The View hosts started off Thursday’s show offended by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who during Wednesday's briefing called out some of the Democratic politicians who violated their own restrictive coronavirus orders. While the show hosts routinely demand Republicans hold Trump accountable, they couldn’t stand to hear about the hypocrisy from their own party leaders and spent nearly an entire segment making excuses and deflecting blame onto Republicans.
Whoopi downplayed the Democrat hypocrisy as simple “mistakes” while claiming it was “apples and oranges” to compare Republicans to Democrats because supposedly Republicans weren’t taking COVID-19 seriously like Democrats were:
[Y]ou will find Democrats, independents and Republicans acting kind of stupidly. Let's say that, but for an entire government to act stupidly….You know, people are dumb. They make mistakes. They do stuff, but an entire government, it's apples and oranges. Every day this government and the people who head it on one side at least saying, ‘we're not doing anything. We don't want to do anything.’ So the Republicans who are saying, ‘no, there's nothing wrong’, and the Democrats who say, ‘no, there's something wrong, but I'm ignoring this for a minute or I made this mistake.’ You can do four or five of those, but you can't clean up the whole government.
Co-host Sara Haines agreed, claiming that reckless Republicans have caused the spike in daily deaths in the country. "We're in right now because we don't have a unified message because a big chunk of this country listened to President Trump and the administration play down as he said in his own words, this deadly disease, and so that's why we’re seeing our numbers -- I mean yesterday was the largest number we've seen since this all started in death," she blamed.
She added that she was "frustrated" to see Democrat leaders violate the rules because it just meant their side had to work even harder to make up for "the other side" not taking things seriously:
[T]he reason I get frustrated on this messaging by Democrats when we do catch them doing things as you said, that are stupid is we don't really have room for error right now because on our side, meaning people that trusted scientists and people that trusted the medical experts. We have all been wearing masks, washing our hands and doing the best that we could. On the other side, we had, you know, the parties indoors, the body surfing, the refusal to wear masks. We're having to do better and do more to catch up for the numbers that got out of hand because of that other part of the country...
But Joy Behar objected to Democrats being called out, before listing Republican politicians who got positive COVID tests as somehow being evidence that they didn't follow guidelines. "Shall I name the Republicans who have come down with COVID so far?," she asked before naming names.
"There's no -- this is a false equivalence. Yes, we should say that the Democrats should watch themselves and not act like a bunch of jerks which I agree with, but come on!," Behar added in frustration. But she wasn't done ranting that Republicans were making the whole country suffer. She expressed her disdain for the Supreme Court siding with churches in California and New York to be exempt from extremely restrictive coronavirus rules:
We're talking about a tsunami versus a trickle, all right? We're talking about the Supreme Court itself. The Republicans on the court have decided it's okay to gather in a church right now with hundreds of people rubbing up against you and breathing and singing and everything else. The supreme court itself, and it's Republican mayors and governors who are going out there and saying, 'don't wear a mask.' That woman, [Kristi] Noem in South Dakota and [Ron] Desantis in Florida, 'go right ahead. Go out there. Don't wear a mask. Don't worry about it.'
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The View
12/3/2020
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let's -- let's clear this up because yeah. You will find Democrats, independents and Republicans acting kind of stupidly. Let's say that, but for an entire government to act stupidly, and I say this with the greatest, you know, bit of respect, Kayleigh, since your husband showed up yesterday with no mask and the rules there at the White House are pretty clear, you know, all this finger pointing doesn't change the fact that the man who runs the country knew in January we were heading for a cliff. So this is really on him. You know, people are dumb. They make mistakes. They do stuff, but an entire government, it's apples and oranges. Every day this government and the people who head it on one side at least saying, ‘we're not doing anything. We don't want to do anything.’ So the Republicans who are saying, ‘no, there's nothing wrong’, and the Democrats who say, ‘no, there's something wrong, but I'm ignoring this for a minute or I made this mistake.’ You can do four or five of those, but you can't clean up the whole government. Am I making any kind of sense, Sara, or have I misspoken?
SARA HAINES: No. Absolutely and that's the problem. We're in right now because we don't have a unified message because a big chunk of this country listened to President Trump and the administration play down as he said in his own words, this deadly disease, and so that's why we’re seeing our numbers--I mean yesterday was the largest number we've seen since this all started in death. I think more people died yesterday than in 9/11.These numbers are getting outrageous, but the reason I get frustrated on this messaging by Democrats when we do catch them doing things as you said, that are stupid is we don't really have room for error right now because on our side, meaning people that trusted scientists and people that trusted the medical experts. We have all been wearing masks, washing our hands and doing the best that we could. On the other side, we had, you know, the parties indoors, the body surfing, the refusal to wear masks. We're having to do better and do more to catch up for the numbers that got out of hand because of that other part of the country. So it does frustrate me when politicians get caught, again, stupidly or whatever doing these things because we don't have room for error and I do hold them to a higher standard because they know better. At least with the other side, there are people that are doing things that are stupid because I almost say they don't know better, and they should, but the two things that bother me about this is not just the hypocrisy which McEnany was pointing out, but sadly and inadvertently, by doing -- by being caught doing these stupid or irresponsible things, they might be feeding these really scary narratives that it's not serious, and here's why. If we believe what we're saying which we all do, I wouldn't put my closest members of my family at risk by showing up at a 20-person wedding in Cabo or doing the things these politicians are getting caught doing. It's kind of the lower lying under message that bothers me the most is the conspiracy theorists that say it's a scam and falsely, you know, like the flu. We might be feeding that narrative when these politicians get caught doing that.
Right. What do you think, Joy?
JOY BEHAR: [chuckling] Shall I name the Republicans who have come down with COVID so far? Meadows, McEnany herself -- Stephen Miller.
WHOOPI: A lot of folks.
BEHHAR: Kellyanne. Chris Christie. Okay? I'm just saying. There's no -- this is a false equivalence. Yes, we should say that the Democrats should watch themselves and not act like a bunch of jerks which I agree with, but come on.
WHOOPI: Yeah.
BEHAR:We're talking about a tsunami versus a trickle, all right? We're talking about the supreme court itself. The Republicans on the court have decided it's okay to gather in a church right now with hundreds of people rubbing up against you and breathing and singing and everything else. The supreme court itself, and it's Republican mayors and governors who are going out there and saying, don't wear a mask. That woman Noem in South Dakota and Desantis in Florida, go right ahead. Go out there. Don't wear a mask. Don't worry about it. These are the people -- I'm going to say one more thing and then I'll shut up. I don't need politicians to tell me what to do, okay? I have a brain. I have eyes. I have ears. I watch television. I read the paper and I listen to the science and anybody who listens to any politician about what to do with your health is stupid as far as I'm concerned and ill-informed and ignorant.
WHOOPI: Right.
BEHAR: So pay attention to the science. That's all. I have a long list of names and don't forget Herman Cain who died.
