Rarely is the liberal media honest about the intentions of Democrats, but Joy Behar said the quiet part out loud on Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s The View. When discussing the upcoming hearings of the Democratic January 6 Committee, she openly boasted that the Democrats hired former ABC president James Goldston to help organize their presentation and turn it into a “theatrical event” in order to keep the public glued to their TVs.
“And as far as the criticism that's a theatrical event,” Behar pivoted after claiming that Fox News was somehow “implicated” in the riot, “because they did hire a former ABC News president to go there, he used to work here, we know him, James Goldston, he’s doing something with them…”
Sharing her unsolicited two cents, Behar opined about how Thursday night needed to “slap” viewers into being interested in the proceedings:
BEHAR: But I think that that's an important thing, on Thursday night, my feeling is that they must present this in the most dramatic way they can, so that people will continue to watch. Something like, “On that day, these people tried to have your vice president killed.” That's a fact.
SUNNY HOSTIN Yeah.
BEHAR: I mean, maybe something like that will slap them into, “Wow, is that true?! Let's hear more about that.” And so I don't object to the theatricality of it.
“You’ve got to keep people's attention,” she suggested before recalling that the Watergate hearings were boring but they had nothing to compete with. “This time they've got to give you the punch from the beginning.”
Republican and guest co-host Lindsey Granger was at the table and called out the obvious intentions to sway the midterm elections with the hearings:
GRANGER: And then if we think about the actual intention of this, there’s a sentiment that Democrats need to re-brand this midterm message. Right? So by airing this, you’re going to remind everybody like, “Hey, Trump is aligned with other conservatives—” even though that’s not always true there’s plenty of people who spoke out against this – “And so, reminder don't vote for these people in the midterms,” because you want to keep the majority.
BEHAR (under her breath): I don’t know what you’re talking about.
GRANGER: And I think that that is a losing message by looking in the past and not looking in the future. Because there’s things on top of mind for people.
And as Granger was listing off the other important things “on top of mind” for people including “feeding your baby,” “wanting to know a recession is looming,” and “gas,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg interrupted to suggest Granger was saying Americans were too dumb to follow those things plus the hearings.
“I think Americans are smart enough to be able to have more than one thought in their head about what's going on,” she huffed, suggesting she and others were worried they’d “go to sleep” and “wake up in some new country.”
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 7, 2022
11:04:37 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: I think that Fox is implicated in the event that day. Isn’t it? Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade were begging Mark Meadows to get the President, Trump, to stop the attack. So, now they're saying the opposite? They're implicated in the day, so, of course, they don't want to report that, you know.
And as far as the criticism that's a theatrical event – because they did hire a former ABC News president to go there, he used to work here, we know him, James Goldston, he’s doing something with them—
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Not Fox, you’re talking about the January 6 – yeah.
BEHAR: With the hearings on Thursday. And what's coming up next week.
But I think that that's an important thing, on Thursday night, my feeling is that they must present this in the most dramatic way they can, so that people will continue to watch. Something like, “On that day, these people tried to have your vice president killed.” That's a fact.
SUNNY HOSTIN Yeah.
BEHAR: I mean, maybe something like that will slap them into, “Wow, is that true?! Let's hear more about that.” And so I don't object to the theatricality of it. It’s really – You’ve got to keep people's attention.
The Watergate hearings which I watched, my daughter was a child, were not as dramatic, but people were riveted to that. Of course, there weren't a million stations, there was no Fox News at that time to tell you everything you’re saying – seeing is a lie. And so, it was different.
This time they've got to give you the punch from the beginning.
LINDSEY GRANGER: But just to clarify, Fox News is airing it. Maybe not on the news channel but on their business network.
BEHAR: Nobody watches that.
GRANGER: Well, with two of their flagship anchors, so that’s important. And they’re also providing it available on all digital platforms. You know everyone's online. So, I don’t want to hear you can’t find it, because you don’t need a subscription. So, just saying, a cable news network has that luxury to choose.
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11:07:31 a.m. Eastern
GRANGER: And then if we think about the actual intention of this, there’s a sentiment that Democrats need to re-brand this midterm message. Right? So by airing this, you’re going to remind everybody like, “Hey, Trump is aligned with other conservatives—” even though that’s not always true there’s plenty of people who spoke out against this – “And so, reminder don't vote for these people in the midterms,” because you want to keep the majority.
BEHAR (under her breath): I don’t know what you’re talking about.
GRANGER: And I think that that is a losing message by looking in the past and not looking in the future. Because there’s things on top of mind for people. There are things like feeding your baby, which I talked about yesterday.
HOSTIN (tries to interrupt): [Sighs] Look--
GRANGER: There are things on top of mind like people wanting to know a recession is looming. There are things on top of mind like wondering how to pay for your gas.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG (interrupting): I think Americans are smart enough -- I think Americans smart enough to be able to have more than one thought in their head about what's going on.
GRANGER (interrupting): But maybe the two thoughts should be--
GOLDBERG: Hold on, now, I heard you. I understand. But I think that we do a disservice to the public when we suggest that they're not thinking about those things as well, they are. And Americans know here are the things that are going on, but we also know when we go to sleep we don't wake up in some new country. And I think people want to know that and they want to see somebody is doing something.
So, I think we're going to have to watch and see. We're going to have to watch and see.
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