On Friday, The New York Times published what was basically a press release for ABC lawyers headlined “ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment.” They accused the FCC of a “chilling effect” for daring to investigate them on equal-time grounds. That doesn’t take much of a probe. It’s obvious that show is a unanimous hootenanny dedicated to trashing Trump and the Republicans. It has zero interest in equal time as a principle. On Saturday, The Times posted a more balanced article titled “How ‘The View’ Landed at the Center of a Free Speech Battle.” Times reporter Jim Rutenberg talked to us about the show: “The View” draws 2.7 million viewers a day, more or less the audience it has had for a decade, according to Nielsen. “It would be easy for our side to say, ‘Who watches that junk?’” said Tim Graham, a senior leader of the Media Research Center, a conservative group that has long been critical of the show. “But the answer is: Many people.” We weren’t quoted talking about how the show is a feverish anti-Trump mess with no pushback. There’s no opposing view even saying “I’m not sure Trump is Hitler.” Instead, The Times asserted “The show’s panel has long included a conservative presence to balance the progressivism of its longstanding hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.” In reality, the most adversarial co-host was Meghan McCain, and they viciously drove her off the set. The Times cited our study as they acknowledged current reality: The two Republicans on the panel — a first-term Trump spokeswoman, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and the longtime strategist Ana Navarro — are frequent Trump critics. And the anti-Trump critics are even tougher. Conservatives accuse the show of interviewing mostly Democrats. This spring, the Media Research Center released a report titled, “The View Kicks Off Midterm Year With 27 Liberal Guests to 1 Republican.” (The study included celebrities in its tally.) In its filing with the F.C.C., ABC noted that guest appearances did not reflect the full range of invitations. The network said the show had invited numerous Trump allies over the past two seasons, including Vice President JD Vance, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senator Lindsey Graham, Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — all of whom declined. This doesn't include the point we made to them -- that we only count liberal celebrities if they are making political comments. In our last study, we didn't count Robert DeNiro, since politics didn't come up in his interview. But it's a classic defense to say Trump administration figures declined interviews. That doesn't mean you can't find conservative pushback all over the place, and we have certainly volunteered to appear.  The Times repeated the ABC lawyers.  “Of course, government officials are free to express their own views about The View,” ABC’s lawyers said in the filing. “But they cannot utilize the coercive powers of the state to punish viewpoints with which they disagree.” Merely investigating this program's contents is not "coercive" or punitive. It's ABC that punishes dissenting viewpoints. The View suggested conservatives usually don’t live up to their “certain caliber of guest.”  These people often don't live up to being serious. The Times could have included Nick Fondacaro's routine findings that the show unloads crazy disinformation, like Whoopi Goldberg claiming racists are still siccing dogs on black voters at polls in the South, or their ravings that Donald Trump is going to cancel elections and refuse to leave the White House.  Liberal journalists were fine with Big Tech banning Donald Trump accounts for "disinformation," and none of them found First Amendment lawyers to scream "chilling effect." They were fine with the Biden administration censoring opposing views all over the place, even creating a "Disinformation Governance Board." They're only free-speech warriors for their own speech.