View Crew on Hillary Papers: Applaud Mrs. Clinton for ‘Maturely’ Considering Her Role in Bill’s Affair

The co-hosts of The View on Tuesday applauded Hillary Clinton for new revelations from the so-called “Hillary papers,” a journal of a deceased friend. [For more, see video cross-posted at NewsBusters.]The then-First Lady is quoted as questioning how she could have prompted her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsy. Sherri Shepherd touted, “I have to applaud Hillary Clinton because she's not taking responsibility for it, but I think that shows a sign of maturity.” She continued, “It's very, very easy to say, ‘100 percent he was a jerk. He did it all.’ It takes two people.” According to Shepherd, Mrs. Clinton “wondered, “What’s my accountability?” Barbara Walters sympathetically spun, “One other thing that Hillary said “because bill's mother had died, that this was maybe one of the reasons that he” had an affair.