Bill Maher Latest To Observe "The View" Is BANANAS

I don't know if y'all watch "The View" as religiously as I do, but perhaps you're not masochistic. Good for you! The point is that if you watch, and your brain hasn't bled out of your ears yet, perhaps you have noticed that the ladies have very possibly lost their damn minds, and have definitely lost control of the show. That is, if they ever had control of it in the first place.

The latest victim/perpetrator/guest to illustrate that "The View" is completely out of hand was Bill Maher, who was on the show Tuesday to discuss his new movie "Religulous." It went...as well as Bill Maher on The View could go. As in...not well.

To sum up, a conversation about Maher's movie, which is a documentary about religion (Maher states that he is an agnostic, and thinks organized religion is a farce,) combined with devout Christians Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, was doomed from the start. And when it completely expectedly fell to pieces, Maher was cut off by the producers after saying that Shepherd needed to be in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital because she believes God speaks to her. Did anyone NOT see this coming?

But my quarrel today is not with Maher, or Shepherd, or Hasselbeck. Nope, my beef is with the "Viewmaster" himself, producer Bill Geddie, and the joke that this show about different "views" has become. You see, Geddie pulls all the strings on the show. He's in the earpieces the hosts wear, he decides what stays, what goes, and who gets cut by commercial, like Maher, never to be seen again. He's also, I suspect, loving every minute of implosion as the show becomes more of a mockery of itself every day.

"The View" has always been touted as a show about women, and the different social and political viewpoints that different women have. So why is the "Viewmaster" a man? Why is there a (horribly nicknamed) "Viewmaster" anyway? Geddie controls the hosts like puppets, including Barbara Walters to an extent, and what could be an interesting point-counterpoint program is instead a much-mocked shrill festival of bickering that lives and dies by Geddie. Is it really any shocker that Rosie O'Donnell left the program after her "views" became too controversial? Is it actually surprising anybody that Hasselbeck, the lone conservative, is rumored to be jumping ship for Fox News? It isn't to me. Because as long as Geddie is in charge, actual views and actual discussion do, in fact have a master. And that master is not one of the women actually on-screen.

So jeers to you, Bill Geddie. Perhaps if the women who actually are supposed to be running the show actually, you know, RAN the show, "The View" would be less of a joke, and more what it was originally meant to be. Different women, different views. Different show.