This time, the media are calling out the media for bias – and we couldn’t have done it better than CNN’s Brooke Baldwin.
On Thursday, CNN Newsroom host Brooke Baldwin slammed The View for being two-faced when it comes to smearing women’s looks. She began the segment by announcing, “Sometimes, you gotta call it like you see it.”
“I saw something today that angered me,” Baldwin pressed. “Not just as a journalist, but as a woman.”
Baldwin then played a clip of The View ladies poking fun at presidential candidate Carly Fiorina for looking “demented” and like a “Halloween mask” – from Whoopi Goldberg and Michelle Collins to Joy Behar.
Baldwin was not amused.
“Demented? Her face could be a Halloween mask?” she fired back. “Listen, I love The View. I have been a longtime Whoopi fan. Joy Behar is one of the funniest people on TV. But, ladies, come on. Double-standard much?”
Baldwin proceeded to scold The View:
“Why do we have to talk about her looks? Because she's a woman? All this yapping about women and appearance and then The View today. All I'm saying is, we women, can be the worst to one another. We say don't talk about their looks. Look what happens. I know these ladies on The View get called out too. So do I. I get it. This is part of the job that we all signed up for, but still we can do better than that. How do I know this? How do I know I'm not alone?”
Without saying another word, Baldwin played an older clip from The View, showing Behar confronting Trump after he said of Fiorina, “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that the face of our next president?”
“Are you making fun of her looks, Donald?” Behar wanted to know.
When Trump defended himself by saying he meant Fiorina’s “persona,” Behar retorted, “Well, then, why don’t you talk about her brain instead of her face?”
“Amen,” Baldwin concluded.
You go, Baldwin.
