Glenn Beck ambushed on The View

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I love The View and watch it almost every morning. If you watch the show enough, you see that they balance each other out very well and not every interaction is fiery. It really depends on the "hot topic" and who is saying what.

In my (limited) experience, this is quite true, but it always seems "forced" to me - like the argument is for the sake of argument, rather than pure philosophical differences. It's important to note, though, that I don't think the panel skews one particular way on the whole - just that in the specific, it seems a little forced. Kind of like every other such show.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

On another note, people have started to compare any show where people are talking over each other and having fiery debates with The View. But, there have always been shows with male hosts and guests that have talked over each other and had heated debates. I think that people just don't expect that from women, and that's why it annoys people on The View. If it were men doing it on The View, I think people would find it more entertaining or informative.

I'm sure this is the case for many -perception/reality, etc.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

but it always seems "forced" to me - like the argument is for the sake of argument, rather than pure philosophical differences. It's important to note, though, that I don't think the panel skews one particular way on the whole - just that in the specific, it seems a little forced. Kind of like every other such show.

I think it depends on the topic. Some topics may not interest all of them or warrant much discussion. Whoopi and Sherri are very calm, so the fire usually doesn't come from them. Even Barbara is tamed most of the time.

LOL. Did anyone watch this morning? Larry King was on and Barbara SEEMED to be giving him a really hard time over why he didn't get in contact with his adult children. She was saying he's a nice guy so why'd he have grown kids that he doesn't talk to. He said he didn't have an answer for that. It made me uncomfortable and I actually stopped what I was doing and said "damn, Barbara." Then she said "in case anyone thinks I'm giving you a hard time, this is all stuff you discuss in your autobiography, we wouldn't know and be able to ask unless you divulged the info." And he agreed with her.