The View panel Wednesday morning expressed their disappointment in Megyn Kelly’s interview televised last night with Donald Trump, calling it a “softball interview.” They then gushed over Barbara Walters as the epitome of excellent journalism that they felt Kelly should aspire to.
Whoopi Goldberg asked how everyone felt about it and co-host Sunny Hostin first answered, saying, “She is supposed to be a serious journalist and what I saw was a soft ball interview.”
Joy Behar added,
“It was like a -- when did she get a license to be a psychotherapist? She was like, did anything wound you, Donald. Donald, when little Marco said you had small hands, did that wound you? It's like, lie down, Donald. “
Hostin bashed Kelly again saying, “She traded her journalism for ratings.”
What model of journalistic excellence did the panel recommend for Kelly to imitate instead?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Let me just say this. They're touting her as sort of the next Barbara Walters. And she’s explained that that’s what she wants----
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Barbara Walters held your feet to the fire. [ Applause ]
HOSTIN: That's right. That’s right
SHEPHERD: You sat here and she made you uncomfortable.
HOSTIN: Exactly.
SHEPHERD: Barbara would ask you questions and you would be like oh, God.
HOSTIN: In 2011 she interviewed Putin and asked him whether or not he had ever ordered anyone killed. She actually asked that question.
SHEPHERD: She asked the Kardashians you're known for nothing, why are you here.
HOSTIN: That's what a journalist does.
BEHAR: She said, darling, you're known for nothing. Why are you here.
HOSTIN added:
“When Barbara asked that question and if you want to be a Barbara Walters type reporter, journalist, then you ask those hard questions.”
Is this the same quality journalist who asked the same questions to President Obama as Youtube teen celebrities?
Or maybe the one that hailed The View for it’s “serious political discussion”? Or praised Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as the nicest guy on said “serious” show?
Or who bent over backwards to defend Bill Clinton and expressed disappointment that Obama wasn’t “the next Messiah?”
