The hosts of ABC’s “The View” told Elizabeth Warren it was a mistake for her to refuse to attend a Fox News town hall.
“With all due respect, it’s a little shortsighted not to speak to the Fox audience,” Meghan McCain said to Warren in a Thursday interview. “I really do think it’s a mistake. … It’s such a huge audience. It’s such an interesting part of the country that watches.”
Warren said her opposition to Fox News was about its executives and the money they made from “pushing white nationalists” rather than refusing to talk to voters who watched the channel.
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When Joy Behar responded approvingly, “Follow the money,” Whoopi Goldberg disagreed, suggesting TV executives on any network might be making money for questionable purposes: “I want to just say we should be very careful sometimes, because you scratch the surface wherever you go, and cockroaches run out everywhere.”
Warren said: “Fair point.”
Sunny Hostin asked why Warren was refusing to be questioned at the town hall by news anchors Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace, who she said practiced “fair and balanced journalism.”
This month, Warren turned down a Fox News town hall calling the news outlet a “hate-for-profit racket.” At the time, “The View” hosts criticized Warren for refusing to attend a town hall. “If you can’t face the Fox audience, you can’t face the U.S. — it’s that simple,” Goldberg said.
