Disney’s daytime platform The View hit a new low this week when it welcomed former disgraced criminal Congressman Anthony Weiner back into the spotlight — not with accountability, but applause.
For those unfamiliar with his history, Weiner isn’t just known for a string of personal controversies that derailed his political career. He served time in federal prison for conduct sending inappropriate materials to a minor. His name is now permanently listed in a federal registry designated for individuals convicted of similar offenses involving inappropriate conduct.
And yet The View, a show under Disney’s umbrella, handed him the red carpet treatment.
Joy Behar on The View – YouTube, The View
From the moment he walked onstage, the tone was lighthearted. Joy Behar quipped about his prison stint jokingly spouting lines like “Anthony, when you got out of the hoosegow,” which made light of the situation.
The audience clapped.
The hosts laughed along.
The only host who didn’t clap was Ana Navarro, who sat with her hands folded in her lap and seemed visibly uncomfortable during the interview, even listing out Weiner’s various scandals and crimes in a monotone voice.
Anthony Weiner talks to Ana Navarro on The View – YouTube, The View
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Outside of Navaro listing his offenses, at no point was the gravity of Weiner’s past truly addressed. Instead, Weiner was allowed to spin it all as a “journey.” He compared himself to Andrew Cuomo and even President Donald Trump, claimed personal growth, and positioned himself as a truth-teller in a broken system.
Despite insisting that he wasn’t there to make excuses, Weiner spent much of the interview doing exactly that. He cited personal tragedy in the loss of his brother, framed his behavior as the result of needing validation, and described his past actions with vague euphemisms rather than calling them what they were.
The hosts of The View talk with Anthony Weiner – YouTube, The View
At one point, he even suggested that voters should support him because of his so-called journey — as if the path that led him to federal prison somehow qualified him for public office. This wasn’t accountability. It was a carefully crafted attempt at image rehabilitation, wrapped in just enough contrition to win applause.
He even tried to soften the facts with absurd euphemisms like describing his interactions with people by saying, “sometimes it was something inappropriate…”
No, it wasn’t just “inappropriate.” It was criminal. And minimizing it to vague language is precisely what someone does when they’re trying to reenter public life without truly facing public accountability.
Ana Navarro on The View – YouTube, The View
Perhaps the most audacious moment in the interview came when Weiner attempted to reframe his conviction as a kind of spiritual crucible, going so far as to invoke Catholicism.
“You know, I’m Jewish, but they have this notion in Catholicism: you suffer for a reason so you can be of service at the other end,” he said.
This is not spiritual growth — it’s exploitation of faith to justify reentering public life. To invoke the language of religious atonement and service in the context of a conviction involving a minor is beyond inappropriate. It reduces serious misconduct to a mere life lesson, and worse, it hijacks theology to cast himself as the reformed servant on the other side of suffering.
A screenshot of the hosts of the View discussing politics – YouTube, The View
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No one suffers more in stories like these than the people affected by the offender’s actions — and they were nowhere in that conversation. Weiner’s remarks weren’t humble. They were calculated — and deeply offensive to anyone who actually believes redemption begins with silence, not a spotlight.
All of this felt like a bizarre twist on redemption that seemed to downplay the severity of his actions. And Joy Behar, The View, and Disney/ABC went along with it.
So why would he do that? The answer appears simple: he says the “right” things about Trump.
Donald Trump sits down at an interview with Sean Hannity – YouTube, Fox News
Weiner repeatedly drew comparisons between himself and the former president, suggesting that his own troubles were more forgivable because at least he had “taken responsibility.” The View’s hosts nodded along.
When he criticized Trump, he got applause. When he talked about his ambitions to return to public office, no one pushed back with any seriousness.
At one point he described himself as “A d**n good politician.” One of the show’s hosts (it sounded like Behar, but I can’t be sure) responded with “Yeah, you are.”
Excuse me!? Seriously!? That’s the bar now!? The man sent inappropriate images to a 15 year old girl, I don’t care what his voting record is! I don’t care how great he is at campaigning!
A Screenshot of Whoopi Goldberg Speaking on The View – YouTube, The View
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The View didn’t just offer Anthony Weiner a platform. They offered him validation. And the studio audience, eager to comply with the glowing applause sign, responded on cue. What Disney and its talk show did here was a vile willful rewriting of history in real time, dressed up as daytime television.
At one point, Sara Haines flat-out embraced the narrative he was selling, asking if messaging inappropriately with strangers was “your drug of choice, so to speak?”
Anthony Weiner talks with Sara Haines on The View – YouTube, The View
She then followed it up with the question, “have you been able to stay clean?”
That all but legitimized the idea that his past wasn’t about personal responsibility, but something he caught like a cold. It’s one thing for Weiner to make excuses; it’s another for national television personalities to validate them on Disney’s dime.
Perhaps no moment captured the moral rot of this segment better than Joy Behar’s bizarre attempt to pivot into a gender-based lament, where she listed off a number of politicians with scandals and noted that all of them were men.
Joy Behar on The View – YouTube, The View
“Why is it that two qualified women could not beat all of you guys?” she asked, lumping Anthony Weiner in with names like Cuomo, Clinton, Trump, and Spitzer — as if the only thing tying them together was gender, not serious misconduct.
Not once did she mention the real reason he should never hold public office again: his criminal behavior involving a minor. Instead, the conversation became a political TED Talk about how men are harder to beat in elections, completely ignoring the actual elephant in the room.
And then, unbelievably and infuriatingly, that setup gave Anthony Weiner the opportunity to step into the role of champion for women!
Anthony Weiner on The View – YouTube, The View
The same man who admitted to exchanging inappropriate messages with 84 people, one of whom was 15, was now solemnly reflecting on the challenges women face in politics. He spoke of his ex-wife Huma Abedin’s experience, of Hillary Clinton’s laugh being criticized, and how women are unfairly scrutinized for everything from their tone to their clothing.
On its face, none of that is necessarily wrong, but coming from him, it was obscene. This wasn’t a man reckoning with his past. It was a man strategically invoking the language of progressivism to paint himself as evolved, enlightened, and deserving of another chance.
And The View let him do it. They didn’t stop him. Heck, they set him up for it! They didn’t challenge the irony. They applauded it!
Bob Iger via CNBC Television YouTube
They gave him a soft seat and a second act, where he got to virtue signal in front of a clapping audience — while the girl whose life was affected by his actions wasn’t mentioned once.
Let’s be honest — if this were a conservative with the same record, he wouldn’t get within 100 feet of a Disney-owned talk show (AND HE SHOULDN’T!). There would be no soft questions, no applause, no jokes. He’d be persona non grata.
But Anthony Weiner says all the “right” things, according to The View. He criticizes the “right” people. He called Donald Trump a 34 times convicted felon, And that, apparently, is enough for the Disney executives behind The View.
This isn’t just a double standard. It’s a signal.
President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC in 2017 – YouTube, The New York Times
It tells America that if you hold the right views, the corporate media will forgive just about anything. They’ll help repackage you as a sympathetic voice. They’ll frame your past as part of a brave comeback. And they’ll do it without ever mentioning the real victims who were affected.
The public deserves better. Especially from a company that claims to support families, children, and integrity.
If Weiner wants to rebuild his life privately, that’s his business. But to be granted a platform on daytime television — framed as a comeback story — by the company that claims to stand for family values is more than just tone-deaf.
It’s a disgrace.
What do you think about Anthony Weiner and his time on The View? Sound off in the comments and let us know.
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They have an audience of evil harpies, so that’s the reaction I’d expect.
The View is beyond the parody of the Babylon Bee. How would they parody a parody?
Keep all this in mind once The View goes back to bashing Trump.
After KKK now we have DDD – Disgusting Degenerate Democrats . And The View is nothing but few deranged, lunatic women in one place. But not the place they actually belong, unfortunately.