Letters to the Editor
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Either Laura Bush or Paris Hilton
They both get the highest grade drugs.
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Rosie is one of a kind
Rosie cannot be replaced. She is such a unique, charismatic, brilliant, human, crass, sexy, smart force of nature . . . no one but maybe Bill Clinton could bring in her ratings.
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Anyone But Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow would be great, but then I might have to start watching. I don't want to do that. Actually, they all should be replaced. Everyone mentioned above would be great.
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Replacing Rosie
It'll be tough, I still love watching her mock The Donald, with the 'loopin' it over...... '
But I keep hearing that Carrie Fisher is a blast.... is she busy?
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Mike Tyson
You have to admit it would be entertaining.
I kinda see the whole first episode as one long uncomfortable silence.
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Joan Walsh is one postmodern type of gal
It doesn't seem to matter to her that paparazzi have been watching Alec Baldwin verbally abuse women in public for years. He certainly wouldn't last long on The View. None of his relationships since Basinger have lasted very long either, because he's an angry controlling abusive guy. It kinda creeps me out that he's being so heartily embraced at Salon.
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Not Carrie Fisher
I think she's become brain-damaged due to the drugs and alcohol in her system. She used to be smart-funny-crazy, now she's just crazy-crazy-crazy. Plus she hangs out with self-loathing gay Republican political hitmen. R. Gregory Stevens, the guy who OD'd on OxyContin and cocaine in her house was an acolyte of Karl Rove (and head of something called "the Bush-Cheney Entertainment Task Force," believe it or not. Guess the Force wasn't with him that night). Carrie described Stevens as a "dear friend." There is already one person on The View who loves Karl Rove's friends and that is one too many. They don't need another.
When I saw Donna Hanover's name I thought "Now that sounds interesting." In a presidential primary year where her ex-husband is a candidate, the idea of Hanover sitting right up there onstage every day seemed like a great idea. But you know, I bet that when push came to shove, Hanover would back off and refuse to discuss her marriage and divorce. That wouldn't be any fun at all.
Wanda Sykes sounds like the best bet to me. I love her on "Curb". She is good as a standup, but she is far better when she has a foil to bounce off of. But I don't know if the women of The View could live up to being on a panel with Wanda. I don't think they're brave enough or smart enough to handle being Wanda's foils.
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Two suggestions.
First, put Heather Havrilesky up there. She's had "video experience" (her puppet show with rabbits and subtitles, showing she can at least use Ulead VideoStudio) and she claims to know everything about TV. Her time on The View should be at least as interesting as the time Harry Knowles spent on Roger Ebert's show, and just as defining of her true character.
The other is a radio personality in Orlando known publicly as The Sexy Savannah. A former Marine air traffic controller, like many vets she had a hard time after leaving the service. She wound up a topless dancer. On a whim she went on a radio show and tapdanced topless to "Rocky Top" on the studio's conference table. For the last several years she's been a supporting member of the group called the Monsters of the Morning, not only talking and taking viewer calls but singing with the Monsters Band. Her air personality is that of a bleached-blonde "redneck skank," which in the presence of the other women would be the hand grenade the staid and boring The View would greatly deserve.
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Camille Paglia
Because I can't think of a bigger self absorbed twit.
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Rosie "Left" Because She Asked Questions About 9/11
Of course Salon, as a good liberal gatekeeper, neglected to mention this. Saying nothing about 9/11 is the rule in America. Bush had nothing to do with it, it was not LIHOP or MIHOP, just some crazy terrorists.
Rosie spoke the truth and must be destroyed. No discussion of who should replace Rosie can be complete without a discussion of why she really "left". Rosie was fired, she did not leave.
So in that case who should replace her? Why Professor Steven E. Jones of course! He had to "leave" his job at BYU too, just a coincidence of course.
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Rosie's View
Please leave Clinton off of such an insipid list. She's running for president; show some RESPECT. (Oh, and maybe move beyond cheap stereotypes of women.)
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Whoopi Goldberg
I think she'd be fantastic--witty, honest, funny and different.
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Who else?
It's got to be Bill Maher! Anyone who hates Oprah as much as he does can't be all bad and would be a fine antidote to the show's hegemony as Rosie was. It's either him or Andrea Dworkin!
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I nominate....
Catherine O'Hara, because I could watch her do just about anything.
Margaret Cho.
Susan Sarandon.
Tina Turner.
Monique.
Sandra Bernhard.
Lauryn Hill.
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It has to be Margaret Cho, She's the One that I Want
Wouldn't she be great?
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Someone politically engaged
I'd suggest Randi Rhodes. Another "loudmouth", with a provocative manner, committed to truth-telling, great biography (including active military service), scared of nothing, beholden to nobody, blue-collar straight-talk appeal, edgy and aggressive. Not a stand-up comic, but funny nonetheless.
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Donna Hanover FOR GODS SAKE PLEASE!
It would be a delicious bowl of soup with Ms. Hanover there. But not on a "guest" basis, she would have to be a permanent fixture. She could cost Rudy the nomination just by being there she would remind the world what he is really made of.
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It's time to put The View out to pasture.
Rosie as the loud mouthed,vulgar,fat,crazy ,
antidepressent-dependent,alec baldwin supporting,conspiracy-promoting,dyke-on-a-mission,has all but killed The View. There will be no going back to ,'what's new in colored tights this season'crap that The V. has done for almost ten years.
There will be no unringing this bell.
By comparison,anyone mentioned for a seat at the table would be hard pressed to perform with the same level of committment. O.C.D. has fueled much of R.O'D performance.
The view has definitely jumped the shark with Rosie at the table.
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Hard-hitting journalism
Gee, wouldn't this be something that was once covered in The Fix, except it was removed to give more space to *real* journalism????