The hosts of ABC’s “The View” took aim at podcast giant Joe Rogan, claiming that his podcast was an unreliable source of information because Rogan “believes in dragons.” They went on to suggest that because their network, ABC News, occasionally sent them fact checks or legal notes, their program was a more legitimate news source.
The topic came up after cohost Sunny Hostin was forced to read her second legal note in the space of a week after she and the others repeatedly trashed President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks — and Behar was also obviously less than thrilled: “Just call the show ‘Legal Note’ from now on.”
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Joy Behar falsely claims The View gets fact-checked by ABC News, and points to the legal notes as an example.
But on their podcast last year executive producer Brian Teta claimed the notes are “not a correction.” LINK: https://t.co/QwzUsKn0r6 pic.twitter.com/ATcReWpifm— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 21, 2024
Sara Haines suggested people should be wary of the potential for social media, especially to spread misinformation, adding that they should “triple check” things before simply accepting them as true.
“That’s why people like our show because they know we are checked by ABC News,” Behar claimed.
“Checked by everybody,” Whoopi Goldberg agreed.
“And if we’re wrong, we have the legal note here,” Behar said, indicating former federal prosecutor and cohost Sunny Hostin. “We went from Walter Cronkite basically to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! I checked it!”
“He believes in dragons?” Hostin asked.
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Behar was adamant: “He believes in dragons!”
“Did you triple source that?” Haines wanted to know.
“Yes, I did and he also thinks that dragons — I guess like dinosaur-type animals — would roam the Earth when people did. So this is the type of really, really bad information that’s going out there,” Behar complained.
What Rogan actually said was that he was “fascinated” by the things that did not exist but still appeared across cultures — like dragons. He then explained that he believed people had seen something real, like a large lizard, which inspired exaggerations and stories that led to the legends. On the notion of fire-breathing dragons that hoarded treasure, Rogan’s assessment was simple: “Bulls***.”
Despite that, when video of Behar’s wild claim began circulating on X — and someone pointed out that “The View” had labeled him a “dragon believer,” Rogan announced: “That’s my new official X description.”
That’s my new official X description. https://t.co/rJ4Fozzmcd
— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) November 21, 2024
The hosts of “The View,” who were not fact-checked despite a number of whoppers on Thursday’s show alone, are responsible for spreading such blatant misinformation on a regular basis that Goldberg was even suspended for a time for claiming that the Holocaust was “not about race.”