The View Trots Out Kara Swisher to Fill in for Joy Behar, Fits in With Lies

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 3rd, 2026 5:47 PM

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With co-host Joy Behar away in Europe producing her play for a couple weeks, The View trotted out podcaster and author Kara Swisher to fill the seat. Swisher fit right in with the rest of the Cackling Coven with the lies she spewed. Between claiming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth didn’t have military experience and claiming “Democrats do hold themselves to a higher standard” while defending Maine Nazi Graham Platner cheating on his wife.

Responding to co-host Sunny Hostin’s comments about the Trump administration being filling with incompetent people, Swisher set her sights on Hegseth and totally ignored his decorated military history as combat veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to Swisher, the only thing he’d ever done with his life was be a talk show host and that he was a beneficiary of DEI:

SWISHER: But it focuses on what you were saying: lack of expertise. And that's sort of everywhere. Like, look, Pete Hegseth -

HOSTIN: And he talked about DEI so much. It means, you know, ‘didn’t earn it’ now.

SWISHER: This is DEI, right?

HOSTIN: Yeah.

SWISHER: Didn’t earn it. Exactly. You have Pete Hegseth, who was a talk show host.

It’s worth noting that none of the gabbing gals served in the military in any capacity.

 

 

Of course, Swisher’s swipe at talk show hosting, got a laugh from the liberal ladies:

SWISHER: Not - I mean

SARA HANIES: No shade.

[Laughter]

SWISHER: So sorry.

[Laughter]

I ruined it for all of you.

Swisher went on to claim that a supposed lack of expertise was what led to CBS firing pompous and prideful journalist Scott Pelley overnight.

“And, look, even over at CBS, Scott Pelley, most experienced - all these reporters that are astonishingly being shoved out by people who have so much less expertise, if any at all, at what they do so this - one hopes that expertise comes back, but it's the same attack on science, the same attack on media,” she bloviated.

This was also a lie since what got him fired was insults to 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton in front of their colleagues and a refusal to meet to hash things out.

Further in the show, Swisher defended Democratic Senate candidate Platner’s cheating on his wife. “Listen, he's obviously a troubled person. He's done a lot of bad things. He had a drinking problem, which he’s acknowledged, all kinds of bad stuff. But you're either going to be, you know, effective or you're going to lose - you want to be effective or be right,” she argued.

 

 

 

Claiming “Democrats do hold themselves to a higher standard,” she demanded people just ignore his deep character flaws:

The same thing with his wife, that was astonishing, her thing, and it reminded me of Hillary Clinton, what, do I stand by my man. It's between them, right? It's not our business. Like, as a friend, I'd say you're such a jerk. But as someone else, it's not my business to judge these people.

“Not my business to judge these people,” she said on the show all about judging people.

Open opinion about Platner included Hostin proclaiming: “We are really in a bad place in this country (…) If I lived in Maine I would hold my nose and I would tip that lever and vote for him! That's it!" And co-host Sara Haines saying she would vote for Republican Senator Susan Collins.

 

 

Additionally, moderator Whoopi Goldberg once again turned the show into a get out the voter push, this time for any candidate who would oppose President Trump’s agenda:

All this stuff going on, you can't fix this, okay? This is not within your purview. What you can do is you can go out and vote for people who actually can fix stuff, and it doesn't matter what side you're on because there are a lot of Republicans who don't like what they're seeing either.

That should do wonders for the already embattled show fight to keep its “bona fide news” designation under the FCC.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
June 3, 2026
11:06:46 AM Eastern

(...)

KARA SWISHER: But it focuses on what you were saying: lack of expertise. And that's sort of everywhere. Like, look, Pete Hegseth -

SUNNY HOSTIN: And he talked about DEI so much. It means, you know, ‘didn’t earn it’ now.

SWISHER: This is DEI, right?

HOSTIN: Yeah.

SWISHER: Didn’t earn it. Exactly.

You have Pete Hegseth, who was a talk show host. Not - I mean

SARA HANIES: No shade.

[Laughter]

SWISHER: So sorry.

[Laughter]

I ruined it for all of you.

Um, RFK, no medical training. Jared Kushner and - is doing negotiations in Iran and that's why they're going so badly. And, look, even over at CBS, Scott Pelley, most experienced - all these reporters that are astonishingly being shoved out by people who have so much less expertise, if any at all, at what they do so this - one hopes that expertise comes back, but it's the same attack on science, the same attack on media.

HOSTIN: Education.

SWISHER: Education.

(...)

11:10:27 AM Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I mean, again, what we have to focus on really is what we have to do.

All this stuff going on, you can't fix this, okay? This is not within your purview. What you can do is you can go out and vote for people who actually can fix stuff, and it doesn't matter what side you're on because there are a lot of Republicans who don't like what they're seeing either. So, please remember, this isn’t in our hands, so all this stuff that come - we talk about it every day, it's a lot of folderol. It’s to say, don't it look here.

What you have to take care of is your business and your family and everything you do on a daily basis, that's our responsibility.

We'll be right back.

(...)

11:18:38 AM Eastern

SWISHER: I have a different take. I have a different take.

Listen, he's obviously a troubled person. He's done a lot of bad things. He had a drinking problem, which he’s acknowledged, all kinds of bad stuff. But you're either going to be, you know, effective or you're going to lose - you want to be effective or be right. That's the question here, and one of the things that's hard is Democrats do hold themselves to a higher standard in this regard.

But as far as I'm concerned, the people of Maine are the ones who should decide who they want, and if they forgive this guy, and that’s part of the idea of it, then it's fine.

The same thing with his wife, that was astonishing, her thing, and it reminded me of Hillary Clinton, what, do I stand by my man. It's between them, right? It's not our business. Like, as a friend, I'd say you're such a jerk. But as someone else, it's not my business to judge these people.

(...)

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