ABC’s The View – the most popular day-time talk show in America – is known for their “Hot Topics” segments where they spout off and flaunt their ignorance on all sorts of political issues; they even boast it drives their ratings success. But despite the show being live on Friday, they ignored the hottest topic of the day: New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez getting federally indicted for bribery; a story which broke long before their show aired.
Instead of highlighting how the Democratic Senator allegedly had taken wads of cash and gold bars all worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Egyptian businessman (and hid it all around his house), they kicked off the show by vapidly discussing actress Sophie Turner getting divorced from singer Joe Jonas.
This was followed up with another segment (the second time in one week) about Democratic Senator John Fetterman (PA) getting criticized for being a slob and wearing hoodies and shorts on the Senate floor. “Okay, okay, all sorts of things going on in Congress right now,” fill-in moderator Joy Behar quipped.
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