During Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC co-host Sunny Hostin shouted the succinct point that “you got to call an idiot an idiot when you see the idiot because I think it's taking down our country.” NewsBusters agrees. So, that’s exactly what this blog will do with the idiotic statements they made, including saying they don’t know what a woman is.
Reminding the cast twice she was speaking about her “neighbors in the Midwest,” former Trump Press Secretary turned Never-Trumper, Stephanie Grisham explained “they were completely against [Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson] based on her answer of ‘what is a woman?’”
Co-host Sara Haines swiftly jumped in to note Jackson “didn't give a definition, though,” as if that was an acceptable enough answer. The rest of the coven sat there perplexed as Whoopi Goldberg seemed to put Grisham in the hot seat by asking her what a woman was:
BEHAR: She said I'm not a biologist.
GRISHAM: Yes.
BEHAR: What annoyed them about it?
GRISHAM: That just upset them.
BEHAR: Why?
GOLDBERG: What is the answer?
GRISHAM: What is the answer in terms of?
GOLDBERG: To that question.
“Most people think it's biological gender at which you're born. The sex organs you’re born with,” co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in disapprovingly. Joy Behar suggested it was “a gotcha question about transgender” and Hostin agreed “it absolutely is.”
A few moments later, Behar was whining about how Trump supporters “sound ludicrous to me. I mean, the things that come out of their mouths.” Speaking about a woman (it’s unclear how Behar figured that out) she saw in a video who suggested former President George W. Bush was Nazi, Behar exclaimed: “How dumb is this woman?”
Well… in 2008, Behar herself accused Bush and his entire family of being Nazis and gave it as a reason he shouldn’t be speaking to the Jewish community:
It’s very interesting and ironic that George Bush Sr’s, George Bush, this one, his grandfather, this one, the late, I don’t like to speak ill of the dead, but in this case it’s fun. [laughter] He was a United States senator, Prescott Bush, okay, he was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany, okay? This is his grandfather. He has no business talking to Jewish people when he’s got this right in his backyard, this guy.
“She will vote. The woman that thinks that George Bush is a Nazi will be voting,” Behar frantically and unironically warned the audience.
This was immediately followed by Grisham (who just went after her neighbors) lamenting the name-calling and fretting the repercussions. “But I also need to say, the more we call people idiots even when they’re saying these idiotic things, the more the right gets all -- they close ranks,” she said. “They double down and they will come out voting too.”
“But silence is being complicit! Stephanie. Silence is being complicit,” Hostin began to flip out and shout over their guest. “And you got to call an idiot an idiot when you see the idiot because I think it's taking down our country!”
Given all the idiotic comments on this edition of The View, it’s nice that Hostin admitted “this is taking down our country. It’s true.”
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 5, 2022
11:08:36 a.m. Eastern(…)
STEPHANIE GRISHAM: I have a real-world example. A couple of my neighbors in the Midwest – we’re talking the Midwest here. They were completely against her based on her answer of “what is a woman?” And so, I think that Lindsey Graham or some of the other radicals do that on purpose. Because perhaps they're trying to overshadow her really, really outstanding qualifications.
SARA HAINES: She didn't give a definition, though.
GRISHAM: That she couldn't. That she didn’t. That was it.
JOY BEHAR: She said I'm not a biologist.
GRISHAM: Yes.
BEHAR: What annoyed them about it?
GRISHAM: That just upset them.
BEHAR: Why?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What is the answer?
GRISHAM: What is the answer in terms of?
GOLDBERG: To that question.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Most people think it's biological gender at which you're born. The sex organs you’re born with.
BEHAR: It's a gotcha question about transgender.
GRISHAM: It is.
HOSTIN: It absolutely is.
(…)
11:19:53 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: Sometimes I’ll be looking online and I see like conversations that some reporter is having with a Trump supporter and they sound ludicrous to me. I mean, the things that come out of their mouths. One of them said that they thought George Bush--
HOSTIN: Was a Nazi.
BEHAR: -- was a Nazi. And then you think, “how dumb is this woman?” Just remember one thing, she will be voting. She will be voting. So, everybody needs to vote is the point. Otherwise we're sunk.
HAINES: Especially in midterms. Like Midterms too.
BEHAR: She will vote. The woman that thinks that George Bush is a Nazi will be voting.
GRISHAM: But I also need to say, the more we call people idiots even when they’re saying these idiotic things, the more the right gets all -- they close ranks.
HAINES: They double down.
GRISHAM: They double down and they will come out voting too.
HOSTIN: But silence is being complicit! Stephanie. Silence is being complicit!
GRISHAM: I'm not saying be silent.
HOSTIN: And you got to call an idiot an idiot when you see the idiot, because I think it's taking down our country. This is taking down our country. It’s true.
GRISHAM: I agree it’s taking down our country, but we can't call people – Republicans these names.
(…)
