‘The View,’ she called it ‘The Screw You.’ She continued by calling Elisabeth Hasselbeck, ‘Elizabeth Half-a-brain.’ Then she jumped to another topic.”

But Rosie wasn’t done. Not even close.

The audience member says she went back to her “The View” experience. “Rosie said when she first met Elisabeth, she thought she would love her, because they’re both Christians,” the eyewitness says. “Then she stopped and said, ‘But then she turned on me.’ Then Rosie called her a ‘t–t.’ O’Donnell then moved on to a different subject, saying she really didn’t want to start a new feud, or restart an old one.”

[From Fox 411]

If Rosie doesn’t want to start a feud she shouldn’t be calling Elisabeth a twat, it’s that simple. I just re-watched the famous argument these two had and it made me uncomfortable to see how bad it got. Elisabeth seemed like the one who couldn’t let it go, but Rosie also kept pressing her. These two butted heads too much to co-exist on that show, and while Rosie should have stopped pressuring Elisabeth to give an answer, she wouldn’t budge an inch either.

In related Rosie news, we heard last week from her rep that the story about a supposed split with her partner Kelli was false. The National Enquirer broke that story, and they’re standing by it in a follow-up this week. They insist that Kelli has moved out of the house with their youngest child, daughter Vivienne, and that they’re living in “a luxury Manhattan high-rise” while Rosie and their three other children, Parker 14, Chelsea, 12, and Blake, 7, are staying at the family home in Nyack, NY. The Enquirer quotes a source who says “Rosie is having her people deny the split because she’s desperately trying to convince Kelli to come back to her. In the meantime, Rosie is being a trouper and is carrying on with her comedy tour.” Rosie is not a happy person and I tend to believe these stories that she’s having trouble in her marriage.

Rosie is shown on 6/11/09. Credit: WENN.com. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is shown on 4/17/08. Credit: PRPhotos