After defending President Joe Biden shunning his 4-year-old granddaughter the previous day, the Tuesday edition of ABC’s The View saw the Cackling Coven defending Biden for reportedly yelling and screaming at White House staff. So to prove much they would debase themselves to protect him, one of the ABC News hosts proclaimed that Biden’s anger and verbal abuse turned her on. That’s before she claimed he’s never yelled.
The segment started with the ye olde narrative of ‘conservatives pounce’ with a clip of Fox News host Lisa Kennedy jokingly saying learning that Biden drops f-bombs “kind of turned [her] on.” It was a sentiment Joy Behar admitted to sharing:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it was someone being angry make you turned you on.
BEHAR: She’s turned on by Biden’s anger. I am too. I like it.
[Laughter]
SUNNY HOSTIN: You like it?
BEHAR: I do.
“I like that. I mean, he's such a mild-mannered sweet guy,” Behar continued to praise before she was interrupted by moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who declared: “But you know he’s not. Listen, he has dropped more F-bombs than I have over the years.”
Goldberg continued: “I mean, over the years we've heard him off-mic say stuff. He's a regular guy. I don't know what she's talking about. She doesn't like this. She doesn’t like that.” Behar defended Biden’s reported outbursts of rage by calling it the way he “blows off steam. It's white male privilege, it’s called.”
In a later argument with self-described conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, Behar ridiculously suggested that Biden has never yelled at anyone:
FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't want two men, white men shouting at each other for the next year and a half until the presidential cycle.
BEHAR: He doesn't shout when he does a press – he has not shouted!
Co-host Sara Haines compared Biden yelling at his staff to her yelling at her kids and argued that Biden has a lot to be legitimately angry about, citing the criticism he gets:
Last night putting my kids to bed I was screaming so much that I turned to my husband and I said, my heart rate -- I'm racing. He said, maybe it was the yelling. And I wake up to this headline of him getting mad and I'm like, “Imagine waking up being President Biden, you're too old still, the economy sucks, the border is open, your son’s a mess, what about that grandchild you don't claim, and he broke royal protocol with King Charles.” Every way he turns he does something wrong. He is allowed to get mad. I do at three small kids who do very little.
For her part, racist co-host Sunny Hostin regurgitated the White House spin that his yelling at any particular staffer was actually a good thing and him not doing that was a bad sign:
What the reporting says is that he tends to be very intense with his staffers and interrogate his staffers. And some of his staffers feel like if he doesn't pay you that attention that means he doesn't think you're doing a good job.
Sounds like something an abuser would gaslight a victim with, no?
As they were getting ready to go to a commercial break, Hostin chimed in again to proclaim that she found it objectionable that anyone would dare bring up Biden’s verbal abuse since Donald Trump was once president. “I just think it’s very rich that after [Trump] that anyone would have the audacity to talk about anger in the White House,” she scolded.
The View’s love of President Biden verbally abusing his staff was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Ashley Homestore and Tide. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 11, 2023
11:17:22 a.m. Eastern(…)
LISA KENNEDY (Fox News clip): The economy is wobbling at best, that's a kind way of putting it. His foreign policy is a disaster. He has no idea what he's doing in terms of China and Ukraine. So, if he's throwing a few F-bombs, I kind of like it. I'm not going to lie.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: What’s her problem?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't understand what the conversation was. I don’t know.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it was someone being angry make you turned you on.
BEHAR: She’s turned on by Biden’s anger. I am too. I like it.
[Laughter]
SUNNY HOSTIN: You like it?
BEHAR: I do.
HOSTIN: Well, you have said that before.
BEHAR: I like that. I mean, he's such a mild-mannered sweet guy.
GOLDBERG: But you know he’s not. Listen, he has dropped more F-bombs than I have over the years.
HOSTIN: Uncle Joe has done that.
GOLDBERG: I mean, over the years we've heard him off mic say stuff. He's a regular guy. I don't know what she's talking about. She doesn't like this. She doesn’t like that.
BEHAR: Whoopi, I don’t think it's like anger management and he needs anger management. He just blows off steam. It's white male privilege, it’s called. Imagine if it's a woman or black guy doing that, not allowed.
SARA HAINES: Last night putting my kids to bed I was screaming so much that I turned to my husband and I said, my heart rate -- I'm racing. He said, maybe it was the yelling. And I wake up to this headline of him getting mad and I'm like, “imagine waking up being President Biden, you're too old still, the economy sucks, the border is open, your son’s a mess, what about that grandchild you don't claim, and he broke royal protocol with King Charles.” Every way he turns he does something wrong. He is allowed to get mad. I do at three small kids who do very little.
BEHAR: By the way, this whole notion that the economy is in bad shape, it's not. That's not true. And we are helping Ukraine.
HAINES: But that’s a headline you see.
BEHAR: The right-wing in this country doesn't want to help Ukraine. I mean I've never seen such a lack of patriotism in my left!
GOLDBERG: Well, because of what's his name, because of the last guy.
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: But I think it’s important to note though perception matters with the economy and like consumer prices have been up 15 percent over the last two years. If people go to the store and eggs are expensive--
BEHAR: In the world! In the world! We have overcome inflation better than any country in Europe! Since the pandemic!
FARAH GRIFFIN: I'm just saying, I think for people struggling to afford to make ends meet it's not good to just go out and say the economy is good. Look at how much better we deal.
BEHAR: No, but don't blame somebody who shouldn't be getting the blame!
HAINES: Presidents, since the beginning of time, get credit when it's good and it’s little their part and get credit when it's bad and it’s not always fair.
HOSTIN: We did have a pandemic that we haven't had in over in like 100 years. So, we have to put it into context.
[Crosstalk]
FARAH GRIFFIN: Continued spending is a driver of inflation. It's not just from the pandemic era. But, I had a broader point beyond the fact that the economy is not exactly golden.
HAINES: That was supposed to be a joke and it really held on here too long.
BEHAR: Was it a joke.
HAINES: Yeah.
FARAH GRIFFIN: The only thing – I totally buy this reporting ‘cause we've seen it come out on the campaign trail. Like, Biden can have a quick fuse temper. I just don't want to see my politicians mad when they’re running for re-election. I personally think Trump vs. Biden is like the rematch from Hell and I want anyone to come in and be inspiring and hopeful.
HOSTIN: Well, wasn't Trump the most angry in the world?
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s a page from the Trump playbook. I don't want two men, white men shouting at each other for the next year and a half until the presidential cycle.
BEHAR: He doesn't shout when he does a press – he has not shouted!
GOLDBERG: The president shout as much as black men do.
HOSTIN: What the reporting says is that he tends to be very intense with his staffers and interrogate his staffers. And some of his staffers feel like if he doesn't pay you that attention that means he doesn't think you're doing a good job. But I will say, had we heard that Obama was screaming and yelling at people, forget about it! And I do think that anger is a wasted emotion.
GOLDBERG: Listen, you would never have heard it because A, people spent eight years in shock that he was actually president.
HOSTIN: Exactly.
GOLDBERG: You know.
HOSTIN: And that he was doing a good job.
GOLDBERG: You know, so if he had been yelling, you know what they would say if Biden starts to show that -- when he's outside that he's yelling, they're going to say he's an angry old man. If Obama had been yelling, oh, he's an angry black man. I'm yelling. I'm an angry black woman. What about you?!
HAINES: I was an angry white mom.
GOLDBERG: There you go.
HOSTIN: I just think it’s very rich that after a president who used to like to throw his dinner at the wall in the White House –
BEHAR: With the ketchup.
HOSTIN: — with ketchup -- that steak with ketchup – that anyone would have the audacity to talk about anger in the White House.
GOLDBERG: And there you have it. We'll be back.
