The hit-job by The View this week was predictable and pathetic — a chorus of partisan TV personalities trading in melodrama instead of facts. While they grandstand about “credibility” and “decorum,” they ignore that Kash Patel publicly addressed and denied the baseless resignation rumors tied to the Epstein files, making clear he remains committed to the job the President gave him. Hardworking Americans don’t need daytime theater; they need an FBI that will do its job without being weaponized by career bureaucrats and virtue-signaling hosts.
Sunny Hostin and her panelmates leapt on clips from Patel’s Senate testimony and declared him “incompetent” and “despicable,” while glossing over the actual substance of the hearing. Their outrage centered on conjecture about Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer and an insistence that Patel was “lying” about what the bureau found — a position rooted more in cable-TV rage than in public evidence. That’s the problem with these shows: they substitute volume and moral preening for honest analysis.
Patel was forced to push back publicly, calling the resignation chatter “conspiracy theories” and affirming his loyalty to the President on social media. Conservatives who have watched the FBI be politicized for years understand why a reform-minded director would face nonstop attacks from the same people who cheered on the deep state for a decade. If standing up for common-sense law enforcement and pushing back against entrenched bureaucrats earns the ire of The View, so be it.
Let’s be honest: there is dissent inside the FBI, and critics — including current and former agents — have voiced concerns about leadership in recent weeks. That reality doesn’t give media elites a free pass to twist hearings into a spectacle or to smear a director without acknowledging context. Anonymous op-eds and leaks are not the same as transparent hearings; Americans deserve answers, not theatrical condemnation broadcast from a soundstage.
Patel’s sharp exchanges with Democratic senators, including calling out political grandstanding, were portrayed as unbecoming — yet who is serving whom when senators use oversight to score partisan points? Conservatives should cheer officials who push back against that kind of weaponized performance. The real dishonor would be allowing politicians and pundits to intimidate the FBI back into a partisan sleep, where dangerous criminals and threats to everyday Americans are ignored.
At the end of the day this episode proves a simple point: the mainstream media and their celebrity panels will always prefer narrative over nuance and outrage over evidence. Patriots who care about law and order should demand that reporting be held to a higher standard and that career-bureaucrat culture be reined in. Support leaders who defend the rule of law and resist the smear campaigns of the Washington-media complex; America is bigger than The View’s ratings.

