‘Beware the Media!’ Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Go After the Fourth Estate in Heated Commentary on The View

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar warned against the media’s influence on how voters cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election.

During a discussion of Gen. Z disagreeing with the way Joe Biden was handling the Israel-Hamas war, Sunny Hostin explained that the younger demographic may not show up to vote for Biden.

“It’s a generational issue. You have kids that are between 18 and 29, nearly three-quarters of them disapprove of the way this administration — ”

Behar interrupted, “I know, but are they going to vote for [Donald] Trump, though, who will take away their abortion rights and voting rights?”

“Beware the media!” Goldberg said, continuing:

That voting block has lots of issues they want to address. They do, and they have every right to demand that from whoever the candidate is going to be. But I will say this until it’s time to go vote: Beware the media telling us what we’re doing. Only you know what you’re doing. You know what’s upsetting you, and you will discuss it when you go and make your vote. Now, there are lots of things that we all wish that the candidates would talk about, whether it’s on the left or on the right. We wish they would talk about what mattered to us.

Behar took issue with the way the media failed to dig deeper on controversial topics.

“What I wish is that the media would take these people on…I’m watching Meet The Press with that annoying [Elise] Stefanik woman, calling these insurrectionists on January 6th, ‘hostages.’ Okay, they were there voluntarily, they’re not hostages,” Behar said.

Behar said NBC’s Kristen Welker could have pushed back more forcefully by arguing, “Those are not hostages.”

“That was disappointing because she is an excellent journalist, but she dropped the ball there,” Hostin said.

“If you don’t confront these people on the lies in the media, we will lose this!” Behar exclaimed.

“I’m here to say, it is ours to lose,” Goldberg said, continuing:

It is this country — this is what it’s all about. Either you want it to work — forward thinking, you want everybody to have the ability to say how they feel, what they want, to move forward — or you don’t.

Or do you want somebody who says, “I’m going to be, on day one, I’m going to be a dictator.” Who says it to you, tells you, “I’m going to put you people away. I’m going to take all the journalists, I’m going to take all the gay folks, and I’ll move you all around and disappear you.” If that’s the country you want, you know who to vote for. If that’s not the country you want, you have to make a decision.

Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.