The View: The News Show That Shames Toddlers And Warriors

After back-to-back weeks of The View’s liberal ladies making up lies about the cost of living, the Black Lives Matter riots, and trying to revise history, they kicked off June by reminding everyone that they’ll let their guests get away with just about anything if they like them. Their headline guests were former First Lady Jill Biden and author/podcaster Kara Swisher.

Appearing on The View to peddle her book to their loyal liberal viewers, Biden drew outrage Tuesday when boasting about how good her step-son Hunter Biden was doing and the family he was building. But Jill seemingly left out Hunter’s daughter Navy, an apparent shame the Bidens had tried to hide in the past.

“Hunter is doing so great, and he’s sober. He has a beautiful child, I mean, yes, thank you. Who’s named Beau. He named his son after Beau, and Beau named his son after Hunter. Just shows the bond,” she said.

Jill Biden implies Hunter Biden has only had 1 child, a boy:

“Hunter is doing so great and he’s sober. He has a beautiful child, I mean, yes, thank you. Who’s named Beau. He named his son after Beau and Beau named his son after Hunter. So just shows the bond.” pic.twitter.com/PHVYK9KLAx

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 2, 2026

None of the cast members pressed her on it, just like they didn’t press her on why she didn’t take President Joe Biden to the hospital after, as she first claimed to CBS News, she thought he had a stroke during the debate:

SARA HAINES: So, I understand completely your first instinct to defend him after that debate we were just speaking of. But did you feel any of that fear, as his wife right there beside him, to protect him? He had given so much of himself and to see you even saying, like, ‘I thought he was having a medical episode, I was concerned.’ Was there any part of you that went into protection mode of like, ‘Joe, you can’t keep doing this? They’re taking so much from you.’

JILL BIDEN: But the doctors told me he was fine.

With co-host Joy Behar jetting off to Europe to produce her play, they brought Swisher on to fill in.

It was her first time as a guest co-host, but she was comfortable enough to completely ignore Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s decorated military service and suggest he didn’t have any military experience and was somehow a DEI hire:

SWISHER: But it focuses on what you were saying: lack of expertise. And that’s sort of everywhere. Like, look, Pete Hegseth —

HOSTIN: And he talked about DEI so much. It means, you know, ‘didn’t earn it’ now.

SWISHER: This is DEI, right?

HOSTIN: Yeah.

SWISHER: Didn’t earn it. Exactly. You have Pete Hegseth, who was a talk show host.

Hegseth is a decorated Army combat veteran with deployments to the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, none of The View cast have served in the military.

Filling in for Joy Behar on The View, Kara Swisher falsely suggests Pete Hegseth has no military experience and has only ever been “a talk show host.” She claims Scott Pelley was “shoved out” because of a “lack of expertise” at CBS. pic.twitter.com/79plxr8RMG

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 3, 2026

If you think The View would try to hand-wave the lies away with one of their infamous “legal notes,” you’d be mistaken. The View has stopped issuing formal “legal notes.” A NewsBusters study found that The View had not issued a “legal note” in all of 2025.

Additionally, in a recent interview with Fox News, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said they’re hearing many arguments against The View being a “bona fide news” program: “Disney’s The View is now asserting to the FCC that they are a ‘bona fide news’ program, and we’ve started an enforcement action there… At this point, The View and Disney have not established that they are subject to the ‘bona fide news’ exception. And in fact, as you noted, we are now seeing dozens of Disney-affiliated TV stations independently owned in Texas, effectively disagreeing with Disney that The View is ‘bona fide news.’”

Both the study and the comments from TV stations were more stones on the mountain they needed to climb to prove to the FCC they were somehow a “bona fide news” program.

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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.