I wrote a letter to "the Viewmaster" and to Joy, who started the discussion:
"Dear Joy -
I saw your "Hot Topic" discussion of Ron Paul and US foreign policy the other day. It was fantastic! A MUCH better discussion than has occurred in ANY of the candidate debates so far! It's wonderful that ABC and "The View" should step in to provide real stimulating discourse about major issues when Fox shows itself incapable. Maybe you should continue in this vein of serious discussion (which the audience obviously loved as much as I did) by inviting Ron Paul onto the show?
Kudos to ABC, and kudos to the girls from the View for talking so directly about this issue! Thank you! You've made a "viewer" out of me!
PS - I noticed that the segment isn't included in your "Hot Topics" clips on your website yet. Good thing there's youtube! The clip has more than 6,000 views already, and is spreading great publicity for you guys! Keep up the good work! "
I encourage all of the rest of you to send in similar comments. I'm sure the girls got in trouble for talking about Paul on ABC's network (note the awful picture of him the producer used?)... but they actually do have some clout. If someone could see that there's a market for this, or that this is an opportunity to steal a market from under Fox's feet... well, something could happen. And it's hard for even ABC to ignore thousands of email requests for ron paul to be on the show. So write an email!
http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html
links on the left, "write to <insert viewgirl here>"
"Dear Joy -
I saw your "Hot Topic" discussion of Ron Paul and US foreign policy the other day. It was fantastic! A MUCH better discussion than has occurred in ANY of the candidate debates so far! It's wonderful that ABC and "The View" should step in to provide real stimulating discourse about major issues when Fox shows itself incapable. Maybe you should continue in this vein of serious discussion (which the audience obviously loved as much as I did) by inviting Ron Paul onto the show?
Kudos to ABC, and kudos to the girls from the View for talking so directly about this issue! Thank you! You've made a "viewer" out of me!
PS - I noticed that the segment isn't included in your "Hot Topics" clips on your website yet. Good thing there's youtube! The clip has more than 6,000 views already, and is spreading great publicity for you guys! Keep up the good work! "
I encourage all of the rest of you to send in similar comments. I'm sure the girls got in trouble for talking about Paul on ABC's network (note the awful picture of him the producer used?)... but they actually do have some clout. If someone could see that there's a market for this, or that this is an opportunity to steal a market from under Fox's feet... well, something could happen. And it's hard for even ABC to ignore thousands of email requests for ron paul to be on the show. So write an email!
http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html
links on the left, "write to <insert viewgirl here>"
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