Thursday, The View hosts, like the rest of the liberal media, were still reeling over the close presidential race. Pretending like they haven’t spent the last four years attacking President Trump’s supporters with vile names, the haughty hosts boasted how they would refrain from calling his voters “racists” but insisted they were “selfish” people who didn’t care about the “plight” of their fellow Americans.
The co-hosts started off the show complaining about how sad it was to see half of America doesn’t agree with them politically. “It's such a disheartening -- this election was disheartening in many ways because we see that half the country ignores the terrible things that he's done for whatever reason!,” co-host Joy Behar griped.
Fellow co-host Sunny Hostin was more forceful, saying half the country was “selfish” and "un-American" and didn’t care about anyone but themselves:
....[F]or the past four years, this president has shown us that he is a misogynist, that he is homophobic, that he is racist, and that he mismanaged a coronavirus pandemic to the tune of over 250,000 American deaths. Yet 50% of America saw all of that and looked the other way to their brothers and their sisters and said, I'm going to vote for him anyway, and that is really disheartening because for me, that means that you are selfish, right? I'm not going to say that 50% of Americans are racist and sexist and homophobic, but I will say that that tells me that they will look the other way to that kind of behavior to the plight of their fellow Americans if personally they feel that they are doing okay and that they will do better under that type of presidency, and that I think is despicable. It is un-American.
So all of a sudden she's above calling conservatives names? Because she had no problem calling them racist or sexist in 2017, in 2018, in 2019 and 2020.
But more tolerant liberal co-host Sara Haines pushed back on Hostin’s claims, saying that everyone is selfish because they vote for the issues that are important to them. But Hostin didn't want to hear that and insisted that our democracy would fail unless every American was united behind liberal policies on gender, immigration, and blaming Trump for a worldwide virus:
But the problem, Sara, though is that our very democracy is founded on the notion of collective -- of a collective spirit, we the people, right? We the people, for the people, by the people, and unless you have that collective social contract, our democracy fails. So when you see 50% of the country just looking the other way at the plight of 50% or more of the country, at the plight of the LGBTQ community, at the plight of African-Americans, at the plight of immigrants that their children are being torn from them at the border, at the plight of people that are losing their spouses, their children, their brothers, their sisters from a deadly virus because this president could not control it because he lied to us, when you see that and you still continue to vote for yourself --
Behar echoed her co-hosts’ self-righteous sentiment that they shouldn’t call Trump voters names but they needed to be called out for being brainwashed by conservative media to vote against their own interests:
There's no reason to call people names, Sara. I agree with what. What I don't understand is how the Republican party has persuaded the working person that you're referring to, to vote for a party that does nothing for them. A party -- that stands against unions, for instance. A party that stands against the minimum wage or worker protections. They have been totally brainwashed by the Republicans to think that they're the party that's going to help them when, in fact, we have seen evidence that that is not true. So I don't want to call anybody any names. What I want people to do is educate yourself about the truth and stop watching these outlets that are lying to you. That's all.
Give me a break. As recently as last Friday Behar was calling Trump voters racists and two weeks before that sexists. Just like Hostin, it’s a fond habit of hers.
After more scolding from Hostin about the "character" of America being exposed, Behar ended the segment demanding conservatives have a "come to Jesus moment" for their sin of voting for the President:
A lot of people in this country need to have a come to Jesus moment and look in the mirror and see what they did. She's right about a lot of it. Again, we don't call people names, but look in the mirror. Did I vote because of my pocketbook and did I ignore the fact that children are being separated from their parents? Did I vote because of I don't want black people moving into the suburbs and ignore the fact that black people are always behind the eight ball in this country and can't get a leg up because of my votes?
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Read a transcript below:
The View
11/5/2020
SUNNY HOSTIN: [W]ell, it certainly makes me question the polls, the pollsters, and Whoopi, you and I have been saying from the very beginning we don't trust them and I especially don't trust this alleged exit polling of black male voters because we know the majority of black votes that are getting counted now were early votes and absentee votes, and exit polls are notoriously mercurial, notoriously incorrect, and the notion that the right is pushing that Trump got more black votes, especially more black male votes is just categorically I think incorrect, but the other thing
is that I am actually surprised that this race has been so close, not because of the pollsters, but more importantly because of the botched job that this president did. I mean, for the past four years, this president has shown us that he is a misogynist, that he is homophobic, that he is racist, and that he mismanaged a coronavirus pandemic to the tune of over 250,000 American deaths. Yet 50% of America saw all of that and looked the other way to their brothers and their sisters and said, I'm going to vote for him anyway, and that is really disheartening because for me, that means that you are selfish, right? I'm not going to say that 50% of Americans are racist and sexist and homophobic, but I will say that that tells me that they will look the other way to that kind of behavior to the plight of their fellow Americans if personally they feel that they are doing okay and that they will do better under that type of presidency, and that I think is despicable. It is un-American.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, Sara, as you're seeing the numbers sort of shift about how many people voted for who, do you think perhaps they were incorrect in some of their conclusions they threw out before they -- before they knew how the voting was actually going? Does it change some of what you have heard?
SARA HAINES: Well, absolutely. Rahm Emanuel just said last week on our air that the three things you look for, and this is why we knew a blue wave was coming was money, messaging and math. The money didn't buy the victories they thought because the Democrats outearned by a lot. The math didn't add up in the polls and the messaging fell short. I disagree with sunny. I felt a disheartening feeling when I looked at the map because of how red it was, but I think to automatically assume that half of the country is selfish, voting is a selfish thing. That's why we always say, you know, we oftentimes assign people to groups, like, if you are a woman, you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you are black, we all vote one way, if you are hispanic, we all -- we don't. We vote for what affects our day-to-day lives. Van Jones said in 2016 --
JOY BEHAR: Yeah.
HAINES: -- When he went around the country, he talked about being with white voters that had voted for president Obama that were now voting for Trump and he said he looked at them with a new set of eyes. They were voting on the economy because they couldn't put food on their table, and whether I agree with the economy being the reason to vote for Trump or not, that's their choice. That's their vote, and they're just as American as we are. They have a different viewpoint. That was the part that really shocked me.
HOSTIN: But the problem --
HAINES: On election night of how different it was.
HOSTIN: But the problem, Sara, though is that our very democracy is founded on the notion of collective -- of a collective spirit, we the people, right? We the people, for the people, by the people, and unless you have that collective social contract, our democracy fails. So when you see 50% of the country just looking the other way at the plight of 50% or more of the country, at the plight of the LGBTQ community, at the plight of African-Americans, at the plight of immigrants that their children are being torn from them at the border, at the plight of people that are losing their spouses, their children, their brothers, their sisters from a deadly virus because this president could not control it because he lied to us, when you see that and you still continue to vote for yourself --
[Cross-talk]
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HAINES: Well, I was going to build off what Sunny was saying. A lot of the reasons that are at the top of my list of things I vote for are a woman's right to choose, LGBTQ, the environment, which almost always puts me voting for mostly Democrat candidates, but I have the privilege of doing that because I don't work check to check to put food on the table, or I don't battle every day losing my job or trying to get back to work or worrying about health care. I look at the empathy, and I look at people, how can you want to violate my body but protect your weapons and the 2nd amendment? But we can’t expect empathy if we don’t give it as well. People were raised in different places and they have different things at the top of their ballot that they're voting for, and I think when we start conversations, which sunny, you clarified. You said, I'm not calling them racist, I’m not calling them sexist, but you say they're turning their cheek. A lot of people online went to say, wow, half the country is racist. Half the country is this. But When we start conversations, which you did not. I'm just clarifying. When we assign conversations to those broad strokes to anyone that is other than us, it's not going to lead to a productive conversation. It's going to keep people at opposite ends of the spectrum at the dining room table until we if I can out how to have a healthier conversation about these differences.
HOSTIN: But I think that conversation does have to be an honest one. I'm sorry.
BEHAR: There's no reason to call people names, Sara. I agree with what. What I don't understand is how the Republican party has persuaded the working person that you're referring to, to vote for a party that does nothing for them, a party --
HAINES: I agree with that.
BEHAR: -- That stands against unions, for instance. A party that stands against the minimum wage or worker protections. They have been totally brainwashed by the Republicans to think that they're the party that's going to help them when, in fact, we have seen evidence that that is not true. So I don't want to call anybody any names. What I want people to do is educate yourself about the truth and stop watching these outlets that are lying to you. That's all.
[cross-talk]
HOSTIN: But this conversation must be honest. I'm not saying that it has to be filled with name-calling, but it cannot be filled with lies.
BEHAR: Right.
HOSTIN: This election showed us what the true character of many Americans is, and again, I'm not saying that if you voted for Trump that you are a racist, that you are a homophobe, that you are a sexist, that you are against transgender rights. What I will say if you voted for Trump, you then did look the other way at the fact that he is not allowing ransgender brothers and sisters from serving in the military, that he has called people from African countries, those people are from [ muted ] . He slandered women.
BEHAR: Children. Children at the border.
HOSTIN: Terrible terrible things. That he has separated children from their families. If you voted for him, then all of those things are okay with you because of your own personal circumstance, and that is the discussion that has to be had. That is an honest discussion.
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BEHAR: A lot of people need to have -- excuse me. A lot of people in this country need to have a come to Jesus moment and look in the mirror and see what they did. She's right about a lot of it. Again, we don't call people names, but look in the mirror. Did I vote because of my pocketbook and did I ignore the fact that children are being separated from their parents? Did I vote because of I don't want black people moving into the suburbs and ignore the fact that black people are always behind the eight ball in this country and can't get a leg up because of my votes? People have to look in the mirror. She's right.
