The ladies of The View were only in their second week back after their summer break and they were already reminiscing about it. During their Thursday show, co-host Joy Behar recalled how pleasant things were for her mentally when she unplugged from the news and didn’t need to be prepared for the show every day. She eventually blamed both for an unhinged she launched on young Republicans, calling them “dumb” and falsely saying they “steal votes.”
For the most part, the cast believed – as moderator Whoopi Goldberg framed it – that constantly being plugged into the 24-hour news cycle was harmful to their mental health:
GOLDBERG: But we get wrapped up because we have a 24-hour news cycle and it comes from everywhere! It comes out of the ground. It comes out of the leaves. It’s always on.
SUNNY HOSTIN: You said that when you went away and you unplugged and this is the first time I've gone away and unplugged and my husband said it was the happiest he's ever seen me.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s so good for you.
GOLDBERG: There is nothing better.
“I think it's this job actually. Because we have to constantly be on top of the news,” Behar lamented. “And then come out here and make mistakes. Like I said all young Republicans are stupid. I don't mean all young Republicans.”
She was referring to a comment she made earlier in the show when she lashed out at “the young generation of Republicans” for being “dumb”:
This business about the aging that keeps coming up and talking about the young generation, the young generation of Republicans are dumb. You've got that Vivek Ramasmarmy. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene. You've got – wait a second – Lauren Bubblehead, Matt Gaetz.
Her unhinged ranting also dipped into election denialism and conspiracy theories. Behar claimed Republicans “steal votes” from other Republicans and don’t count them. “Yes, they will vote, as you say, these good Republicans but their vote may not be counted because of all the shenanigans going on that side,” she shrieked.
Racist co-host Sunny Hostin agreed that the GOP does engage in “most of those shenanigans” but instead of doing it to themselves, they supposedly target “African American community because they don't want them to vote Democrat. That’s where most of the shenanigans happen.”
After Behar blamed that outburst on her mental health, Goldberg proclaimed that one of the “beautiful” things about their job was “these are our opinions. You don't have to agree with them. But we are allowed to have them. And that’s the beauty.”
“And maybe if people would stop attacking us for our opinions, that would be nice too,” Hostin chided, likely whining about getting called out for her racist comments against white people.
Joy Behar’s lies and smears against the Republican Party and young Republicans were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Humana and Ashely Homestore. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 14, 2023
11:08:31 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: This business about the aging that keeps coming up and talking about the young generation, the young generation of Republicans are dumb. You've got that Vivek Ramasmarmy. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene. You've got – wait a second – Lauren Bubblehead, Matt Gaetz.
(…)
11:10:31 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: You know – What about – I ask you this question: What about the fact that we have seen in the last election that they will steal votes, that they say something about the Dominion machines, that they don't count the votes, and the gerrymandering. Yes, they will vote, as you say, these good Republicans but their vote may not be counted because of all the shenanigans going on that side.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Although, most of those shenanigans are in the African American community because they don't want them to vote Democrat. That’s where most of the shenanigans happen.
(…)
11:28:42 a.m. Eastern
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: But we get wrapped up because we have a 24-hour news cycle and it comes from everywhere! It comes out of the ground. It comes out of the leaves. It’s always on.
HOSTIN: You said that when you went away and you unplugged and this is the first time I've gone away and unplugged and my husband said it was the happiest he's ever seen me.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s so good for you.
GOLDBERG: There is nothing better.
BEHAR: I think it's this job actually.
[Laughter]
Because we have to constantly be on top of the news.
FARAH GRIFFIN: We have to monitor the news.
BEHAR: And then come out here and make mistakes. Like I said all young Republicans are stupid. I don't mean all young Republicans. I mean –
SARA HAINES: House Republicans!
JOY BEHAR: - Marjorie Taylor Greene, most people who are in charge of the party right now who are holding Kevin McCarty by the short hairs.
GOLDBERG: And the other beautiful – The other thing about this job is, these are our opinions. You don't have to agree with them. But we are allowed to have them. And that’s the beauty.
[Applause]
HOSTIN: And maybe if people would stop attacking us for our opinions, that would be nice too.
HAINES: Can I say one thing about what you were saying, one of the best things I ever learned was with all these headlines and everything we watch, we're so powerless. The instant --
GOLDBERG: We feel powerless.
HAINES: We feel powerless. To bring your power back and to give you hope always when you can't help yourself help someone else because the second you do that, you effectuate change that reminds you that it was always within us.
HOSTIN: You should have been a therapist.
HAINES: I was wanting to be a minister.
FARAH GRIFFIN: That would be interest.
HAINES: A minister or a teacher.
BEHAR: That sounds like a little more minister.
HAINES: It feels a little more ministry.
(…)
