“The View” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — With Oprah Winfrey gone, daytime television is ready for a new monarch. (more)

“The View” host Barbara Walters has not kept it a secret that she has soon-to-be former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s side in his current controversy with some ill-advised photos he has sent out over the Internet.  However, she has moved on to wondering how he and his wife Huma Abedin will survive without Weiner’s congressional salary. (more)

Many know what they’re going to get with Gilbert Gottfried – a crude, often inappropriate act, but one he has done well with for 20 years. (more)

It’s the anti-Michele Bachmann meme of the day: She’s so incompetent, she doesn’t even know how to look into a camera lens. (more)

It’s the pop culture controversy of the day – is MTV’s “Skins” too racy for young American audiences? (more)

In Ron Reagan Jr.’s new book, “My Father at 100,” he says his father, President Ronald Reagan, exhibited signs of mental lapse during the end of his first term in office. And although Ron Reagan has since backtracked from some of those claims, there is still the question – did President Ronald Reagan show signs of mental deterioration while in office? (more)

Longtime TV personality Barbara Walters, not exactly a conservative voice, doesn’t think it is appropriate to put the blame on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, as some have been quick to do. (more)

If the goal of Larry King’s last talk show on CNN was to go out with a representative sample of what the program has really been all about for the past twenty-five years, then it was truly a smashing success. Unfortunately for the viewers (thankfully I was probably one of the few under the age of 60 who was stupid enough to subject myself to it), that meant one full hour of vapid, insipid, awkward, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, decrepit, self-congratulatory, uninspired, talentless, fawning narcissism. (more)

What’s wrong with incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner’s emotional transparency ? Nothing according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. (more)

Last night on Barbara’s Walters’ annually insipid “10 Most Fascinating People” special, America was shown such a textbook example of media bias, hypocrisy and incompetence that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, almost no one knows the full magnitude of what I am referring to because numerous important truths have been conveniently omitted from the narrative surrounding the story. (more)

While The View caters to the sensibilities of American women, it is women who are expressing outrage and frustration at the “sexist” words of one of the show’s co-hosts. (more)

The ladies of The View were up in arms today over Sharron Angle’s campaign ad depicting a group of threatening Latinos menacing some white students. It is the same ad Rachel Maddow called “most overtly racist ad of this campaign season” on Meet the Press this weekend. (more)

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. (more)

Sen. John McCain does not share the view of his high-profile daughter that Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is a “nut job.” (more)

Joy Behar, the host of “The View” and “The Joy Behar Show,” devoted part of her evening program to address the incident that occurred earlier in the day with FOX News host Bill O’Reilly. Behar, along with Whoopi Goldberg, stormed off of the set of “The View” when he made the remark “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” (more)

“Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is more than just upset at President Obama for taxing her beloved tanning bed. Now she’s mad about the president’s claim he didn’t know who she was. (more)

Obama missed the Jamboree to appear on ‘The View’ but he recorded a special message for the scouts that wasn’t well received. (more)

A buddy in Memphis e-mailed me the following, which has been described (presumably by men) as the “joke of the year”: (more)

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama has not heard of Snooki, but New Jersey police certainly have after arresting the “Jersey Shore” reality TV star Friday on a charge of disorderly conduct. (more)