Hostin Seemingly Threatens DeSantis Physical Harm Over Unmasking Kids

March 3rd, 2022 3:45 PM

Things got dark on Thursday’s edition of ABC’s The View as the coven went after one of their favorite hate objects: Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis after he committed the crime of informing high school students they weren’t forced to wear masks anymore. Co-host Sunny Hostin got so incensed that she seemed to suggest that if it was one of her kids DeSantis spoke to, she would physically attack him. She at least warned her response would not be “legal.”

After accusing DeSantis of giving out “bad public health information,” Hostin suggested if he told one of her kids they have an option not to wear a mask she would “go nuts” and what she would do wouldn’t be “legal” and was cheered on by co-host Whoopi Goldberg:

HOSTIN: I just thought if that were my kid there, I don't know what I would do. I don't know if I would show up--

GOLDBERG: You know what you would do.

HOSTIN: I'm, like, I don't know if it would be legal. It's just so inappropriate.

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HOSTIN: I would go nuts. I would go nuts.

But while she was accusing DeSantis of giving “bad public health information,” Hostin falsely claimed upwards of “50 percent of Americans … are not vaccinated.”

 

 

Let’s do the math. According to 2020 census data, there are 329.5 million Americans. We also know there have been over 215 million Americans fully vaccinated. That means 65.2 percent of the country is vaccinated, which means 34.8 percent either weren’t fully vaccinated or only had one dose.

This isn’t the first time The View has proven itself to be a hotbed of COVID misinformation. Back in January, Goldberg suggested she got her case after opening a window (she’s repeatedly claimed COVID was just generally in the air now). In that same show, they defended misinformation from Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, who claimed 100,000 were hospitalized and on ventilators.

Returning to Thursday’s show, Goldberg got irate that DeSantis felt the need to tell the kids they had a choice. “But no, you had to point out -- you wanted people to see that there were people with masks, and how you felt how you didn't like it,” she sneered. “So now, great. You jumped on the kids, who are doing exactly what you’ve recommended they do which was make a choice. Yay, Ron.”

The View claims they follow the science and CDC recommendations. But despite the fact the CDC says much of the country doesn’t need to wear masks indoors anymore, The View’s entire audience was wearing masks (seemingly branded for the show) while the cast got to go maskless.

Co-host Sara Haines also chimed in to portray DeSantis as some sort of schoolyard bully pushing kids around:

By the way, these were high school students and you think about the age that they're at right now. This is not just an adult kind of mocking them a little. This is the governor of your state, and it's televised, like, you're on video. It's going to go everywhere. These kids are at an age where people are already teased and bullied and you saw that girl scrambling to take hers off, like, what do you do? I just found, to say that to a bunch of minor?

 “I find that he's all about personal choice and, you know, you take off the mandates and you say, now it's up to people as to how do they feel,” she added.

Clearly, The View isn’t about choice.

Hostin’s apparent threat was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from General Mills and Vicks. Their contact information is linked.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
March 3, 2022
11:03:12 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So yesterday, the White House -- stop looking at me -- announced their pandemic reset plan saying that lockdowns and school closures were no longer necessary. And you would think this would make that guy down in Florida, the, you know, what is his name? DeSantis, happy.

SUNNY HOSTIN: DeSantis.

GOLDBERG: But apparently not. He was all fired up when he saw high school kids wearing masks at a public event yesterday. Take a look.

GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL): You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything, and we have to stop with this COVID theater. If you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.

JOY BEHAR: Oh, he's so, like, edgy. “This is ridiculous.” You can't wear a mask, you can't say gay. That upsets him too. He's very touchy.

SARA HAINES: I find that he's all about personal choice and, you know, you take off the mandates and you say, now it's up to people as to how do they feel. By the way, these were high school students and you think about the age that they're at right now. This is not just an adult kind of mocking them a little. This is the governor of your state, and it's televised, like, you're on video. It's going to go everywhere. These kids are at an age where people are already teased and bullied and you saw that girl scrambling to take hers off, like, what do you do? I just found, to say that to a bunch of minor?

BEHAR: One kid looked at him, like, “shut up.” I like that kid.

HOSTIN: Yeah. There were some kids that did not take off their masks. And I thought that's damn-good parenting right there because they did what they felt was right. What's crazy about it is this school was in Hillsboro County. The community spread there is so high that masks are --

GOLDBERG: Required.

HOSTIN: They're recommended indoors.

GOLDBERG: Yeah. Yeah.

HOSTIN: So, he also gave them bad public health information, and I just thought if that were my kid there, I don't know what I would do. I don't know if I would show up--

GOLDBERG: You know what you would do.

HOSTIN: I'm, like, I don't know if it would be legal. It's just so inappropriate.

BEHAR: No, you would never--

HOSTIN: I would go nuts. I would go nuts.

GOLDBERG: Well, here’s the thing, you say people have choice, then give them the choice and stop mocking.

HAINES: Yeah.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: You know, the thing is you could have just done your job which was to have the conversation or whatever you were there to do. But no, you had to point out -- you wanted people to see that there were people with masks, and how you felt how you didn't like it. So now [clasps], great. You jumped on the kids. Who are doing exactly what you’ve recommended they do which was make a choice. [Claps] Yay, Ron.

BEHAR: They have the freedom to do what they want.

GOLDBERG: They decided.

BEHAR: You know, by the way, this DeSantis has never actually said that he's gotten or not gotten the booster shot. Why won't he say it?

HOSTIN: That’s right. He has not.

HAINES: You also don't know though if an individual is immunocompromised, or they have someone at home who is immunocompromised. So, even though Omicron is a more mild case in general, if you can't have it for whatever – maybe you can’t be vaccinated, maybe someone in your home can’t. You don't know that. So to say that, it was aside from just inappropriate, it was irresponsible.

HOSTIN: It was poor, poor public health information and guidance from the governor of the state. I live with someone who’s immunocompromised and so I have to be extra vigilant as do many of the people in my home.

I do think though that the new CDC guidelines -- I think they're over 90 pages long -- could be more clear, but it does show us that we're in sort of a new phase of this pandemic. The pandemic, is not over, but we're in a new phase where we’re being more agile and more flexible.

GOLDBERG: Well, we're doing what we did last time it sunk its head away. The last time it sunk it’s head away, everybody came up for air, and then Omicron showed up, and then we put the masks back on. That's how that works. And this is who it will continue to work. But I don't understand why you felt the need to point out something that you suggested. I don't get why people said, well, we don't want to do it. Well, now you don't have to.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: Now what's wrong?

HOSTIN: Exactly.

GOLDBERG: I don't get it, but that's me and you know how I am.

HOSTIN: What I would like to hear more of in terms of the white house's new COVID strategy is they say they want to provide in some pharmacies I guess, this new anti-viral pill immediately when you test positive. You'll get that pill. I’d love to hear more about that because for those that aren't vaccinated, I think that could be a life-saving measure as well.

And we know, I think, what? 40, 50 percent of Americans, at least 60 percent of Republicans are not vaccinated.

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