On Friday's edition of The View, Sunny Hostin unleashed an angry tirade about people criticizing Samantha Bee instead of Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump. She reprised the full Kanye West attack on George W. Bush during a Hurricane Katrina telethon: "He doesn't care about African-Americans in this country!"
SUNNY HOSTIN: The network [TBS] has apologized for it, you know, Samantha Bee has apologized for it, My issue is we're talking now about Samantha Bee, but we're not talking about Roseanne’s racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, and the president has yet to come out and condemn those comments. That's what we should be talking about. I mean, he comes out against Colin Kaepernick. He comes out against Starbucks because they ban the Christmas cup. Why hasn't he come out about the two men – what happened to the two black men at the Starbucks? Why hasn’t he come out about that? He wants to talk about everything but the actual racism that's going on in our country with African-American men.
SARA HAINES: I don't think he sees them as different. That's the problem here.
HOSTIN: Oh, I think he sees them as very different. He doesn't care about African-Americans in this country! That's the problem. [Applause]
ANA NAVARRO: Everybody can see that it is different, but this plays into his narrative of wanting to get rid of a foe. Trump likes people who are good to him, who suck up to like him, like Roseanne, who support him, like Roseanne. He does not like people who confront him and criticize him like Sam Bee. So this is taking advantage of a mistake she made, and unlike Donald Trump and the people who work in his White House, she acknowledged the mistake, she apologized genuinely for the mistake and she regretted it.
PAULA FARIS: But shouldn’t there be consequences? Does that mean you can say anything? And then ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’? There should be no consequences?
JOY BEHAR The consequences are that the advertisers [a few] pulled out and that's the threat to the show.
As the moderator (sitting in for Whoopi Goldberg), Behar then asked if the C-word was acceptable. Haines said the word isn't funny. Faris said the C-word was worse as a "female-on-female crime. We're supposed to be in it together as women."
Then she asked if it was worse if a man used it. Navarro said she doesn't like the N-word when blacks use it, and she doesn't like the C-word when women use it. Behar concluded "People are entitled to use the words that belong to them." We straight white men need to know which words belong to us that everyone else is forbidden from using.
