The leading “hot topic” for ABC’s The View on Tuesday, was the disgusting campaign ad put out by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens where he and a group of gun-toting cosplay soldiers wanted to “hunt” RINOs. This naturally, led the cast to ignore the widespread condemnation from the right and insist the right thought it was “funny” and had become “the party of violence!”
Completely ignoring the assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just two weeks ago by a leftist extremist, co-host Joy Behar began the discussion by declaring “the Republican Party has become the party of insurrection, revolt, and violence. And they don't make any bones about it anymore.”
And noting that the Democrats had their “DINOs” in the form of Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Kristen Sinema (AZ), Behar outrageously suggested they’ve never had threats made against them from the left. “You don't see us threatening their lives, the Democrats are not the party of violence. [Republicans] have become the party of violence!” she shrieked.
In reality, The View was part of the uncivil media machine that encouraged the kind of activity that opened Kavanaugh to the attack. And Manchin and Sinema have indeed been the target of hostile confrontations.
Behar continued her deranged activism by demanding people not vote for Republicans because “you will lose the country. I'm warning everybody, I'm afraid it's true.”
Republican Lindsey Granger was in hand to school Behar on the fact that there has been widespread condemnation of Greitens, including long before this current run at elected office. Behar couldn’t believe the facts (click “expand”):
GRANGER: … to brandish a gun and to say you want to kill anybody, especially on the heels of these January 6 hearings knowing that Pence was threatened literally to be hung and things like this.
BEHAR: So, what are you saying Lindsey, that the Republican Party does not back this type of behavior?
GRANGER: I do not think they back this type of behavior.
BEHAR: Really?
GRANGER: And he is like a fringe part of the party.
“It feels like the mainstream like right now lately, to me,” Behar scoffed.
With the intent to contradict Granger, mentally unstable co-host Sunny Hostin busted out her latest batch of “stats” from left-wing political organizations, like the Anti-Defamation League, to assert “most extremist violence in the U.S. does comes from the political right.”
“And I think when you have something like January 6 and there aren’t enough consequences to that, violence is the – people see that violence is the way forward. And unfortunately, I think that Republicans have brought extremism to the mainstream,” Hostin opined, after claiming “over 60 percent” of Republicans belong to “far-right Facebook groups,” without evidence.
Co-host Sara Haines tried to push back with a bit with some both-sides-ism and said extremism needed to be confronted “no matter your party.” This triggered Hostin who immediately shot back with, “But you're not seeing this -- the Democrats didn't storm the Capitol.”
But they were the ones who spent a lot of 2020 destroying parts of American cities, setting them on fire, killing people, and demolishing homes and people’s livelihoods all under the banner of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorist groups.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 21, 2022
11:04:27 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What is happening in the world? We can just threaten anybody now with no consequences?
JOY BEHAR: Look, the Republican Party has become the party of insurrection, revolt, and violence. And they don't make any bones about it anymore. I mean, this guy should be -- you didn't even see the ad, which I saw on CNN, it's quite violent and they're acting like it's funny. It’s not funny.
The Democrats have the DINOs, let’s put it, the Democrats in name only, you could say Manchin and Sinema are in that category. You don't see us threatening their lives, the Democrats are not the party of violence. That have become the party of violence!
Look, I don't want to say it again because I’m starting to sound like a broken record. You cannot vote for Republicans in the next election, you will lose the country. I'm warning everybody, I'm afraid it's true.
LINDSEY GRANGER: We’re talking about a guy who didn't even finish out his term as governor. He’s someone how’s a disgraced politician and not somebody subscribe by. I don’t think a lot of conservatives subscribe by – when they say is someone whose policies that we’re following.
This is somebody who's allegedly accused of abuse to both children and women.
BEHAR: His son and his wife.
GRANGER: Right. So, this is not somebody we subscribe by anything that they’re saying. And I think a lot of people have called even Republicans have called for him to step aside and move to the side. Because I think, in the moment, it's completely tone deaf to both Democrats and Republicans to sit up there, after Uvalde, after Buffalo – and these are just the national shootings, there were several others that we didn’t talk about – to brandish a gun and to say you want to kill anybody, especially on the heels of these January 6 hearings knowing that Pence was threatened literally to be hung and things like this.
BEHAR: So, what are you saying Lindsey, that the Republican Party does not back this type of behavior?
GRANGER: I do not think they back this type of behavior.
BEHAR: Really?
GRANGER: And he is like a fringe part of the party. Unfortunately, it’s somebody who represents something that I don’t stand for that a lot of people do not stand for. And I think when you think about the entire GOP, there are several people that have different perspectives --
BEHAR (interrupting): It feels like the mainstream like right now lately, to me.
SONNY HOSTIN: I have to say, I mean, if you look at the stats, most extremist violence in the U.S. does comes from the political right. Right? So, in the past decade, the ADL – the Anti-Defamation League – has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists. Of those 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent.
And another study that was released by the Institute of Research and Education on Human Rights, found that more than 1 in 5 Republicans state legislators in the United States were affiliated with far-right groups. So, that works out – when you look at it, to about 22 percent of all Republicans state legislators belong to far-right Facebook groups. And then, if you look at it on a macro level, even more. It’s over 60 percent.
So, he's not fringe. And I think to your point [Looks to Behar], it has become this extremist violent party.
And I think when you have something like January 6 and there aren’t enough consequences to that, violence is the – people see that violence is the way forward. And unfortunately, I think that Republicans have brought extremism to the mainstream.
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11:08:18 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: This is a primitive instinct that we are better than. And it stood up at every corner no matter your party is, to say, ‘that is never okay, you’re out of the game.”
HOSTIN: But you're not seeing this -- the Democrats didn't storm the Capitol.
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