During Thursday’s edition of The View, the panel reacted to a clip of Wednesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, where the eponymous host pointed to studies showing that “when men make less money than women, women generally don’t want to marry them.” As a whole, the panel seemed dismissive of his argument, saying his arguments came from “loony town” and seamed “real nutty.”

Carlson’s comments were part of a lengthy monologue that addressed a wide variety of topics, including the decline of manufacturing jobs, a male-dominated industry; which occurred in tandem with schools and hospitals, female-dominated industries remaining in place. Carlson went on to point out that men making less money leads to higher out-of-wedlock birthrates and “all of the disasters that inevitably follow.”

Co-host Joy Behar mocked Carlson’s analysis, saying “it’s like...when they blamed women for pregnancy as if he had nothing to do with it.” Co-host Abby Hunstman, who once worked with Carlson at Fox News, argued that his commentary was out of character but stressed that “if you know Tucker personally, you would say he has a heart of gold.” Behar disagreed: “I don’t see what good that is when he’s promoting this bad stuff to millions of people.”

After co-host Meghan McCain expressed her confusion regarding the segment while agreeing with Huntsman that “it was a pleasure working with Tucker Carlson” during her time at Fox News, Behar argued that Carlson’s comments come as part of a sinister effort to “keep women down.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin argued that Carlson’s comments “looked like loony town” and described him as “real nutty” while admitting, perhaps unintentionally that the premise of his argument was not “real nutty” after all: “I have had friends that make a lot of money and don’t necessarily want to marry a guy that isn’t ambitious and don’t want to…that don’t make a lot of money.”

At this point, Huntsman jumped in and asked “how can you be a feminist?” After all, according to the sacrosanct feminist orthodoxy that a majority of the View panelists subscribe to, women should be independent and not rely on a man for financial security. Rather than answer the question, Hostin complained that “in the U.S, women still make so much less money than men. And so in this country and especially and black women earn 63 cents to every dollar a white man makes.”

The conversation concluded with Behar suggesting that men resent women for making more money than them because “their egos are involved” and co-host Whoopi Goldberg argued that men feel resentful because “they’ve been raised a certain way to believe that they’re supposed to be the bread winners.” The conversation on Thursday’s edition of The View made it perfectly clear that Carlson had it right when he described the show as a “font of liberal propaganda.”

On a lighter note, Goldberg made a comment about relationships that people on all sides of the aisle should agree with: “It wasn’t about how much money they were making. I generally married somebody if I liked them.”

A transcript of the relevant portion of Thursday’s edition of The View is below. Click “expand” to read more.