'This is our chance to take our leap forward creatively,' Wolff said. The new executive producer, brought on midway through the show's makeover, said he was largely responsible for hiring Perez and Wallace. ![]() Wolff said he talked to Walters a couple of times a week to get advice. She filmed an awkward show-opening segment seated in a 'throne' where the four hosts briefly approached and bowed before her. Walters, who invented the format nearly two decades ago, watched the proceedings from offstage. Also Monday, Kristin Chenoweth came on for a song in tribute to the late Joan Rivers. Onscreen, she played a brief game with an audience member and Perez, asking them to guess which Rosie had said or done certain things. It created some moments funnier than what appeared on the air, like when one onlooker asked whether someone else might be added to the four-person cast. O'Donnell was the ringmaster during commercial breaks, taking a microphone and interacting with the audience. She's still got it! Despite her retirement, The View co-creator Barbara Walters showed up for a cameo as the forum's queen and proved she still knows how to produce controversy after Tuesday's fight and Monday's raked-in ratings 'I simply stated the fact that he flew over in a plane before he ever went to address the people who were there and it was a very long time before he showed up. 'I did not attack him,' O'Donnell responded. New Orleans is a safer place because of what it went through.' 'A lot of people were very happy with what got done to rebuild New Orleans. 'Let me just answer your attack on president Bush and Katrina,' Wallace said. 'As African Americans, one could understand the righteous anger of statement,' Rosie said. ![]() 'We talked about that yesterday,' said Wallace. 'I think he was very upset in the plane as he FLEW OVER Katrina.' 'George Bush, when he wrote his book, one of the most interesting things he revealed was how personally wounded he was by that statement,' said Wallace. 'But you can say that you don't think Obama likes people?' 'Let me just ask you something, when Kanye West says "I don't think President Bush cares about black people" it's like an international incident,' she said. Things became truly heated when Rosie O'Donnell recalled rapper Kanye West's claims in the aftermath of Katrina that Bush ignored black people. 'Oh, that's bull crap,' new host Rosie Perez snapped. 'Yeah.I don't think so,' the former Bush aide replied. 'Are you implying that Obama doesn't (love people)?' O'Donnell barked. Tuesday's fight, which should be noted came in just the second episode of the season, started when she argued that Obama isn't much of a people person. Nicolle Wallace helped stir the first of what could be a lot of major The View sparring matches. Goldberg couldn't stifle giggles when talking to Wallace about Sarah Palin, with whom she clashed while working for the GOP's 2008 national ticket. O'Donnell said that while she was able to look past abuse charges against Chris Brown and enjoy his work, she couldn't do that with Woody Allen and no longer sees his movies. That clearly wasn't the case Monday, either, as the four cast members dove right into a discussion about domestic abuse and the National Football League, along with changing attitudes toward corporal punishment. Complaining of sciatica, the comedienne did the entire show with no shoes on and at times rubbed her feet well above the table for all to see.īackstage, Goldberg said the hosts had been told the past few years to avoid political topics. It likely didn't disappoint, at least not viewers interested in seeing Rosie O'Donnell up to her old (some say intentionally) irksome tricks. Many critics point to the administrations sluggish response in helping the city of New Orleans as one of the biggest mars on Bush's presidency ![]() ![]() Controversial: Here, Bush and his Cabinet members discuss a response to hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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