Did you hear the news?
Both Sherri Shepard and Jenny McCarthy are leaving The View.
Shepard has been on the show for seven years, and her
naiveté was alright when she was surrounded by intelligent women like Whoopi
Goldberg, Joy Behar, Barbara Walters and yes, even Elizabeth Hasselbeck (who was definitely not stupid). Sherri’s clueless bubble-headed uninformed
opinions provided a refreshing counterpoint to the heavy discourse taking place
all around her.
It all went to hell in a hand
basket when the producers chose Jenny McCarthy to replace both Joy Behar and
Elizabeth Hasselbeck when they left the show last year. Why they thought this was a good idea was
beyond me. I knew it was a bad
idea. I could have told them it was a
bad idea. Come to think of it, I DID
tell them it was a bad idea. (http://ripachesallover.blogspot.com/2013/07/jenny-who-on-view.html).
What were they thinking, I
wondered. I tried to help them. I even selflessly offered to become a
panelist myself (http://ripachesallover.blogspot.com/2013/06/room-on-view.html),
and trust me I would have been better than Jenny McCarthy.
I tried to watch after Jenny
joined the panel, but it was useless.
Jenny and Sherri fed each other’s senselessness, and Whoopi was now the
lone voice of reason in this sea of inane banter. Sadly, after many years of faithful Viewing,
I tuned out. I realized that no one
cared if I watched, because my buying power means absolutely nothing to
advertisers because of my age. I was bitter.
Sherri announced her departure
first, saying she was choosing to leave but still being gracious about her time
on the show. Then Jenny tweeted " If Sherri goes I go too. #sisters..." AS IF she was leaving in some sort of female solidarity with her BFF Sherri. Sorry, but I don’t buy that leaving the show was Jenny’s idea. #jennyisoutoftouchwithreality
Oh, powers-that-be at The View, this is your chance to redeem yourselves. Do not resort to bringing back Rosie O'Donnell, the least successful panelist before Jenny, as it is rumored you may. There are so many interesting, intelligent,
thoughtful, funny women who can talk about anything from politics to fashion
out there who would be spirited but not divisive additions to the panel. See if Alli Wentworth is still available and go from there.
Meanwhile, Whoopi is the last
woman standing on The View, and as
fabulous as she is, she can’t do the show by herself…..or can she? Whoopi
came to fame in an original one-woman show on Broadway, in which she
brilliantly played five characters, including Fontaine, Surfer Chick, The
Cripple, Little Girl and Jamaican Woman.
All she would have to do is slip into her different characters and argue Hot
Topics with herself. Now, I’d tune in
again to see that. After, any one of the characters would have to be better
than Jenny.