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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsABC's "The View" has jumped the shark. Again.
Hiring Jenny McCarthy, having Alex Jones on the program, etc.
Now this.
ABC's The View reportedly plans to mainstream conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch by featuring her as a guest co-host on the February 3 program.
The decision to give Loesch a national platform on a highly-rated television show is troubling considering Loesch has gained notoriety for her inflammatory rhetoric, expressing extreme views on topics from gun control to reproductive access.
Loesch made headlines in January 2012 for her reaction to an internet video that appeared to show members of the Marine Corps urinating on the corpses Taliban fighters. On her St. Louis-based radio show, Loesch defended the alleged act, saying that she would "drop trou and do it too" if she was in a similar situation. Loesch criticized "a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military because there were Marines caught urinating on corpses -- Taliban corpses," and later defended her comments on a Breitbart.com blog post by claiming she was "defending [the Marines] from overly-dramatic hysteria."
At the time, Loesch was an CNN contributor, and the network reportedly suspended her soon after these remarks.
Loesch was also one of the few right-wing media figures to excuse former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) for his "legitimate rape" remarks. After Akin declared that it is rare for women who had been the victim of "legitimate rape" to become pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Loesch took to Twitter account and dismissed Akin's comments, claiming he "failed a soundbite" and attacking his critics for "hypocritical overreactions."
Loesch also has a history of leveling groundless and inflammatory attacks against liberals. Five years after the story was debunked, Loesch claimed on her radio show that President Obama attended a Muslim school known as a Madrassa in response to a caller's comment that Obama was "born with a Quran in his hand." Loesch attacked State Department official Huma Abedin by pushing the conspiracy theory that she had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and labelled then-Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a "nympho" for advocating for a mandate for insurance companies to cover contraception.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/31/abcs-the-view-to-mainstream-conservative-demago/197866
deutsey
(20,166 posts)The so-called Liberal Media strikes again.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)No wonder, they ditched Joy.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)How long has this monumental idiot been there LOL
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)Whoopi will cut her down to size in no time.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)DURHAM D
(32,617 posts)Barbara Walters was Roy Cohn's best friend and beard for many years.
His friends were Barbara's friends -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
Walk away
(9,494 posts)She might as well dig a hole and toss in her entire career and any vestige of her sense of integrity, and bury it under the pandering slush that she now promotes.
This is how she wants to go down in history. As a money grubbing crap peddler.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)I was never a big fan because I couldn't tolerate Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Then, Sherri Shepard made that comment about the earth being flat. Then Jenny McCarthy, who I can't stand. Now this.
Archae
(46,369 posts)Because she really isn't that stupid...is she?
On edit:
Looked her up at Wikipedia, the "flat Earth" comment was just the milder form of her abject stupidity.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)They were discussing evolution.