If you watched the clip of Cheryl Hines on ABC’s The View on October 14, 2025, you saw something the left-wing daytime circus does not like to admit: their gotcha moments can backfire. Hines went on to promote her memoir but the conversation predictably drifted to her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the panel’s attempt to paint him as unfit to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Sunny Hostin, true to form, launched into a full-throated attack, calling RFK Jr. “the least qualified” to hold a job that deals with the health of every American and warning that his influence is “very dangerous.” That kind of piling-on is theater, not journalism, and it exposed The View’s willingness to substitute virtue-signaling for sober analysis.
Hines didn’t fold — she pushed back and even had to clarify a bizarre anecdote about a decades-old parasitic infection in her husband that the mainstream press tried to weaponize into yet another smear. The actress made clear she came to talk about her life and work, and that the show’s fixation on RFK Jr.’s medical credentials ignored the real questions about policy and accountability that voters deserve to hear.
Joy Behar even reportedly went into Hines’ dressing room beforehand to “make her feel a little better,” a reminder that The View knows it’s staging ambushes and sometimes feels the need to soften the optics after the fact. Behar’s later quip that Republicans are “scared” of the show rings hollow when the panel is clearly more interested in humiliating ideological opponents than conducting fair interviews.
Conservative commentators weren’t surprised to see this unfold; Dave Rubin shared the DM clip and slammed the program for its predictable, performative bias. For hardworking Americans tired of media elites lecturing from their moral high ground, Hines’ calm pushback was a welcome sight — proof that you don’t have to be intimidated by a cagey panel to make your case.
Let’s be blunt: the real scandal isn’t a tense TV exchange, it’s a media class that reflexively dismisses anyone who challenges the status quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the secretary of HHS, and whether you agree with his views or not, the American people deserve honest coverage and a chance for policy debates without sanctimonious ambushes. The conservative response should be loud and proud — call out the bias, defend fair discourse, and demand that questions about qualifications be asked without the sneer.
