FCC Chief Blasts ‘The View’ As Rabid Partisan Rants Pile Up

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr isn’t buying what ABC is selling.

The agency head fired back at the network’s insistence that “The View” deserves protection as a legitimate news program, pointing out that co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin have brushed aside sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

ABC is arguing to the FCC that ‘The View’ qualifies as a “bona fide news program” under the law — saying in filings that the program’s decisions are based on newsworthiness, rather than partisan purposes. pic.twitter.com/uLKLiTExo6

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) July 7, 2026

The dispute centers on whether “The View” qualifies for an equal-time exemption under a 2002 FCC ruling, or whether the daytime gabfest has morphed into a partisan cudgel masquerading as news. ABC insists nothing about the show has changed — only “the political climate around it” — and accuses the Trump administration of trying to muzzle free speech. The network notes that of more than 77,000 public comments submitted, the overwhelming majority support the show.

But the show’s history of unhinged, one-sided commentary keeps piling up.

Just this month, Hostin baselessly suggested Americans have reason to doubt the 2024 election results, while co-host Sara Haines falsely claimed election skepticism only cropped up after Trump returned to office — ignoring years of Democratic doubts dating back to 2000. Hostin went further still, floating a conspiracy theory tying the Minnesota shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti to an alleged scheme to steal the 2026 midterms.

Back in January, Behar declared it was time for Americans to “step up” and force Trump out of office, insisting protests and voting weren’t enough — while warning the president’s ego could spark World War III. Hostin, not to be outdone, speculated Trump might invade Greenland to seize rare earth minerals.

That same month, Whoopi Goldberg practically pleaded for a foreign government to swoop in and remove Trump from power, ranting that America effectively had no functioning government while he was in office.

In May 2025, Goldberg dismissed mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline as no big deal, shrugging off a bombshell book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson by asking why it mattered “now” — an echo of Hillary Clinton’s infamous Benghazi deflection.

And in March 2025, Goldberg all but confessed the show functions as a Democratic mouthpiece, sparring with Stephen A. Smith over the party’s 2024 wipeout before proudly taking credit for helping spread the party’s messaging herself.

An FCC spokesperson shot back that ABC should worry less about labels and more about “complying with its public interest obligations.”

With Carr’s FCC digging in and Disney refusing to budge, the fight over whether “The View” is news — or just a liberal echo chamber with a studio audience — isn’t over yet.