The View co-host Kathy Ireland had some strong opinions today on a recent bill introduced in Arizona that would require phone companies to give parents access to their children’s text messages.

So. There was a “White House Blues” event last night, at which President Obama joined B.B. King and Mick Jagger in singing a few bars of “Sweet Home Chicago.” This continues the recent streak of Obama appearances that have afforded the president to opportunity get his karaoke on. Naturally, some people on The View were wondering — is all of this singing inappropriate?

Country musician Miranda Lambert has been taking Chris Brown to task for a little while, and held up a sign at a recent concert (during which she was singing a song about a woman killing her abusive partner) that read “Take Notes, Chris Brown.” This led to a discussion of today’s episode of The View about the public’s perception of Brown, especially in light of his recent return to the Grammy Awards that coincided with his brutal beating of Rihanna two years ago. Sherri Shepherd argued that it is time to give Brown a clean slate.

Oh, how I have missed watching The View every morning! On this day in history, the panel covered the most touching moments of Whitney Houston’s funeral in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, which included performances from the likes of Stevie Wonder and a moving speech by Kevin Costner.

Rick Santorum has not exactly been saying the right things with the ladies recently.* He’s taken heat for a number of comments he made recently. Speaking about women in the military, he said that women shouldn’t be moved to the front because their male counterparts would just be overcome with “emotion” in trying to protect them, and, speaking about women impregnated during rape, he said that they should just “make the best of a bad situation.”

Recently for Good Morning America, contributor Elizabeth Hasselbeck reported a story on a growing trend of stay at home mothers supplementing their family’s income by becoming phone sex operators. Today on The View, Hasselbeck and her co-hosts discussed and Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she herself had spent some time on the other end of the phone.

Joy Behar‘s show on HLN drew to a close on Thursday night after having been unceremoniously canceled just two years after making its debut. HLN will show re-runs of her old episodes, and, in January, will fill the slot with a re-air of Nancy Grace’s broadcast from earlier in the evening.

Now that Joy Behar is poised to wrap up her HLN show, it’s a good a time as any to sit down and confess some of the sins she’s committed during her time as host. Seated in a confessional with Anderson Cooper Father Edward Beck, Behar confessed that she’d lied about her HLN colleague Nancy [...]

New OWN host Rosie O’Donnell appeared on Joy Behar‘s HLN show, in part to talk a little smack about the current crop of GOP presidential hopefuls.

After describing Trump as being “like Lord Voldemort” and performing an impression of the reality TV star for Behar, O’Donnell shared that he was the “perfect” person to moderate a GOP debate. “I don’t even believe it’s real anymore!”

Whoopi Goldberg explicitly dished repeatedly on female “pudenda” in a graphic discussion on porn with the panelists of The View as audience members laughed nervously. “I like porn, I think porn is good for — yes, I do. I think it’s good,” Goldberg acknowledged. “I will tell you what bothers the hell out of me, because this is something that I should have watched over the years. When you see where porn stars are– the women, what their pudendas look like, you can track what other women are going to be doing… there used to be a time when a woman’s pudenda — they looked like women. Then suddenly it became like a landing strip, and then it became bald, and I’m saying what’s wrong with that is they made it what a young girl’s pudenda looks like…it’s bad because I understand you want to do some grooming, but to make yourself look like you did when you were 12 or 13 sends a message to people that you want a kid’s body.”

Artie Lange was a guest on Joy Behar Thursday night, and gave one of the most entertaining interviews ever seen on HLN. Behar pulled no punches with her questions, asking Lange about everything from his suicide attempt to his time in the psych ward. And Lange didn’t shy away from the answers, cracking self-effacing jokes and sharp comebacks.

With the pressure hitting the Herman Cain campaign increasing as his sexual harassment accusations give way to new philandering claims, the debate over whether his personal failings should matter in politics was the topic du jour at The View. Somewhat surprisingly, it was Whoopi Goldberg who seemed to care the least about his personal life, noting that “as long as you are not boning the country,” she didn’t mind the action on the side. And with that, Goldberg got bleeped, and finally has something in common with Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter made a rare appearance on MSNBC today, and, well, the insults were rolling fast and loose, and not escaping the censors. Coulter visited Joy Behar tonight to review her experience there and clarify what exactly she called Sen. John McCain that merited bleeping: “I said ‘dickweed,’ I thought you could say that!”

The View‘s Joy Behar took a swing Monday at Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann over her outrage about the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” which Questlove and The Roots played to introduce the Minnesota Congresswoman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “They should’ve played ‘Don’t Know Much About History‘!” Behar exclaimed to laughter and cheers from [...]

You may recall that, last week, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly took on HLN’s Joy Behar for having enabled her guest, actress Ellen Barkin, to have shared false information about terrible things O’Reilly had supposedly said about her on his show.

Last night, O’Reilly invited Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg to discuss who, exactly, should be held responsible when guests lie on television.

On Monday night, Joy Behar started a panel discussion on her show about a parent who complained when a Hooters waitress in Florida was invited to talk to a group of high school and middle school students for a career day. Behar erroneously told the panel that the waitress spoke at a special needs elementary school, then quickly brought up the earlier case of porn star Sasha Grey reading to schoolchildren last week.

The controversial pepper spraying incident at UC Davis was a hot topic Monday on The View with Joy Behar comparing the police action to the Kent State shootings.

“A lot of people watching are too young to remember Kent State in this country, where the police shot a couple of students,” observed Behar. “It’s outrageous, this type of behavior cannot be tolerated by the police!”

Late Wednesday night, Deadline broke news that Joy Behar would be leaving her show on HLN at the end of the year. And boy, did it do wonders for her ratings. Behar attracted 198,000 viewers in the 25-54 year-old demo. The show still finished fourth, but it was a marked jump from her previous numbers [...]

Deadline.com is reporting tonight that Joy Behar will be leaving her HLN show, which she’s hosted since 2009, by the end of the year. Behar’s show is doing well for the network, second in ratings only to Nancy Grace‘s program.

On Tuesday’s The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck confronted Bill Maher over a joke he made about her in February, suggesting that America send her to Egypt in exchange for Lara Logan. The confrontation was a little awkward and her co-hosts — most notably Joy Behar — kind of left her out to dry.

Things got very, very uncomfortable today over at The View thanks to an appearance by Bill Maher. Last February on Real Time, Maher had made a joke that, were Hosni Mubarak to release the then-captured Lara Logan, they could trade him Elizabeth Hasselbeck. At the time, Hasselbeck had been furious, starting a mini feud that an unrepentant Maher seemed to have no interest in fighting.

In the fallout of the Herman Cain sexual harassment story, Ann Coulter has quickly become one of the most prominent voices defending the Republican presidential candidate, calling racism against him and other black conservatives for their politics. She went a step further on Hannity last night, claiming that “our [conservative] blacks are so much better better than their blacks,” and tonight she proved to Joy Behar she didn’t just say that because she was among ideological friends.

Martin London, who discovered the body of his late son-in-law Mark Madoff following Mark’s suicide, visited Joy Behar‘s HLN show Thursday to share a letter he had written — but hadn’t sent — to Mark’s father, Bernie Madoff.

Bette Midler visited HLN’s The Joy Behar Show yesterday, and when she wasn’t offering to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters with port-a-potties, she shared some interesting details from her earlier career with host Joy Behar. When asked about the claim made by Geraldo Rivera in his own book that he and she had sex, Midler declared “sex with Geraldo was nothing to write home about!”

As the Occupy Wall Street continues to grow and refuses to depart Zuccotti Park, it seems to accumulate allies from the strangest places. The newest celebrity on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon? Bette Midler, who told Joy Behar on her program today that she was “thrilled” to see young people “saying things that have to be said,” so much so that she offered to provide portable toilets for the occupiers.