If there’s one thing you’ll learn from watching The View every day, it’s that the cast are detached from reality. During Friday’s episode, former conservative co-host Candace Cameron Bure returned to reminisce and promote her victory in latest season of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. But in hearing about some of the physically demanding activists Bure was put though, a couple of the cast members suggested their talk show was a more difficult proposition… because people disagreed with them on politics.
“I just thought, you know, when the opportunity came, like, who gets the chance to dive out of a helicopter and do these things. And so, I've always enjoyed fitness, wanted to do it. And honestly, I was so proud of myself to have completed it,” Bure said. “That's what my goal was and I did it.”
It was Friday moderator Joy Behar who wanted to make the ridiculous comparison:
BEHAR: Well we're proud of you, Candace, but you're crazy. So let me ask you, which was harder to do, the Special Forces or The View?
BURE: It was the hardest to work with Brian Teta everyday. It was the most difficult.
HAINES: That was a safe one.
Obviously, Bure was trying to play along and poked some fun at producer Brian Teta, with co-host Sara Haines playing along too, but Behar continued to press her point. “Well, this show is hard because you're on the line. You can - to get enemies out of the blue any minute because you say something,” she argued.
The View suggests their job is "harder to do" than Special Forces fitness training.
"Well, this show is hard because you're on the line. You can -- to get enemies out of the blue any minute because you say something." - Joy Behar pic.twitter.com/BaN2aM3C0Y— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 13, 2026
Bure tried to pivot to touting Special Forces and how it gave the audience and her a window into what American service member did for the country, but co-host Sunny Hostin backed up Behar:
BURE: It was incredible because it just gives you a little taste - gave me a little taste of what our military does every day, every year they're out there putting their lives on the line. So, in that way, it was such a blessing to experience and I have so much respect and --
HOSTIN: So, it sounds like The View was harder.
“The View might have been harder. But I love you guys. I love you guys. Thanks for having me back,” she said, moving them along.
In the end, Bure stole the narrative.
After playing a video of her rapping and dancing with Vanilla Ice back in the day, Bure quipped that they could return to having that much fun on the show if they stopped talking about politics so much. “The View puts on a good party. When you stop talking about politics, you put on a good party,” she said.
Former conservative co-host Candace Cameron Bure ribbed her former cast mates on The View, saying that if they stopping talking about politics so much they could have the kind of fun they used to have on the show.
She said that after they played a clip of her rapping and dancing… pic.twitter.com/3Iug07H9LD— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 13, 2026
Bure had a point. They would be much happier people if they didn’t obsess about politics so much. And they would understand that while Special Forces was a watered-down version of the real fitness requirements of real special forces units, it’s far more demanding than sitting around a table and ignorantly spouting off about politics.
Maybe Behar’s the one too scared to have people with actual opposing views on The View.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
November 13, 2026
11:24:58 a.m. Eastern(…)
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: I just thought, you know, when the opportunity came, like, who gets the chance to dive out of a helicopter and do these things. And so, I've always enjoyed fitness, wanted to do it. And honestly, I was so proud of myself to have completed it.
SARA HAINES: You should be!
BURE: That's what my goal was and I did it and -
ANA NAVARRO: When I turned 50 I went on a cruise.
[Laughter]
[Crosstalk]
JOY BEHAR: Well we're proud of you, Candace, but you're crazy.
[Laughter]
So let me ask you, which was harder to do, the Special Forces or The View?
[Laughter]
BURE: It was the hardest to work with Brian Teta everyday. It was the most difficult.
[Laughter]
HAINES: That was a safe one.
BEHAR: Well, this show is hard because you're on the line. You can - to get enemies out of the blue any minute because you say something. Right?
BURE: It was incredible because it just gives you a little taste - gave me a little taste of what our military does every day, every year they're out there putting their lives on the line. So, in that way, it was such a blessing to experience and I have so much respect and --
HOSTIN: So, it sounds like The View was harder.
BURE: The View might have been harder. But I love you guys. I love you guys. Thanks for having me back.
(…)
11:30:14 a.m. Eastern
[Reacting to video of Bure rapping and dancing with Vanilla Ice on an old episode of The View]
[Laughter]
BURE: Who is that? Who is that?
HOSTIN: You were good!
BURE: The things I'm going to show my grandchildren when they're like four years old.
HOSTIN: You were good! You were doing the whole [does the dance].
HAINES: Special Forces offers you helicopter drops and look at what we do.
BURE: I had the best time on this show with all the fun things we did with the birthdays and the dances you guys were –
HOSTIN: You were Tinkerbell.
BURE: And tinker bell.
HOSITN: One year. I don’t remember what I was, but you were Tinkerbell.
BURE: The View puts on a good party.
HAINES: They sure do.
BURE: When you stop talking about politics, you put on a good party.
[Laughter]
HOSTIN: That's right. Brian just reminded me I was Dora the Explorer. I forgot about that.
(…)
