The View

This evening, for the first time, I watched part of The View; I Tivoed it this morning because Glenn Beck was a guest. Putting aside the fact that my personal convictions and political views are closely aligned with Mr. Beck's, The View has to be THE MOST pointless show ever; it's on the same level as Jerry Springer. The only thing that I can hear is Whoopie Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters squacking about meaningless issues. Elisabeth Hasselbeck seems to provide some sort of normality and stability to an otherwise pointless television show. Glenn Beck takes the time to appear on their show, and none of them even have the courtesy to let him respond to their five-at-a-time questions/accusations. Beck was on the show for two segments. The first segment was 100% focused on a lie that Glenn told. You won't believe this whopper! Long story short, Glenn was on the train when Barbara Walters and Whoopie Goldberg got on. On his radio show, Glenn did an unflattering, yet remarkably accurate, impression of Barbara Walters and said that she called him over to her. But, and this is a HUGE deal, Glenn actually approached Barbara!!! That's it, that's the big lie... In the first minute of his appearance, he easily admitted that he mispoke. Why was it so easy? Because it doesn't amount to anything and changes nothing about the story! The first 30 seconds of the second segment were allocated to Glenn actually voicing his opinion. After that, Whoopie and Joy just couldn't take it anymore. They were so incredibly rude to their "guest," I'm not sure how they get anybody on the program. The entire show, Whoopie would not even make eye contact with Glenn, and she has plenty of room for that over her teenie tiny glasses.

Bottom line, I can't believe that ABC wastes money on this trash. How The View ever won an Emmy is beyond me; that discredits the Emmy's more than it credits The View.