I was right that it was before 9/11 and the Iraq War, so that is probably exactly why I didn't notice so much nastiness on The View - that and Clinton was in office so that probably explains a LOT, too! LOL
Come to think of it I remember them ripping on Bill Clinton for his indiscretions, so they weren't exactly all "sweet" towards him either... Clinton and Gore certainly weren't exposed to nearly as much vitriol on the show as Bush and Cheney are now though... That's for sure!
It looks like she is currently working for Oprah, so I assume that means she probably an Obamaite... Oh well... She did seem nice though - perhaps she's just not too bright? I still don't understand why otherwise seemingly bright people choose to embrace socialist/communist ideologies. They can't possibly think - even if they ARE nice people themselves - that everyone in the world is like that... I don't think I'll ever understand it really...
Anyway, here is her data from Wikipedia
Lisa Ling Profile
Early life and career
Ling started in television when she was chosen as one of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally-syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as one of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war correspondent, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has won numerous awards for her reporting. She attended the University of Southern California.
The View
Ling joined The View on August 2, 1999, and left the show towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. She drew fire for her comments after the September 11 attacks, in which she said that Americans should think about why other people would want to attack them.[1]
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer
She accepted an offer to host National Geographic Ultimate Explorer and in 2005 the show moved to the National Geographic Channel with the return of the original name National Geographic Explorer. She covered the drug war in Colombia, investigated the notorious MS-13 gang and explored the culture of U.S. prisons.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Most recently, Ling has become a special correspondent forThe Oprah Winfrey Show which has featured many of Ling's investigative pieces, including a report on North Korea. Ling's title is "Oprah Show Investigative Reporter." She also has reported on bride burning in India, gang rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, child trafficking in Ghana, the immediate aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans and the April 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre.