If you ever needed a reminder that The View functions less like a news show and more like a liberal revival tent, look no further than their canonization of feminist icon Gloria Steinem on Wednesday’s broadcast. The View gave us a lovefest disguised as journalism, complete with misty-eyed reminiscing, revisionist history, and, of course, obligatory Trump-bashing.
To begin the segment, Steinem was quickly elevated from activist to oracle, with Whoopi praising her from the beginning:
GOLDBERG: (...) I want to ask you, why do you think it was so revolutionary, and when did you realize that there was really something huge happening that we thought, you know, could happen, but was really starting to get legs?
STEINEM: Really because I had been traveling and speaking to audiences with my speaking partners, and we could see that what was happening in the audience, and especially with women, was not happening at all with magazines, which mainly were praising their advertisers or writing traditional articles, and so, we had the revolutionary and not very commercial– in terms of advertisers– idea that we could have a magazine that really related every day to what women read, and we could see that it was happening, because we got mail by the bushels from women saying, “Thank you so much. Now I know I'm not crazy”
