The View’s resident right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck campaigned with John McCain’s vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin this weekend.

A topic of particular annoyance for Hasselbeck has been the ongoing focus on Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe, purchased at the expense of the Republican party. While Palin has denied the clothes cost that much, and McCain has stated they’ll all go to charity after the election, photos of her 7 year old daughter Piper with a Louis Vuitton handbag haven’t done much for the claims of modesty. (The bag is, in fact, a fake.)

Hasselbeck believes the wardrobe story was made an issue only because Palin’s a woman. At a campaign rally this weekend she described the issue as “deliberately sexist.” As usual, her View co-stars have butted heads with Hasselbeck; Barbara Walters claimed she toured the country with only “black pants, a black skirt and three jackets” while Joy Behar quipped Palin could have opted out of the expensive wardrobe makeover by saying “‘I don’t want to wear those clothes because I’m presenting myself as this Wal-Mart hockey mom.”

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She may have made the big time with her VP candidacy and a guest spot on Saturday Night Live, but Sarah Palin’s paid for the limelight with a high price of criticism.

Perhaps aptly, given her latest venue for politicking was the NBC staple sketch comedy, comedians are particularly scathing of the Alaskan governor. Two of the latest in a growing number of funny men and women to declare war on Palin are industry giants Chevy Chase and Jon Stewart.

Chase had some harsh words about Palin’s appearance on SNL, where he had his own political fun impersonating bumbling president Gerald Ford. “”The management behind McCain’s campaign has been dumb. This has only helped accentuate the problem of his judgment in choosing, in such a cynical way, a candidate like Sarah Palin for vice president. I think the last thing that they would want right about now is to have the rest of America knowing all that…to have her be seen on SNL, certainly never there. If anything, you just want her to be seen just from a distance.”

He also accused Palin of being unable to “improvise herself out of a paper bag.”

Jon Stewart didn’t hold back either. While speaking at a college this weekend the Daily Show host declared “She said that small towns, that’s the part of the country she really likes going to because that’s the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: Fuck you.”

Then adopting his best Palin impersonation, he said “I’ve never seen someone with a greater disparity between how cute they sound when they’re saying something and how terrible what they’re saying is. Don’tcha know, Obama, by golly, he just is a terrorist?… Oh, you know, he just, gosh, kills babies, you know.” (source)

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Matt Damon spoke out of Sarah Palin and her rise to Republican VP. He said that he thinks it’s crazy that this woman could become president. He said you do the actuary tables and there’s 1 chance out of 3 that McCain wouldn’t survive past his first term and it’s a governance disaster to have this woman that he doesn’t know and can’t get to know enough in 8 weeks. He only knows she was a mayor of a really small town and has been a governor in Alaska for just under 2 years. He said it’s like a really bad Disney movie like you know, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska and now I’m the president.

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