Tim Scott Wishes Joy Behar Didn’t Hide from Him on The View

June 6th, 2023 1:47 PM

Black Republican Senator Tim Scott (SC) embarrassed the leftists of ABC’s The View on Monday as he schooled them on the progress America had made on race relations, but noticeably absent was co-host Joy Behar who infamously asserted Scott didn’t know what it was like to be black in America. During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom on Tuesday, Scott said he wished Behar would have been there so they have a real discussion about her smears.

Fox News co-host Dana Perino played a soundbite of Behar’s attack on Scott. “And he's one of these guys, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas, black Republican, who believes in pull yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities. He doesn't get it. Neither does Clarence,” Behar sneered last month.

Behar talked a big game but hid when Scott came to talk.

“Do you wish Joy Behar had been there yesterday, so you could have taken that on directly?” Perino wondered. “Absolutely,” Scott said. “I mean, when you have someone that says A, being like Clarence Thomas, to me, is a compliment.”

Scott proceeded to call out Behar’s racial lecture as condescending and her history of wearing blackface:

However, the way she said it and what she meant was that African-American conservatives have no clue what it means to be black in America. Here’s a young lady, white lady wearing blackface and saying that’s somehow complimentary to black people. She is completely inconsistent with reality.

 

 

He also argued that “kids trapped in poverty today need to know that you do not have to be the exception” and can look to him and Justice Clearance Thomas for inspiration:

But more important, both Clarence Thomas and my story have things in common. Number one, it starts in poverty and tragedy. Broken lives, broken pieces that are made whole. How are they made whole? This country affords anyone to rise to the level of their character, their integrity, and their grit. We want that story to be told to the American people.

“One of the things that we as conservatives have to do is go where we are not invited,” Scott said about his decision to go on the show. “Spend time selling our message of conservatism to people who may be naturally inclined to say yes to our message but they've never had a messenger show up.”

Also on Tuesday, the ladies of The View were still talking about their interview with Scott and Behar was conspicuously back at the table. She didn’t have much to say about Scott’s appearance but moderator Whoopi Goldberg said Scott “was an interesting cat” and “enjoyed having him” on the show. But according to her, his “problem” was his positive attitude toward race in America.

“It was a good conversation. But you know, I want Republicans to cop to what’s wrong,” she whined. “Every time you pretend there's no issue, you lose me. You will never get me. See, you can get me if you could explain some of your behavior.”

Staunchly racist co-host Sunny Hostin agreed and projected the liberal electoral strategy on Republicans. “I think that you have to make up strawmen, you have to make up a boogieman underneath the bed when you have no policies, when you have no program, when you have no real vision for this country,” she declared.

[H/T to the Daily Caller's Nicole Silverio]

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:

Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom
June 6, 2023
10:04:09 a.m. Eastern

DANA PERINO: Do you wish Joy Behar had been there yesterday, so you could have taken that on directly?

SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Absolutely. I mean, when you have someone that says A, being like Clarence Thomas, to me, is a compliment. However, the way she said it and what she meant was that African-American conservatives have no clue what it means to be black in America. Here’s a young lady, white lady wearing black face and saying that’s somehow complimentary to black people. She is completely inconsistent with reality.

But more important, both Clarence Thomas and my story have things in common. Number one, it starts in poverty and tragedy. Broken lives, broken pieces that are made whole. How are they made whole? This country affords anyone to rise to the level of their character, their integrity, and their grit. We want that story to be told to the American people.

Kids trapped in poverty today need to know that you do not have to be the exception. You are the rule if you will work hard, you will be lucky. That's where opportunity comes from.

PERINO: That's what parents want for their kids, indeed. Do you think you made a difference yesterday in trying to broaden the audience and get people to understand you are Tim Scott, you are an individual, you happen to be conservative, you happen to be black but that is not what defines you?

SCOTT: I think so. I mean, one of the things that we as conservatives have to do is go where we are not invited. Spend time selling our message of conservatism to people who may be naturally inclined to say yes to our message but they've never had a messenger show up.

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10:05:58 a.m. Eastern

PERINO: Did you have anything -- Sometimes when I finished a White House briefing that night I would be in bed and think, “Oh, I should have said this.” Do you have any moments on The View?

SCOTT: Absolutely.

PERINO: What would you like to have said?

SCOTT: I asked during the break: lets dive into why America is not systemically racist. Let’s have a backdrop of when my grandfather was making his way through the Jim Crow south in the 1920s and 30s and how much had changed by the time when my mother was born – I won’t say when that was – and compare those two generations to my generations were, as an eighth grader, there was a race riot at my high school. Four years later I'm the president of student government.

Why is it that we can actually measure change in reasonable time in this nation? It’s because we lean into the fight together. We are willing to address the challenges and the inequalities of this country together. That's what makes America exceptional.

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