The departure of Barbara Walters has left ABC’s ‘The View’ without any adult supervision. And the addition of a shrill, deranged, conspiracy-spouting lesbian to the mix has… unsurprisingly… led to some serious dysfunction.
A shrill, backstage brawl at “The View” Wednesday left co-host Rosie Perez in tears while panelists Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell battled over how to cover the latest allegations against Bill Cosby and the racially charged upheaval in Ferguson, Mo., sources said.
O’Donnell believed the show — now overseen by ABC News — needed to delve deeper into both controversial subjects, while Goldberg wanted to steer clear of the topics altogether.
Ultimately, both news stories were discussed at length on the air by the panel.
“There’s terrible frustration and there are problems,” a source close to the show told the Daily News. “Whoopi didn’t want to talk about Cosby and Ferguson, Rosie (O’Donnell) did — how could you not? These are topics that are uncomfortable for everyone, but it’s ‘The View’ and it’s their job to talk about topics that might make some people tense.”
Fortunately, there were very few witnesses to the train wreck.
With Walters now retired, there’s no center of gravity to the show, no one to reign in the lunatics inside the asylum. No wonder the ratings have plummeted with the formula broken and the cast is feuding with each other.
Anti-Vaccination whackjob Jenny McCarthy now looks like the smart one for walking away from this not-so-hot mess.
Bet this wouldn’t have happened if they had picked Tammy Bruce instead of Rosie.
I also bet this kind of stuff doesn’t happen on ‘The Five.’ And this clip may explain why:
And some people wonder why I don’t turn on the Idiot Box anymore…
What should have killed the view was all of them laughing about the guy whose wife cut off his penis. The funny thing is women think an all women society would be utopia while the dutch version of survivor proved that they would willingly starve to death while trying to come up with a consensus.
I honestly don’t see how anyone could deal with the show when Walters was still on it.
There isn’t enough money in the universe to get me to go on the show as the lone conservative voice in the midst of variations of liberal.
Whoopie has a history of defending rape and child molestation defending Polanski because what he did wasn’t “rape rape” (whatever that means).
I think Whoopie was uncomfortable having to discuss had actions by blacks. I get the discomfort but they were news worthy.
I used to watch it back in the day when I had a live TV signal; but then that was before Joy(less) and Elizabeth left. It was also entertaining when they had a pebble-in-the-shoe for liberals on, such as Bill O’Reilly.
Joy(less) was particularly fun to watch as she would shift weight on her behind back and forth like a hen that couldn’t get comfortable in the nest. The most they could do, without having a Rosie O-style meltdown on set, was walk off (as they did to Bill O).
Now I understand the token Republican, Nicole Wallace, is like Dana Perino on Valium: the kind of conservative that Upper East Side liberals think should typify all Republicans; meek, mellow, and always willing to back down first.
The problem that the hosts (and perhaps the producers, though I can’t imagine Bill Geddie not being sharp enough to realize this) don’t get is that network television just doesn’t cater to coastal elite liberals. In fact, most of the audience they think they are playing to couldn’t be bothered with watching a show they think is beneath them. The audience that actually is watching is who they are insulting each and every day.
Such a far cry from Rosie’s original syndicated daytime show in the 90s.
That’s funny, at least to me. Here’s why.
When the allegations against Cosby “popped” last week (after simmering for years), one of the feminist refrains was “Why didn’t this story pop until *a man* validated it?” (i.e., until comedian Hannibal Buress talked about it)
And the answer is: because *Whoopi Goldberg, among other Hollywood liberals, didn’t want it* to pop. Not only did she never mention it or try to bring it up; we now see that she fought against the story popping.
So, it wasn’t about male-female. It may have been about Hollywood, or/and race. Whoopi “I don’t believe it was rape-rape” Goldberg felt the need to choose between protecting a prominent Hollywood African-American from the scandal of his alleged date-raping, and protecting women from date-rapists. Apparently, she chucked her fellow women over the fence.
Hmm. Now I’m wondering if that aspect maybe deserves its own, new post?
Whoopi has really disappointed with her opinions over the years.
When Rosie O’Donnell is coming across as the voice of reason, things have gone berserk.