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Elisabeth's 'SVU' Hassle (did SVU creators name rape/murder victim after conservative host?)
NY Post ^ | October 25, 2006 | Don Kaplan

Posted on 10/25/2006 7:28:43 AM PDT by dead

YAPPY "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is up in arms over an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" where a character named Elizabeth Hassenback is raped and murdered.

She says she believes the char acter was meant to be her.

On yesterday's edition of "The View," she described a phone call she placed to the crime show's executive pro ducer, Neal Baer, and claimed he hung up on her after she complained to him.

"I said, 'Look, I think it's socially irresponsible to do this. . . I know what you did, that's essentially my name."

Baer told her to "chalk it up to coincidence." But Has selbeck says she pressed him, pointing out that "Law & Order" prides itself on its "rip ped from the headlines" stories. "Your show is so not based on coincidence and it pulls things from the headlines."

Baer then apologized and said he was sorry the show had hurt her feelings. Hasselbeck says she snapped back, "You don't sound sorry, it's not about feelings. . . and I want you to know I think it's socially irresponsible...' "

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…Baer declined to comment yesterday, but a spokesperson for "Law & Order: SVU" said the series' producers always look forward to having the show's actors appear on "The View."

A production source said that all character names on every edition of "Law & Order" are thoroughly vetted by the pro duction's legal department prior to appearing on the shows and there had been no intention to name one after Hassel beck.

On the "SVU" episode, a serial rapist/killer repeatedly attacks the same women when they are ovulating in an attempt to impregnate them.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lawandorder; svu; theview
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I know it certainly could be coincidence, but considering that the producers are constantly trying to get their stars on “The View” to help garner the yenta ratings, it seems to me that they would know exactly what they were doing when the named the victim.

There's really know way of knowing, but I suspect the pissy little liberal hate freaks gave themselves one of those “wouldn’t it be funny if a conservative was raped and killed?!” chuckles.

1 posted on 10/25/2006 7:28:45 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

Was she upset at the latest "kill President Bush"flick shown in Toronto......Hmmmmmm?


2 posted on 10/25/2006 7:31:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: dead
Difference between Dems and Republicans --

Q: Mr. Dukakis, your critics say you are soft on crime. I ask you, if you found out that your beloved wife had been raped and murdered, what would be your reaction?
A: Well, MA General Laws on the topic of rape, are wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk wonk."

Republicans actually get upset and outraged.

3 posted on 10/25/2006 7:32:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Don Corleone

Why do you ask?


4 posted on 10/25/2006 7:32:46 AM PDT by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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To: dead
She's got good grounds for a lawsuit. She should go after these bums big time. Coincidence that a character names Elisabeth Hassleback, a famous person on TV people watch every day, is 'fictionally' raped and murdered? Yeah, riiiight!
5 posted on 10/25/2006 7:33:32 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: Don Corleone

I'm guessing you don't know that Elizabeth has politically conservative beliefs.


6 posted on 10/25/2006 7:35:08 AM PDT by jwrogers
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To: Don Corleone
Was she upset at the latest "kill President Bush"flick shown in Toronto......Hmmmmmm?

I have no idea. Is there a reason you ask?

7 posted on 10/25/2006 7:36:05 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Don Corleone
Elisabeth Hasselbeck spoke at the Republican National Convention for the 2004 election. She's very conservative and loves President Bush. She has no problems backing Rosie down on "The View" - and does it quite well. She stands up to Walters as well.

I'm sure she was very upset at that film.

8 posted on 10/25/2006 7:37:30 AM PDT by WeddingPlanner
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I think Rosie O'Donnell is the dumbest human alive and I can't take watching the view, but every once in a while I see a little youtube blurb over at hotair.com. I give Elizabeth great credit for jumping into the gaping maw of the beast and duking it out as best she can with a bunch of harpies for whom any deviation from the Democratic kool-aid would be heresy.

She's easy on the eyes, and she has a functioning brain. She's doing a damned difficult job putting up with that bunch, and I admire her for putting herself out there.

9 posted on 10/25/2006 7:37:31 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE)
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Was she upset at the latest "kill President Bush"flick shown in Toronto......Hmmmmmm?

I don't know. What did you have for dinner last night? Neither question is relevant.
10 posted on 10/25/2006 7:38:16 AM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: dead

My friend Jack Ryan isn't too upset about his name used in books & movies, etc.


11 posted on 10/25/2006 7:38:26 AM PDT by Toby06 (Diesel smoke makes me horny.)
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To: dead

I hear they are planning a new show where a famous politician named Hillary Clanten is beheaded by Amish extremists. That should be OK.


12 posted on 10/25/2006 7:40:50 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: dead

Ki nda like that kil ler with the Tom Delay t-shirt they ran a whi le beck


13 posted on 10/25/2006 7:41:10 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Face it, every empire comes to an end, and ours is on the down hill slope.)
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I'd sue. It looks like they did it on purpose. She's the only conservative on the show, and she gets raped and killed? Why couldn't they use that character to be a peripheral one like a witness? I'd sue.


14 posted on 10/25/2006 7:45:32 AM PDT by rbosque
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If they named a murdered character "Rosie O'Connell" it would be JUST a coincidence too, I'm sure.


15 posted on 10/25/2006 7:47:48 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Republican, atheist, pro-life)
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To: WeddingPlanner

Granted I've don't watch the view often, but the episodes I've seen have not shown Elisabeth to be very good at backing Rosie down.


16 posted on 10/25/2006 7:53:59 AM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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To: elc

I've = I


17 posted on 10/25/2006 7:54:45 AM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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To: dead

The MSM is truly insane. Their bias has infected their brains. They want the republicans off the face of the earth.


18 posted on 10/25/2006 7:56:36 AM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU MUST BURN OUR FLAG, PLEASE WRAP YOURSELF IN IT FIRST)
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To: dead

One of the stars of the SVU program, Vincent D'Onofrio, is a barking moonbat of the worst description.


19 posted on 10/25/2006 7:58:12 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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Actually, D'Onofrio is on "Criminal Intent", but he's still a barking moonbat.

Maybe his "alien bug" character in "MIB" infected his brain?


20 posted on 10/25/2006 8:02:57 AM PDT by ssaftler ("The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" - Al "Chicken Little" Gore)
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