It’s a funny old world, isn’t it? Especially when you’re watching people who fancy themselves bastions of sophisticated thought suddenly scramble like caffeinated squirrels when a truth they don’t particularly care for comes a-knockin’. You see, there’s a certain script, a well-rehearsed play, that gets performed with Oscar-worthy melodrama whenever the carefully constructed narrative walls show even the tiniest crack.

You know the routine: first comes the sputtering disbelief, then the frantic search for a distraction – “Look, a shiny object over there!” – and finally, if all else fails, the good old-fashioned attack on whoever dared to speak out of turn. It’s less a debate and more a desperate attempt to change the channel before anyone notices the program isn’t quite what was advertised. And boy, did we get a front-row seat to that very performance recently.

When the Script Goes Off the Rails

And wouldn’t you know it, the ladies over at ABC’s “The View” just gave us a masterclass in exactly this kind of defensive, reality-bending maneuvering. The catalyst for their latest on-air conniption? A new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” Now, remember, this book is about former President Biden and events during his term. You’d think, with a new administration in the White House, this might be treated as, well, history. But not on “The View.”

Joy Behar, ever the subtle one, immediately launched into a tirade not about the book’s contents, but about the audacity of it being promoted. “All he is doing is hawking his book on CNN,” she fumed, adding with theatrical exasperation, “When did CNN become a place to hawk your book? Is Wolf Blitzer coming out with a cookbook?” The irony, of course, is that CNN is usually their happy hunting ground. But when one of their own (Tapper) dares to report something unflattering about a Democrat, even a former one, suddenly it’s a commercial enterprise to be condemned.

The “What Difference Does It Make, Anyway?” Defense

Whoopi Goldberg, not to be outdone in the deflection department, questioned the timing and relevance. “Why is this important to know now?” she demanded, a line eerily reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s infamous “What difference, at this point, does it make?” regarding the Benghazi tragedy. The Daily Wire rightly pointed out the echo. Goldberg also scoffed at the anonymous sources, wondering, “If you’re telling me that hundreds of people knew that he was not able to do his job, then where the hell was everybody?” Well, Whoopi, that’s precisely what the book is about – the alleged cover-up! It seems the concept of investigative journalism revealing past deceptions is lost on them when it hits too close to home.

Sunny Hostin chimed in with the classic whataboutism, trying to pivot the conversation to former Trump officials who wrote books. It’s a tired tactic: when you can’t defend the current issue, frantically point to something, anything, the other side did. It’s less an argument and more a desperate plea to change the subject.

A Fleeting Moment of… Reason?

Amidst the cacophony of denial and deflection, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin actually attempted to inject a dose of consistency, pointing out the glaring hypocrisy. It was a brave, if likely futile, effort.

From ‘Fox News’:

“And this is where I take issue with some folks on the left. They’re ‘We stand with journalists. We stand with the free press.’ When they’re going after their opponents, like Donald Trump, but when they critically cover Democrats, ‘Oh, no, they’re lying. It’s fairy dust. It’s not true.’”

Griffin even questioned how attacking journalists for covering Democrats could possibly be “pro-democracy” or “pro-fourth estate.” These are, of course, questions the other hosts seemed utterly uninterested in answering. Their commitment, it appears, is not to truth or a free press in principle, but to a press that freely parrots their talking points.

The entire spectacle serves as a perfect illustration of why so many Americans have lost faith in mainstream media outlets and their celebrity talking heads. When faced with information that challenges their worldview or implicates their political allies, the immediate instinct isn’t reflection or engagement, but a full-blown, five-alarm effort to discredit, dismiss, and distract. It’s a shame, really. A robust public discourse requires an honest engagement with facts, even the uncomfortable ones. But for some, it seems the comfort of the echo chamber is far too precious to disturb, even when the echoes are just their own voices trying to shout down reality.

Key Takeaways:

• “The View” hosts attacked journalists to suppress uncomfortable truths about former President Biden.
• Liberal media often deflects and denies rather than confront inconvenient facts impacting their narrative.
• Selective support for a “free press” reveals deep-seated liberal media hypocrisy and bias.

Sources: Fox News, Daily Wire