Two days after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered an apparent Commotio Cordis and needed to be resuscitated on the field, for which he was still in the ICU, The View’s ghoul, Joy Behar, decided it was appropriate to use the segment (and concussions) to take a swipe at conservatives and “heterosexual men” by suggesting they had brain damage because they played football as children and young adults.
As they were going around the table to discuss Hamlin’s ongoing medical struggles and how some of them, as moms, wouldn’t let their kids play football, co-host Sunny Hostin recalled a hamstring injury her son suffered while playing football that required six months of physical theory. This apparently got him thinking about possibly suffering a head injury if he continued. As such, he made the difficult decision to quit the sport.
This story about a fear of brain injuries piqued Behar’s interest and she proceeded to read off a bunch of unsourced statistics about who supported youth football:
Only 45 percent of Americans think that tackle football is appropriate. Heterosexual men voted the most support for kids doing football. And conservatives were more likely to support youth tackle football. Just saying.
“Just saying” that brain damage would explain why Republicans are the way they are.
This wasn’t the first time The View has used football to attack Republicans. Ahead of the midterms last year, they suggested the Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker might’ve had brain damage because of how he talked. They also suggested only drunks thought he had a good debate performance.
And while some fire on all cylinders, Behar definitely had one piston knocking around up there.
At the top of the show, the cast discussed the infighting among congressional Republicans as the House voted on a speaker. “I had a little what they called schadenfreude watching this. You know, I sort of enjoyed they're in such disarray because they deserve it. It was nice that they took a break from destroying the country and started to turn on each other,” Behar boated.
She went on to compare congressional Republicans to cannibal turtles:
I was reading one time about turtles one time, and apparently, if you have turtles in an aquarium and then you don't feed them long enough, they will start to eat each other. Well, that's what's going on in Congress right now.
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And I'm not just talking about Mitch McConnell when I talk about turtles here. I'm talking about all of them.
Unamused by the repeated rounds of voting, Whoopi Goldberg (who still has not issued an on-air apology for her latest anti-Semitic comments about the Holocaust) snapped at the GOP and whined: “That's not funny to us. This is serious business here. You, you know, you're there for a reason. We got to figure out who's going to get this house in order here.”
These attacks on Republicans were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Crest and Red Lobster. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 4, 2023
11:03:00 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, it might be fine for him, but Congress can't get anything done or swear anyone in until a speaker is chosen and all those Democrats sitting around with the popcorn, that's not funny to us. This is serious business here. You, you know, you're there for a reason. We got to figure out who's going to get this house in order here.
JOY BEHAR: I had a little what they called schadenfreude watching this. You know, I sort of enjoyed they're in such disarray because they deserve it. It was nice that they took a break from destroying the country and started to turn on each other.
I was reading one time about turtles one time, and apparently if you have turtles in an aquarium and then you don't feed them long enough, they will start to eat each other. Well, that's what's going on in Congress right now.
GOLDBERG: Well, that happens wherever you are.
BEHAR: And I'm not just talking about Mitch McConnell when I talk about turtles here. I'm talking about all of them.
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11:17:26 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: He went through physical therapy for six months, and he realized at that point, uh-oh. I could -- that could happen to my brain. And so, he quit, and it was --
BEHAR: Oh, he did?
HOSTIN: He did. He quit, and it was a very hard thing for him because he loved doing it, and -- But I don't think it's going to turn people away from the sport because, I mean, I went to Notre Dame. It's like faith, family, football. It's a big deal, and it's $105 billion industry.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: So.
BEHAR: Only 45 percent of Americans think that tackle football is appropriate. Heterosexual men voted the most support for kids doing football. And conservatives were more likely to support youth tackle football. Just saying.
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