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Jenny McCarthy: The View producers asked me, "Can you just act Republican so we have another point of view?"


https://pagesix.com/2018/12/12/jenny-mccarthy-says-she-was-asked-to-be-more-republican-on-the-view/

McCarthy recalled her time on the ABC daytime show while chatting with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. McCarthy said she was supposed to bring her pop-culture knowledge to the show, but Barbara Walters wasn't interested in that. “Barbara didn’t know who anybody was pop culture-wise and they came in my dressing room and said, ‘Can you just act Republican so we have another point of view?’ And I said, ‘How do I act Republican?'”

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Show has been a directionless trainwreck ever since Meredith left.

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They asked me that too !!

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You mean the 1994 playmate who believe vaccines cause autism? Confirms that daytime TV is trash.

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The confirmation was decades ago. Like in the 40's or 50's.

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If they wanted another republican view they would have hired a Republican host. Their were plenty out there who wanted the job.

She was a fish out of water on that show, the ratings were the worst ever that season, so the network fired her. Now she’s bitter.

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