Jenny McCarthy out, Sarah Palin in?
Apparently the former vice presidential candidate turned reality star is now hoping to take over morning television.
Palin told The Hollywood Reporter that she is interested in a co-host spot on ABC’s The View. And with Barbara Walters’ retirement on the horizon and the departures of Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy, there just might be a spot for her after all.
Palin spoke with THR after her show, “Amazing America,” was picked up for a second season. She answered questions about other TV dreams, the current political landscape and even Hillary Clinton.
She said she wasn’t interested in a solely political talk show.
“The politics would have to be interspersed with a whole lot of fun and real life and inspiration showcasing American work ethic, because those topics are all pretty much the antithesis of today’s politics, which I find incorrigibly disastrous! It’d be so much fun to shake it up taking on issues that make audiences objectively consider all sides, and I’d do it with my own real-life groundedness, candor and commonsense that I’m known for,” Palin said. “Media needs that today, versus the condescension that oozes from TV and radio. I hear everyone recently got canned from The View, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America’s heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue.”
Palin is definitely in line with most of America at least when it comes to Hillary’s book – she hasn’t read it either. But Palin has read one section of it that was about her after it was passed on to her by her lawyer. All Palin would say about it was that she appreciated Hillary’s “boldness” in not attacking her for being a woman during the 2008 campaign.
You can read the full interview here.
