We honestly don't know what it'll take for ABC to pull the plug on 'The View' -- the screeching, hysterical, dishonest harpies who sit on the panel are as unlikable as dysentery and they do nothing but lie in service of the Democratic Party.
I get it, ladies, I really do. You hate Donald Trump. But spouting your Trump Derangement Syndrome nonsense on national television is not a substitute for a personality.
And we're all getting tired of it. Even Cenk Uygur -- hardly a conservative -- is telling you to knock it off.
But you don't seem to learn, do you? Just yesterday, Sunny Hostin looked like she sucked on a lemon as she issued a legal note after accusing Matt Gaetz of having sex with a minor (we told you about that here).
Yet here she is, having to issue another legal note, so ABC doesn't get sued into oblivion:
Gee, I don't know, maybe if you weren't such blatantly partisan hacks, you wouldn't have to issue corrections.
That's what 'The View' does best though: partisan hackery. In the days after the election, Sunny doubled down on calling voters racist, sexist, and homophobic. This ignores the fact the same voters twice elected Barack Obama president and that Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump (but not in the Electoral College, the only ones that matter).
Joy Behar said she'd rather die than receive CPR from a Trump supporter, because that's the reaction of a sane and mature person when their preferred candidate loses an election.
Whoopi Goldberg slandered the owners of a Staten Island bakery, claiming the owners wouldn't make her birthday cupcakes because of her political views. The reality was the bakery's boiler was malfunctioning and she couldn't fill any orders.
While Joy and Whoopi are idiots, they're also comedians and actresses. Sunny Hostin has a legal background. You would think -- you would think -- she would know better. That she would know making such claims about Matt Gaetz and Peter Hegseth would put the show (which is classified as 'news' under ABC's umbrella, but more on that in a second) in legal hot water.
But advancing her political agenda is more important than even the most basic tenets of journalism and law.
Weirdly enough, 'The View' has higher ratings than I expected. I honestly don't know anyone who watches the program, but I have seen it on televisions in doctor waiting rooms, my nail salon, my automotive shop (where customers can access the remote, so click). But an actual audience? The fact they're making those numbers surprises me. But even those number aren't that high -- 2.5 million viewers. I know YouTubers with higher subscriber counts.
Created in 1997 by Barbara Walters, the show was meant to comment on the news of the day. Fine. But it's moved from commenting on the news to being the news, and not in a good way.
As Cenk Uygur pointed out, the ladies of 'The View' had no problem pedaling misinformation when it came to Joe Biden: he was fine, sharp as a tack, and fit to be president. They even had him on the show in September. Today, Joy Behar accused Joe Rogan of believing in 'dragons', thus implying Rogan (and his listeners) are somehow stupid.
It makes for terrible television, but great Twitchy content. For that, I'm grateful.
But the cultural winds are shifting. I feel it, and so do others. This sort of Left-wing, woke, unhinged nonsense is just not playing well with the public at large and is part of why Donald Trump won the election earlier this month. The public is fed up with media lecturing to us, insulting us, and ignoring us. We are responding by taking our eyes and dollars to places like X and Joe Rogan and other alternative forms of media that don't treat us with open disdain.
Others -- like Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post and Patrick Soon-Shiong at The Los Angeles Times see the change coming and are trying to steer their ships accordingly. ABC has to do the same -- especially with 'The View' -- if there's any hope.
The jury's still out on whether or not it's too late for them. Trust in media is, after all, at historic lows and that's all self-inflicted.
