When Elisabeth Hasselbeck tried to quit The View: "Write that up in The New York fucking Post!"

It feels like another lifetime ago when conservative blowhard Elisabeth Hasselbeck was still on The View, happily firing off ill-informed opinions on everything from birth control to taxes. But this week, audio surfaced of a 2006 attempt to quit mid-show, and we are writing it up in The A.V. fucking Club.
Listening to the footage, you could initially be forgiven for thinking, “Right on, that’s exactly what I’ve wanted to say when quitting a shitty job in the past.” But then you learn the context of her outburst, and you’re reminded we’re talking about Elisabeth fucking Hasselbeck. Variety reports the audio clip is supporting an excerpt from the new behind-the-scenes book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story Of The View, which details an August 2, 2006 taping of the show in which Hasselbeck completely loses it after being told to calm down by Barbara Walters.
The hosts were discussing the always-genteel topic of birth control, specifically the FDA’s proposal to make the morning-after pill available over the counter. Hasselbeck proceeded to get extremely agitated, gesticulating wildly, and saying extremely dumb things such as taking the pill is “the same thing as birthing a baby and leaving it out in the street,” which, hoo boy, take a health-ed class. After making it very difficult for anyone to respond with anything as untoward as facts, Barbara Walters then stepped in right before the commercial break, cutting Hasselbeck off and saying, very calmly, “Could you stop now? …We have to go on and we have to learn how to discuss these things in some sort of rational way.”
The idea of rationality was apparently too much for Hasselbeck (unsurprising, given her subsequent stint as a Fox & Friends co-host), who, as we now know from enjoying the following audio clip, tore up her notecards and stormed off in a rage-quit. “Fuck that!” Hasselbeck screams, while those of us in 2019 savor the f-bomb dropping from the mouth of this outspoken right-wing follower of Christ. “I’m not going to sit there and get reprimanded on the air. It’s not ok to sit there and get reprimanded on the air.” Fellow host Joy Behar tries to calm her down, in the soothing and placating tones one might use with a child, if that child were swearing up a storm and quitting your daytime debate show mid-program because the lead host had to remind her other people are allowed to talk, too.