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The View Can’t Be Both A Neutral Newscast And A Leftist Propaganda Foghorn

Free speech protects ABC’s right to run an all-left-wing panel every weekday morning. It does not entitle ABC to call that panel a news program when convenient and a protected editorial product when it is not.

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Disney and ABC walked into a federal courthouse in Washington on Tuesday and asked a judge to save them from the Trump administration. The network’s 45-page complaint accuses the FCC of running a “retaliatory campaign” against ABC for broadcasting content the White House dislikes.

In a separate FCC docket, Disney lawyers have spent months arguing that a panel show anchored by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg is functionally indistinguishable from Meet the Press. Both arguments cannot be entirely true at once, and after a decade testifying on fiduciary duty and evidentiary standards, I have developed an ear for a witness who wants the jury to believe two contradictory stories depending on which room they are standing in.

That is the real story buried under Tuesday’s headlines. The View, for anyone who has never watched it, is an ABC daytime opinion and entertainment program, a politically left-wing panel where celebrity guests, cultural chatter, and news headlines all run through the co-hosts’ strongly held personal views. There is nothing illegal about that.

Yes, government leaning on a broadcaster’s license because it dislikes the coverage should worry every American who still owns a copy of the Constitution. But ABC’s own legal position, that this program is simultaneously a target of unconstitutional persecution and a neutral bona fide news program, does not survive first contact with its own guest list.

Start with what actually happened. In April, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ordered early license renewal reviews for Disney’s eight “owned-and-operated” ABC stations, in markets from Los Angeles to New York, years ahead of their normal 2028 through 2031 schedule, the first time in more than 50 years the agency had done that.

The timing followed a dust-up over Jimmy Kimmel saying Melania Trump “had a glow like an expectant widow,” and it........

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