Friend: Sarah Palin Is Ignoring Elisabeth Hasselbeck

By Rob Shuter Posted Jun 8th 2011 09:08AM

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who once dutifully campaigned alongside Sarah Palin during her run for higher office in 2008, is no longer feeling the love for the likely presidential candidate, in fact, a close friend of the 'View' star reveals the two haven't spoken in months.

"I think Elisabeth is a good friend. She remembers birthdays and even with a busy schedule always takes time to stay in touch with her girlfriends," a pal tells me. "But Sarah has let her down. Elisabeth has reached out to her several times but she never responds."

It's gotten so grating on Elisabeth that, according to my source, "she has stopped trying all together and doesn't care who knows."

Elisabeth recently accused Sarah of "manipulating" the media to draw attention away from the more-serious Mitt Romney, and mocked her ex-friend's bus tour as another attempt to dominate the headlines. Sarah's decision to roll through New Hampshire on the day Mitt announced his run for the White House clearly annoyed the daytime star.

"If I had termites in my house, I'd get someone in there who could deal with it," Hasselbeck said on 'The View.' "Mitt Romney, right now, his specialty is the economy. I'd have him in there. Here's why we're not hearing it: because Sarah Palin's on a bus, and right now she's manipulating, in terms of media attention."

Before that, Elisabeth also condemned Sarah's "crosshairs" imagery on a fundraising website, calling them "despicable" after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, one of her 'targets' in the 2010 campaign, was shot during a voter meet-and-greet.

"Elisabeth feels used by Sarah," an insider tells me. "When she needed her, she was all over Elisabeth and now she treats her like a stranger. It's sad."

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Comments

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Thursday 09 June

By DeniseClement1

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To egl1637: It looks like you need help in being able to recognize a question, hence, the proper use of the question mark. And look up the correct spelling for the word,"critisize," as you've spelt it, before slinging hash at someone else while trying to be perfect.

By jim

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Only Morons of their ilk, would listen to those Ole LIB DEM HAGS whoooooopie and joy the OLD painted broad! Typical Obamaidiots! LOL!!

By RockyJ

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Laura, please let us know how well you do in the Special Olympics this year!

By kay

How old are you 6?

By Elaine0421

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You're right...no one cares about The View. No one cares about Palin either....at least anyone with any intelligence. 'Nuff said!

By egl1637

To Denoise Clement. What dictionary did you get "spelt" out of? Ef yuo wood reed sara's babble. u wood cee it wuz a statement, not a question. ar U puleeng yuor hare out yet with all these missspelled wurds? lol

By Jimmy

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You see how Republicans are? They attack everything in site from the women on The View to intelligent people replying to their moronic posts. Maybe we would take you Republicans more seriously if you had better candidates with meaningful platforms. However, when you have people like Donald Trump, who'd choose his hair as a running mate, Newt "GlitterGurl" Gingrich and Sarah "Pitbull" Palin in the mix, more people are waking up and realizing these are crybaby kids that cry when they get knocked down during "recess"

Wednesday 08 June

By bellagrazi

Let's see, Elizabeth publicly disses Sarah Palin, and she wonders why she doesn't return her calls. This woman is clueless. And she's a RINO. Sarah is wise to keep her distance from her.

By syl1969

And you should never use the words "Sarah" and "wise" in the same sentence.

By Mark

There is nothing wise about Palin.

By amiwright

She only started dissing Sarah after Sarah begain acting like Elisabeth didn't exist. Elisabeth needs to put on her big girl pants and forget about Sarah.

By Liz

Elisabeth is not a smart cookie and for that matter neither is Sarah Palin. Why are these women given access to the media?

By Coleen

Sarah is just showing us a little more of her mean girl personality. Is anyone really surprised?

By gee1

Sarah Palin and the word wise should never be used in the same sentence!!!!

By rpdanko

"Sarah is wise..." You just violated a Law of the Universe: you can never, never, never use "Sarah" (Palin) and "wise" in the same sentence. Never.

By Robert

What are we, back in junior high??

By plz

It seems to me this exact same article came out a year ago. Is it that difficult to find something new to write about?

By Cid

..ELIZABETH was only wanting to gain attention to herself by following SARAH around, it didn't take Sarah long to figure that out! :))
Elizabeth had her own agenda it seems. Talk about Sarah having an agenda, well so did Elizabeth!.. It doesn't take a Rocket scientist to figure that one out! (Cid) Canada

By jody

No I think you are mistaken, We knew about Elizabeth way before we ever knew who Sarah was. I dont believe Elizabeth needed any help in that department. Sarah used McCain and half of her town for that.

By Barbara

SaraJ, that should read "YOUR double checking"....

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