Please write to The View to say NO to Patricia Heaton

[julialnyc]

Please write to the View to say PLEASE do NOT hire Patricia Heaton to replace Meredith Vierra. from everything i've read she's really campaigning for the job. The show already has enough of a troll on the panel with the blond and doesn't need the actress that was trying to "save Terry Schivo" to join her.

It may sound silly, but many people watch that show.

[niyad]

1. she is also a member of "feminists for life" and adamantly anti-choice.

[julialnyc]

6. she's awful

and really wants the job on The View to bring her ideology to the forefront

[julialnyc]

9. here's a link

http://www.feministsforlife.org/

[julialnyc]

25. Jane Roberts (John Robert's wife) is a consultant to this group

N/T

[They Live]

2. Write who? Regarding what?

Sorry, don't know what show this is about or who these people are?

on edit- THE VIEW. aha! thanks and nevermind. I rather glad I didn't know what it was about in the first place. Thanks for the heads up about this though.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi They Live!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bigwillq]

30. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[julialnyc]

31. Welcome to DU!

glad to have you!

[DanCa]

3. Can't stand her will do. (nt)

[julialnyc]

4. here's the best link I can find

I thinking clicking the email Barbara link may be the best.

http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html

[Todd B]

5. Oh come on...

If this was a Republican writing because a particularly liberal person was campaigning for the job, you'd be up in arms. It's the same thing as the PTC petitioning networks because they don't like the content of a particular show.

How about just not watching it?

[julialnyc]

7. I usually don't watch it, but many others do

I would have a problem with any blatantly ignorant person campaigning for a position of extreme exposure. MANY people watch The View (and get their news from tabloid shows like this).

Hey, they can campaign for the job, but I am free to campaign against them.

[julialnyc]

8. I have a problem with this:

Pro-Life Feminism
Just as "evangelical" and "women's rights" sound to some like polar opposites, our culture's created the trap of equating feminism with a pro-choice position. But that's a fallacy, too. Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond fame is the honorary chair of an non-sectarian, non-partisan organization called Feminists For Life whose motto is "Women Deserve Better."

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/MPerkins/?adate=04/06/2006


The other two mentioned for the job are Soledad O'Brien and Mimi Rogers (although Heaton is the front-runner). I don't know where the other two stand, but I'm okay with them (they haven't been crusading for anything)

[Frank Cannon]

12. Mimi Rogers?

I'm all for that. It would be great to get our Galactic Master Xenu's take on the issues of the day.

[julialnyc]

13. Hey, at least that could be entertaining

I actually didn't know that she is a Scientology's (although being the ex- Mrs. Tom Cruise it makes sense), but as long as she isn't using TV as her pulpit to preach (like Heaton does) I don't mind if she worships Xenu.

[madrchsod]

17. she`s the one who converted him

he wasn`t much untill she got a hold of him

[julialnyc]

20. that makes sense

I suppose it could be mildly intriguing to have someone on the panel talk about the mysterious religion (from what I know about it, it's pretty crazy.... but for all I've read, I've never heard a Scientologist actually talk about the background of their religion out loud). And if it is too secretive to talk about I am just as happy (more happy) with the new host keeping their religion to themselves.

[julialnyc]

23. hmmm

I found this:

Father: Philip J. Spickler (Scientology minister, civil engineer)
Husband: Jim Rogers (Scientology counselor, m. 1977, div. 1980)
Husband: Tom Cruise (b. 3-Jul-1962, m. 9-May-1987, div. 1990)

[mitchum]

37. Her parents were close friends with Hubbard, and on the founding...

board of the scientology hustle, but I think that she has actually fallen away from it in the past decade or so.

[MsUnderstood]

14. ah the trick is to let them know you wont be watching

Don't try to stifle the show, just let them know "if you hire this person, I will have to change channels".

But yes I don't like these tactics. I can't tell you how many boycotts I see to prevent gays from getting their rights--it is very frustrating.

We shouldn't be playing television terrorism--no matter what the cause.

[julialnyc]

15. I agree that you should let them know you won't watch her

I do agree with you in some ways in boycotting tactics, but part of me feels that it is always the right wing that is making the boycotts, thus making their value as consumers something that companies value more.

Plus ever since Elizabeth Hasslebeck went on the show they have had some wacky guests (like the two gay boys who says that religion "cured them" of their un-Christ like behavior).

I don't see how it is considered television terrorism. I wrote everyone that I would boycott their product if they went along with Sinclaire airing an anti-Kerry documentary right before the election. I called Sinclaire when they refused to show the memoriam to the fallen soldiers. I don't think it is wrong to express my opinion if I feel like a bad choice is being made. it's a free counrty.... and they don't have to listen to me.

[julialnyc]

16. Just because people boycott things that I disagree with

doesn't mean that they don't have their purpose.

I boycott Walmart, Fox News and will let a company know if they will lose me a customer because the make a wrong choice. We have to let company's know that we matter as consumers too...... the conservative boycotts will never stop, but while I don't like their message I do think that company's pay attention to their method. Why let them be the consumers to control the product?

[Lochloosa]

40. And what is the problem with letting your views be known?

And let the PTC continue letting the networks know what they think of the content of a show. It's the American way.

[realFedUp]

10. Hire Margaret Cho

that would be a view worth watching.

[julialnyc]

11. I would love to see her and Hasselbeck debate!

but she probably won't be hired because she would be deemed too liberal.

[ThatsMyBarack]

18. Can't stand her....

....on those Jewel ads (in Chicago). So spoiled! :mad:

[julialnyc]

22. spoiled and ignorant

and ever so up on her high horse

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Just don't watch it

That's the best revenge.

[julialnyc]

21. I don't watch it anyway

I have in the past, but I am working when it is on (and wouldn't watch anyway). What does bother me is how many people do watch (I know it's sad, but my mom has conversations with me about what she watches on tv.... I know it's silly, but I love her). I think the right wing has their spokesperson on the show and it too much to have the chairman of Feminists for Life on their panel.

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. done. I can't stand that wench!

Patricia Heaton may join your show? Well, that will be the day I stop watching The View! If you hire her, plan on losing a HUGE segment of viewers. I think we've taken the RW theology takeover far enough in this country, don't you? Patricia Heaton is the LAST person you should hire. After her stunt in the Terri Schiavo case, she should never work again!

[julialnyc]

26. I know!

She's not even just a republican----- she's fringe right

[magnolia]

41. I remember that...

...her sobbing over poor Terry Shiavo! Thousands of children dying every day of starvation and Aids in Africa...how many tears has she shed for them! Oops...to right-wingers, only American life has value, even if it's brain dead!

I never watched "Raymond" after that. (Well...I never watched it before either.)

[julialnyc]

42. she was actually at Terri's bedside

and would report back to the news about how she was clearly communicating.

[DerekG]

28. So those who are pro-life and opposed to euthanasia should be denied work?

As someone who is friends with a Catholic Worker, I find your action a bit curious.

[julialnyc]

29. I didn't say denied work

but in a position to spew extremely hardliner propaganda with an enormous audience... yes, I oppose that

[DerekG]

34. "Extremely hardliner propaganda?"

I've clicked on the link you've provided: Feminists for Life isn't exactly the Army of God. In fact, I support the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act. Are you averse to the following?

"If passed, the act would establish a pilot program to provide $10 million for 200 grants to encourage institutions of higher education to establish and operate a pregnant and parenting student services office. The on-campus office would serve parenting students, prospective student parents who are pregnant or imminently anticipating an adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption."

[julialnyc]

39. You don't think her participation with Terri Schivo was hardliner actions?

and no I'm not adverse to the quote that you posted if it is that woman's choice to go through with the pregnancy. I would also hope that some of the money went toward sexual education so that unwanted pregnancies are stopped before a choice has to be made.

[DerekG]

43. Not in the least. I commend Ms. Heaton for her efforts.

Like Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson and Nat Hentoff, who harbor no inhibitions about breaking from the liberal intelligentsia, I was opposed to the court-ordered killing of Terri Schiavo.

The most protracted execution in American history, that was.

[julialnyc]

45. Well I disagree with you there

plus I don't see Heaton condemning war. Talk about some of the most protracted executions in American history.

[DerekG]

46. She is a hawk indeed, and this infuriates me

For the life of me, I can't fathom how one could take moralistic positions on abortion and euthanasia, yet support violence on a mass scale.

If I were to chance on this self-described feminist, I would ask if she knows what a cluster bomb is, and the effects its shrapnel has on the human body.

[julialnyc]

47. I would also like her to ponder all of the babies

and pregnant mothers who are dying oversees. and of course everyone else who has sadly lost their life (or their limbs) in war.

I can understand people having a difference of opinion than me and appreciate that we all have our different points of view, but not once has anyone been able to give me a reasonable explanation on how they value some lives over others. Whether it is being anti-choice, but pro-war and death penalty or not seeing lives of people in different countries as the same as American lives.

I know that you disagree with me on Terri Schivo, but maybe I could have some respect for if she not only chased the cameras to get attention for Terri, but also for the people of Sudan, those affected by war........ and promoted education so that there would be fewer people who would have to make a choice of what to do with an unwanted child (and prevented deadly diseases like AIDS)

[NYC Liberal]

32. Oh please, as if she'd have trouble finding work elsewhere

:eyes:

Would calling for Bush's impeachment and removal from office be considered "denying him work"?

[DerekG]

35. Not the best analogy

"The View" is entertainment, and fluff entertainment at that. Roe v. Wade will not be threatened by some sitcom actress who devotes the thirty second interim between Tom Cruise and Simon Cowell interviews for her pet issue.

[Crowdance]

33. Done!

Her kind of anti-woman bigotry must not be rewarded with a larger audience. I believe the show would rapidly lose viewers if it did hire Heaton, in any case. The woman is both a bigot ANd a twit.

[KamaAina]

36. It'd be halfway to being like those "roundtables" on Snuffleupagus

you know, where Fareed Zakaria ends up being the "voice of reason" when compared to George Will and two other righty blowhards. (They have gotten somewhat better since Sam Donaldson came back, even if he does have a horrendous rug.)

edit: punctuation in header

[Late Slip]

38. I don't think it would be so bad to have her because I think it's

always healthy to have a range of opinions, especially on a show like that. Frankly, her opinions are kinda out there, so her perspective is going to look nutty compared with everone else's anyhow (except Hesselbeck's, who will only look moderately nutty) I say bring her on!

[peekaloo]

44. I'd watch just to see Joy Behr kick her arse.