The shrill liberal shriekers of ABC’s The View have long been supporters of far-left rage monster and congresswoman, Katie Porter (D-CA). So it was no surprise that, during Thursday’s show, a majority of the co-hosts had her back during her run for governor even as she hemorrhaged support after a series of videos showed her abusing staff and a journalist. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, along with co-hosts Joy Behar and Ana Navarro, tried to save Porter’s campaign with a tourniquet of excuses ranging from being human to menopause to just being plain “smarter” than everybody else.
After playing a clip of Porter near the top of the show scream at a staffer to “get out of my f[bleeping] shot,” Goldberg tried to blunt the audiences shocked reaction by singing a line from the musical Hamilton: “I'm not giving away my shot, shot, shot!”
“Maybe she's having a menopausal moment,” Behar chimed in defense.
Goldberg continued to try to downplay Porter’s unhinged outburst at staff as just something normal and acceptable since we’ve seen it so many times before, and sometimes people had bad days (Click “expand”):
GOLDBERG: Now, you know, some people are apparently surprised by these videos. I am not. We see these videos with guys. We saw I with -- oh, my god.
SARA HAINES: Bill O'Reilly. Laura Ingraham.
GOLDBERG: We’ve seen it with Laura Ingraham. We’ve seen it with lots of different people. We've seen it with actors.
BEHAR: Trump does it every minute!
GOLDBERG: And he always says to people, “You are the worst. I don't like you. I don't know who you are. I don't know why you're here.” You know, maybe people are having a bad day.
She even lamented that she couldn’t do it more often. “We have to watch what we say. We have to watch how we say it, and sometimes it gets really frustrating because you just want to say, this is how I feel!” Goldberg bemoaned.
If you found Goldberg’s staunch defense of Porter suspicious, she made it fairly obvious why a few minutes later when she admitted that she yells at the people around her:
GOLDBERG: Well, you know, again, I -- because I have done this, I have been rude to people, I have said to journalists, “no, this is what -- this is my answer” and they'll say, “no, but I've asked other people” and I said, “no, no, this is what I'm telling -- this is what—”
HAINES: But you're not running for elected official.
GOLDBERG: No, but I've been rude and that's my point.
HAINES: And I understand, but I would expect something differently from her.
GOLDBERG: No, she's just another human being.
It’s also possible Goldberg was trying to make it seem more widespread by putting on herself too.
“In these moments I don't think it's as simple as you're having a bad day. I actually think she needs to do better not in gratitude but respect to other people,” co-host Sara Haines pushed back. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that Porter had a long history of being disliked by her staff and that she had high staff turnover.
Doing their part to defend Porter, Navarro and Behar teamed up to suggest that the Congresswoman was just “smarter” than most since she cursed out her staff so much:
NAVARRO: I just read a study that says that cussing — people who cuss a lot are smarter.
BEHAR: Are more intelligent.
NAVARRO: Which I take a lot of comfort in.
Following a commercial break, Goldberg actually took to whining about reporters like NewsBusters making her look bad by quoting her verbatim. “Well, because, you know, any time I say something, some press comes out and they kind of twist it to make it like I'm a really insane person,” she griped. “I take a lot of those hits, and I don't like it as much as I used to.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 9, 2025
11:16:08 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I'm not giving away my shot, shot, shot! I'm not giving away my --
JOY BEHAR: Maybe she's having a menopausal moment.
GOLDBERG: Maybe – well, you know – Listen, anything is possible but she said in a statement that she's striving to do better saying, quote, “I have sought to be more intentional to showing gratitude to my staff for their important work.”
Now, you know, some people are apparently surprised by these videos. I am not. We see these videos with guys. We saw I with -- oh, my god.
SARA HAINES: Bill O'Reilly. Laura Ingraham.
GOLDBERG: We’ve seen it with Laura Ingraham. We’ve seen it with lots of different people. We've seen it with actors.
BEHAR: Trump does it every minute!
GOLDBERG: And he always says to people, “You are the worst. I don't like you. I don't know who you are. I don't know why you're here.” You know, maybe people are having a bad day.
I can't imagine it could be easy to be running for something, because it's kind of like us, we always have to now be on our best behavior. We have to watch what we say. We have to watch how we say it, and sometimes it gets really frustrating because you just want to say, this is how I feel!
(…)
11:17:53 a.m. Eastern
HAINES: In these moments I don't think it's as simple as you're having a bad day. I actually think she needs to do better not in gratitude but respect to other people.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Well, let me just say it like this, you know, in a perfect world, yeah. But human beings have bad days, and human beings are not always capable of realizing that they're step income poo. And so I just --
ANA NAVARRO: I just read a study that says that cussing — people who cuss a lot are smarter.
BEHAR: Are more intelligent.
NAVARRO: Which I take a lot of comfort in.
(…)
11:19:25 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Well, you know, again, I -- because I have done this, I have been rude to people, I have said to journalists, “no, this is what -- this is my answer” and they'll say, “no, but I've asked other people” and I said, “no, no, this is what I'm telling -- this is what—”
HAINES: But you're not running for elected official.
GOLDBERG: No, but I've been rude and that's my point.
HAINES: And I understand, but I would expect something differently from her.
GOLDBERG: No, she's just another human being.
HAINES: Not –
GOLDBERG: I’m sorry. Yeah, they're all just human beings, that's why there's -- almost said a bad word. We'll be right back.
(…)
11:25:36 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Well, because, you know, any time I say something, some press comes out and they kind of twist it to make it like I'm a really insane person.
BEHAR: It's just a headline. If you read the whole thing –
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: How many people read -- how many people actually hear what you're saying unless you're sitting here?
NAVARRO: But you know what I love?
GOLDBEGR: What do you love.
NAVARRO: That we are so relevant, that they have to parse every word we say and because it's good clickbait.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Yeah, but you know what, I take a lot of those hits, and I don't like it as much as I used to.
(…)