Whiffing at a major chance to prove conservative critics wrong on Thursday, self-described “conservative” co-host of The View Alyssa Farah Griffin passed up at an opportunity to promote prominent and popular conservative women as the rest of the liberal cast bashed America as too backward, sexist, and racist to elect a woman as president.
A sizable chunk of Thursday’s show was dedicated to the cast bellyaching about how America refused to elect Hillary Clinton president and suggesting the country is terrible because we had not elected a woman yet. “That's on the American people because somehow there's this idea that we are not welcomed to be president, that we are not capable of being president as women,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg declared.
And yet, earlier this year, the cast didn't know what a woman was.
Co-host Sara Haines chimed in to suggest sexism was what got us a Donald Trump presidency so now we needed to “move on”:
What I was going to say is it made me laugh. Back in the day when we talked about a woman being president, people made those jokes about, would you really want a woman with her finger on the nuclear button? And look what you got in Donald Trump! Like, you defend the man and now we’ll go ahead and move on.
Not-so-joyful co-host Joy Behar was stewing in animosity for the country as she whined about Clinton losing to Trump in 2016:
BEHAR: Well, this country passed on the most qualified person to ever run for the presidency, Hillary Clinton.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. Yes, we did.
BEHAR: A senator and secretary of state, and they put in a washed up, boring, not-that-bright game show host instead! So, what can you say about an electorate?
“Well, how come it wins it in every other civilized country? I mean, I'm going to give you a list of women. New Zealand, Tunisia, Serbia, Denmark, Moldova, Bangladesh. Liz Truss is the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel. Angela Merkel ran Germany for how many years? Only in this country,” she bitterly ranted later in the show.
“It's not the women part. It's not the women part, though,” Haines pushed back.
Agreeing with co-host Sunny Hostin’s earlier comments that there’s “terrible misogyny in this country,” Farah Griffin spoke up and refused to elevate conservative women.
“I think our country is ready to elect a woman. I would remind you, Michelle Obama, who we were all just praising last segment, she knows better. If she ran for president tomorrow, she would skate through super Tuesday and be nominated and elected president, absolutely,” she argued.
Regardless of chances in 2024, the names of prominent Republican women have been floating around as possible candidates including South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley. She could have also touted all the conservative women in Congress and around the country, even those without presidential ambitions, as proof that Americans elect women as leaders.
Behar had such a negative opinion of America that Farah Griffin had to try and convince her Michelle Obama would win handily (click “expand”):
FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, I think she's one of the most popular people in the country.
HAINES: Absolutely.
BEHAR: 70 percent of this country think Trump didn't even lose.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Of Republicans.
BEHAR: How are those people going to vote for her?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Of Republicans. I think she could get independents.
BEHAR: Really?
HAINES: I agree with that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think she could get moderates.
“I think someone like a Michelle Obama could definitely get that,” Farah Griffin concluded.
All that effort to convince a radical liberal she had a possible winner in her party, but no effort to promote the women of her own. Then again, last season, Farah Griffin made it very clear she was itching to support a liberal for president in 2024.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 8, 2022
11:06:25 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: That's on us. That's on the American people because somehow there's this idea that we are not welcomed to be president, that we are not capable of being president as women. Now you know, women just – not that I’m tooting our own horns – but we can juggle and chew gum and feed your behind with blinders on.
[Applause]
Because that's what women do. We have to do it. It's part of being a parent, a woman, a wife, and it's a lot of stuff that we're called upon that we must do. And I just cut you off. Say it.
SARA HAINES: No, no, no. What I was going to say is it made me laugh. Back in the day when we talked about a woman being president, people made those jokes about, would you really want a woman with her finger on the nuclear button? And look what you got in Donald Trump! Like, you defend the man and now we’ll go ahead and move on.
JOY BEHAR: Well, this country passed on the most qualified person to ever run for the presidency, Hillary Clinton.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. Yes, we did.
BEHAR: A senator and secretary of state, and they put in a washed up, boring, not that bright game show host instead! So, what can you say about an electorate.
(…)
11:18:29 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: Well, how come it wins it in every other civilized country? I mean, I'm going to give you a list of women. New Zealand, Tunisia, Serbia, Denmark, Moldova, Bangladesh.
SARA HAINES: It's not the women part. It's not the women part, though.
BEHAR: Liz Truss is the new prime minister of United Kingdom. Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel. Angela Merkel ran Germany for how many years? Only in this country – and by the way, having said that, I'm only for a qualified woman. I'm not voting for Marjorie Taylor Greene because she's got the right parts. Uh-uh.
HOSTIN: That's right.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But – So – I want to say this. I – uh. Interest – I think it was an interesting. I think the points Sunny makes are absolutely correct. However, it’s not – I think our country is ready to elect a woman.
I would remind you Michelle Obama who we were all just praising last segment, she knows better. If she ran for president tomorrow, she would skate through super Tuesday and be nominated and elected president, absolutely.
[Applause]
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: [Inaudible] Trump – Trumpers?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, I think she's one of the most popular people in the country.
HAINES: Absolutely.
BEHAR: 70 percent of this country think Trump didn't even lose.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Of Republicans.
BEHAR: How are those people going to vote for her?
FARAH GRIFFIN: Of Republicans. I think she could get independents.
BEHAR: Really?
HAINES: I agree with that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think she could get moderates. So, I think AOC, her issue is that she is – she’s too progressive for most of the country. I think solutions tend to be more toward the middle. She raises valid points, but I think someone like a Michelle Obama could definitely get that.
(…)
