A View to Hell
You might like The View, but it does not like you.
I know that many of its viewers see the program as a modern day, female Algonquin Roundtable, so maybe I’m just not smart enough to understand the sophisticated banter that is a staple of the show. Maybe I’m insane to believe that the daytime female oriented talk show, The View has been weaponized against its viewership.
I understand that their respective experience as semi-funny comedians automatically make Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg experts on everything from foreign policy to economics, but even actual experts lack the certainty of their convictions on these and every other matter.
As a privileged white male, I am probably just mansplaining when I say that the relentless misandry and venom directed at anyone who challenges the tenants of Woke is pure cringe in motion, but more importantly, has had a dramatic and negative impact on our society. For this blasphemy, I repent and will atone by shutting up and binge watching MSNBC and praying to my Pride Flag.
My dear mother is one of their victims, so this is personal to me. There is no amount of evidence I can present to her to disabuse her of the belief that RFK jr. is about to start an epidemic of mass death due his “conspiracy theories”, for example. When I tell her that I worked for RFK Jr’s Super Pac, AV 24 during his Presidential Run, and I know that she has been lied to, and maybe I know more about the subject than old Whoopie, my pleas sadly fall on dead and poisoned ears.
It seems to me that the extremely unbiased and clear-headed panel of The View speak in DNC scripted talking points presented with a rage that can only be an expression of a deep self-loathing, but, again, I’m a white male, so I should shut up.
I noticed that they had the esteemed vaccine expert and world-savior, Bill Gates on recently and they used the opportunity to bait him to trash RFK Jr and anyone questioning his absolute dominion over our health. They curiously never questioned him about his frequent trips to Epstein’s rape island, but I guess they ran out of time.
Apparently, justice for abused women, female empowerment and #MeToo had to take a back seat because “Nazis”.
Whoopie recently said that she thought about retiring, but that she can’t afford to. I don’t know how she manages on her multi-million dollar salary and gobs of residual checks from her Hollywood career. Poor thing is a victim of systemic misogyny and racism.
In all fairness, I think the premise is sound and even admirable. If there were some balance to the panel, like the inclusion of very smart female, right-leaning voices like Peachy Keenan or Dana Loesch, or someone from the real left like Cindy Sheehan, the exchanges between the hosts would make compelling tv. The current, one-sided debacle is like a panel filled with Tokyo Roses all screeching from the same demented and dishonest hymn notes. It has the feel of a military/intelligence operation dressed up as infotainment.
The whole sordid affair has had the effect of making my own dear mother angry and bitter. She spouts slanderous lies as if they were the Ten Commandments.
“Tho shall have no other gods before Rachel Maddow.”
There goes my white male bias showing again. Fuck the Patriarchy!
I actually believe that the show is designed to give many good woman who feel disenfranchised and disappointed with their lives a target to blame for their own failures and tragedies.
Trump becomes Goldberg in their 50 Minutes of Hate. (One hour minus ten minutes of ads for drugs and processed foods)
The program has succeeded in making its audience enraged and divided from their own family and friends. It’s tragic and sad.
Dorothy Parker, where are you?
This was really terrific - your excellent and piercing satire of that odious show THE VIEW.
It is also so distressing and very sad how these extravagantly paid, moronic talking heads - speaking as a self-hating white woman and secret racist obviously - have infiltrated the consciousness of many of our friends, neighbors and family members. People are living in separate realities these days.
Thank you and it sure made me laugh - well, I chuckled and that's a lot these days.
When The View started in the early 2000s, it was good. Barbara Walters, one of the founders, was actually on it most days. Alas, those days are gone when I enjoyed watching it in my basement "gym" (stairmaster and hand weights and exercise bands). They operate on fear and greed. Good luck with your mother.