Salon.com > The View http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What do Charlie Sheen and Rand Paul have in common? http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/charlie_sheen_rand_paul/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/charlie_sheen_rand_paul/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2011/03/01/charlie_sheen_rand_paul I'm not sure how many witnesses to Charlie Sheen's current dramatic extended flameout remember this fact, but in 2009, Sheen made headlines for a bizarre piece he wrote in which he imagined interrogating President Obama about 9/11 conspiracy theories. The fantasy dialogue was accompanied by this video:

All of this was published at PrisonPlanet.com, one of the many websites founded and run by talk show host Alex Jones, along with his various acolytes. It was on Jones' show, last week, that Sheen began his recent media blitz and probably ended his profitable sitcom. Anyone familiar with the long, strange career of Jones probably enjoyed his train-wreck appearance on "The View" Monday:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/01/charlie_sheen_rand_paul/feed/ 71 The Sharron Angle ad that drove Joy Behar crazy http://www.salon.com/2010/10/26/spin_season_joy_behar_sharron_angle/ http://www.salon.com/2010/10/26/spin_season_joy_behar_sharron_angle/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2010/10/26/spin_season_joy_behar_sharron_angle Adam Hanft dissects and deconstructs political advertising at Spin Season, where this originally appeared.

Here’s the commercial that, after appearing in a break on "The View," inspired Joy Behar to look at the camera, call Sharron Angle a "bitch" and proclaim her Dantesque future by saying that she is "going to hell, this bitch."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/10/26/spin_season_joy_behar_sharron_angle/feed/ 90 Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg fail with Bill O’Reilly http://www.salon.com/2010/10/14/did_behar_and_goldberg_do_the_right_thing/ http://www.salon.com/2010/10/14/did_behar_and_goldberg_do_the_right_thing/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh//politics/2010/10/14/did_behar_and_goldberg_do_the_right_thing After watching the story explode on Twitter and Facebook, I was really looking forward to seeing Bill O'Reilly get owned by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" Thursday morning. I despise O'Reilly and his hour of bullying, "The O'Reilly Factor," while "The View" is my favorite talkfest on television. Besides, having lived to talk about my own showdown with O'Reilly – where he ordered me to "Stop talking!" and told me I have blood on my hands – I know what it's like to want to stalk off the set. I expected to think Behar and Goldberg humiliated O'Reilly by refusing to share their set with him, and I wanted to see that. I admit it, when it comes to O'Reilly, I can be a little bit petty and ungracious.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/10/14/did_behar_and_goldberg_do_the_right_thing/feed/ 167 Will “GMA” destroy Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s appeal? http://www.salon.com/2010/10/11/elisabeth_hasselbeck_gma/ http://www.salon.com/2010/10/11/elisabeth_hasselbeck_gma/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:50:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2010/10/11/elisabeth_hasselbeck_gma On Monday morning, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the loosest cannon on that crew of loose cannons known as "The View," made her debut as a correspondent for "Good Morning America." At last, television news has found someone to give a voice to pretty, conservative blondes.

It's somehow fitting that Hasselbeck got her first taste of television fame as a contestant on "Survivor." The scrappy, "I'm not here to make friends" ethos has served her well as a co-host on "The View," where she has scorched the earth with her opinions on "scum" like Kathy Griffin, declared that women get abortions for "superficial" reasons and emerged as the last lady standing in the notorious Crazy-Off over Iraq against Rosie O'Donnell.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/10/11/elisabeth_hasselbeck_gma/feed/ 36 This week in crazy: Michaele Salahi http://www.salon.com/2010/08/07/this_week_crazy_michaele_salahi/ http://www.salon.com/2010/08/07/this_week_crazy_michaele_salahi/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2010/08/07/this_week_crazy_michaele_salahi When Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." added Michaele Salahi, a woman whose sole claim to fame is crashing -- sorry, allegedly crashing -- a White House party, we knew it wouldn't take long before she distinguished herself as television's newest nutcase.

Sure enough, when Salahi appeared on "The View" this week with the other Housewives, things quickly devolved into a bickering fest -- until Whoopi Goldberg emerged from backstage, nudged her and told her, "Excuse me, could you get back to the White House, please?"

That was motivation enough for Salahi, who promptly decided Whoopi had hit her.

Now, whipping up a catfight might play with the Housewives, but your mouth better not start writing checks to former Week in Crazy winner Goldberg unless your ears are ready to cash them. Backstage, Goldberg, by her own admission, had some "choice words" for Salahi.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/08/07/this_week_crazy_michaele_salahi/feed/ 39 Whoopi Goldberg dukes it out with “Real Housewives’” Michaele Salahi http://www.salon.com/2010/08/05/whoopi_goldberg_feud_michaele_salahi/ http://www.salon.com/2010/08/05/whoopi_goldberg_feud_michaele_salahi/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/trending/2010/08/05/whoopi_goldberg_feud_michaele_salahi After the brouhaha over her "Mel Gibson isn't a racist" comments on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg and her mouth seem to be in hot water again. Michaele Salahi, former White House party crasher and new member of Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." cast, appeared on "The View" Wednesday, after which she took to the media to accuse Goldberg of verbally abusing her and making her cry. There was some sort of misunderstanding off camera with Whoopi prompting Salahi to "get back to the White House," a possible arm-graze that was made into an assault and a whole bunch of bleating and she said-she said.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/08/05/whoopi_goldberg_feud_michaele_salahi/feed/ 0 Obama caught in Snooki lie http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/snookigate/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/snookigate/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2010/07/29/snookigate "I don't know who Snooki is," Barack Obama said on "The View" this morning. He even repeated this claim in his speech to the National Urban League.

But as Newsbusters and Jonah Goldberg revealed, Barack Obama is on the record saying her name!

In May, Barack Obama made a joke about how tan Snooki is, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, which proves that he has heard of the famous tiny woman from television.

Jonah Goldberg writes, "I for one demand articles of impeachment be drawn up. Unless, of course, he can blame it all on the TelePrompTer." (He thinks he's joking, but Darrell Issa is chomping at the bit to subpoena the entire "Jersey Shore" cast.)

I went to Free Republic to see what true patriots thought of Obama's shamelessness. Their commenters were unsurprised at NObama's deceit.

"Dilbert SanDiego" writes:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/snookigate/feed/ 40 Obama on “The View”: The end of civilization! http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view Well, it's over. History has been made. The institution of the presidency has been degraded. The ratings of ABC daytime have been boosted. Our national identity has been forever altered. President Barack Obama has appeared on "The View."

When it was announced this week that Obama would become the first sitting U.S. president ever to appear on a morning talk show, critics were quick to fly into a hanky-waving frenzy more intense than any since the one that greeted Katie Couric's gravitas-defying move to prime time.

You'd think that the recent surge of female Republican candidates and Tea Party hustlers laying siege to female voters might make a president's decision to appear on a show watched by lots of women perfectly understandable, but no. No one seemed to get that, so intent were they on further dismissing the still-exotic merging of politics and femininity.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view/feed/ 45 Does Obama belong on “The View”? http://www.salon.com/2010/07/28/the_view_3/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/28/the_view_3/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:29:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/07/28/the_view Barack Obama is bringing indignity to the White House -- that's the argument being made this week on political blogs and cable news. It isn't in reference to his handling of WikiLeaks or the oil spill or the economy, but rather his appearance tomorrow on ABC's "The View." The media is roundly trumpeting it as the first time a sitting president will appear on a daytime talk show, which isn't true -- as Media Matters points out, President Bush appeared on "Dr. Phil" in 2004.

But, details. The point is that it's "The View," which, according to Gov. Ed Rendell, is on par with "The Jerry Springer Show." The Democrat told MSNBC: "I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency." In other words, "The View" is a little too accessible; the president of the United States of America doesn't sit around chattering with a bunch of silly ladies. Meanwhile, the right has made an impressive fuss over the fact that Obama is skipping the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts to appear on the show.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/28/the_view_3/feed/ 56 Barbara Walters to have heart valve surgery http://www.salon.com/2010/05/10/us_tv_walters_surgery/ http://www.salon.com/2010/05/10/us_tv_walters_surgery/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2010/05/10/us_tv_walters_surgery Barbara Walters said she will have surgery later this week to replace a faulty heart valve and take the summer off from "The View" to recuperate.

The television legend made the announcement on the air Monday. She said she's known about her condition for a while, and decided with her doctors that this is the best time to have the surgery.

"Since the summer is coming up," she said, "I can take a nice vacation."

Walters, 80, is one of the best-known personalities in television news. She began on the "Today" show, was the first woman to anchor a network evening news program, then was one of the toughest competitors in the fierce game of landing sought-after interviews.

At a time others would be slowing down, she created "The View" in 1997, and the daily talk show with a woman's round-table is a staple on daytime TV.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/05/10/us_tv_walters_surgery/feed/ 2 Is Glenn Beck “a lying sack o’ dog mess?” http://www.salon.com/2009/05/20/beck_theview/ http://www.salon.com/2009/05/20/beck_theview/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2009/05/20/beck_theview There was no chance Glenn Beck would manage to get through his appearance on "The View" Wednesday without some fireworks. Still, the argument that ensued, with the Fox News host  on one side and Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters on the other, managed to be surprising both for its vehemence and for the subject matter involved.

Despite Beck's strident, even radical, conservatism and the usual liberal lean of the majority of the show's host, this fight wasn't about politics. It was more personal, a question of whether Beck lied in telling a story on his radio show about riding on the same train as Walters and Goldberg. In a mocking tone, Beck described having been told that two seats had been reserved for the women, despite Amtrak's usual first come, first served policy, and imitated them talking to him once they arrived. (His imitation of Walters can use some work.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2009/05/20/beck_theview/feed/ 29 “The View” explodes http://www.salon.com/2008/11/04/the_view_2/ http://www.salon.com/2008/11/04/the_view_2/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//feature/2008/11/04/the_view It's been quite a season for "The View," a show that went from yappy, irrelevant punch line to must-see TV (even if your "TV" happens to resemble a computer). As has been eloquently pointed out by my colleague Rebecca Traister, "These ladies are a regular 'McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour' for the late-morning set, with [Elisabeth] Hasselbeck as the benighted Republican bugaboo." It's been nothing less than thrilling to watch the electricity of their political arguments, which mirror the country's water-cooler conversation without the smug and easy vilifying made possible by sharing a conversation with people who think exactly the same as you do. "The View" has been the recent subject of great (and mediocre) parody. And New York Times columnist Frank Rich went so far as to call "View" co-host (and "Larry King Live" regular) Joy Behar "the new Edward R. Murrow." (And, by the way, Frank Rich went too far.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/11/04/the_view_2/feed/ 16 How the election ate daytime television http://www.salon.com/2008/10/09/daytime_politics/ http://www.salon.com/2008/10/09/daytime_politics/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2008/10/09/daytime_politics Eight minutes before the first and only vice-presidential debate, MSNBC's "Countdown" host, Keith Olbermann, and Newsweek's Howard Fineman were talking about "The View."

The opinionated, loud and very male Olbermann was making a point about how low Sarah Palin had sunk in America's estimation by playing a video clip of the daytime talk show's resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Admitting that Palin's inability to name a single Supreme Court case besides Roe v. Wade was perhaps worrisome, Hasselbeck conceded, "That was a moment where she should have had some [examples] lined up."

Olbermann and Fineman chuckled at the possibility that, as goes Elisabeth Hasselbeck, so goes the country. "This is not my usual turf," said Fineman.

It sure isn't. But this isn't anybody's usual campaign, and what the (still mostly male) political pundits are coming to grips with is that the election cycle is not just playing out on their news shows and their 24-hour networks but also in the traditionally feminine -- and therefore traditionally marginalized -- world of daytime television.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/10/09/daytime_politics/feed/ 49 McCain skewered on “The View” http://www.salon.com/2008/09/12/mccain_view/ http://www.salon.com/2008/09/12/mccain_view/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:19:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2008/09/12/mccain_view Roll your eyes all you want, but I for one will never again underestimate the women of ABC's "The View," who today opened a can of whupass on John McCain, administering an interview that should turn the faces of legitimate press red with shame. (A video of the second segment is embedded below. All clips can be viewed here.)

The hard-hitting journalism came courtesy of none other than Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck (yes, even conservative sylph Hasselbeck threw down!), who welcomed McCain to their comfy couch on Friday morning as the spider welcomes the fly. As soon as he settled in and got nice and comfortable, the women proceeded to slice and dice the Arizona senator on everything from his dishonest attack ads to his stance on abortion and interpretation of the Constitution, his feelings on secularism and the qualifications of his running mate.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/09/12/mccain_view/feed/ 189 Your move, iVillage http://www.salon.com/2008/03/07/womens_site/ http://www.salon.com/2008/03/07/womens_site/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2008/03/07/womens_site The Times reports on a new celebrity-studded Web site for women over 40, wowowow.com. That's not an orgasm reference; it stands for "Women on the Web" (um, somehow). The site, founded by such good-old gals as Liz Smith and Lesley Stahl, sounds a bit like "The View" online, with straight shooters like Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg in a virtual gabfest. (If that sentence just gave you the creeping fantods, you're not alone. There is a special corner in hell where Elizabeth Hasselbeck blathers on about Hot Topics. But hey, let's judge the site when it launches tomorrow -- International Women's Day, by the way. Did you buy us any tampons?)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/03/07/womens_site/feed/ 3 Ellen endorses Hillary http://www.salon.com/2008/02/27/ellen_endorses_hillary/ http://www.salon.com/2008/02/27/ellen_endorses_hillary/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2008/02/27/ellen_endorses_hillary Ellen DeGeneres has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, bringing the total nonpolitical talk-show-host endorsement score to Clinton 2, Obama 1, unless you count Tina Fey, Ann Coulter, or the fact that Oprah counts for 49 million. Who will be next? Could the hosts of "The View" split their vote to even things out before Ohio?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/02/27/ellen_endorses_hillary/feed/ 12 Rosie’s view http://www.salon.com/2007/05/07/rosie_replacements/ http://www.salon.com/2007/05/07/rosie_replacements/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 10:46:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2007/05/07/rosie_replacements Ever since word got out that Rosie O'Donnell will be leaving "The View" next month, speculation has been rampant. Who in the world could fill that Rosie-shaped void? Gossip columnists are buzzing about Roseanne Barr and Whoopie Goldberg as possible contenders, but we at Salon have some other great candidates for consideration. Take a look at our nominations -- and use the letters to tell us your picks!

Alec Baldwin

Whether playing angry dad/divorced guy from the famous voice mail, a version of Jack Donaghy, or the male Rosie role, the loudmouthed lefty with a sense of humor (and a bit more charm) -- Alec Baldwin would be just great. He'd boost ratings, keep a lid on Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and it would be better therapy for him than he'd get from Dr. Phil.

-- Joan Walsh

Felicity Huffman

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/05/07/rosie_replacements/feed/ 57 When good actors do bad things http://www.salon.com/2007/04/27/view_baldwin/ http://www.salon.com/2007/04/27/view_baldwin/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/review/2007/04/27/view_baldwin We all claim to be sick of celebrity culture, and yet few of us can manage to unglue ourselves from tabloid gossip pages and Web sites. Alec Baldwin leaves a harsh and inappropriate message on his daughter's voice mail, and almost instantaneously the whole world knows about it. Next thing you know, the embattled celebrity is wedged uncomfortably, like a shamed monkey, between Barbara Walters and Rosie O'Donnell on "The View." Their relationship to him, in this relatively brief moment of television, is unclear: Are they grand inquisitors, soothing mommy types, or sympathetic fellow celebrities? Without ever mentioning ex-wife Kim Basinger's name, Baldwin makes it clear that, in his view, she's an unreasonable cow who'll do everything in her power to prevent him from seeing his daughter. Walters, always the brilliant voice of reason, notes that there are two sides to every story. At home, we all nod in agreement: mmm, yes, two sides to every story. And we huddle in to hear Baldwin's mea culpa, what he learned from this sorry event, what he plans to do next.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/04/27/view_baldwin/feed/ 116 Ouch http://www.salon.com/2007/02/09/rosie_on_anna_nicole/ http://www.salon.com/2007/02/09/rosie_on_anna_nicole/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:12:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/media/2007/02/09/rosie_on_anna_nicole On "The View" Thursday morning, Rosie made these now infamous comments about Anna Nicole Smith. Downright eerie.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/02/09/rosie_on_anna_nicole/feed/ 8 Trump trachea-rips Rosie http://www.salon.com/2006/12/21/donald_rosie_miss_usa_fallout/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/21/donald_rosie_miss_usa_fallout/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:19:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/dramedy/2006/12/21/donald_rosie_miss_usa_fallout So Rosie O'Donnell didn't like how Donald Trump handled that Miss USA intervention and she let her distaste known on Wednesday's "The View." Then Trump went hog wild on Rosie in an interview on another program. The thing about all this nonsense is the Miss USA story was actually big, big news on Tuesday -- we're still not sure why. Maybe Trump's diatribe against Rosie was tempered by the fact that yesterday he was denied one of Philadelphia's first slot gambling licenses. With Philadelphia set to become the largest U.S. city with casino gambling and Trump's Atlantic City casino nearby, Trump Entertainment Resorts' stock tanked yesterday, falling 13 percent.

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