TheGreenKnight

Well, I hate that Joy will be off Monday's. When Whoopi stopped appearing on Friday's, it was a RELIEF because she'd got to be so unbearable after Rosie and Paula. That became the best day of the week. But a day without Joy is a Fast Forward Day. I'd much rather Joy, Sara, Sunny, and Alyssa alternate the day off. I mean, if it's Joy who wants a three day weekend, I'd say good for her. But if it's the show making that decision, they're morons. Sara, Sunny, and Alyssa are much more expendable than the other three as far as who the viewers tune in for, let's be real here.

I knew it would most likely be between Stephanie and Alyssa for the seat because of Teta. Personally, I was glad they went with Alyssa of the two because she's more unlikable. Stephanie had a sort of fragile, almost sympathetic quality. And, to me, someone who looks nice spewing evil things is much more dangerous. Whereas Alyssa, I mean... She just looks like a snake, tbh. Whenever she's speaking, she has this look on her face as if she's being sneaky with her words.

I think they finally made her "official co-host" to shutdown the media trying to push misinformation about the show that she's been passed over or whatever. She probably still will only be there Monday's and Friday's. I loved her back when she started on the show as contributor in 2015. Lately, she's been getting on my nerves a little with the weird attitude she has towards Joy, but I do still like her. Joy correcting her pronunciation of Teta was probably just her getting back at Ana for doing the same thing to her all the time, heh. As for Alyssa--I don't like her, of course, but she's not going to ruin the show for me like McCain did. We all have our different tolerance levels, for me how I'd rank the people who've been in that "role" based on Easiest to Tolerate to Unbearable, it would be Ana > Paula > Abby > Elisabeth > Candace > Alyssa > Jedidiah > McCain. Those last two were the worst and Alyssa isn't at their level for me. *shrug* YMMV. I leave Nicolle off the list because my opinion on her time at The View was complicated; I like her as a personality on her own more most of those others, but with Whoopi she was horrible. So Alyssa was an "eh, fine" choice as far as being neither a plus nor a minus to the show in that way, I guess? Thankfully she doesn't shout or scream, I can't stand that.

For me, it immediately made me think of that old SNL skit of her back when, where she was bringing out papers she'd printed off. Hard to believe, going on 15 years later, and that skit still has her down to a T!

McCain was worse than Elisabeth to me though. She used the same language, "infanticide" and all that. They're both vile, but McCain was so much worse, imo.

I'd forgotten Joy had an ectopic pregnancy at one time. I'm glad she brought it up today because, despite what Elisabeth would like to believe, women with ectopic pregancies will be affected by these abortion bans. It's too bad Whoopi felt restrained by the need to be polite because she's only there for one day, I'd have loved if Whoopi had felt free to say what she really thinks. Thankfully, the others don't feel that restrained going by this second segment. This "correction" post-commercial with Joy, please... If it's an embryo and no longer an egg, and life begins at conception, then it would still be "murder" according to Elisabeth's logic. So, yes, it is relevant to the conversation she began--and it highlights what nonsense that kind of inflammatory language is. Go Sara! I'm glad someone was there to give the other side as far as Christians go--not all of us Christians are like Elisabeth, with her judgmental spiel. And I loved Sunny bursting the bubble at the end of the topic, after the whole discussion had been about what the Bible says as if we're living in a theocratic state, by wondering why what the Bible says should have relevance to what the law is in a country where there's supposed to be freedom of religion.

I happened to see this on the sidebar of Primetimer's recent headlines when I opened the link @bluegirl147 had posted in the Future Hosts thread: https://www.primetimer.com/news/florida-governor-ron-desantis-the-view Cowardly, but I'm not really surprised. Freedom of opinion isn't really his thing. I'm surprised he doesn't try to have The View banned from airing in his state since Joy's and Sunny's views bother him, lol.

I haven't got a big laugh from the show in a while now, but Joy saying the insurrectionist who went to jail should have to scrub Pelosi's floors as part of his rehabilitation got me going.

Ana does live in Florida, so I'm not surprised if her local news sticks out in her mind more.

When the show first started, I was about to roll my eyes so hard because it looked like they were about to make Will Smith their first topic again, lol. Thankfully, they gave the first segment to something that actually matters. Pretty good discussion. Joy's right that McCarthy, McConnell, DeSantis, and so on are more focused on antagonizing veterans, women, LGBT, threatening to ban birth control, etc. than they are kitchen table issues, but they're seldom held to the same standard.

Yeah... I'm one of the few who don't like Tara--I agreed with her more than the other three in the running, it was more a personality / manner thing with her that bugged me--so I was happy when Tara made the mistake of shouting over top of Whoopi several days she was there... I knew Whoopi would never let her get the seat after that, lol. Lindsey on the other hand seemed so desperate to get this job (I assume for a pay raise compared to her other job) that she would say and do anything, and as LOUD as it would take. Alyssa always seemed like she would be the one they picked. She looks like a mixture of Elisabeth and Jedidiah, the pageant-esque Foxbot type The View always goes with.

Good show today, especially Billy Porter. I ended up agreeing with Ana for most of hot topics, whether it was comparing Biden to Trump in the first segment or mocking how much gravity people have attached to the Will Smith discussion among so many serious things happening these days in the second segment. Like Sunny, I think Will Smith should also apologize to Sykes, Hall, and Schumer.

I'm not surprised about low salary. The highest any of the newest people get paid is 1 million unless they're a big star. Especially since the show's been doing fine in the ratings even with nobody in that seat, they probably didn't feel the need to dish out much to whoever they did sign.

There were much better men they could've picked, but I thought it was a bad choice all around. I hope The View never goes that route.

If you're that determined that I "fix" my post, I suppose I'll correct it to say that I disagree with Sara and you. 😛

Nope.

Oh, really? Well, the thing is... I believe they reached out to Elisabeth and Jedidiah first when looking to fill the seat, but both put themselves off-limits because they wouldn't comply with ABC's vaccine requirements. Perhaps Elisabeth's changing her mind now they're about to move on to someone else, lol. So agreed with this. Adding guys to the show was the worst decision The Talk could've made, imo. No interest.

Alyssa: Blahblahblah. Manchin is not a "moderate," he is a conservative Democrat. And hard disagree with Sara. The only thing Manchin ever stood for was his wallet.

I'm not a fan of Alyssa, but I knew I most likely wouldn't be a fan of whoever they hired, particularly after it came down to four in the running (Tara, Stephanie, Alyssa, Lindsey). The only conservatives they've had on this show I've liked are Ana and Paula (I liked Paula in spite of her views since she could turn them off and get along with the others). Alyssa couldn't ruin this show even if she tried her worst. Sunny alone could handle her. I definitely respect anyone who chooses to drop the show because of her though, but for me Joy, Sara, Sunny, and Ana are still enough to keep watching. I personally found Jedidiah and especially McCain much worse... Those two may have not been in the administration, but they defended it the same as if they were, so....

For what it's worth, the press has often got things wrong about Ana when speculating about The View, I believe when they hired Abby and so on, they said the same thing, that she'd been "passed over," which I don't think is true. Ana's been pretty consistent that she can't be there every day. Even with an open seat all season, the only times she's been there more than two days was whenever something is going on with the other co-hosts or there's something special with the show (like when Whoopi had her mea culpa earlier this year or the Bahamas week).

I agree with Joy, too--I'll believe it when I see it when it comes to Trump being held accountable. This is all hot air from Garland because people have called out the DoJ for having one standard for Trump and one standard for everyone else involved in January 6th. Nobody is supposed to be above the law, but clearly there are people above the law these days when having been in the Oval Office means you're given a pass because it would be "disruptive" to charge you for your crimes.

And out of fairness to those who don't like her, Alyssa said on the show both today and in the past that her father fell out with her because she resigned in December 2020, not because they disagreed over any of these things... She did work in an administration that aligned with many of these same sentiments, too.

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Sara was right to a degree when they were talking about so many refused to codify same-sex marriage and she said they simply didn't want to give Biden, Pelosi, etc. a "win," but it's worse than that. They wouldn't vote to codify those rights even if they were in power and could give themselves the win, because they are against those freedoms outright. Sort of goes back to something Whoopi said yesterday that is true, that when they come for one group, they eventually go for all of them.

Ana had a good one-liner response to Gaetz, which is really all he's worth, but I did think Sara had the best comments on that one. She's right that he's another one whose idea of policy revolves around whatever has affected him personally and since he's not a woman, he doesn't care. Also, as Whoopi brought up on the show, I'm not surprised someone accused of trafficking women like property doesn't care about women's rights. Whoopi looked totally unlike herself in that film clip. She must've filmed it back during the pandemic or around the time the show first returned to in-studio shows.