With former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley throwing her hat into the 2024 Republican primary, the ladies of ABC’s The View pulled their knives out and took swipes at the conservative woman with racist attacks about her skin color, discounted her experience as a minority in America, and smeared her with false claims of being an election denier.
After playing an edited version of Haley’s campaign announcement video (co-host Sara Haines admitted they took out the portion about her being an immigrant), racist Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Haley because the video praised America and denounced the racial arsonists who want to paint America as a racist hellscape.
“So Nikki, you know, since you have been asleep all this time and you just woke up, you're just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect! And for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous!” Goldberg sneered, going on to suggest Haley had lost her “sanity.”
Building off Goldberg’s attack on Haley’s mental fortitude, Joy Behar proclaimed the former Ambassador was one of “these politicians on the right who now have become, like, mentally crazy.” She also disapproved of Haley because she was “a big Trump supporter” and falsely accused her of being an “election denier too.”
And when self-described Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to praise Haley for standing up to dictators on the world stage and promoted her intelligence, Goldberg and Behar had the audacity to scoff and laugh at the notion:
FARAH GRIFFIN: I’ve seen her take on dictators straight to their face. She’s – In every room I’ve been in with her, she’s the smartest in the room.
GOLDBERG: [Laughs]
BEHAR: That doesn’t say much.
The racial attacks continued from racist Sunny Hostin, who called Haley a “grifter” and a racial “chameleon.” “I don't see her as a step up from anything!” Hostin bitterly shouted.
Hostin also sought to discredit Haley’s lived experience as a minority by trying to suggest she was for the Confederacy. She dismissed Haley signing legislation to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol and took Haley’s words out of context to claim she supported the flag:
But you know as governor, they keep on saying her defining moment was signing legislation removing the confederate flag from the state capitol. She only did that after the massacre that happened at the Emanuel Church that I actually covered and spoke to those family members. She only did that.
And then let's remember that after Trump came in 2019 she was defending the Confederate flag. She said the Charleston church shooter had hijacked the confederate flag. No, ma'am. The Confederate flag had always been hijacked. Then she said people saw it as service, sacrifice, and heritage. I see it as heresy as a person of color in this country!
When Hostin proclaims she’s speaking as “a person of color in this country,” she’s trying to deny Haley of her Indian heritage, which she falsely claimed Haley was distancing herself from last year. As evidence, note that Haines admitted The View’s video editors cut out the part of Haley’s announcement video where she talked about being an immigrant. This was a continuation from last year when Hostin claims Haley was using a fake name to seem white (Sunny is not her real name).
More on the racist front, near the end of the segment, Goldberg opined that she couldn’t tell Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) apart from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) when the former was black and the latter was white.
To clear up any confusion, Whoopi, despite @ScottForFlorida and I sporting similar hairstyles and representing the South, we are two different people.
— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) February 14, 2023
You should get to know me. https://t.co/Pu6KUj5pWT
Tim Scott responded to Goldberg on Twitter, “To clear up any confusion, Whoopi, despite @ScottForFlorida and I sporting similar hairstyles and representing the South, we are two different people. You should get to know me.”
But before the segment ended, Behar was forced to read a correction for her false assertion that Haley was an “election denier,” but still tried to grasp into the smear. “Nikki Haley herself hasn’t cast doubt on [the] 2020 election, but justified Trump's election denialism and then campaigned on behalf of multiple election deniers,” she huffed
“If she’s not an election denier, she’s election adjacent which is just as bad as far as I’m concerned,” Hostin chided. Meanwhile, The View defended 2016 election denialism from White House Press Secretary Katrine Jean-Pierre.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 14, 2023
11:03:28 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So Nikki, you know, since you have been asleep all this time and you just woke up, you're just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect! And for us to pretend that it is, and that nothing happened is ridiculous! So, you're not saying anything new! And you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity and knew right from wrong! Then you lost your mind and went in some new direction! So don't do that!
JOY BEHAR: Well, she's a part of the invasion of the bodysnatchers. You know? There are these politicians on the right who now have become, like, mentally crazy. You know? But her problem is that, not only was she a big Trump supporter and she's an election denier too, isn't she?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes!
SUNNY HOSTIN: At one point.
BEHAR: She was. She flip-flopped on that, and she also backed Herschel Walker, one of the worst candidates we've ever had. I mean, second only to George Santos maybe.
HSOTIN: Yeah. That was terrifying actually that she did that.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I'm not sure she's an election denier.
BEHAR: She’s going nowhere.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I'm not sure she's an election denier. I would check on that. But can you let me be excited for one day?
BEHAR: Why, you like her?
FARAH GRIFFIN: This is the first time in seven years a Republican is running against Trump. She's not perfect, but she is damn well better than him, and I’d argue than she's better than the two front-runners, DeSantis and Trump.
(…)
11:05:31 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: I’ve seen her take on dictators straight to their face. She’s – In every room I’ve been in with her, she’s the smartest in the room.
GOLDBERG: [Laughs]
BEHAR: That doesn’t say much.
(…)
11:07:19 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: I just got a note. But Nikki Haley herself hasn’t cast doubt on 2020 election, but justified Trump's election denialism and then campaigned on behalf of several – multiple election deniers like Herschfeld – Herschel
GOLDBERG: Not Herschfeld.
BEHAR: He’s gone.
GOLDBERG: Herschfeld was a great artist.
HOSTIN: If she’s not an election denier, she’s election adjacent which is just as bad as far as I’m concerned.
But you know as governor, they keep on saying her defining moment was signing legislation removing the confederate flag from the state capitol. She only did that after the massacre that happened at the Emanuel Church that I actually covered and spoke to those family members. She only did that.
And then let's remember that after Trump came by 2019 she was defending the confederate flag. She said the Charleston church shooter had hijacked the confederate flag. No, ma'am. The confederate flag had always been hijacked. Then she said people saw it as service, sacrifice, and heritage. I see it as heresy as a person of color in this country!
And so when she wants to say the right thing, I think she's very much a political grifter and a chameleon. And the bar is very low because it's on the ground.
BEHAR: Yeah. No, it's below the ground.
HOSTIN: It's below the ground.
BEHAR: It’s in a plot.
HOSTIN: I don't see her as a step up from anything!
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