In Her (Johnny Choo) Shoes

The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck attended rallies over the weekend with Sarah Palin, where all the two women seemed to talk about were clothes and shoes. And Hasselbeck said in a speech introducing Palin that anyone who had a problem with pretty women talking about fashion was "deliberately sexist" and recommended that those critics watch the Sex and the City movie that came out on DVD last month to see how women could do everything men could do backwards and in astronomically-expensive high heels while balancing a third Cosmo in one hand.

Brimming with Girl Power, Hasselbeck went on The View Monday morning and kept talking about Palin's clothes to her female co-hosts.

She said:

"(Palin) calls Jimmy Choos, Johnny Choos. This is not a fashionista by any means. She's not a clotheshorse."

The "sassy" blonde described Palin's sartorial sense as quirky and told the other women on The View that her new BFF, like so many other current fashion icons (think Chloe Sevigny and Mary-Kate), favors vintage over designer labels. Curiously, after all that, Hasselbeck said that she wanted the chatter about Palin's clothes "to end," and declared that talking about the VP wannabe's many designer outfits is so last year.*

*Everything in quotations is true. As stupid as this story sounds, there have only been minor embellishments, like the Sex and the City detail, which we're pretty sure Elisabeth Hasselbeck would never watch. Anything awful starring Mandy Moore is much more her speed.

Comments

[DicksBaitGirl]

lizabeth just keeps drinking the koolaid and spouting it out - poorly I might add.

[Yodada]

Correct Elisabeth ". . . not a clotheshorse." A "clothesMOOSE".

[desertbloom]

Hasselbeck and Palin are gal pals. How nauseating.

Both of these women know so much less than they think they do.

[GypsyGirl]

Palin and Hasselback are the type of women the GOP want as their representatives?

If that's the case, Democrats will win 2008.. 2012... 2016... 2020...etc. etc. etc.

[DicksBaitGirl]

Ain't that the truth. Lets hope they buy into the whole palin is the future. Obama 12 too!

[Khill]

I watched that speech and as she rambled on about her $35.00 wedding ring and her earrings that she got from Todd's mom who's Native American and so on and so forth I thought to myself....My God what does this have to do with anything? The best thing to do is ignore it. It's obvious that you know nothing about Saks and Jimmy Choos but who cares....You still put them on, I would have put them on too but that's because I love cloths! it was part of the look that you're party wanted you to have and if you were so Mavericky like you make it seem in you're speeches you would have never worn them in the first place. Hasselbeck is trying to make it seem like she was attacked for wearing those expensive clothes but the report wasn't about what she was wearing to was more so that they took the RNC's money and put it towards clothes when it could have been used to push forward the campaign....God is it Nov. 4th yet/

[topmom]

So she has gone back to her consignment closet and that is that

[ccmd]

what are we gonna do for entertainment after Obama wins?



GOTV GOTV GOTV!!! Encourage Early Voting!!!!

[cmarmonhalm]

I'm going to breathe a deep sigh of relief because this stuff is only funny if Obama wins. I can't bear to think of the alternative.

[beniceorshutup]

I dont find hating on people funny at all.

[mmgbizgirl]

The Horror...

[cgr]

As a woman, I find Palin and Hasselbeck to be the worst possible spokespeople for women. Period. They set the cause of women to be equal partners They make me cringe. Smiling endlessly, foolishly shallow and uninformed, flaming with righteous indignation, manipulated by emotions, manipulating with emotions, they're reestablish the stereotype that has for generations underminded the efforts of the intelligent and competent women who are real, strong, smart and accomplished to be accepted on equal footing with male counterparts.

The only bright spot in all this I've found is the resounding recognition of their shallow appeal, which recognition to be read and heard everywhere. Consciousness has been raised by Palin's extreme inappropriateness; compared to Hillary, (I was not for her), for example, she is piddle. The contrast between Palin and the competent and to-be-respected women has been thrown into glaring relief.

Maybe she's served the cause of raising awareness of women of competence, after all. By the comparison.

[merrill1]

Indeed. Compare to the composure of Condeleeza Rice. While I do not share her philosophy, her intellect and public persona are unassailable.

[kayatarms]

cgr, I agree 100%!

[postdem]

OY.