On Sep 5, 3:05=A0pm, edonline wrote:
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> Elisabeth Hasselbeck Rocks the Republican Convention
> By Mark Dagostino
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> Originally posted Friday September 05, 2008 02:00 PM EDT
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> The View co-host and well-known Republican enthusiast Elisabeth
> Hasselbeck spent the day wowing delegates at the Republican National
> Convention Thursday.
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> Hasselbeck, 31, served as the official emcee at a luncheon for Cindy
> McCain just hours before John McCain's big speech. Hasselbeck also
> showed off vintage-style "McCain '08" T-shirts she designed herself,
> and spent time on the floor of the convention taping a segment that
> will air on Monday, Sept. 8, onThe View.
>
> "She was a bit of a rock star," a source tells PEOPLE. "The
> Republicans were all over her, fawning over her, telling her she was
> the best, clapping and cheering at her speech at the lunch. She wrote
> it herself, by the way."
>
> On the floor of the convention center, Hasselbeck =96 whose second
> child, Taylor Thomas, will celebrate his first birthday just days
> after the November elections =96 was seen shaking hands with delegates
> between interviewing Jon Voight, Cindy McCain, Roberta McCain, Stephen
> Baldwin, Henry Kissinger and Sean Hannity. Fox News Channel's Hannity
> was even a lucky recipient of one of her limited-edition T-shirts. "He
> said it was a little small, but cute. So he kept it," the source
> says.
>
> Hasselbeck also scored a one-on-one meeting the GOP vice presidential
> candidate Sarah Palin.
>
> Hasselbeck will continue spending time with the McCain family next
> week when their daughter Meghan is a guest on the show Tuesday. Then
> on Friday, John and Cindy McCain will sit with Hasselbeck, Barbara
> Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd on the chat-
> fest's couch for an entire show. Their appearance will kick off The
> View's "Red, White and View" campaign of programming aimed at getting
> the vote out in November.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck doesn't "rock" anything. |
