The co-hosts of The View on Friday slammed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists as "nuts" and a danger to society. However, they avoided mentioning an awkward fact: Jenny McCarthy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, previously co-hosted the show. Whoopi Goldberg highlighted the story of a grandmother who wrote to an advice column about concerns over her conspiracy-minded adult children.

Co-host Nicolle Wallace mocked, "I think the anti-vaccine people are nuts." She endorsed the grandmother's concerns. Goldberg pushed back against the anti-vaccine crowd: "I think things like vaccinations are much different than just about everything else because vaccinations and not vaccinating your child has consequences for everyone your kid is around."

The elephant in the room for this entire conversation? Former co-host McCarthy. On April 9, 2009, she declared, "“The reason why [parents] are not vaccinating is because the vaccines are not safe."

On April 1, 2009, she falsely connected autism to vaccinations: "If you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want the measles or the autism, we will stand in line for the fucking measles.”

On another occasion, she concluded, "Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered [my son] Evan's autism."

In an April 13, 2014 interview with the Chicago Sun Times, McCarthy tried to hide her past statements, revising, "I am not 'anti-vaccine.' This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted."

Considering The View's promotion of a high-profile anti-vacciner, the show's current hosts are in little position to decry the conspiracy thinking. Given the fact that Rosie O'Donnell, a two-time View host, is a 9/11 truther, one shouldn't expect much from the ABC show.

A transcript of the March 20 segment is below: