Last week, The View played host to far-left extremist Jane Fonda and laughed at her purported “joke” about murdering pro-lifers as the final solution to protect abortion. But on Tuesday, ABC's cackling coven found their limit on jokes as they had a collective meltdown over former Vice President Mike Pence (R) telling a maternity leave joke about Transpiration Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C. over the weekend.
Instead of playing an unedited clip of Pence’s joke, Whoopi Goldberg intentionally butchered it by reading slowly and messing with the punchline:
Pence claimed Transformation Secretary Pete Buttigieg did – did – took two months of, “maternity leave during the nationwide airline crisis, which makes Pete the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression.”
“Now, I will point out that this joke wasn't funny when Tucker Carlson did it. It wasn’t funny when Lauren Boebert did it. It's just not funny. It's not a funny joke,” Goldberg whined in an incessant rant about how unfunny she found the joke. “It's not faux outrage. I'm mad at you because you weren't smart enough to think of a new joke. That's why I'm outraged because it was sloppy and – and very lazy to use a thrice-used, bad joke again.”
With Goldberg teeing the joke up as a “homophobic slur,” joyless “comedian” Joy Behar gave her critique and a conspiracy theory that Pence had targeted homosexuals in Indiana and “exacerbated an HIV epidemic”:
Besides the fact that the joke was not funny, it's coming from someone who has a history of homophobia. And that’s what the problem is. This is a guy who has always been against gay marriage, has been against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell – and even more egregious – as governor of Indiana, he exacerbated an HIV epidemic in South, Indiana because he waited to legalize needle exchanges and closing down Planned Parenthood which was the only HIV testing site in the area. So, he should be ashamed of himself.
Despite the fact Pence had rebuked former President Trump at the same dinner, Behar flaunted her ignorance and proclaimed the joke was “a very, very craven attempt to appeal to the MAGA base, yet again.”
After initially lashing out at her former, evangelical boss for holding traditional views of marriage, Alyssa Farah Griffin warned the rest of the cast that they were in danger of looking like “snowflakes” with their meltdown. Of course, this triggered Goldberg: “Wait! No. No. No. Hold up. Hold up. Those guys are snowflakes!”
With Goldberg reiterating her rant about how “terrible” the joke was, Behar argued that “it also depends who delivers the joke.” “Nobody could’ve made that joke. That joke is not funny,” Goldberg pushed back.
“No. But the fact this guy has this homophobic history is the problem … That is the problem … It's not the joke,” Behar argued.
Ah, that explains why the cast laughed and defended Fonda’s call for murdering pro-lifers last week (including Farah Griffin). And it’s not like The View was any good at writing jokes either. Last year, they wrote a series of jokes they wanted to pitch to President Biden for the White House Correspondents Dinner but they crashed and burned with their friendly studio audience.
The View’s gross double standard on what jokes are appropriate was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Abbott and Colgate. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 14, 2023
11:01:51: a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: The White House is calling on former VP Mike pence to apologize for an attempted joke at last weekend's political roast held by D.C. journalists, the Gridiron Dinner. Pence claimed Transformation Secretary Pete Buttigieg did – did – took two months of, quote, maternity leave during the nationwide airline crisis, which makes Pete the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression.
JOY BEHAR: That's the joke.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Right.
Now, I will point out that this joke wasn't funny when Tucker Carlson did it. It wasn’t funny when Lauren Boebert did it. It's just not funny. It's not a funny joke. But people are taking issue with Pence using the term maternity leave, and making light of post-partum depression.
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GOLDBERG: A Pence adviser called this “faux outrage.”
But you know – this – It's not faux outrage. I'm mad at you because you weren't smart enough to think of a new joke. That's why I'm outraged because it was sloppy and – and very lazy to use a thrice-used, bad joke again.
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: So, was this a bad joke or a homophobic slur or both?
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11:05:30 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: He said he cared about stuff. That's why I'm mad at him because it was lazy. It was a lazy, low-lying joke.
BEHAR: I want to talk to the joke.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Go ahead.
BEHAR: Besides the fact that the joke was not funny, it's coming from someone who has a history of homophobia. And that’s what the problem is. This is a guy who has always been against gay marriage, has been against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell – and even more egregious – as governor of Indiana, he exacerbated an HIV epidemic in South, Indiana –
SUNNY HOSTIN: South Bend.
BEHAR: – because he waited to legalize needle exchanges and closing down Planned Parenthood which was the only HIV testing site in the area. So, he should be ashamed of himself.
HOSTIN: That's the problem I have with vice --
BEHAR: I'm not done yet.
HOSTIN: Oh.
BEHAR: And I also have to say that this is a very, very craven attempt to appeal to the MAGA base, yet again. Once they decide to run for president, they've got to get this deplorable base on their side in order to win the primary and that's what they keep doing over and over again. That includes Trump, of course, the king of all of it and also DeSantis and now Pence because he wants to run for president, and that is a pathetic situation, in my opinion.
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11:09:22 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I do want us to be careful – Like, I don't want us to turn into the snowflakes that we criticize. Like, it’s a joke –
GOLDBEGR: Wait! No. No. No. Hold up. Hold up. Those guys are snowflakes!
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, I know. I think --
GOLDBERG: You know? But the point is, it's a joke that was bad four other times. It didn't land for anyone -- it didn't work for anybody. It's a terrible joke. And that's why I say for me, that's lazy because he does know better. He does know what the correct words are.
And you want to make a joke? You know, you can do that. But when you go to something lazy that hasn't worked, and then you pretend you don't know, and then we're trying to figure out what you are doing because you're saying something finally we're thrilled to hear you say. It just makes me think you're too confusing for me.
BEHAR: But it also depends who delivers the joke. If Pete Buttigieg --
GOLDBERG: No body could’ve made that joke. That joke is not funny.
BEHAR: No. But the fact this guy has this homophobic history is the problem.
HOSTIN: It's the history.
BEHAR: That is the problem.
HOSTIN: That is the problem.
BEHAR: It's not the joke.
GOLDBERG: No, the joke is terrible. The joke is terrible.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Next time Joy needs to write the jokes for Pence.
BEHAR: Well, he needs a joke writer.
GOLDBERG: Well, something.
HOSTIN: He may have one.
BEHAR: But not a homophobic joke writer.
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