Howllo Fellow Hound and The View Watchers: Today I had The View on while I was eating lunch. This is very off our beloved basset hound topic, but this has been bugging me all day.
Here is how it went:
Tight shot of Whoppie. Whoppie proceeds to tell the audience how she has the perfect gift for most everyone on your holiday shopping list. She goes on and on gushing over how great this gift is and it is not to be missed. You must rush to the store. My God, she hyped this gift up so much I actually turned up the sound and stopped what I was doing. Guess what the gift was?
The book that Barbara Walters had written this year. What the Heck? Are you kidding me? How is that a holiday gift for the masses?
Cue camera 2 on Barbara with a tight shot. Barbara is blushing and looking down like a coy young school girl being told her anklets are pretty. It was so weird.
OK – Is there a catch? How could this possibly be the best holiday gift ever? I am not a big fan of The View but I have not seen them stoop to these low levels before. Again, I don’t watch that often.
Hey it is not over yet!
The camera is still cued on Barbara and she starts telling Whoopie, that she has a holiday gift buying suggestion and it is a must have for all children and any one who loves children must buy this gift, and the gushing goes on and on. I am almost ready to throw my TV out the window when she announces the next best think to sliced bread!
Whoppie’s kid book that she wrote this year.
Cue camera back to Whoppie who looks like the cat who just swallowed the canary.
Is this QVC or The View? How shameless. The camera stays cued on Whoppie for an eternity while Barbara is still gushing, Elizabeth is fawning and Sherri is yawning.
Don’t think for a moment it’s over yet. Who knew Joy wrote a Kid’s book about her dog? Not me.
Whoopie dives into another QVC presentation about how any dog lover is not complete without this precious piece of literature and how your holiday will not be complete without it, all the while Joy is screeching in the background that the sequel is coming out soon. Look for it next Holiday season then you can buy both of her books!!!
Then, half of the remaining show was about the Barbara Walters’ special being aired tonight and how she is the Queen of everything media.
What a sickening, shameless, narcissistic, display of consumer greed. Are the “Big Auto 3 CEOs” not enough? Now we have the big 3 Ladies of The View grabbing and taking.
You would think that these ladies have reached such career heights that they might bend down and help someone else up. Wow, they really showed their true colors today on The View which was just a huge commercial for their products.
I am still shaking my head. I will enjoy lunch in silence with no TV in the future. Who needs an hour long commercial of in your face greed?
Can you imagine sitting around at Christmas reading Barbara Walters’ memories?
Shameless I tell you, Shameless………..
More basset hound blogs later. I apologize to my readers for going off topic, but I just could not get this out of my mind. Thanks for listening.
Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
sure it is harder on me than on them. This is the first time that I have left Emma alone over night. I know she will be fine. Me, not so much!
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