It almost seems impossible, and I wouldn’t believe it if didn’t see it with my own eyes, but through the miracle of “new math” and the sheer stupidity of the ABC New product “The View,” it is not possible to bring five human beings together and make their collective IQ less than the sum of their individual IQs. How can people coming together be dumber collectively than individually? Skill, I have to assume, and really trying. I say trying because all the ladies on The View are so dumb that they have to be trying, like the whole show is some sort of dare. The end result is a show that makes its audience dumber – a cultural cancer on the country.
In order to avoid any standards to skirt from lawsuits, and to deny anyone not a doctrinaire leftist claims of “equal time” on the public airwards, The View is part of ABC News, not ABC entertainment. Those of us who work on the public airwaves know that there are rules before elections that require, should a candidate ask for it, that they get equal time as a guest on a show 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election.
It's rarely an issue, as few Democrats have the guts to appear on conservative talk radio because they can’t actually defend their agendas or policies, so they don’t ask for that time – and it has to be asked for. But conservatives aren’t afraid of leftists and would happily take on the five harpies on the show. Producers, however, know that would be an absolute disaster for the show, so they will never allow it. As a “news” show and a “journalistic” outfit, they don’t have to.
It's not surprising ABC would do this, but you’d think Disney might want to protect the brand. Maybe they are.
It doesn’t much matter which day you watch the show – and I have nothing but respect and sympathy for Nicholas Fondacaro at the Media Research Center whose job it is to watch it every day – an unsuspecting viewer will come away misinformed and probably dumber. From “Dr. Jill Biden would make a great Surgeon General because she’s a great doctor” to “Republicans have overruled the will of the voters” in Virginia because the State Supreme Court tossed out the unconstitutional power grab Democrats tried to rush through, you’d have to try to get the basic facts of daily life and basic civics as wrong as these women do.
You could almost forgive their ignorance of history and the day’s news if this were a high school “news” program produced by the A/V Club. But these are old women with lived experiences – they’ve witnessed history, only they don’t seem to have paid attention.
I get that not everyone pays close attention to the news, everyone has their lives to live. But when it’s your job, how do you not get the basics right?
It’s not like Joy, Whoopi, the youngish one, the airhead blonde and the racists Sunny and Ana have to read every newspaper in the country to keep up on things, they have very little input on the topics discussed on the show beyond their own ignorant opinions. They’re paid to show up and talk, not produce. For that they have a team, each of them, of producers who should be briefing them on the topics so they don’t come off like morons. Either those producers have brain damage, they aren’t doing their jobs or the hosts are too stupid to retain information for longer than the attention span of a goldfish.
Think about it this way: The segments on the show are maybe 10 minutes long, before they go to a break. There are five hosts and, oftentimes, a guest. That means they may have to speak on a subject for about a minute and a half without coming off like a moron. They never make it, none of them.
Sadly, across the country, there is a large audience of women watching this cancer grow and having it fill them with their ignorance. It is the basis of their understanding of the world. You can see why Democrats do so well with single female voters, especially those unburdened with social lives and attractiveness who set their DVRs to record this tripe.
The View is a cancer and it metastasizes through society via its audience; an army of hateful AWFULs weaponized by ignorance and set upon the country like Frankenstein’s monster. We have ABC News to thank for it, and Disney on top of that, both of which are the cultural equivalent of cigarette companies. Remember than and vote accordingly.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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