The View Whines About Guests Trashing Show After Dealing With Them

After treating Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to a gush fest last week where they tried to recruit her to the Democrats, executive producer Brian Teta and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin expressed relief on Tuesday’s edition of their Behind the Table podcast that Greene was not bad mouthing them after the fact like other guests they’ve apparently had. The two eventually took to bellyaching about those who would dish about how “horrible” they were to deal with.

Amid their conversation about their interview with Democratic Senator John Fetterman (PA) (where co-host Sunny Hostin literally yelled at him for reopening the government), Teta changed gears to praising Greene for coming on and for not allowing herself to be “baited” into talking bad about The View and the cast members:

TETA: One more thing on Marjorie Taylor Green, I will say this, one thing I really appreciate is she came to the show in good faith legitimately.

FARAH GRIFFIN: 100 percent.

TETA: And that’s evident more than anything else in the fact that she’s consistently being baited by people after visiting The View, which is what always happens, and she’s not taking anybody up on it.

FARAH GRIFFIN: She totally isn’t.

TETA: She’s not, you know, there are people who come here, have a nice conversation, and then do a press tour about the women of The View and how horrible and yada yada yada.

It’s not hard to understand why Greene would have nice things to say after getting glazed by the cast for being a headache for Congressional Republican leadership. “I’ve got to tell you. I’m sitting here just stumped. You know, because you are a very different person than I thought you were,” Hostin touted to her face. “It’s like you’ve gone so far right, it’s like you’re on the left now.”

Back on their podcast, Farah Griffin give a meaningless promise that guests would be treated with respect, but it only applied to her. She also huffed about guests who would dare to push back against them. “And I feel that way. I hope that any guests that come on at least like, you have my word, I want to be nothing but hospitable and actually hear from you on substance,” she said. “What bothers me is when people want to come on to like have a moment, but like what does that accomplish?”

“You’re not serving your constituents there either,” Teta chided.

One of The View’s favorite hate objects, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) had braved the show a few times and fielded all the arrows the liberal ladies would sling at him. Co-host Joy Behar once snapped and Cruz and suggested he was a liar for acknowledging Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) put COVID patients in nursing homes. They also didn’t appreciate when he showed up with actual receipts of their hypocrisy.

Those receipts and his willingness to confront their hostility with facts was likely why they’ve refused to have him on again.

Hostin and moderator Whoopi Goldberg were also openly hostile to guest Coleman Hughes, in 2024, because he wanted to get race out of politics and to not combat racism with more racism. “And so many in the black community – if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be – believe that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you’re a charlatan of sorts,” Hostin smeared him to his face. It’s worth noting that Hostin accused Hughes of being a “conservatives” (as if it was a bad thing), when he wasn’t.

How was that approaching guests in good faith and respect? Brian? Alyssa?

In a previous episode of their podcast last week, The View suggested conservatives usually don’t live up to their “certain caliber of guest.”

Even those on their side of the political aisle have issues with them; just take comedian Bill Maher. “I’m friendly with some of the ladies on The View and I love them, but like – I would do – that show’s a lot,” he vented to actress Drew Barrymore on his podcast Club Ransom. “I love Whoopi and Joy – those are the two I really know – and I did it like a year ago. And I liked everybody, but like, I don’t know if they’re really – at this moment, the best advertisement for women.”

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
November 12, 2025
13:19

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BRIAN TETA: One more thing on Marjorie Taylor Green, I will say this, one thing I really appreciate is she came to the show in good faith legitimately.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: 100 percent.

TETA: And that’s evident more than anything else in the fact that she’s consistently being baited by people after visiting The View, which is what always happens, and she’s not taking anybody up on it.

FARAH GRIFFIN: She totally isn’t.

TETA: She’s not, you know, there are people who come here, have a nice conversation, and then do a press tour about the women of The View and how horrible and yada yada yada.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s what’s always surprising to me is that – because what the audience doesn’t see is you, you get about three minutes at commercial breaks off-air with the guests and we always talk, we almost always talk to them and have warm conversations. A there have been guests we’ve had on, some very recently, who I felt like we had a really nice warm exchange at the table I saw with multiple hosts them getting along, and then they go and they just have nothing but criticisms on the other side of it.

And by the way, we always acknowledge we’re gonna ask tough questions. We all asked Marjorie Taylor Green tough questions, but I found that she was sincere at commercial breaks. I also talked to her before and briefly after the show and isn’t taking the bait now to trash us.

TETA: No, and it’s being offered to her constantly, you know. ‘You went on The View? And what did those women say?’ And she’s like, ‘oh, I wanted to have a good conversation with them’ And, yeah. I don’t know. I appreciate that.

FARAH GRIFFIN: And I feel that way. I hope that any guests that come on at least like, you have my word, I want to be nothing but hospitable and actually hear from you on substance.

What bothers me is when people want to come on to like have a moment, but like what does that accomplish? Like for me, I’m like we had a thoughtful conversation about both healthcare and reopening the government with Marjorie Taylor Green. Getting your viral clip, but us not advancing any dialogue for the American public.

TETA: What’s the point?

FARAH GRIFFIN: What’s the point?

TETA: You’re not serving your constituents there either.

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