Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts on The View do not seem to close their discussions on Joe Rogan anytime soon. However, there might be one voice in the show who could see things a little more neutral and doesn’t hate Rogan. Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former Assistant to the President during Donald Trump’s earlier presidency, joined as a permanent co-host on the show from 2022.
Griffin was one of the former Trump administration officials who endorsed Kamala Harris during this election. However, Griffin refused to jump onto the hate wagon against Rogan and other X influencers. Griffin wanted the left and right to have conversations and not go into their own echo chambers.
One Co-Host On The View Sees Rationale Amidst Whoopi Goldberg And Others’ Blinding Hate
Whoopi Goldberg and The View continue their war on Joe Rogan and the so-called X news influencers. In the latest discussion, Goldberg claimed that these influencers are driving the left away from X, adding that even Republicans who have different opinions are leaving the platform.
Co-host Joy Behar went after Rogan specifically, sharing, “We went from Walter Cronkite, to this guy, Joe Rogan, who believes in dragons.” Behar accused X influencers and podcasters like Rogan of spreading fake news unchecked. While the other hosts continued to bash the X platform and its right-leaning users, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin had a different opinion.
Griffin has been one voice on The View who saw things more clearly, despite her unsuccessful endorsement of Kamala Harris. When co-host Sunny Hostin used dismissive language to describe voters who chose Trump over Harris in an earlier episode, Griffin was quick to correct her respectfully. When Hostin used the term “uneducated white women”, Griffin responded, “I don’t think women like being called uneducated white women.”
In this particular discussion, too, Griffin seemed like the voice of reason, asking her co-hosts how a proper political discourse would take place if the right and left chose their own social media “echo chambers.” Griffin shared (via The View/YouTube):
In defense, there are some really good news kind of influencers. I think it’s great that they are getting information about global and current events in front of younger people who may be don’t tune into traditional media. But there has to be some fact checking of the things that are shared.
But what I do worry about this, like the Blue Sky vs X… I worry we’re all going into our own echo chambers. So we had this election that was tense. Donald Trump won and the right is gonna stay on X and the left is all gonna be on Blue Sky… How do we try to talk to each other?
Griffin also entered into an argument with Sunny Hostin in a recent episode over Donald Trump’s appointment of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon as his Education secretary (via Daily Mail). Goldberg had to step in to shut down the argument.
Joe Rogan Called The View ‘A Rabies-Infested Hen House’
Joe Rogan and The View did not see eye-to-eye for a long time. The comedian-turned-podcaster had previously clashed with hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg. During a podcast episode with Coleman Hughes as a guest, he went on to express his disdain against the show with some not-so-nice words.
Rogan called the show and its host “a rabies-infested hen house.” He went on to share that most of the show’s audiences were hate-watchers rather than a bunch of loyal audiences. He shared:
Their audience is not really their audience. A lot of them are paid… When the show gets really, really popular… those people will try to get tickets… but otherwise, they probably don’t need to use the service anymore.
Rogan might probably come back at The View with harsher comments or even encourage his guests’ negative comments on the show. Some of the earlier comments from his guests about the show had been very insensitive. It appears that both sides will continue to see each other as the adversary.
