There was a lot of Elon Musk hate from the cackling coven of ABC’s The View on Tuesday, even blaming him for the continuation of global hunger. But co-host Whoopi Goldberg said the quiet part out loud when she argued with hysterical liberal activist Alyssa Milano that liberals should leave Twitter until they figure out how they “get the control” they “need” over the platform.
Asked to comment on Musk because she recently virtue signaled by selling her Tesla, Milano suggested that Musk was perpetuating global hunger because he could have given the $40 billion he spent on Twitter to her via UNICEF:
MILANO: Like, you buy Twitter to destroy it for $40 billion, right, $40 billion, Elon Musk – imagine if he donated that money to UNICEF. He would change the world. There would be no hunger.
GOLDBERG: He could go in his pocket and donate that money.
MILANO: He could go in his pocket and it wouldn't cost 40 billion, but these guys—
With racist co-host Sunny Hostin continuing to call Twitter a “hellscape” because she and the cast get called out for their hatred and bigotry, Milano says she hasn’t noted a difference and has always needed to wear a “helmet” when on Twitter. “I'm so scared like something's going to come out and hit me,” she said.
FACT CHECK: False. Nothing can come through her phone or computer screen and hit her.
Milano argued the left shouldn’t leave Twitter because they “can't cede that territory. It's like turf war now.” Goldberg disagreed and said there were other social media networks the left could “grab” for themselves. “Leave that to them because that is what that is meant to be now. It's not meant to be any better than what we’re seeing,” she declared.
A small debate ensued where Milano argued the left should be present for debates on the platform, but Goldberg said the quiet part out loud in that the left needed to have all “the control” and run over the opposition:
MILANO: If we're not representing our side of – of the political discourse, aren't we just saying, you know what you can have Twitter?
GOLDBERG: I'll tell you, some things you have to walk away from until you can get the control you need of it. Right now there's no way to get this control. And so find the ones that you can get and fix and then come back and run that over.
Proving she spends too much time online, Milano admitted she has “spent many, many days with [her] therapist talking about Twitter and social media” comments about her.
Hostin followed up by saying she had stopped reading the criticism when they questioned her parenting ability. “And I stopped. I was like because I'm going to go out there and I’mma find these people,” she threatened. If it wasn’t obvious enough, co-host Sara Haines quipped that Hostin would be like “Liam Neeson” in the Taken movie series.
Earlier in the show, co-host Joy Behar inexplicably asked actor Samuel L. Jackson to comment on Twitter and Musk. Behar said she was “a little frightened for Twitter” because “Nazis” were supposedly taking over.
Jackson said he had more important things to worry about than Twitter and Musk (like reelecting Democratic Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock) and claims he “[doesn't even know if [Musk] is a real person.”
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ABC’s The View
November 29, 2022
11:37:53 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: So, Sam, you've also been known to clap back at politician or two in your day, which I enjoy. What do you make of what's happening now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter? I’m a little frightened for Twitter, frankly. What about you?
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: I just quit it.
[Crosstalk]
JACKSON: But there are so many more important things that we have to deal with. Like we're busy trying to get --
LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON: Raphael Warnock!
JACKSON: Raphael Warnock elected.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: Please go to the polls and vote!
JACKSON: As opposed to an idiot who probably doesn't even have a Twitter account that can’t use Twitter.
BEHAR: Yeah, but that's a big audience, these Nazis can come in on those social media outlets. I don't like that.
JACKSON: People need to understand, everything that happens, Twitter is not a real world.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You can actually not look at it.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: You can. And Brittney Griner lives in the real world. She lives in the real world.
JACKSON: Those are real world things that we need to do.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: Tweet that!
JACKSON: Elon Musk is Elon Musk. I have no idea what he is. I don't even know if he is a real person.
(…)
11:48:21 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA MILANO: I'm kind of like – like I'm so annoyed with all of these billionaires, with like the exception of a few, but especially with Elon Musk. Like, you buy Twitter to destroy it for $40 billion, right, $40 billion, Elon Musk – imagine if he donated that money to UNICEF. He would change the world. There would be no hunger.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: He could go in his pocket and donate that money.
MILANO: He could go in his pocket and it wouldn't cost 40 billion, but these guys—
(…)
11:49:16 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: What happens if things continue the way they are on Twitter? I think it's become a hellscape. But its’ been a hellscape for a minute.
MILANO: I mean, I was always on the receiving end of trolls. Right? So like, to me it doesn't feel any different. But you know, I always open Twitter with like – such – with like helmet on, because I'm so scared like something's going to come out and hit me.
HOSTIN: Do you think you'll stay only it?
MILANO: Yeah because we can't cede that territory. It's like turf war now. That's how I look at it.
GOLDBERG: No, no. Not that. There’s other ones you can come and grab, leave that to them because that is what that is meant to be now. It's not meant to be any better than what we’re seeing.
MILANO: If we're not representing our side of – of the political discourse, aren't we just saying, you know what you can have Twitter?
BEHAR: You’re handing it over.
GOLDBERG: I'll tell you, some things you have to walk away from until you can get the control you need of it. Right now there's no way to get this control. And so find the ones that you can get and fix and then come back and run that run over.
MILANO: Right.
GOLDBERG: But, do yourself.
MILANO: I know, it is about self-care.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Well, don't read the comments, for one thing. Do not read the comments.
HOSTIN: Never read the comments.
MILANO: I always read the comments.
[Crosstalk]
MILANO: Who doesn't read the comments? Everybody reads the comments.
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: Whoopi and Joy taught us when we each joined the show.
MILANO: Do you turn the comments off?
BEHAR: No. I just don't read them. I’m not interested unless it’s someone that I respect.
HOSTIN: I have another question.
GOLDBERG: I left.
HOSTIN: She left.
GOLDBERG: Because I can't take it anymore.
MILANO: I respect that. Listen, I spent many, many days with my therapist talking about Twitter and social media.
HOSTIN: What so anonymous person said about you.
MILANO: Right. And it's hurtful.
GOLDBERG: Someone who doesn’t know you. Someone who doesn’t know you, hasn't met you, doesn't know your family, doesn’t know your – doesn’t know anything about you. But we let them – We let them in and say you have that power. Oh, no!
MILANO: It's the accessibility.
HOSTIN: It is. I stopped reading it when people came after my kids about the way that I mothered. And I stopped. I was like, because I'm going to go out there and I’mma find these people.
[Crosstalk]
SARA HAINES: Liam Neeson those people.
(…)
