Masters of the subject, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View kicked off their Thursday show by sounding off on independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his past diagnosis of having a dead worm in his brain. The irony that they, of all people, were going to mock someone else for having a parasite in their brain was completely lost on the cast.
Following a soundbite of Kennedy explaining that he got the parasite while in India and that he had made a full recovery, moderator Whoopi Goldberg scoffed at his confidence. “Really? But he insists he's still up for the gig, and even tweeted – and I don't know why – that he could eat five more worms and still beat you-know-who and Biden in a debate,” she said.
Co-host and “comedian” Joy Behar suggested – without evidence – that the brain worm was “the reason for his irrational behavior,” but wanted to know: “what is Trump's excuse?” “Does he also have a worm in his brain?” she quipped. “We know he suffers from narcolepsy. He's always falling asleep.”
Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) was worried about Kennedy’s “cognitive function.” Pretend-independent Sara Haines reminded Hostin that Kennedy “did not have this treated;” and despite it being Kennedy’s body and his choice, Hostin bloviated that she was “uncomfortable with the worm being there.”
Faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin and Behar played off of each other to suggest brain problems were what Kennedy and Trump supporters wanted:
FARAH GRIFFIN: It's crazy but before you roast RFK too hard it's now showing that he may actually take more votes from Donald Trump than Joe Biden.
BEHAR: Well sure, because they both have weird brains. So it makes sense. It makes sense.
Kennedy might have a dead worm in his brain, but how does The View cast explain the things that come out of their mouths?
In 2022, Goldberg claimed the Holocaust “isn’t about race.” She described the Holocaust as “white people doing it to white people. So, this is y'all go fight amongst yourselves.”
Back in February, Behar claimed NATO was the military alliance that defeated Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. “Because I know history,” she ironically proclaimed in her rant. “And Putin will not stop at Ukraine if they don't -- if we don't help them. And Trump is saying he'll pull out of NATO. These are allies. We were all in this together in World War II, and now he’s going to pull out of this?! Outrageous!”
Just last month, Hostin asserted that “climate change” was to blame for the solar eclipse and earthquakes. And in March, Haines declared: “Everyone belongs at a drag show!”
As for The View’s fake Republicans, Farah Griffin cried that “sexism” was to blame for then GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s lack of endorsements. And while co-host Ana Navarro wasn’t on set to rip Kennedy, she’s denied the existence of his candidacy in the past and defends allegedly corrupt Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (NJ).
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 9, 2024
11:02:35 a.m. Eastern(…)
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Parasites are very common in India where I had done a lot of environmental work, and it comes from eating undercooked pork.
[Transition]
PODCAST HOST: So, you've made a full recovery. Is that fair to say?
KENNEDY: Yeah.
[Cuts back to live]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Really?
[Laughter]
But he insists he's still up for the gig, and even tweeted – and I don't know why – that he could eat five more worms and still beat you-know-who and Biden in a debate.
JOY BEHAR: Well, Whoopi. Now we know the reason for his irrational behavior, but what is Trump's excuse?
[Laughter]
Does he also have a worm in his brain? We know he suffers from narcolepsy. He's always falling asleep.
GOLDBERG: It's crazy. He had a worm that died in his brain and I guess atrophied and is now part of his brain matter.
SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s part of his brain!
BEHAR: To make fun of the other two candidates, Biden and Trump, he's not exactly Arnold Schwarzenegger and now we know he has these ailments. He had other stuff years ago.
(…)
11:04:25 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: That worm doesn’t die – well, it dies in your brain and then calcified and it stays there forever.
GOLDBERG: Didn't I say that just a minute ago?
HOSTIN: I thought –
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: To hear Sanjay say it, for me, was sort of like – that worm is there, and I don't know how your cognitive function is still --
SARA HAINES: He did not have this treated, by the way. He did not have this treated.
HOSTIN: No.
HAINES: So, his is still in there like you're saying and it’s like a tumor.
HOSTIN: Although, Sanjay sais sometimes you don’t have to – Now, I'm like quoting Sanjay. But Sanjay said you don't have to get it treated but he has treated it. But that worm is still there. I'm uncomfortable with the worm being there.
(…)
11:05:11 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's crazy but before you roast RFK too hard it's now showing that he may actually take more votes from Donald Trump than Joe Biden.
BEHAR: Well sure, because they both have weird brains. So it makes sense. It makes sense.
(…)
