A federal lawsuit filed last June accused the conservative daytime commentator of lifting content from a book written by self-published Cape Cod author Susan Hassett on the digestive disorder celiac disease. Hasselbeck’s book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, was featured on several best-seller lists this year.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro dismissed the lawsuit last week after Hassett’s attorney declined to pursue it due to lack of evidence.

The chatfest co-host came armed with a photo of her newborn son Isaiah for the rest of the hens to coo over, but that wasn’t the picture that caused a controversy.

When sending out a different picture of her new son to family and friends, Elisabeth was horrified to realize she was showing the clan more than she bargained for. “You know when your baby smiles for the first time — I reach for the iPhone and take the photo. No wonder why he is smiling — because my nipple is in the photo!” she explained.

“It’s worse than drunk dialing. It’s embarrassing.”

Isaiah is Elisabeth’s third child with husband Tim. The couple also the parents of 4-year-old daughter Grace and son Taylor, born last year.

Drats!!

The conservative — and often controversial chatterbox — took maternity leave from ABC’s feminine gabfest two days before giving birth to her third child, Isaiah Timothy, with NFL player husband Tim Hasselbeck on Aug. 9. Elisabeth’s return ends more than a month of appearances from celebrity guest hosts, including La Toya Jackson, Kate Gosselin, and Heidi Montag.

“I’ve lost my political opposite,” said co-host Joy Behar.

“The other people were nice, but they weren’t her,” Whoopi Goldberg added.

The Hasselbecks two older children include daughter Grace Elisabeth, 4, and Taylor Thomas, who is 20 months old.

Isaiah weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces.

“Elisabeth and Isaiah are doing great,” Tim reports.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck says a claim that she plagiarized parts of her best-selling diet book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, is “without merit.”

“I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately,” the co-host of ABC’s The View said in a brief 20 second statement before the show’s first break on Wednesday morning.

In a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Monday, Susan Hassett, a self-published author from Cape Cod, alleges that Hasselbeck lifted content from her book on celiac disease “word for word” and used them in The G-Diet, published last month.

Hassett says she sent the former Survivor contestant her book as a courtesy after Hasselbeck disclosed she also has the digestive disorder.

The lawsuit also alleges that the books have a similar organization and chapter format.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being sued over her new book about living with celiac disease.

According to The Boston Herald, The View co-host — who is currently expecting her third child — has been sued by Massachuetts-based writer Susan Hassett, who claims Hasselbeck infringed on her copyrights after she published her new book about celiac disease, titled The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide.

The suit claims that Hassett sent Hasselback a copy of her own book, Living With Celiac Disease, accompanied by a cooking video, note, her business card, and a newspaper article in April of 2008. She never heard from the TV personality, but learned that Elisabeth’s own book on the topic hit shelves last month.

Elisabeth, 32, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder, linked to gluten proteins in wheat, barley, and rye, after appearing on CBS’s Survivor: The Australian Outback in 2001.

Another shining example of America’s tendency to reward bigots with platforms to spew their tomfoolery……

Last year, conservative right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck hit back at tabloid reports that she was leaving the ladies of The View for greener pastures at the more Republican-friendly FOX News Channel. These days, the pregnant mother of two is boo-hooing that series creator Babs Walters is trying to boot her from the buzzworthy daytime talk show — and you’ll never guess the name being tossed around as her possible replacement.

Move over Liz, there’s a new right-wing babe on the block.

Flies on the wall at ABC claim View producers are eagerly pursuing Miss California Carrie Prejean — who made international headlines with her anti-gay marriage statement during the 2009 Miss USA pageant earlier this month — to fill-in for the equally conservative Hasselbeck when she goes on maternity leave later this year.

And insiders say if Carrie plays her cards right, the arrangement could become a permanent one.

“Elisabeth really has something to worry about,” says a show spy.

The National Enquirer’s Mike Walker writes: “It could turn into a permanent gig for the controversial beauty queen….Barbara’s seriously fed up with Elisabeth’s coo-coo-conserva-babble — and her looney-toon responses…”

Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she’s fine after being hit by a bike while trying to hail a cab from in Manhattan on Tuesday.

The pregnant star of ABC’s The View, 31, was in a collision with a “delivery bike.”

“I text my husband ‘got hit by a bike’ and then tweeted ‘got hit by a bike’ just in case somebody found me passed out somewhere,” Elizabeth told her co-hosts on Wednesday’s show.

“Thankfully the belly is ok,” she added.

She’s the resident conservative chatterbox (or nitwit, depending on you ask) on The View, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck is creating a different kind of “dialogue” with the launch her new clothing line.

The controversial reality personality has teamed up with style brand Dialogue to create a collection of “pretty and polished separates.” Like many of the celebrity-designed lines that have become a fixture on the QVC, Elisabeth’s line is “affordable,” with each item ranging in price from about $40 to $80.

“I think it’s nice to feel like someone paid a little more attention,” Elisabeth says on her QVC commercial for the line.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck will unveil her line tonight @ 9PM EST on QVC.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, resident right-winger of The View, lit into Ashley Judd on Thursday, calling the actress out of line for spearheading a campaign to stop Governor Sarah Palin’s government policy sanctioning the hunting and aerial killing of bears and wolves in Alaksa.