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Ugh…

Politico runs down the entire bizarre appearance.

Paul Pelosi is accustomed to playing second fiddle to his famous wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But on Tuesday’s episode of the daytime talk show The View, Mr. Pelosi stole the show.

“We have an older man in the audience who I think is so attractive,” said Barbara Walters, one of the show’s five female panelists. “You wanna take a look at Nancy Pelosi’s handsome husband?” she asked as cameras turned to a bashful Paul Pelosi and the audience cheered.

“I see you eying me,” quipped Whoopi Goldberg, another panelist. “That’s cool.”

After a few ads for home pregnancy tests and shower gel, the Paul Pelosi adulation continued.

With Speaker Pelosi now seated with the panel, Walters quipped about Goldberg, “I think she’d like to do your husband.”

Retorted Goldberg, “I would do her as well, but we should wait on that because you’re still in office, I don’t want to cause a problem.”

After that playful, if bizarre, banter, the women moved on to the big issues. They had already talked about Britney Spears – “the biggest hot topic out there now,” judged Goldberg – and about Paul Newman and “Dancing with the Stars.” So that left only the Iraq War to posit to Pelosi.

As expected, the show’s conservative stalwart, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, mixed it up with the Speaker.

Hasselbeck asked why Democrats wanted to remove troops from Iraq when a new report showed the civilian death toll falling.

“Now we’re seeing a reduction in those civilian deaths and giving them the space that they do need for that political change. That is happening. In my mind and I’m sure many others, that’s seen as a success.”

Pelosi appeared to struggle with the question before finding a winning line.

“Elisabeth, if I may, with all due respect, there are still a lot of people dying,” she said.

Well nice they found time to hit on an important topic amidst the quasi-sexual love fest.