Not usually, Janeane Garofalo tells the Village Voice, because everyone's so gosh-darned nice, and the most right-wing writer left the show. Well, golly, then.

But, come to think of it, it was a little unsettling when Rush Limbaugh and Lynne Cheney came by to give the staff major kudos on a job well done, with evil and whatnot, presumably. Garofalo couldn't really stomach that:

When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything...

When somebody came to me privately and said 'do you want to meet them', I said absolutely not... Not that they were interested in meeting me. And, to tell you the truth, I doubt that Lynne Cheney even knew who I was.

When your biggest fans are so revolting you can't even bring yourself to shake their hands, that's a good signal you've taken a bad gig. But, hey, at least Garofalo mounted a private act of semi-defiance, which may or may not have been noticed, in between cashing paychecks.

[via TV Tattle]

The furor prompted Elisabeth to make amends on today's show, but in the most hurried, sneaky way possible. After the ladies devoted endless amounts of talk to offensive, sexist comments made by Rush Limbaugh about Hillary Clinton, Elisabeth quickly rushed out the apology for her comparatively innocuous jab just as Whoopi began to throw the show to commercial. Clever, girl, but the real expert would have snuck it in during the View's endless crosstalk, where no one would have been the wiser. Clip above.

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