Disturbingly, The View was under the ABC News umbrella and was not classified as an entertainment show. They’ve also bragged about being held to the same standards as every other ABC journalist. They flouted this on Wednesday’s episode when moderator Whoopi Goldberg falsely asserted that Republicans were clamoring to bring back slavery, and co-host Joy Behar falsely claimed Justice Samuel Alito was appointed by former President Trump.
In the wake of the Arizona Supreme Court upholding an abortion ban from the 1860s, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) suggested that Alito had hidden secret language in his majority opinion that gave the power to the states to regulate abortions how they sought fit:
Justice Samuel Alito is the person who wrote for the majority, and he said, “Roe's failure even to note the overwhelming consensus of state laws in effect in 1868 is striking.” So, to be very clear, he wrote a road map for the states so that they could look in their books and go back to the 1860s, even before Arizona was founded, which was in 1912, and gave them the game book.
In reality, returning abortion law decisions to the states was the entire point of Dobbs V. Jackson.
Hostin being a former federal prosecutor made that analysis and what followed even more disheartening. When Behar falsely claimed that Trump was the president who appointed Alito (when it was President George W. Bush), Hostin backed her up:
BEHAR: And he was appointed by Donald Trump.
HOSTIN: Yes, he was.
The next bit of disinformation that was spewed came from Goldberg building off the abortion discussion. According to her twisted brain, not only were Republicans interested in “rolling back” so-called “abortion rights,” “in their minds they want to bring slavery back. They're okay with it.”
She proclaimed all that without any evidence whatsoever.
Goldberg followed up by praising progressive activist justices on the bench. “One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better. You don't generally fight to make stuff worse,” she said.
“So, how is that going to roll? How is that going to roll? What's the next thing? Because, you know on this -- with all of this comes birth control. With all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have had put in place to make sure that we were doing better than we were before,” she added.
It was only then did Behar issued a correction for her misinformation about Alito. “Just let me make a correction. It was George W. Bush who appointed Alito, not Trump,” she said. Hostin also backed her up on that as well, agreeing, “It wasn’t Trump.”
At least Hostin was a ride-or-die no matter what comes out of their mouths?
The View’s executive producer, Brian Teta recently did an interview with Deadline where he made a big deal out of how they don’t want to give people like Trump a platform to spread disinformation and misinformation. Apparently, that right was exclusive to the co-hosts.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 10, 2024
11:06:27 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: Justice Samuel Alito is the person who wrote for the majority, and he said, “Roe's failure even to note the overwhelming consensus of state laws in effect in 1868 is striking.” So be very clear, he wrote a road map for the states so that they could look in their books and go back to the 1860s, even before Arizona was founded, which was in 1912, and gave them the game book.
JOY BEHAR: And he was appointed by Donald Trump.
HOSTIN: Yes, he was.
BEHAR: Who took the credit for overthrowing Roe V. Wade.
(…)
11:07:53 a.m. Eastern
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Take a look at -- Take a look at the things that they're rolling back. Remember I said ages ago, you know, in their minds they want to bring slavery back. They're okay with it because –You see, things change. One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better. You don't generally fight to make stuff worse.
HOSTIN: Or to roll back.
GOLDBERG: Or to roll back. And to me, if you're okay rolling that back when things were not even a state, when we had no say.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: So, how is that going to roll? How is that going to roll? What's the next thing? Because, you know on this -- with all of this comes birth control. With all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have had put in place to make sure that we were doing better than we were before.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Hold on because I have to make a correction.
ANA NAVARRO: Hold on. I haven't spoken on this and I’d like to.
BEHAR: Just let me make a correction.
NAVARRO: Go ahead.
BEHAR: It was George W. Bush who appointed Alito, not Trump.
HOSTIN: It wasn’t Trump.
NAVARRO: Well, but –
BEHAR: Trump just got the others in which helped Alito.
(…)
