The ladies of The View have officially graduated from bad takes to outright fabrication. During their May 27 episode, the hosts claimed Joe Biden never fell asleep during public events — and to prove it, they displayed a manipulated version of a NewsBusters social media post with the original source attribution conveniently scrubbed out. They got caught.
A daytime talk show is now in the disinformation business. Let that sink in.
NewsBusters Associate Editor Nicholas Fondacaro broke down the deception. The View stripped the Media Research Center watermark from the original NewsBusters post, removed Fondacaro's name as the original poster, and then misattributed the image to the Rapid Response 47 account. They literally doctored digital evidence on national television to win an argument about whether a guy was sleeping. Spoiler: he was.
The segment kicked off when 83-year-old Joy Behar asked with apparent sincerity, "Wait a second. Joe Biden didn't fall asleep, did he?" Yes, Joy. He did. Multiple times. On camera. There's video of Biden sleeping at a meeting with African leaders in Angola. There's video of him nodding off at President Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral. The Telegraph captured him dozing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. This isn't debatable. It's documented.
But documentation doesn't stop The View. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg swooped in with the save attempt: "I'm sorry. I just want to point out what sleepy Joe got done while he was asleep." She then claimed Biden "oversaw an historic economy that produced over 16 million jobs." What Whoopi conveniently forgot to mention is that those 16 million jobs were largely people returning to work after COVID lockdowns — not some economic miracle engineered by a man who couldn't stay awake through a state funeral.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin even brought up a "Dr. Reiner" to add a medical veneer to the denial. Because nothing says "credible defense" like a daytime TV panel diagnosing the former president's sleep habits.
Here's what's actually happening. The View isn't just spinning anymore — they're editing evidence. They took someone else's work, stripped the credit, altered the presentation, and aired it as proof of their own argument. That's not commentary. That's not even propaganda. That's forgery with a studio audience.
And this is the same show where Sunny Hostin recently called for open rebellion against President Trump. The same show that previously defended Biden as essentially "braindead" but still "better than any Republican." They don't even try to be consistent anymore because their audience doesn't demand it.
The real story isn't that Biden fell asleep. We all saw it. The real story is that a major ABC television program doctored a social media post on air, got caught red-handed by the very outlet they stole from, and will face exactly zero consequences for it.
Must be nice to run a disinformation operation from a comfy couch on network television.
