To complete the liberal media’s latest flip-flop on supporting the filibuster, the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View spent part of Wednesday’s episode gushing about New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s 24-hour, so-called “filibusters” (he wasn’t blocking legislation). Moderator Whoopi Goldberg went so far as to ridiculously and falsely assert that “no one” in the media covered Booker speaking until he was done.
“People have been fighting since the election,” Goldberg touted and pivoting to Booker. “And just because we're not aware of it because media wasn't covering – Nobody was covering it.”
“That’s true,” clueless Joy Behar agreed. Pretend independent Sara Haines also agreed, but added: “No one covered it till he broke the record.”
Goldberg also decried how supposedly, “no one is talking about all the resistance that happening in the streets in America.”
It was unclear what she meant by “the resistance happening in the streets.” If she meant the terrorism directed at Tesla dealerships and Tesla drivers, media outlets had mentioned it. Perhaps she was confusing the media writ-large with The View since they haven’t discussed nor condemned it.
Co-host Sunny Hostin praised Booker for using the same unhinged rhetoric that she did. “And what I loved when he really began, he said this is not normal. This is a crisis. I have been saying this for so long! We are in a constitutional crisis! Now is not the time to act normally!” she shouted.
The cast was also obsessed with Booker’s bladder:
JOY BEHAR: He said all that without peeing once!
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s the real sunning part. That part.
HOSTIN: Without peeing [inaudible] He was dehydrated. He was fasting for three days. For three days.
Hostin also touted that Booker’s speech obtained “350 million likes on TikTok live,” as if that meant something. “That's more people than exist in the United States of America! So, think about that,” she demanded.
In recent weeks, Haines had decried the ‘theatrics’ of Republicans censuring Democrats for their antics and attention seeking misbehavior. But with Booker, she had nothing but praise for his theatrics:
I have said to react in rage and hot-headed just to show you're resisting and you’re fighting, is not effective. This was effective, this was calculated, coordinated, and disciplined. He did it have a village of other Democrats!
“That is what fighting looks like if you want results!” she declared.
She didn’t give a single example of the “results” that followed because of Booker’s non-filibuster.
Proving once again to be an empty suit for the Republican side, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin wanted him to become the new leader of the Democratic Party:
I've got nothing but respect for the fact he didn't eat, didn't drink, and didn't pee for that period of time. I mean, that shows the sort of old-school kind of fighting that I don’t feel like we see in politicians anymore. I think there’s going to be a lot of folks who are going to be looking at Cory Booker and saying maybe that's who should be leading the Senate.
“Democrats do have the power in the minority to go up there and say ‘I'm not going to stop talking until we reconsider this bill or this judicial nomination.’ The power of the minority exists for a reason,” she proclaimed.
And without directly calling out her co-host’s hypocrisy on filibusters, Farah Griffin weakly noted: “I know this table disagrees, the filibuster is a very powerful tool especially when it's a talking filibuster.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 2, 2025
11:19:39 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: And what I loved when he really began, he said this is not normal. This is a crisis. I have been saying this for so long! We are in a constitutional crisis! Now is not the time to act normally!
JOY BEHAR: He said all that without peeing once!
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s the real sunning part. That part.
HOSTIN: Without peeing [inaudible] He was dehydrated. He was fasting for three days. For three days.
SARA HAINES: And one thing we’ve talked about at this table but actually disagreed a little bit is what the fight should look like. I have said to react in rage and hot-headed just to show you're resisting and you’re fighting, is not effective. This was effective, this was calculated, coordinated, and disciplined. He did it have a village of other Democrats!
FARAH GRIFFIN: [Inaudible]
HAINES: He didn't pee but he used the question of, like, two dozen Democrats stood up to help him with that. That is what fighting looks like if you want results!
[Cheers and applause]
HOSTIN: It's also what leadership looks like. I just want to say one thing, 350 million likes on TikTok live. That's more people than exist in the United States of America! So think about that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I've got nothing but respect for the fact he didn't eat, didn't drink, and didn't pee for that period of time. I mean, that shows the sort of old-school kind of fighting that I don’t feel like we see in politicians anymore. I think there’s going to be a lot of folks who are going to be looking at Cory Booker and saying maybe that's who should be leading the Senate.
Something I still believe – and I know this table disagrees, the filibuster is a very powerful tool especially when it's a talking filibuster. It was a little different because he wasn't blocking specific legislation, but Democrats do have the power in the minority to go up there and say ‘I'm not going to stop talking until we reconsider this bill or this judicial nomination.’ The power of the minority exists for a reason.
HOSTIN: He stopped the business of the Senate. There was supposed to be a vote on the NATO rep. That didn't happen. When Harry Reid was the Democratic minority leader he knew how to get business done even though he was the minority leader.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know what, here's what I'm going to say. We can sit back and talk about what people should be doing, haven't been doing – People have been fighting since the election. And just because we're not aware of it because media wasn't covering – Nobody was covering it.
BEHAR: That’s true.
GOLDBERG: People weren't talking --
HAINES: No one covered it till he broke the record.
GOLDBERG: No. And no one is talking about all the resistance that happening in the streets in America. People are resisting. They are saying, no, no, no.
BEHAR: The town halls too.
GOLDBERG: These are all important because the bottom line is, it's great that Cory did what he did, but it really is going to be up to us, this is this fight is our fight.
HOSTIN: And he said that.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: I know. I know but I'm just going to put a period on what I'm saying.
(…)
