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The View: Week of 6/2/2025

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Monday, June 2 – Ralph Macchio (actor, “Karate Kid: Legends”)

Tuesday, June 3 – Andy Cohen (host, “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” BravoCon); Kara Young (actor, Broadway’s “Purpose”)

Wednesday, June 4 – Taraji P. Henson (actor, “Straw”); Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells (actors, “I Don’t Understand You”)

Thursday, June 5 – Former President Bill Clinton and James Patterson (co-authors, “The First Gentleman: A Thriller”); performance from Broadway’s “Dead Outlaw”

Friday, June 6 – Mark Hamill (actor, “The Life of Chuck”); Brianne Howey (actor, “Ginny & Georgia”)

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Haleth

Haleth

I’m kinda with Whoopi on this. It seems lately the second segment is devoted to something silly and inconsequential. After a heavy discussion in the first segment it’s hard to flip the switch to something fluffy. Especially when there are more important topics that get passed over. It doesn’t have to be all politics all the time but I personally don’t care about celebrity gossip. 

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cinsays

cinsays

13 hours ago, Buckeye71034 said:

Whoopi was so obnoxious during the Beckham family segment. She doesn't know when to quit. Why do you want someone at the table who mocks any pop culture segment? She was saying "ok" in a valley girl accent the entire time Alyssa talked. Who wants this?

yeah, it was never funny and it's really annoying.  guess brian thinks it's cute

39 minutes ago, sugarbaker design said:

Because it's funny!  There has to be someone on the panel who represents people like me, that is people who don't give a flying $%^& about the Beckhams, Kardashians and Housewives.

No.  I dislike all these people too, but if that's what the show runners want, just sit there and shut up.

Apparently she likes Andy Cohen though.  Go figure.

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sugarbaker design

sugarbaker design

7 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

But Whoopi's job is to discuss the topics they are given. 

 

6 hours ago, cinsays said:

I dislike all these people too, but if that's what the show runners want, just sit there and shut up.

Apparently some of us here have the inside info of Whoopi's contract negotiations.  Even thought The View falls under the purview of ABC News, I don't think WG was hired because of her journalism acumen, I don't think she was hired to intelligently and coherently discuss all topics, I think she was hired to be Whoopi.

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Soapy Goddess

Soapy Goddess

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10 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:

 

Apparently some of us here have the inside info of Whoopi's contract negotiations.  Even thought The View falls under the purview of ABC News, I don't think WG was hired because of her journalism acumen, I don't think she was hired to intelligently and coherently discuss all topics, I think she was hired to be Whoopi.

But she was hired many years ago before she became the eye-rolling Whoopi. She was a panel member before being given the moderator seat. So if ALL topics were okay when she was just a panel member, why change to mocking said topics now?

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Back Atcha

Back Atcha

On 6/2/2025 at 7:44 PM, Soapy Goddess said:
On 6/2/2025 at 8:46 AM, mispickel said:

Andy Cohen is a big NO for me.

He is the worst! His obsession with women fighting is beyond my comprehension. Such a big baby...almost as bad as Kody Brown. Or maybe it's a tie.

He's SO NEEDY!   He's been described as "a big puppy."  I would NOT choose a puppy like that at a shelter or from a breeder.   NEEDY and FAKE.

On 6/4/2025 at 4:35 AM, Haleth said:

I’m kinda with Whoopi on this. It seems lately the second segment is devoted to something silly and inconsequential.

She doesn't have to make it about HER.  Apparently some viewers/audience members find her disgust entertaining (I. Do. Not.).  The Valley Girl crapola  goes on and on and on.

On 6/4/2025 at 5:41 AM, bluegirl147 said:

One thing I do no miss by not watching this show anymore is Whoopi being Whoopi.

I hadn't watched for awhile, but started again.  I like to see what the ladies are wearing, so I watch that parade...without sound.  I do not have to hear Whoopi welcome, welcome, welcome...and sometimes make that tired joke about "somehow" recognizing the studio audience again."  So...soundless until after she introduces a topic.  

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atomic

atomic

I am pretty sure they started going back to pre-taped Fridays once The Weekend View was introduced. So likely in exchange for making the co-hosts tape one more show a week, they gave everyone Fridays off. I think The Weekend View is okay (I like the lighter tone, but too many Bravo topics I couldn't care less about), but I'd personally much rather have a live Friday show. 

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athousandclowns

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On 6/4/2025 at 11:36 PM, Soapy Goddess said:

But she was hired many years ago before she became the eye-rolling Whoopi. She was a panel member before being given the moderator seat. So if ALL topics were okay when she was just a panel member, why change to mocking said topics now?

I remember the eye rolling a sighing and when sitting on their big oval coach she’d actually slide down in the couch not being able to tolerate something she didn’t deem newsworthy. I remember thinking she was getting up early because she was doing her radio show first.  She used to come out eating something every morning too.   Never  a good moderator. Meredith was the best, bringing out a newspaper bringing up a news  story up and asking the panel what they thought. Whoopi introduces a topic and proceeds to lectures  us . There’s so many pictures out there where she has her head in the table. 

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Soapy Goddess

Soapy Goddess

17 minutes ago, athousandclowns said:

I remember the eye rolling a sighing and when sitting on their big oval coach she’d actually slide down in the couch not being able to tolerate something she didn’t deem newsworthy. I remember thinking she was getting up early because she was doing her radio show first.  She used to come out eating something every morning too.   Never  a good moderator. Meredith was the best, bringing out a newspaper bringing up a news  story up and asking the panel what they thought. Whoopi introduces a topic and proceeds to lectures  us . There’s so many pictures out there where she has her head in the table. 

1000% yes!  I'd give anything to have Meredith back. Besides being a great moderator and well-informed, she was a good sport about everything! She managed to moderate without judgment and never gave us a lecture on anything.

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GHScorpiosRule

GHScorpiosRule

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Whoopi was hired as the moderator, not as a regular panel member. Barbara was never the moderator. Whoopi just wasn’t reined in if you will, after Barbara left. Barbara herself apologized for Joy and Whoopi walking off after O’Reilly’s racist statements. I don’t recall Whoopi apologizing, though I’ve read here that Joy did.

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Gemma Violet

Gemma Violet

16 hours ago, athousandclowns said:

Whoopi introduces a topic and proceeds to lectures us. 

Why doesn't Brian correct that?  I like Brian, but I think he's scared of Whoopi.  Either that, or maybe he does correct her on things and she simply ignores him and does what she wants.  

The lectures are the worst for me.  As much as the Valley Girl accent/bored-with-the-topic annoys me, not to mention the I'm-always-right-and-don't-you-dare-disagree-with-me attitude at the table, the frequent word salads that add nothing to the conversation, the being allowed to skip doing the podcast (except for once a year when she's promoting something), and being allowed to dress like she just rolled out of bed, in burlap-like caftans (and sandals with white socks!), the thing that absolutely irritates me the most is the daily lectures.  Not only is it annoying, it's incredibly disrespectful to her co-hosts when she faces the camera to talk, instead of facing those at the table.  

 

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KittyQ

KittyQ

Well, Whoopi's rant made everything just as clear as mud. First, she leaps on the phrase "following orders" to invoke Nazi imagery when talking about ICE officers. Then she says that everyone in organizations like the police and military actually do have to follow orders, but the problem is that the president isn't following the Constitution's orders. So, is she blaming the ICE officers or the President, or both? Just because someone is doing their job (following orders) doesn't make them Nazis and doesn't make the orders unlawful. All of the ICE people may not agree with the orders, and they can quit if they are uncomfortable enough. 

It is also interesting that the panel is ok with commenting that without illegal immigrants, agricultural work wouldn't get done, because Americans (legal citizens) won't do it. They seem to be ok with having this underclass of people perform uncomfortable work so the rest of us (the legal citizens) can benefit. That sounds a lot like the rationale for having slaves, although the illegal immigrants have more options for quitting or moving on than slaves ever did. It is also like the Dustbowl migrants who found themselves in economic servitude in "The Grapes of Wrath". 

 

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KittyQ

KittyQ

3 hours ago, Shrek said:

It's nothing like slavery so you can stop with the whataboutisms & false equivalencies. Lots of the people who work the fields are here legally, they come every summer on work visas & go back to Mexico for the winter, every year like clockwork. But the tangerine tyrant & his gestapo are not asking any questions about such things, they're just rounding people up that they don't like the look of & carting them off to meet their quotas, and that's what people are upset about, but plenty of people are okay with that. Are you?

 

Maybe my point wasn't clear. I didn't say it was slavery; I said that the rationalization that a lot of people have* that people from another country have to do work that benefits the rest of us because we won't do it ourselves is not very different from the kind of rationalizations that people who owned slaves had. Of course, this wasn't the only rationalization for why they felt that slavery was a reasonable thing, but it factored into the acceptance of slavery as something that worked for the benefit of the people in charge and those who purchased their products.

*I've heard the argument that we as a country need the work that these people do because no Americans will do it multiple times from the panel. 

I didn't say that I thought that any kind of quota for deportation is good, or that arresting people based solely on how they appear is the right way to address the issue of illegal immigrants. 

 

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

11 hours ago, KittyQ said:

I've heard the argument that we as a country need the work that these people do because no Americans will do it multiple times from the panel. 

Instead of talking about who will and won't do those  jobs let's talk about how much these jobs pay.  Employers who have undocumented workers are paying them way less than anyone deserves to be paid.  Funny how I don't see any law enforcement agency going after them.

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KittyQ

KittyQ

5 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

Employers who have undocumented workers are paying them way less than anyone deserves to be paid.  Funny how I don't see any law enforcement agency going after them.

True. A little like how prostitutes get arrested, but the customers go free. (Not saying this is equivalent to prostitution! Just that when there is a transactional aspect to an offense, both parties should be sanctioned.)

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