On Tuesday, October 14, the cast of ABC’s The View whined on-air that Republicans didn’t want to come on the program to talk with them. According to co-host Joy Behar, Republicans were “afraid of us.” But after a clip of Behar’s suggestion went viral, Republicans and conservatives began to call out The View for repeatedly turning down their requests to appear on the show.
“I was going to say that I think we should have more Republicans on the show, but they don’t want to come on. They're scared of us. It’s like Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she finds the Republican men afraid of powerful women,” Behar declared.
But it seemed as though The View was afraid of having a strong conservative woman on the show. “When I was pitched to go on, they said no lol,” quipped Riley Gaines on X. Gaines, an advocate for protecting women’s sports from transgendered males pretending to be women, would be a great counterbalance since The View advocates for men in women’s sports.
Danielle Alverez, senior advisor for the Republican National Committee, sounded a “Fake News Alert” on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds (R-FL), in her own X post.
“@ByronDonalds has offered to join @TheView but the show has declined,” she wrote. “@JoyVBehar should have checked with her team before making the ridiculous claim ‘[Republicans] are scared of us.’”
Adding: “Offer still stands! Will you accept?”
Donalds himself also reaffirmed his offer: “Hey @TheView, my offer still stands. I’m ready when you are!”
Clay Travis, syndicated radio host and the founder of OutKick, shared a screenshot of his team’s e-mail request to the show’s producers, which read:
Conservative radio hosts Clay and Buck would like to pitch themselves as guests on The View. They often play clips from the program on their nationally syndicated radio show (granted, as a means to refute them) and thought a sit-down would be productive for both audiences since they come from two completely different perspectives.
“Hey @JoyVBehar here is our producer Ali emailing The View last July offering for us to come on as guests. We’re big fans. Look forward to the invite!” Travis wrote on X.
Joel Pollak, the editor-at-large for Breitbart News, said on X that it was like pulling teeth to get invited in 2017 with the producers really having to work to convince the liberal hosts to allow him on. And they refused his subsequent requests:
This is a lie by @JoyVBehar. When I was invited onto @TheView in 2017, producers told me they had to work hard to convince the show to invite a conservative. The appearance went well, and I reached out several times for a return visit. They declined. They are afraid of dialogue.
In 2023, NewsBusters exclusively reported that The View rejected Senator Cruz’s request to appear on the show as part of his tour to promote his book at the time. Cruz’s team reached out to the producers three times and were denied every time. According to a response e-mail, they were “not able to make an offer at this time, but will definitely be in touch if anything changes.”
Even NewsBusters had made public overtures for our editors and analysts to go on the show and have a little chat with the liberal ladies about their liberally biased content. Many of us here would leap at the opportunity. Maybe even one of them could appear on the NewsBusters Podcast.
The Media Research Center and NewsBusters even sent a formal request to The View's producers on Monday October 20; offering up our President David Bozell and a few of our editors, including this author, as possible guests. As of the posting of this piece, we have not heard back from them. We'll update this piece if we hear back from them.
It’s not like The View was unfamiliar with NewsBusters. They kvetched about a study we put out counting their legal notes. The View has since stopped issuing legal notes.
In April 2024, The View’s executive producer, Brian Teta told Deadline that they had stopped asking President Trump to appear on the show and that “we’re not going to put people on there to [spread] misinformation.” A laughable concept given the current nature of the show.
And despite multiple conservative organizations calling The View's bluff and flooding them with requests to appear on the show, the show's ticket request page 1iota doesn't show any conservative guests as of Monday (see below).
