“The Real Non-Housewives of ABC.”
Otherwise known as “The View.”
The network’s venerable daytime talk show was created by the late Barbara Walters as a show where women of different backgrounds could discuss and debate the topics of the day.
It has devolved into a mess of yelling, screaming, and controversies better suited for a reality television show.
It has everything reality television has, but overturned tables and liquor being thrown into faces.
There is plenty of room on television for intelligent, measured debate.
But this show isn’t it.
“The View” mirrors our current political tenor in that reasonable discourse has turned into yelling, screaming, and fuming.
What could go wrong when you mix liberal show business professionals and conservatives who used to work in the former president’s administration?
The answer is a 60-minute dumpster fire.
The show would have been canceled long ago, but it garners high ratings. High ratings equal high advertising dollars.
The bottom line makes it worth the embarrassment to ABC.
The embarrassing and endless news stories of the hosts arguing, cutting each other off, and being genuinely angry with each other.
The “did Whoopi Goldberg flatulate on air or not” controversy.
The “Whoopi Goldberg declares that the Holocaust was not about race” controversy.
What should be considered disgraceful and unseemly is ok because people are watching.
Just like they watch “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “New York,” etcetera.
Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the rest of the co-hosts may not care how the show is perceived.
But The View is a 24-carat disaster.
A disaster that ABC should end.