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Campaign 08: A New View
The Nation: Top Stories — I never thought I'd say this--but thank God for Barbara Walters. I have been waiting patiently for the election's narrative to shift from pigs wearing lipstick to the issues, but I never thought that the usually grating hosts of The View would help supply it . On a day when Obama launched ...

"The View" Beats The "Serious" Press
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — This is how you conduct an interview.

McCain: Self-Inflicted Damage on The View?
Open Left - Front Page — Some recent polling suggests Barack Obama is weak (still) with older white women. I'm not sure, but I would guess that demographic is a pretty big part of the audience for "The View" which is where John McCain was this morning. Watch these video clips and tell me what you think. Here's a summary of how this appearance may really hurt him: 1. Joy Behar said to his face that his recent ads about Obama were lies 2. Barbara Walters pointed out that he himself uses "lipstick on a pig" and that Obama's reference was not about Palin. 3. McCain said Roe vs. ...

Open Thread
Balloon Juice — ... Meanwhile, the ladies at the view just bitch-slapped McCain. Here is a snippet from Ben Smith: Personally, I am sick and tired of hearing that ...

Calling McCain a liar to his face
The Reaction — ... Good for The View hosts calling a spade a spade. Now, if only someone would explain to John McCain that Barack Obama didn't force him to be a lying, sleazy, ass by not agreeing to town hall meetings. This is how he justifies his slime. Incredible. Anywho, The View: ...

Why Do The Women Of The View Have More Balls Than The MSM To Call Out Lying McCain?
Oliver Willis — Just wondering. More here.

It Takes a Stand-Up Comic To Ask McCain about His Lies
David Corn — ... McCain replied, "Actually they are not lies. And if you see some of the ads running against me." He then hammered on the "lipstick" point, saying that Obama should not have used that old expression. (See the exchange here.) ...

Mr. McCain and The Women
democracyarsenal.org — ... It’s fascinating that it took the women of The View, so often derided as a lightweight, softball program that broadcasts only to housewives, ...

“The View” part 2: McCain grilled on deceitful ads
Crooks and Liars — ... ladies of “The View” could be so hard-hitting?:  CNN: McCain Gets Grilled on The View.  Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, appearing Friday on ABC’s “The View,” was aggressively pressed on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s qualifications to be vice president as well as his new campaign ads that several independent fact-check groups have called misleading…read on HuffPo has more clips. ...

Mr. October?
Taylor Marsh — ... Judging from her interview with Charlie Gibson, I’d say the smart strategy is to let Sarah Palin keep stepping in it while direct aim is taken at the man at the top of the ticket. And as seen dramatically on The View yesterday, Mudslinger McCain is ripe for some heavy pushback at this point. If Whoopi Goldberg can take down his judicial philosophy with one sentence, how hard can it really be for Joe? ...

The Turning of the Worms?
Firedoglake — ... Joy Behar of the popular morning TV program The View led her cohorts in utterly dismantling McCain during his appearance on the show last week. ...

Bill Clinton heading to "The View"
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Monday on "The View." Will Barbara Walters or Joy Behar be as tough on Clinton as they were last week on McCain? Or is this Elizabeth Hasselbeck's time to shine? ...

Behar as Murrow?
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... You know the press is impotent at unmasking this truthiness when the hardest-hitting interrogation McCain has yet faced on television came on “The View.” Barbara Walters and Joy Behar called him on several falsehoods, including his endlessly repeated fantasy that Palin opposed earmarks for Alaska. Behar used the word “lies” to his face. The McCains are so used to deference from “the filter” that Cindy McCain later complained that “The View” picked “our bones clean.” In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by ...

Friday McCain/McSame Bashing (Repaired)
Discourse.net — ... Rauch, National Journal, John McCain. Youth You Can Believe In Mark Kleiman, Reality-Based Community, Disrespecting the dead Chutzpah: McCain Issues A Challenge: ‘Nobody Can Name’ An Issue I Have Flip-Flopped On (via ThinkProgress). Incidentally the count is at 76 different issues and growing. Chutzpah2: Political Animal, Chutzpah Watch — more on earmark memory loss. HuffPo, McCain Grilled On “The View”: Sarah Palin, His Abortion Stance, His Obama Attack Ads, And ...

Barbara Walters: self-proclaimed "fundit"
Michael Calderone's Blog — Last week, the hosts of "The View" grilled John McCain to such an extent that Frank Rich said Joy Behar resembled Murrow when compared to the nation's political press. And apparently the McCain episode led to Bill Clinton getting on the couch yesterday, according to The Times. “I think he saw the McCain thing and wanted in on the action,” said Bill Geddie, the executive producer of “The View” with Ms. Walters, who shares ownership of the show with ABC’s daytime division. “We certainly didn’t ...

Why Should He?
Newshoggers.com — ... the former ???one of the sleaziest ads I???ve ever seen;??? Joy Behar of ???The View??? personally told McCain they were ???lies.??? At which point Obama saw an opportunity. With the media having pronounced McCain the aggressor and him the victim, Obama began to whale away???on healthcare, on McCain???s age, even Charles Keating???with virtual impunity. ...

McCain unlikely to return to 'The View'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... This morning, Barbara Walters and Steve Kroft sat down with New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta in a breakfast sponsored by Syracuse's Newhouse School. At one point, Walters discussed McCain's infamous appearance on "The View" during the campaign. ...