The shrill liberal shriekers of ABC’s The View have lengthy been supporters of far-left rage monster and congresswoman, Katie Porter (D-CA). So it was no shock that, throughout Thursday’s present, a majority of the co-hosts had her again throughout her run for governor at the same time as she hemorrhaged assist after a sequence of movies confirmed her abusing workers and a journalist. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, together with co-hosts Pleasure Behar and Ana Navarro, tried to avoid wasting Porter’s marketing campaign with a tourniquet of excuses starting from being human to menopause to only being plain “smarter” than everyone else.
After enjoying a clip of Porter close to the highest of the present scream at a staffer to “get out of my f[bleeping] shot,” Goldberg tried to blunt the audiences shocked response by singing a line from the musical Hamilton: “I am not freely giving my shot, shot, shot!”
“Possibly she’s having a menopausal second,” Behar chimed in protection.
Goldberg continued to attempt to downplay Porter’s unhinged outburst at workers as simply one thing regular and acceptable since we’ve seen it so many occasions earlier than, and typically individuals had unhealthy days (Click on “increase”):
GOLDBERG: Now, you realize, some individuals are apparently stunned by these movies. I’m not. We see these movies with guys. We noticed I with — oh, my god.
SARA HAINES: Invoice O’Reilly. Laura Ingraham.
GOLDBERG: We’ve seen it with Laura Ingraham. We’ve seen it with a number of totally different individuals. We have seen it with actors.
BEHAR: Trump does it each minute!
GOLDBERG: And he all the time says to individuals, “You’re the worst. I do not such as you. I do not know who you might be. I do not know why you are right here.” You understand, possibly individuals are having a nasty day.
She even lamented that she couldn’t do it extra typically. “We now have to look at what we are saying. We now have to look at how we are saying it, and typically it will get actually irritating since you simply wish to say, that is how I really feel!” Goldberg bemoaned.
In case you discovered Goldberg’s staunch protection of Porter suspicious, she made it pretty apparent why a couple of minutes later when she admitted that she yells on the individuals round her:
GOLDBERG: Properly, you realize, once more, I — as a result of I’ve accomplished this, I’ve been impolite to individuals, I’ve mentioned to journalists, “no, that is what — that is my reply” and so they’ll say, “no, however I’ve requested different individuals” and I mentioned, “no, no, that is what I am telling — that is what—”
HAINES: However you are not operating for elected official.
GOLDBERG: No, however I have been impolite and that is my level.
HAINES: And I perceive, however I might count on one thing otherwise from her.
GOLDBERG: No, she’s simply one other human being.
It’s additionally doable Goldberg was attempting to make it appear extra widespread by placing on herself too.
“In these moments I do not assume it is so simple as you are having a nasty day. I really assume she must do higher not in gratitude however respect to different individuals,” co-host Sara Haines pushed again. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin famous that Porter had an extended historical past of being disliked by her workers and that she had excessive workers turnover.
Doing their half to defend Porter, Navarro and Behar teamed as much as counsel that the Congresswoman was simply “smarter” than most since she cursed out her workers a lot:
NAVARRO: I simply learn a research that claims that cussing — individuals who cuss quite a bit are smarter.
BEHAR: Are extra clever.
NAVARRO: Which I take a whole lot of consolation in.
Following a business break, Goldberg really took to whining about reporters like NewsBusters making her look unhealthy by quoting her verbatim. “Properly, as a result of, you realize, any time I say one thing, some press comes out and so they sort of twist it to make it like I am a extremely insane individual,” she griped. “I take a whole lot of these hits, and I do not prefer it as a lot as I used to.”
The transcript is under. Click on “increase” to learn:
ABC’s The View
October 9, 2025
11:16:08 a.m. Japanese(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I am not freely giving my shot, shot, shot! I am not freely giving my —
JOY BEHAR: Possibly she’s having a menopausal second.
GOLDBERG: Possibly – properly, you realize – Hear, something is feasible however she mentioned in an announcement that she’s striving to do higher saying, quote, “I’ve sought to be extra intentional to displaying gratitude to my workers for his or her essential work.”
Now, you realize, some individuals are apparently stunned by these movies. I’m not. We see these movies with guys. We noticed I with — oh, my god.
SARA HAINES: Invoice O’Reilly. Laura Ingraham.
GOLDBERG: We’ve seen it with Laura Ingraham. We’ve seen it with a number of totally different individuals. We have seen it with actors.
BEHAR: Trump does it each minute!
GOLDBERG: And he all the time says to individuals, “You’re the worst. I do not such as you. I do not know who you might be. I do not know why you are right here.” You understand, possibly individuals are having a nasty day.
I can not think about it may very well be straightforward to be operating for one thing, as a result of it is sort of like us, we all the time need to now be on our greatest conduct. We now have to look at what we are saying. We now have to look at how we are saying it, and typically it will get actually irritating since you simply wish to say, that is how I really feel!
(…)
11:17:53 a.m. Japanese
HAINES: In these moments I do not assume it is so simple as you are having a nasty day. I really assume she must do higher not in gratitude however respect to different individuals.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Properly, let me simply say it like this, you realize, in an ideal world, yeah. However human beings have unhealthy days, and human beings will not be all the time able to realizing that they are step earnings poo. And so I simply —
ANA NAVARRO: I simply learn a research that claims that cussing — individuals who cuss quite a bit are smarter.
BEHAR: Are extra clever.
NAVARRO: Which I take a whole lot of consolation in.
(…)
11:19:25 a.m. Japanese
GOLDBERG: Properly, you realize, once more, I — as a result of I’ve accomplished this, I’ve been impolite to individuals, I’ve mentioned to journalists, “no, that is what — that is my reply” and so they’ll say, “no, however I’ve requested different individuals” and I mentioned, “no, no, that is what I am telling — that is what—”
HAINES: However you are not operating for elected official.
GOLDBERG: No, however I have been impolite and that is my level.
HAINES: And I perceive, however I might count on one thing otherwise from her.
GOLDBERG: No, she’s simply one other human being.
HAINES: Not –
GOLDBERG: I’m sorry. Yeah, they’re all simply human beings, that is why there’s — nearly mentioned a nasty phrase. We’ll be proper again.
(…)
11:25:36 a.m. Japanese
GOLDBERG: Properly, as a result of, you realize, any time I say one thing, some press comes out and so they sort of twist it to make it like I am a extremely insane individual.
BEHAR: It is only a headline. In case you learn the entire thing –
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: How many individuals learn — how many individuals really hear what you are saying until you are sitting right here?
NAVARRO: However you realize what I really like?
GOLDBEGR: What do you like.
NAVARRO: That we’re so related, that they need to parse each phrase we are saying and since it is good clickbait.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Yeah, however you realize what, I take a whole lot of these hits, and I do not prefer it as a lot as I used to.
(…)
