The liberal ladies at the View couldn’t contain their anger after Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to the South Korean border late Sunday night, to issue a stern warning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un for conducting missile tests. On the Monday show, hosts Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg complained the loudest, with Hostin and Whoopi actually arguing that North Korea would respond to “diplomacy.”
After playing a video clip of Pence’s warning to Kim Jong-Un, Behar moaned, “God!” in exasperation. Fellow host Sunny Hostin whined, “What happened to diplomacy? What happened to that?”
“We tried that,” Bila tried to say. But Whoopi argued, “We have always used it and we haven’t had any issues!”
Bila then explained that the U.S. had tried diplomacy with Korea, and they kept testing missiles, and with Iran, yet they hid their chemical weapons. All the while Bila was saying this, Whoopi looked on skeptically, as if it was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard.
“Diplomacy is fantastic when you’re not dealing with tyrants,” Bila added.
Behar then mocked, “So what’s the alternative, a nuclear Holocaust?”
After Bila brought up that North Korea did tests right before Pence arrived, Whoopi scoffed:
WHOOPI: You do know that’s a week--- that happens every week there? The idea that we tweak your nose when we're in the middle of two wars, we're trying to figure out what to do with Assad, because quite frankly, you know, everybody is all happy about the fact that we bombed over there. So -- and this new guy says, ‘oh, yeah. I have changed my mind on this.’
BEHAR: Trump?
WHOOPI: Yeah. You say his name. I'm not saying it.
Bila argued the point that this wasn’t an entrance into another war, before Hostin asked in frustration:
What is the long term plan? What is the strategy? You can't just drop bombs and have no real plan. That is not how the world is run, and that is not how our country should be run. That’s not how you do it! [applause]
She worried, “You don’t know what the long term plan is. He doesn’t know what the long term plan is either and that scares the heck out of me!”
“I know as much about Korea as he does and that’s really scary!” Behar added.
Bila then argued that diplomacy on paper wasn’t working for these countries. Hostin, Whoopi and Behar all jumped in and started talking over each other.
WHOOPI: But again, Korea has always done what they are doing. The fact that we say don't do it whatever. Dropping a bomb and threatening them is not the way to go. If you are going to do this, you need to have a group of people who actually get what needs to be done.
Finally Whoopi ended with this insane statement:
“Listen. Korea has been doing stuff over where they are. Okay? They haven't come over here, okay?”
Bila shot back with the obvious comeback: “Because they can’t. But at some point they will be able to!”
After the panel worried about the U.S. being the only country in history to drop a nuclear bomb, Bila argued that she believed the U.S. would use these weapons to “help” other countries not “harm” other countries.
“I don’t think a nuclear holocaust helps anyone Jed,” Hostin said dismissively.
After Hostin again brought up sanctions and diplomacy as steps that should’ve been taken before this, Bila argued again that the prior administration had tried those things and they “didn’t work.” This made Whoopi angrily respond:
WHOOPI: Why do you keep saying this? Why didn't it work?
BILA: Because they are getting closer to putting a nuclear warhead on the missiles!
HOSTIN: That doesn't mean diplomacy is a failure.
BILA: We're supposed to be preventing them from doing that.
WHOOPI: No, no, no, no!
HOSTIN: We're not?
Fortunately the idiocy didn’t continue after the break.
