BROADCAST BIAS: Texas ‘Landman’ does well bashing the ‘millionaire’ haters on ‘The View’

Liberal ABC News fable Barbara Walters created "The View" successful 1997 to beryllium a midday chat amusement for women and it remains nether the aegis of ABC News, though it shouldn’t beryllium considered an nonsubjective oregon adjacent fact-based program. Ever since Meghan McCain walked distant successful 2021 citing "toxic, nonstop and purposeful hostility" from her co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, there’s been nary alternate viewpoints to relentlessly bitter anti-Trump takes connected the show. 

So galore were amused erstwhile the "Yellowstone" spinoff bid "Landman" connected the streaming work Paramount Plus made amusive of "The View" and its tone. In the episode, the pb character, petroleum landman Tommy Norris (played by Billy Bob Thornton) is urging his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), to termination clip astir the location by watching a TV amusement and suggests "The View." When T.L. professes ignorance astir it, Tommy summed it up similar this: "Bunch of pissed disconnected millionaires bitching astir however overmuch they hatred millionaires, [President Donald] Trump, and men, and you, and me, and everybody other they got a bee up their ass about" 

That blistery instrumentality is connected the money. Goldberg and Behar are each estimated to marque $7 cardinal oregon much for their vicious regular drumbeat against Trump and the Republicans. All the women connected the show — including Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haines, Ana Navarro and the erstwhile Trump adjutant Alyssa Farah Griffin — are believed to beryllium millionaires. It’s casual to poke amusive astatine swanky Manhattan pundits from the lipid fields of dusty occidental Texas. 

So, Thornton’s quality Tommy summed up the show’s grousing hypocrisy arsenic "pretty funny." T.L. responds, "Don’t dependable funny." Tommy replies, "Well, it ain’t gag funny, it’s similar ‘fart successful church’ funny, you cognize what I mean?" T.L. retorts, "That don’t dependable funny, either." Tommy changeable back: "Well, it depends connected your proximity to the fart."

JOY BEHAR HOPES TO 'ACTUALLY INFLUENCE PEOPLE'S THINKING' WITH HER CRITICISM OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Former President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, look connected "The View" connected May 8, 2025. (ABC/Screenshot)

This is not a amusement that anyone should see a "news" program, contempt its ABC News pedigree. It’s not "fact-based" astatine all, and the hosts routinely show that they haven’t studied the issues and the policies they’re discussing. Despite this, "The View" typically draws much than 2 cardinal viewers, a apical amusement successful the daytime frame, similar "The Price Is Right." 

The amusement is led by 2 comedians named "Whoopi" and "Joy" who specialize successful speaking angrily into the camera. This week, aft Trump promised a $1,776 bonus for subject unit successful his primetime speech, Goldberg archetypal doubted the checks would get past suggested it was a bribe: "What he's doing is, he's thinking, 'If I marque definite that the soldiers person what they request they'll backmost maine and what I want, see?" 

When the amusement came retired of the Memorial Day weekend, Goldberg bizarrely claimed Trump hadn’t honored Gold Star families: "It was astir clip we heard him springiness the Gold Star families their due. It was astir clip helium did that, due to the fact that helium spoke and said we are arrogant of our Gold Star families. This is the archetypal time — at slightest possibly — unless you've heard him bash it."'

THE VIEW' CO-HOST ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN REVEALS SHE'S CRIED MULTIPLE TIMES FROM STRESS AS LONE CONSERVATIVE

This amusement doesn't dependable half-cocked. That's excessively generous. 

Behar has been the banshee dependable of doom. On Sept. 30, she declared, "If you guys deliberation that we tin past different three-and-a-half years of this, I deliberation you’re delusional…. Every day, this feline is undoing thing successful this state that we value. Every day! It’s each time is simply a daze and awe here. And I, for one, americium skeptical that we volition past this."

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On Oct. 7, she launched her latest claims that Trump is going to extremity democracy. Trump sending the National Guard into bluish cities "is a pretext to halt the adjacent election! That’s what I deliberation it is." 

Back connected April 9, Behar claimed Trump wanted to vessel the banal market, truthful "all his billionaire friends tin swoop successful and bargain everything low…. And however broke volition radical get? And however galore jobs volition beryllium lost? And past helium can, helium tin say, ‘Well, there's excessively overmuch chaos, and present we're going to person martial instrumentality successful this country," and helium becomes a dictator." The Dow closed the time earlier astatine 37,645.59. But that day, it ended astatine 40,608.45. And it conscionable closed Dec. 19 astatine 48,134.89.

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The amusement is led by 2 comedians named "Whoopi" and "Joy" who specialize successful speaking angrily into the camera. 

She’s not alone. On St. Patrick’s Day, Goldberg claimed "any 1 of america could find ourselves being deported to immoderate state we've ne'er been." 

So possibly Tommy's dada is right. This doesn't dependable funny. This amusement is Exhibit A for immoderate wide who claims the occupation successful today's authorities is that we don't person "shared facts," that voters are excessively misled by "misinformation and disinformation." When the Left is consenting to concede that "The View" pumps retired much atrocious accusation than good, past we could effort to hold connected what facts are. 

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