One of The View’s faux conservatives, Ana Navarro was less than pleased with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Monday following her first outing as the new host of NBC’s Meet the Press the previous day. But instead of noting how Welker lied to cover up the extreme position Democrats have on abortion and other topics, Navarro’s primary gripe was that Welker interviewed former President Trump at all. She equated it to “interviewing an insane person.”
After mispronouncing Welker’s name as “Walker,” Navarro initially praised her for being not only the first woman but the first woman of color to host the show:
Meet the Press … is the longest political show on TV. 76 years. This is the first time there is a woman -- a woman of color who is the host, and I think that's an incredible accomplishment and achievement. She was wonderful yesterday thanking the women who came in front of her and paved the way and opened the doors. She thanked Andrea Mitchell, who when she first applied in 1967 for a news job was told, women don't belong in the newsroom. She was incredibly classy.
With that formality out of the way, Navarro began to whine about Welker choosing to have a former president and current presidential candidate as her first big get for the show under her tenure. “I wish she had not done a Trump interview as her first one,” she bellyached.
“Because I think nobody ever wins with a Trump interview. Nobody looks good because it's just, like -- it's like interviewing an insane person. Actually, it is interviewing an insane person! Take off the ‘like.,’” she shrieked.
Navarro’s fellow faux conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin took the opposing view and praised Welker because “she got him to basically confess to a crime. I'm close friends with Kristin Welker. She knew what she was doing.”
Adding: “He doesn't take a lot of leading to kind of hang himself with his own rope for lack of a better way to put it.”
Farah Griffin also boasted that Welker was supposedly “one of the best interviewers out there” and that “She did the second presidential debate last time.”
But as NewsBusters documented at the time in 2020, she largely refused to touch the Hunter Biden laptop scandal for fear of hurting Joe Biden’s election chances, which we’re now seeing Hunter as a major source of evidence of Biden family corruption. She also avoided the Democratic Party chatter about packing the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal justices to counter the legitimate conservative majority.
Welker’s poor and biased performance was why NewsBusters warned against allowing NBC to host a Republican primary debate. And yet, they’ll be hosting the third debate.
Ana Navarro’s outrage at Kristen Welker’s interview with former President Trump was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from CarShield and Vicks. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 18, 2023
11:19:51 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: Look. I, you know, one of the things with Trump is that I find interviewing him and when I watch these interviews, it's like herding cats on a hot tin roof, right? It's just impossible. I want to talk about Kristin Walker.
SARA HAINES: Welker.
NAVARRO: Meet the Press is the longest – Welker. Is the longest –
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Show?
NAVARRO: Political show on TV. 76 years. This is the first time there is a woman -- a woman of color who is the host, and I think that's an incredible accomplishment and achievement. She was wonderful yesterday thanking the women who came in front of her and paved the way and opened the doors. She thanked Andrea Mitchell, who when she first applied in 1967 for a news job was told, women don't belong in the newsroom. She was incredibly classy.
I wish she had not done a Trump interview as her first one. Because I think nobody ever wins with a Trump interview. Nobody looks good because it's just, like -- it's like interviewing an insane person. Actually, it is interviewing an insane person! Take off the “like.”
SUNNY HOSTIN (to Alyssa Farah Griffin): You think you should hear from him.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think we do have to hear from him. I think Kristin Welker is one of the best interviewers out there. She did the second presidential debate last time. And right there she got him to basically confess to a crime. I'm close friends with Kristin Welker. She knew what she was doing.
HOSTIN: She said 60 people!
FARAH GRIFFIN: She was kind of like, ‘weren’t you the one listening.’. He doesn't take a lot of leading to kind of hang himself with his own rope for lack of a better way to put it.
But I do want to say one thing because I have been very critical of Joe Biden and his age, and, you know, some of the flubs and things that we're dealing with. Well, our old friend Donald Trump was also out this weekend and in the course of, like, 30 seconds, he said, we're about to spark World War II. He was convinced he was running against Barack Obama.
So, I would just like to state for the record, he's only a couple of years younger. He's not mentally equipped, but he's also an unfit character wise.
HOSTIN: And he said Obama twice. And I’m like, “Obama, you didn’t run against him.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: He was very confused. But to my party, if we want to win, Nikki Haley is someone who would be a much better choice.
NAVARRO: Can you imagine confusing Obama and Biden? Cause they look so much alike.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Even Hillary he was talking about.
GOLDBERG: He thought a lot of dead people were still alive. So, that is not a surprise.
NAVARRO: [Inaudible] dead people didn't vote for him!
GOLDBERG: He said what he meant and he meant what he said.
HOSTIN: Yes, he did.
GOLDBERG: And it makes the trial a lot easier to do because he's admitted it once again, but hey. Let's just go through the trial because that's what we're supposed to do. We got to do it the right way, but we'll be right back.
