Triggered by allegedly leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson talking about a video of an Antifa domestic terrorist getting beat up, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View denied the existence Wednesday of the group we’ve all seen carry out terrorist attacks across the country. Whoopi Goldberg’s denial was the most insane, suggesting she thought “Antifa” was the name of someone’s cat. And despite the group supposedly not existing they eventually defended its mission.
“I would like to say something about Antifa because I looked it up. It's not a highly organized movement. It's a moniker. It's not a unified group like the Proud Boys are,” co-host Joy Behar proclaimed.
In one of her rare instances of strong opposition, self-described conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on Behar by noting that “FBI Director Christopher Wray called an extremist group and anarchist in congressional testimony.” “But they’re not as organized,” Behar shouted in return.
“No one has found Antifa,” moderator Whoopi “The Holocaust isn’t about race” Goldberg ridiculously interjected. “We’ve heard a lot about Antifa. I thought it was a kitty cat.” Behar too joined in playing dumb, asking: “Where are they?” Farah Griffin tried to educate the two noting they do their recruiting online.
Left-leaning co-host Sara Haines actually flipped the tables on the other liberals by recalling how racist co-host Sunny Hostin often cites Wray when claiming white supremacy was the greatest threat to the country. “Sunny has brought up many times about the FBI Director speaking about white supremacy being the number one target. He also said – that same trusted source – that it's a real thing, it’s not a fiction, it’s just not organized. They ambush. They're awful,” she denounced Antifa.
Seemingly irked by having her citations thrown back her, Hostin proceeded to misquote Wray and falsely suggested Antifa was “merely an idea” before correcting it.
Goldberg then seemed to start leaning into a notion that the existence of Antifa was a conspiracy theory. She found it “odd” you don’t see them on TV:
GOLDBERG (interrupting): But it’s so odd that we have not – Where are they? Because they’re –
HAINES: They show up everywhere there's protests and rioting.
GOLDBERG (interrupting): But they don't come on television, apparently.
Again, Goldberg was flaunting her ignorance. In 2017, Carlson himself spoke with an Antifa sympathizer on his show. And it that’s not enough, that same year, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd invited then-Dartmouth lecturer Mark Bray onto MTP Daily to discuss his book sympathizing with Antifa and editing their history. He also had Bray appear on Meet the Press and have something of a debate with Richard Cohen of the Southern Poverty Law Center about Antifa’s violent tactics.
CNN’s United Shades of America has also done a lot of work to introduce viewers to what Antifa is, who counts themselves as members, and normalize their violence.
Despite all that evidence to the contrary, Goldberg still bloviated about how, “there's no person you can point to and say, ‘oh, that person represents Antifa.’” She also claimed, without evidence, that people on the right cry “Antifa” “every time they see four black people” together.
Eventually, Goldberg took to defending the group she claimed didn’t exist and promoted them based on their name. “If we go with the name… It’s antifascist” so they must be all right, she argued.
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ABC’s The View
May 3, 2023
11:04:51 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: I would like to say something about Antifa, because I looked it up. It's not a highly organized movement. It's a moniker. It's not a unified group like the Proud Boys are.
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11:05:59 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I do want to push back a little bit on Antifa. FBI Director Christopher Wray called an extremist group and anarchist in congressional testimony.
BEHAR: But they’re not as organized.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I agree, they’re not organized.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG (interrupting): No one has found Antifa.
BEHAR: Where are they?
GOLDBERG: We’ve heard a lot about Antifa. I thought it was a kitty cat.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I mean, they have websites. They do recruiting online. They do have—
SARA HAINES: We talk about – Sunny has brought up many times about the FBI Director speaking about white supremacy being the number one target. He also said – that same trusted source – that it's a real thing, it’s not a fiction, it’s just not organized. They ambush. They're awful.
SUNNY HOSTIN (interrupting): He says it’s merely an Idea. Antifa is not a highly organized movement, nor is it merely an idea. It's a loose organization.
GOLDBERG (interrupting): But it’s so odd that we have not – Where are they? Because they’re –
HAINES: They show up everywhere there's protests and rioting.
GOLDBERG (interrupting): But they don't come on television, apparently.
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: It is different than the Proud Boys. It's not as organized. Elected officials haven't appeared with them. We all agree with that. But Christopher Wray said, “we’re sing people exploiting the situation” after George Floyd’s murder “to pursue violence, extremist agenda, anarchists like Antifa and other agitators --
GOLDBERG (interrupting): Again, there's no person you can point to and say, “oh, that person represents Antifa.” Every time they see four black people, they think it’s Antifa.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: To be honest, it's largely white.
GOLDBERG: That's what we said.
FARAH GRIFFIN: There are people online who openly identify as Antifa.
GOLDBERG: Well, I – They may and I'm going to say I think oftentimes things like Antifa are things that are thought up, ideas that are thought up, and pushed and moved. Because for me, you know, if Antifa, if we go with the name --
BEHAR: Antifascist.
GOLDBERG: It's antifascist. So, I know who’s doing what. I do know that if you had asked a number of people of color about Tucker Carlson, we could have told everyone what he really felt and that this wasn't an act. This was who he was.
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