Friday, ABC’s “The View” made headlines after co-host Sara Haines made a comment deemed so offensive that her audio was edited.

The segment began with the women at the table discussing ABC’s recent announcement that the Bachelor universe will be expanded to include “golden years.” In The Golden Bachelor, a senior citizen will date women with “lifetimes of experience,” according to the description of the program.

Whoopi Goldberg started things off by proclaiming, “I’m calling it the ‘Old People’s Bachelor,'” which prompted numerous hosts to make inappropriate remarks about a senior citizen dating women with “experience.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin deemed this a “good concept,” adding, “A lot of couples on The Bachelor don’t last, it’s people in their 20s, a lot of 23-year-old women… I believe that a relationship between a 60+ bachelor and bachelorette is more likely to last because you know who you are and what you want.

Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar escalated the situation by making a joke about the elders using “the Fantasy Suite,” which prompted Haines to make a remark that was deemed so inappropriate that producers cut it before it was broadcast live.

“You guys, these are only 60-year-olds!” she said. “Do you know how young 60 is? I know 60-year-olds, they run marathons. They do –” Haines said before her mic was cut.

The camera panned to Goldberg, who displayed a stunned expression.

“Oh my god,” Haines said, putting her head down on the table.

WATCH:

SENIOR CITIZEN 'GOLDEN BACHELOR' ANNOUNCED: #TheView co-hosts weigh in after ABC announced a spinoff of their hit show #TheBachelor featuring seniors. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/Dgu8BzOxLp

— The View (@TheView) May 17, 2023

The show’s presenters went viral last week after a heated debate on CNN’s town hall with former president Donald Trump.

Here is a transcript of the conversation:

BEHAR: “So, we were talking before about the town hall meeting with Donald Trump and how he had this very sycophantic audience and that was my one caveat. Because I believe as most people hear, that let him go on, he’s the front runner of the Republican Party, let the American people see what he’s really like. But Sunny disagreed 100 percent with all of that and she still does, I think.”

HOSTIN: “I disagreed yesterday, the day before, and I disagree with all of you right now. You know, I think that you don’t give a bigot and a racist and a misogynist and a liar and a cheater and a sexual abuser and a defamer a platform of 3 million people. And I’m saddened — I used to work for CNN for quite some time. Anderson Cooper has been my friend for over 20 years and I’m sad he tried to gaslight me yesterday by saying that people are in silos. People aren’t living in a silo, they are choosing to listen to the lies or not. 46.9 percent of people voted for Trump in 2020. But he lost the popular vote by over 7 million people. We know who this man is. We learned who this man is and we did not need to see what we saw. I think that town hall will be studied in journalism schools around the country as to what not to do. It was not fact-checked appropriately. I don’t believe —“

BEHAR: “She tried.”

HAINES: “She tried.”

BEHAR: “Let’s give her some credit here.”

HOSTIN: “Tried is not good enough in that type of situation.”

HAINES: “You can’t keep up with nine lies in a sentence.”

HOSTIN: “Can I just not be interrupted for a second?!”

HOSTIN: “She didn’t have the range. He agreed to the interview because he knew he could steamroll her.”

FARAH GRIFFIN: “That’s not fair.”

HAINES: “He would have done it to anyone.”

HOSTIN: “Jack Trapper would have done a better job. And I will tell you, remember, Trump walked out of a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl because she was fact-checking him in real time every single time! It’s time for some real introspection at CNN. Because I often thought, like Judge Brandeis — the Supreme Court Justice, actually, Brandeis, that sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. This time —“

More on this story via Conservative Brief:

HOSTIN: “No, CNN went with Les Moonves. This was a business decision. Les Moonves said this was awful for the country but it was good for CBS. This was awful for the country but congratulations CNN for making a little bit of money on the backs of our democracy.” CONTINUE READING…