Elisabeth Hasselbeck was one of Sarah Palin's biggest fans during the 2008 election so it surprising to see her bash Sarah Palin over her over the top "Re-Load" Face Book chart and called it despicable.

In never-thought-you'd-see-the-day news, staunch conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck went off on The View yesterday, railing against none other than Sarah Palin.

Why? Because Palin, for whom she campaigned during the '08 election, released an ad that put 20 Democratic members of Congress literally in the crosshairs.

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The former Alaska Governor's Facebook page features her political action committee's ad targeting the 20 Democratic incumbents, with a SarahPac map marking districts where Democrats voted "yes" for health care reform with guns.

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Hasselbeck also opposes health reform, but she's actually far more upset about how people on her own side of the political spectrum are handling themselves.

"I think the way some Republicans are handling this is nothing more than despicable," she said in response to Palin's tasteless ad. "It's disappointing to see this coming from the Party, and I would hope that leaders like Sarah Palin would end this."

The violence that we predicted is taking place and it's even scaring the likes of Hasselbeck.

There have been a number of right wingers who have been accused of plagiarism and lifting other's work in recent years. Most notably, Cindy McCain, Ann Coulter and Ben Domenech and more recently, Sarah Palin was caught lifting passages from Newt Gingrich. Now, an author has accused wingnut Elisabeth Hasselbeck of lifting her content "word for word" in her new book:

BOSTON – The author of a health book has sued Elisabeth Hasselbeck, accusing the co-host of ABC's "The View" of plagiarism.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges that Hasselbeck lifted "word for word" content from a book written by Susan Hassett, a self-published author on Cape Cod.

Hassett said in the lawsuit that she sent Hasselbeck a personal note and copy of her "Living With Celiac Disease" book as a courtesy after the television celebrity disclosed she had the illness last year.

Wasn't that nice of Elisabeth? Hassett was kind enough to send her a copy of her book, only to find out that she lifted parts of it to write her own. Not only does she lift passages, Hassett claims that Hasselbeck's book contains bogus and possibly dangerous information:

Hassett said Hasselbeck's book "slavishly reproduces" lists and passages from her own work and includes inaccuracies about celiac disease that can be "misleading and dangerous" for people with the illness. Read on...

Zoom: Pictures paint a thousand words. Yet they can also be misleading. Errol Morris dons his detective hat to dissect one of the most infamous photos out of Abu Ghraib. What he finds is shocking, horrifying and the opposite of what we were led to believe.

Raw Story: Discussion of Prescott Bush and his Nazi ties reaches The View. (What's next? Gore Vidal stops by to debate Elizabeth Hasselbeck? C'mon, you'd so Tivo that.) And veteran reporter Robert Parry also weighs in on Grandpa Gestapo.

Norman Solomon: "Our own mourning should help us understand and strive to prevent the unspeakable pain of others." Not new, but a beautiful and important essay written after the passing of his mother. Which reminds me of this quote.

News Corpse: While Barack Obama is serious about anti-trust laws, Mark Howard warns of the dangers of taking on the media conglomerates. Especially while you're running for president (paging Dr. Dean).

FAIR: In the Washington Post article, "McCain's Hamas smear [is] equated with Obama accurately noting that McCain was one of the Keating Five."

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