Nicholas Fondacaro, the MRC’s designated hate-watcher of “The View,” raged when the show had on Kamala Harris and President Biden. But Fondacaro lashed out just as much whenever one of the co-hosts said anything that violated his rigidly held right-wing narratives — in general, saying nice things about Harris or criticizing Donald Trump. And even “The View” is an opinion show, Fondacaro repeatedly went on tirades against the hosts for, you know, having opinions — obsessively so, as demonstrated in a Sept. 24 post:
Often forgotten as a program under the ABC News umbrella, The View is the highest-rated daytime talk show in America and known for making headlines for the ridiculous things their co-hosts espouse, particularly their strong hatred of former President Trump. But even the second assassination attempt against the former President wasn’t enough to loosen their deep-seated animus, as a new study by the Media Research Center found their coverage was still 100% negative.
The MRC examined the five shows that constituted the week immediately following the second attempt on Trump’s life (September 16 – September 20). The analysis found 36 evaluative statements made by the six co-hosts and all of them were negative.
In addition, they made nine evaluative statements about Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (R) and all of those were negative as well. While there were no mentions of the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Governor Tim Walz (MN), there were nine such statements about Vice President Kamala Harris. All of the statements about her were positive. By contrast, the MRC never demanded that, say, Fox News offer more positive coverage of Harris, and it has never criticized any right-wing channel host for having “strong hatred” of Harris.
Our analysts examined only evaluative statements made by the various hosts, not guests. So while The View did have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 19’s show, and the cast teed her up to discuss Trump, since she’s not a cast member her comments were not included.
As is usual in these kinds of MRC “studies,” neutral statements were explicitly excluded, which deliberately skews the numbers.
In an Oct. 3 post, Fondadaro — whose employer regularly attacks conservatives who deviate even slightly from the designated right-wing narrative — suddenly decided it was OK for Melania Trump to favor abortion rights:
As part of the launch of her new book, former First Lady Melania Trump put out a video where she broke with pro-lifers and spouted her own pro-abortion stance. But according to some of the cast members of ABC’s The View, Melania couldn’t possibly hold personal opinions that run contrary to her husbands or the political party she’s not a member of. Instead, they suggested that it was part of some GOP plot to trick voters about the Republican position on abortion.
The suggestion that Melania’s position was just “a big scam” came from co-host Joy Behar. But she couldn’t get her argument straight. She flip-flopped between claiming it was ploy to help her husband get elected but also, at the same time, she hated him:
[…]Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that “even though it was written a while ago,” the release of Melania’s opinion was “strategic” to the election. “I think they think this is going to give Republicans permission or independence to be like, ‘oh, I guess I could vote for him because people who support abortion can,’” she said.
But she also pointed out that “this actually doesn’t put her out of step with all modern Republican first ladies. Laura Bush, Barbara Bush were all actually pro-choice themselves and had declared that on the record before.”
She then dubbed this another “hypocrisy” of the Republican Party since the story didn’t cause them to abandon their candidate a month before the election. “But in the Trump-era if any other national Republican candidate running for president, if their spouse came out and said, ‘I am pro-choice and I even support late term abortion,’ their career would be over,” she huffed.
Fondacaro didn’t explain why only Melania Trump has been given permission by the MRC to deviate from the mandated narrative.
Fondacaro whined in an Oct. 9 post that Trump’s duplicity with Russia was called out:
ABC’s The View continued to spew their stochastic terrorism during Wednesday’s show as co-host Joy Behar, without evidence, accused former President Trump and Senators Lindsey Graham (SC) and Marco Rubio (FL) of treason, a crime which carried the death penalty. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg followed up by demanding they and Republicans leave the country to live under a dictatorship.
Their comments were spurred on by unverified claims made by former journalist and author Bob Woodward, who claimed in a new book that Trump sent COVID tests to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Behar seemed to hold up the Kremlin as a credible source as she declared Trump guilty of treason:
Fondacaro gave no reason why the denial of an inveterate liar like Trump should be trusted by anyone.
Fondacaro spent an Oct. 10 post falsely framing Goldberg as having a “fragile ego” because she responded to Trump denigrating her stage act at a former casino of his, which he insisted was her having a “meltdown” — despite Goldberg pointing out that Trump really couldn’t have been that offended given that he hired her four times to perform. On Oct. 18, Fondacaro got mad that Trump’s extreme rhetoric would likely have consequences for the show:
ABC New [sic] is desperate to get Vice President Kamala Harris elected president. How desperate? Joy Behar, co-host of news program The View, repeatedly fear mongered that former President Trump planned to have “the Air Forces” bomb their studio and have the military kill liberals if he was elected again. On Wednesday’s show, she told viewers not to trust the polls and the media, suggesting they were on his side and were trying to depress Democratic voter turnout.
“Let me tell you something. I was watching interviews with MAGA supporters. They do not believe that he will do what he says he’s going to do. That’s what we’re up against,” she decried on Tuesday’s episode.
When the ladies pointed out that felon and rapist Trump was invited to speak at a church-linked benefit, Fondacaro lost it in an Oct. 18 post:
ABC’s The View is so anti-Trump that they will denounce even legitimate charities that help many people if they dare to invite him to an event; even a charity event that traditionally invites both major party presidential candidates. The liberal ladies kicked off their Friday episode by attacking Catholic Charities for keeping with tradition and inviting former President Trump (and Vice President Harris) to their Al Smith Dinner.
Friday moderator Joy Behar repeatedly lashed out at Cardinal Dolan for inviting Trump at all despite the fact the event had historically brought together both sides of the political aisle for a good cause:
[…]Fake Republican Ana Navarro noted “this dinner raised funds for Catholic Charities and some of the work the church does with the most needy,” and “I actually worked with Catholic Charities when I was in high school.”
But that didn’t stop her from attacking the charity organization for trying to maximize the event for their mission: “They help immigrants. So, to have Donald Trump sitting there and we are pretending that he is some sort of, like, upstanding citizen, I find it rather offensive.”
“I am glad Kamala Harris wasn’t there,” she added.
How does having a felon and rapist speak at your event help a cause, however good? Fondacaro doesn’t explain.
Fondacaro served up one more pre-election hatefest on Nov. 4, joining the rest of the MRC in defending Trump against using violent rhetoric against Liz Cheney, who was a guest of the show that day. He then turned his ire to Cheney herself:
Later on in the gooey interview, pretend moderate Sara Haines praised Cheney for turning her back on her party and joining the Democrats at the ballot box. “And you not only endorsed her. You, for the first time ever, voted for a Democrat,” she touted.
“So, I want to ask you how that feels, but I also want to ask, was any part of that — this idea of reclaiming the actual conservative values of the party? Because I always say, to get the Republican Party back, they have to get it out of Trump’s hands,” Haines wanted to know.
Cheney proceeded to ramble on about how Republicans need to vote for Democrats to somehow save their party.
She also condescendingly lectured Republicans who had stronger principles than her and were choosing to write-in another Republican rather than vote for any of the options. “And I want to make sure people all across the country understand you don’t have that luxury. We have to defeat him,” she chided.
Fondacaro’s idea of “stronger principles” is someone who votes for a felon and rapist because he’s desperate for a Republican win, despite that undermining the usual GOP law-and-order stance.
Hopefully, Fondacaro will use some of his post-election downtime to visit a therapist to deal with his issues with women.