Daytime TV talk shows are designed to distract.
To be fair,The Viewseems more strident by design.
Our numbers are up too!

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Youre too smart to be that confused!
(I referred to her as Blonde No.
2 in my notes for days before finally learning her name.)
Celebrity gossip comes up during Hot Topics on occasion, much to theViewco-hosts chagrin.
before throwing to commercial.
Even whenThe Talktackles politics, Chen and her co-hosts make a run at keep it light.
He has to live with his actions.
So which show serves as a better distraction from our inevitable return to dust?