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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyAugust 18th, 2010
In an interview with Adam Buckman posted on Fancast, The View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck clears up some misconceptions about her views as the conservative on the panel:
What are some common misperceptions about you?
Oh, gosh, there are so many… I am not ultra-ultra-conservative on every issue. I actually support gay marriage.
That may be an opinion that would surprise people.
I think the gay marriage thing would definitely surprise people. I mean, for some people, it will surprise them to the point that they won’t want to hear it. “No, that can’t be, I really want to have this sort of idea of her in my head,” so I sort of rain on their parade there. I am a person that does believe that life begins at conception, but I also don’t believe that the government should tell women what to do with their bodies. So I’m torn there in terms of supporting laws [for or against abortion]. I always say I would rather change a heart than a law. I think it has to start there. Always trying to mandate, mandate, mandate this or that is not the way that I believe this country should run.
“Conservative” is a label people plaster on this person or that one. Is it more complicated than that when we’re talking about you?
I tend to be more of a federalist than anything else, and I do think there’s more of an independent streak in me that I just get genetically from my parents. But on many issues, sure, I guess I would be classified … as conservative. But like I mentioned before, there’s so many gray issues, be it abortion or gay marriage…. There’s a lot of discussion to be had and that’s why I love ‘The View’ and I wish that there was more focus on that in-between, gray area than [just] smacking a label on somebody. That’s the easy thing to do.
To be honest, I kinda suspected that.
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Ray
August 18th, 2010
So “ultra-ultra” conservatives don’t support marriage equality but “conservatives” do support marriage equality.
That sounds about right; “ultra-ultra” being the alternative to “extremist”, right?
andrew
August 19th, 2010
This country lacks political dimension — by which I mean that we think exclusively in terms of “left / liberal” versus “right / conservative”… but we fail to go along the other dimension:
libertarian versus authoritarian.
oh, there’s folks both liberal and conservative who want to tell you how to be. and there’s plenty of folks who say “f**k off an leave me alone”… conservative and liberal become much more personal matters for libertarians (because they aren’t trying to impose their views on others).
it sounds like hasselbeck is more on the libertarian side, with personal view that is shaded conservative. good for her. i may have misjudged this chick.
Ryan
August 19th, 2010
“misconception”? If she’s changed her mind, great, but it’s pretty disingenuous of her to imply that this has been her position all along. There are plenty of youtube clips out there of her arguing for Prop 8.
customartist
August 19th, 2010
Hasselbeck hasn’t changed her REAL views. This is propaganda. She’s a turd in an otherwise elegant punchbowl.
Hey The View – Dump Hasselbeck!
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