Instead of just hyping up the Barbie movie and discussing what they liked about it, the liberal ladies of The View spent part of their A-block Tuesday whining about some conservative commentators and politicians panning the movie. Their reaction came after they spent a lot of their July 20 show clutching their pearls and spewing lies about a hit country song being racist.
In the montage of reactions, which included Fox News’s Rachel Campos-Duffy from July 3 (three weeks ago) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) (from last week), Daily Wire Shapiro’s reaction was the only one from after the movie was released. Out of his almost 43-minute-long review on Twitter, this was the 14 seconds they pulled out:
I find it upsetting when material that is based on children's IP and marketed to little girls actually ends up being angry feminist claptrap that alienates men from women, undermines basic human values, and promotes falsehood all at the same time.
“It's a movie!” moderator Whoopi Goldberg shouted. “It's a movie about a doll! I thought y'all would be happy! She doesn't have any genitalia, so there’s no sex involved. Ken has no genitalia, so he can't be doing -- It's a doll movie!”
Goldberg didn’t try to argue that there weren’t liberal cultural pushes in the movie, instead, she tried to argue that it all went over the heads of the kids in the audience:
And you know who -- the kids know it's colorful and it's Barbie. They haven't lived through what the adults have lived through. So when they're seeing this movie, that's not how they're looking at it. The kids are looking at it as a Barbie movie. You guys, I want you all to tell your daughters why you're not taking them to see the Barbie movie. I want to you explain to them what's wrong with Barbie.
Last week, Goldberg didn’t think of country star Jason Aldean’s Try That in a Small Town as just ‘a song’ when she was falsely claiming the song had “racist lyrics.”
Faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin falsely suggested the song was about racist mobs hunting down black men, but on the reaction to the Barbie movie she bloviated: “I also just aspire to have, like, the time and energy to get worked up over a doll movie … Is there not something more important going on in the world to get super passionate about?”
She went on to say that the collection of reactions they cherry-picked “kind of shows how the right-wing influencers are actually out of touch with actual Republicans.” She also scoffed that the critique that the movie was emasculating and racist co-host Sunny Hostin attacked Shapiro’s voice:
FARAH GRIFFIN: But also, I'm so taken by some of these right-wing men who have all these thoughts on masculinity. Like somehow the Barbie movie is going to make them feel emasculated. No, caring about it is honestly the most emasculating thing I can think about.
HOSTIN: I think the last guy’s voice emasculated him.
It’s hard to believe that anyone could ever accuse Hostin of being an intellectual.
It's worth noting that the show itself was also sponsored by a Barbie movie-themed commercial for Progressive insurance.
The View’s hypocritical freak out was made possible because of lucrative sponsorship from Ensure and Progressive. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 25, 2023
11:04:39 a.m. Eastern(…)
BEN SHAPIRO: I find it upsetting when material that is based on children's IP and marketed to little girls actually ends up being angry feminist claptrap that alienates men from women, undermines basic human values, and promotes falsehood all at the same time.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: Wow.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: It's a movie!
[Laughter]
It's a movie about a doll!
[Applause]
I thought y'all would be happy! She doesn't have any genitalia, so there’s no sex involved. Ken has no genitalia, so he can't be doing -- It's a doll movie!
[Laughter]
And you know who -- the kids know it's colorful and its Barbie. They haven't lived through what the adults have lived through. So when they're seeing this movie, that's not how they're looking at it. The kids are looking at it as a Barbie movie. You guys, I want you all to tell your daughters why you're not taking them to see the Barbie movie. I want to you explain to them what's wrong with Barbie.
Now, look, I love my Barbie. [Puts foot on the table to show off acrylic boots with Barbie heads inside]
[Applause]
BEHAR: Get a close-up.
GOLDBERG: All right?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: My gosh.
GOLDBERG: It's a doll movie guys. I'm shocked that that's what is freaking you out these days.
(…)
11:06:15 a.m. Eastern
FARAH GRIFFIN: I also just aspire to have, like, the time and energy to get worked up over a doll movie. Like, it reminds me of the Bud Light scandal or whatever. Is there not something more important going on in the world to get super passionate about?
But it is, to Joy's point, it kind of shows how the right-wing influencers are actually out of touch with actual Republicans. Every girlfriend of mine, Republican and Democrat lined up this weekend to see it. There were memes, people were dressing up to go see it. It's fun, Greta Gerwig is brilliant.
But also, I'm so taken by some of these right-wing men who have all these thoughts on masculinity. Like somehow the Barbie movie is going to make them feel emasculated. No, caring about it is honestly the most emasculating thing I can think about.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think the last guy’s voice emasculated him.
(…)
