‘The View’ Has Its Eye on Politics This Year

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Barbara Walters said she left the set of “The View” on Sept. 12 believing that she and her fellow panelists had conducted a fair on-the-couch interview with Senator John McCain, and later in the episode one with him and his wife, Cindy. That was the live conversation in which Whoopi Goldberg asked Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, if she should fear “being returned to slavery” if he won, and Joy Behar complained to him about the untruths she saw in his campaign advertisements.

But soon after it was broadcast, Ms. Walters recalled in an interview at her ABC office on a recent afternoon, she received an e-mail message from Rosie O’Donnell, a former “View” co-host whose on-air monologues were often far left of center.

“Now I know I’m in trouble,” Ms. Walters said she thought. “I’ve got a lovely e-mail from Rosie complimenting me on the interview.”

Before long Mrs. McCain could be heard telling a fund-raising event, in video obtained by ABC News, that Ms. Walters and her crew had “picked our bones clean.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/television/23view.html?th&emc=th

[snake in the grass]

1. The View...

...is just as worthless as Jerry Springer, American Idol, Judge Judy, and WWF. U.S. television viewers are being electronically lobotomized by the tube.

[Grey]

2. A lot of women voters

watch and form opinions while watching "the View' and "Oprah". They have the eyes & ears of thousands of voters daily.
It is no small thing when they tell the truth to the people watching.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Ooooooh, Snake

I'd love to see these thieving scoundrels before Judge Judy - she'd clean their clocks!

[snake in the grass]

4. On that,

you are probably right!