
President Obama made his much-anticipated appearance on The View today. Actually, I'm not really sure how anticipated it was, per se -- my Twitter feed was pretty dead through the hour. But it was definitely discussed! People were worried that an appearance on The View was beneath President Obama....
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Our friends at Gossip Cop have cracked open a potentially huge story that perfectly captures the divided nation in which we now find ourselves. During the much criticized taping of The View this morning, President Obama revealed that he does not have Justin Beiber on his iPod. Given that Bieber is a...
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Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg has finally found a subject on which he can praise the New York Times: the publication last night of top secret military documents uncovered by the website Wikileaks. Supporting the leak as long as it "doesn't hurt either American troops or the ability to gather information,"...
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Whoopi Goldberg spoke up today in support of Mel Gibson. Faint support to be sure...but support nonetheless. On The View this morning Goldberg said she was unwilling to call Gibson a racist, despite the offensive and abusive language he has been caught on tape using.
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The construction worker who was arrested for trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan is now doing a publicity tour that took him to The View this morning, because this is America and in America, insane things like this just happen.Here's a look at what Gary Brooks Faulkner had to say...
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Say what you will about Whoopi Goldberg, but sometimes she just hits the nail on the head. This morning, on The View, the ladies were discussing the Gulf Oil Spill and Whoopi silenced the room when she broke into a fiery rant about BP's incompetence. It was nothing we haven't heard before, however, something...
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Early this morning, television icon Barbara Walters announced to the audience of The View that she will be taking a break from the program this summer to undergo heart surgery. She and her co-hosts then had a long discussion about the surgery, her health, how the issue was discovered, and whether she was...
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I don't think Elisabeth Hasselbeck actually meant that we should literally put the former president on trial instead I suspect she was saying we shouldn't use the prosecution of the 9/11 terrorists in a civilian court as a sort of backdoor way to retroactively try Bush policies. But in an attempt to make...
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FBN anchor John Stossel returned to his former network, ABC, for an interview with the women of The View.The discussion, about banks, bonuses and the government's role (you can guess where libertarian Stossel stands), was spirited, but ultimately came to some common ground.
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Ashley Dupre made a stop at The View today to talk about her new New York Post column, cheating men and more.Soon-to-be departing ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson was there too, but he was the 2nd guest (priorities). Also, she poked fun at how little the Post pays (it's no prostitution, that's for sure).
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