The View is a very popular daytime talk show. While it doesn’t appeal to me, I can appreciate that some people find it entertaining. The hosts of the show often take on current events in the form of political discussion, which is ultimately, usually, a good thing. They run into trouble when the discussion degrades into ideological, emotional blather. They go off the rails when they let demonstrably false information get put forth with minimal (if any) counter argument. My lament isn’t that they exist, but that Barbara Walters lets this happen and is still taken seriously.
Mildly whacky is Whoopi Goldberg saying that the moon landing was faked:
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