Barack Obama Was a Guest on The View and Sarah Palin is Pissed

Barack Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to ever appear on a morning talk show. Of course, he did not appear on just any morning talk show, like perhaps the oh so respected and adored Fox and Friends; no, he went on to chat with the ladies of The View, which is watched by none other than...wait for it...other ladies! Or so said conservative columnist S.E. Cupp when word got out earlier this week that he would be appearing on the show. Cupp also speculated in her column that his appearance on the show would either be "a momentous occasion worthy of celebration or the end of civilization as we know it."

But that really doesn't encompass much of what the media has had to say about his appearance on the show. MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan said, "Which of these lovely ladies -- each other them lovelier than the next -- will actually ask the president a difficult or challenging question?" Now, as someone who does not watch The View regularly and doesn't like it very much, as I have previously stated (and yes, I know I just wrote about The View the other day but give me a break), everyone knows that you're not going to get one political point of view from that show and not the other; well, not as long as resident Republican Elisabeth Hasselbeck is on the show at least. The View is not merely some fluffy morning talk show where women can sit around, giggle and ask their male co-hosts for help with the big words in their notes because that's how a network chooses to portray women, you know, kind of like that aforementioned "respected and adored" Fox and Friends. The co-hosts of The View all bring a unique perspective to the table and those points of view clash with the unique thought processes of the other co-hosts--The View's ratings depend on it.

I suppose Dylan Rattigan had not tuned into an episode of the show before deciding to write something on the topic of their show just because the president would be on it. I can also assume that he did not look over the transcript from the episode where John McCain was their guest during the 2008 presidential election, because if he had, he would have seen that Joy Behar called him out on lying about Barack Obama during his campaign and wouldn't let him backpedal out of the conversation.

But you know who is the most pissed off about Obama's appearance on The View? Why, Sarah Palin, of course!


She took two jabs at the president on Twitter yesterday, saying, "President w/no time to visit porous US/Mexican border to offer help to those risking life to secure us,but lotso' time to chat on The View?" and then, "I'm headed to border in near future... let's see how quickly his travel schedule will allow that border visit after all."

It does not surprise me in the least that Sarah Palin was feeling a bit rash, judgmental and maybe even a bit jealous about the president appearing on The View and if she wasn't criticizing him for not being at the US/Mexican border, it would have been for something else. That's just how it is with people who are dead set on hating a president for the sake of hating them. This is, after all, the same woman who invented death panels.

Is it just me or is Sarah Palin so diluted that she really thinks the president is going to rearrange his entire schedule just because she has publicly stated that she will be heading to the border "in the near future." Is that a proposition for Obama to race her there or else she's going to get on her Twitter or Facebook and declare that she visited the border before the president to "help" the people who are at the border so she wins? And what, exactly, would she win? An award for being the most patriotic politician of them all? No, maybe something like the award for creating, driving and riding on right-wing smear campaigns against the president because she's still bitter that she's not the vice president? Come to think of it, she probably would have tried to quit that job before her term was over too because you know, she's got books to write, magazine covers to pose for and Fox News stories to help cover.

And, in case you missed Barack Obama on The View, here are two short clips.