Hey VIPs —
It’s your evening editor, so I get to entertain you every Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. This Christmas Eve is Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter’s birthday, so go post something on his timeline. I also learned it’s Nick Fondacaro’s birthday, so give him some love, too.
Happy Christmas Eve Birthday to our @NickFondacaro!
Give him a Follow! pic.twitter.com/OeXnKnEPsq— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 24, 2022
Fondacaro does great work with the Media Research Center and Newsbusters, but unfortunately, he doesn’t get a lot of engagement for his efforts. That’s too bad, because this piece is great and I’d love for it to get more attention. I worked briefly for an ABC/Fox affiliate in the late ’90s, and I remember walking into the control room and “The View” being on. How can anyone watch this, I thought.
Remarkably, the show is still on, and it features the stupidest women on TV. “Stupid” is an easy insult to throw around, but I really mean it — these women are just remarkably dense. They’re also mean, which leads them to say some things that aren’t true. Fondacaro has compiled three dozen times the women of “The View” have had to issue legal notes on air to keep from being sued. It was just this summer when Whoopi Goldberg “clarified” when she said Nazis were at a Turning Point USA event, she was being “metaphorical.”
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.@TheView was forced to issue 36 legal notes to protect themselves from legal liability in 2022, often mocking them https://t.co/oXrByiv4C0
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 21, 2022
"Quick legal note!"
The View was forced to issue 36 legal notes this year, due to their reckless, hate-fueled comments. pic.twitter.com/dqH7RXrgmo
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 23, 2022
Fondacaro reports:
Reviewing The View’s 36 legal notes, NewsBusters has noted that very few conveyed any genuine sincerity, and were instead openly mocked by the cast afterward.
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Their favorite target to attack was Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They had to issue a total of five legal notes regarding their comments against her (the most for any single person). After repeatedly pushing the same false accusation that she was at the head of the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, Hosting would robotically repeat the same lines:
Ginni Thomas has denied any conflict of interest between her activism and her husband’s position on the supreme court. She acknowledges attending the stop-the-steal rally, but says she left because it was cold, and denies she was involved in organizing it.
These notes would be interrupted by co-host Goldberg proclaiming, “What else is she going to say!” and “Y’all know that’s not true!”
So sincere!
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In another example of how unserious they are during these legal notes, they were forced to issue one about smears they made against Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for alleged sexual misconduct (a serious accusation of a serious crime, that has so far gone nowhere), Goldberg took to beatboxing while Hostin delivered it.
It didn’t sound great.
In fact, these legal notes have become such a joke to the cast that they openly mock how ABC’s Standards and Practices expects them to be read.
Seriously, how do they stay on the air? Between just being dumb (suggesting Dr. Jill Biden would make an outstanding Surgeon General), antisemitic (with Goldberg actually getting suspended for her remarks about the Holocaust), and slanderous, they seem like a liability to ABC.
Happy birthday to Fondacaro and Merry Christmas to all our VIPs.
Related:
The View apologizes — kinda — after TPUSA sends ABC News cease-and-desist letter condemning ‘false, derogatory, and defamatory statements’ https://t.co/YyQ5G9XsCl
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 27, 2022
