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When a mainstream daytime talk show accuses a former First Lady of lying about her own words, ordinary Americans should sit up and take notice. On The View this week Joy Behar dismissed Melania Trump’s clear statements in favor of individual liberty — including language reported from her memoir — calling the revelation “a big scam” and insisting she didn’t buy it. That kind of contemptuous reflex from a panel that trades in performance over facts shows exactly why millions of working-class voters distrust legacy media.
Behar’s sputtering about strategy and book promotion wasn’t a serious critique so much as partisan theater designed to delegitimize anyone who departs from the left’s catechism. The panel’s instant decision that Melania was “put up” by Republicans or somehow playing the public is the same sloppy, lazy analysis fans of the show have come to expect. Americans are tired of elites who assume motives instead of engaging with actual words and evidence.
Even conservative commentators who don’t usually play by TV’s rules saw the lunacy and called it out, with popular creators reacting with anger and disbelief at The View’s willingness to smear a woman for expressing a personal belief. That reaction is natural: when the media rips into someone for saying something remotely nuanced, conservatives reflexively defend fairness and basic decency. The online backlash tells you more about mainstream media bias than any panel of self-anointed arbiters ever will.
This isn’t an isolated incident — The View’s track record of treating conservatives as either pariahs or punchlines is well established, and its hosts often leap from opinion to accusation without the slightest evidence. It’s one thing to disagree; it’s another to accuse someone of lying about their own life and choices simply because the conclusion makes the hosts uncomfortable. That shows the cultural arrogance of a broadcast that assumes it speaks for everyone while actually speaking to a shrinking, coastal bubble.
Melania didn’t hide her writing or whisper this position in private; she put her thoughts in a book and backed them up in interviews, saying the views in the memoir reflect her beliefs and that her husband knew her position. Pointing to the public record and a direct statement is not gullibility — it’s basic journalism, something The View declined to practice. If the hosts insist on policing personal conscience while lecturing the rest of the country about authenticity, they should expect to be called out.
Patriots who respect free speech and honest debate shouldn’t let this kind of media malpractice slide. We can disagree about policy, but we will not stand by while a celebrity panel smears people for telling their truth, nor will we accept the moralizing double standards from a show that treats opposing views as a theatrical sin. Americans deserve media that reports honestly and treats opposing opinions with the same dignity it demands for its own.
