August 20 - 26, 2023
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Alyssa Farah Griffin OF THE VIEW ON ABC Q: What is it in Alyssa Farah Griffin’s background that qualifies her to be a co-host of “The View”?
Rosario Dawson in “Star Wars: Ahsoka”
A: For a program that relies heavily on political conversation, Griffin is in the right place, having held several positions in the Republican administration between 2017 and 2020. She was the press secretary to the vice president, then special assistant to the president, and then deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs and press secretary to the United States Department of Defense.
After that, Griffin went into the business of being an analyst on television, working online for The Hill’s program and also appearing regularly on CNN – which she still does, while fulfilling her regular weekday job on ABC’s “The View.” She had been a guest on the latter show’s panel during 2021 and 2022, then was made a permanent co-host with the start of the series’ 26th season in the fall of 2022 (along with Ana Navarro, who’d had a similar arrangement). Griffin came by her interest in public affairs naturally, being the daughter of Joseph Farah, who was an editor at both the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Sacramento Union. She wrote (as did her mother) for the website WorldNetDaily, which her father founded.
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A fan-favorite former Jedi Knight gets her starring moment in the new Disney+ limited series, “Star Wars: Ahsoka,” debuting Wednesday, Aug. 23, on the streamer.
Elsewhere, Griffin was the captain of her high-school girls’ soccer team, and she has a black belt in karate. She married Justin Griffin in 2021, and some members of her family boycotted her wedding – including her father and stepmother – because of their political differences with her.