Following up their icy exchange from last month, “The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck has thrown another jab Kathy Griffin’s way, calling her “scum” when she was brought up on the July 19 show.
On Griffin’s “My Life on the D-List,” she makes an unfortunate joke that Senator Scott Brown’s two daughters are prostitutes. Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg agreed that the joke was in poor taste.
“If someone went around calling Barack Obama’s two girls prostitutes, people would be up in arms… You defend your daughters against scum who come after them,” Hasselbeck says, prompting Goldberg to say, “If somebody talked about my daughter
as a joke like that, I would beat their ass.”
Whoops?
Joy Behar didn’t see the point in getting heated up about it. “I know my daughter’s not a prostitute, so it’d be funny,” she said. “It’s just a joke, Elisabeth.