The View hosts spent an entire segment defending a top Biden aide for using an expletive to describe the GOP, in a Glamour Magazine interview this week.
In fact, all of the hosts found the foul attack humorous as they themselves launched nasty attacks against people like Republican Senator Marco Rubio, for daring to call out Biden’s incoming Deputy Chief of Staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, for calling Republicans, on-record, “a bunch of f***ers.”
Whoopi Goldberg first reacted, laughing off the comments. “She also called Republicans a bunch of words that I’d love to say on TV but I can't and singled out Mitch McConnell who should have been singled out, okay?”
She added: “I thought they were not [chuckles] -- over the last four years everything we've heard, I didn't think her comments were bad at all.”
Whoopi has spent years now reminding viewers how awful and outrageous it was for McConnell to say he wanted to make sure President Obama was a “one-term president,” but somehow this is OK?
Co-host Ana Navarro grumbled the aide's words were "off message" before viciously attacking the GOP and Senator Marco Rubio for "tweeting Bible verses:"
That being said, I have have an issue with Marco Rubio and other Republicans -- I guess he's been a little busy tweeting Bible verses and he may have missed when the president they've been genuflecting to the last four years boasted about grabbing a woman by a word I can't say on TV or said that people that came from Africa and Latin America came from countries that I can't say on TV or called black athletes who took a knee sons of bitches and when Ted Yoho calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a bitch at the Capitol? What I'm going to say to you is that if you were okay with the likes of Steven Bannon as Chief of Staff and if you’re okay with the likes of Stephen Miller, if you've been okay with a president who paid hush money to a stripper and who has given us a slew of bad worded we can't say on TV then I think you really should save your outrage, your faux outrage for an Emmy or you know Oscar nominated speech at some point but just spare us this level of hypocrisy for the love of God. Spare me the hypocrisy at this point so close to Christmas. Give it to me as a -- [ speaking Spanish ]
Meanwhile, Sunny Hostin dismissed the "faux outrage" over O'Malley Dillon's comments that were missing "context." She made the comments sound nice: "I don't detect any lies there. She's saying they've been difficult, they’ve been difficult to work with."
Joy Behar also whined, "We are going to be on hypocrisy alert for the next four years so get used to it because it's going to be hitting us every minute!"
Echoing Navarro, she added, "Marco, shut up," and claimed this was all about the GOP's misogyny:
"Can I point out that all the people that they go after are [trying to say women in Spanish]?...It's a misogynistic way of attacking women. It's redundant," she argued.
Whoopi also claimed that Republicans have been calling Democrats "really kind of horrifying things" for the past four years, so this was no big deal. In fact, the Biden aide cursing out the GOP was "very nice:" "I think she's been very nice about it but let's not forget what the Republicans allowed to have happen here," she added.
The View hosts have routinely gone to absurd lengths to protect Joe Biden, whether it was defending the then-candidate yelling angrily at a voter, or comforting wife Jill Biden over the "disrespectful, personal attacks" against Hunter Biden.
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Read the transcript below:
The View
12/17/2020
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: President-Elect Joe Biden's incoming Deputy Chief of Staff Jen O'Malley Dillon has some up in arms though I don't get why because in the interview where she talks about how Biden was initially mocked for saying he can work with the GOP, but she also called Republicans a bunch of words that I would love to say on TV but I can't and singled out Mitch Mcconnell who should have been singled out, okay. What did you think of her
comments, Ana? I thought they were not -- over the last four years everything we've heard, I didn't think her comments were bad at all. What about you?
ANA NAVARRO: Girl, thank God nobody is recording us. Look, she was definitely off message, okay? Every time Joe Biden comes out in the campaign since being President-Elect he sounds like Barney the purple dinosaur. ‘I love you, you love me. We're a happy family.’ So he's been spreading a message of unity and inclusiveness and being welcoming to Republicans, to people who he needs to work with, so she was off message.
That being said, I have have an issue with Marco Rubio and other Republicans -- I guess he's been a little busy tweeting Bible verses and he may have missed when the president they've been genuflecting to the last four years boasted about grabbing a woman by a word I can't say on TV or said that people that came from Africa and Latin America came from countries that I can't say on TV or called black athletes who took a knee sons of bitchs and when Ted Yoho calls Alexandria ocasio-cortez a bitch at the Capitol? What I'm going to say to you is that if you were okay with the likes of Steven Bannon as Chief of Staff and if you’re okay with the likes of Stephen Miller, if you've been okay with a president who paid hush money to a stripper and who has given us a slew of bad worded we can't say on TV then I think you really should save your outrage, your faux outrage for an Emmy or you know Oscar nominated speech at some point but just spare us this level of hypocrisy for the love of God. Spare me the hypocrisy at this point so close to Christmas. Give it to me as a -- [ speaking Spanish ]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: All right. Now, was she too harsh, Sunny? Was she too harsh?
SUNNY HOSTIN: I second everything that Ana Navarro said including the -- [ speaking Spanish ] but I will say this, I don't know if she was off message. I think they are parsing what she said because she used an expletive. Because if you look at the context, if you look at everything she said, she said the President-Elect was able to connect with people over the sense of unity and then she says I'm not saying they are not a bunch of [pause]-- Mitch Mcconnell ‘s terrible-- then she also says this sense you couldn't wish for that, you couldn’t wish for this bipartisan ideal. He rejected that so she's just -- I don't detect any lies there. She's saying they've been difficult, they’ve been difficult to work with. This is the president that they're genuflecting to to but Joe Biden is different. He wants to work across the aisle. So I'm not sure where this faux outrage is coming from.
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JOY BEHAR: ...We are going to be on hypocrisy alert for the next four years so get used to it because it's going to be hitting us every minute, you know. They're talking about a guy who wants to overthrow a fair election who botches the pandemic so that innocent people are dying, who separates children from their parents and they're worried about this? You know, really, Marco, shut up and by the way, can I point out that all the people that they go after are -- [ speaking Spanish ] Is that how you say female or -- [ speaking Spanish ] Neera Tanden, Ocasio--forget about her, you know, and now this woman. It's a misogynistic way of attacking women. It's redundant.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Here's the bottom line for me, listen, I've heard people called so many things over the last four years I've heard Democrats called -- some really kind of horrifying things that, you know, I don't recall going back and forth before, the really nasty thing for me is that they sit there and they pretend like they're so hurt by this, they clutch the pearls, well, here comes everybody's hand. We're snatching your hand down and saying, listen, now is not the time to clutch. You should have clutched four years ago but you didn't so we get it. You know, but Mitch McConnell said, I'm going to make Barack Obama a one-term president. This man has been [ muted ] for 12 years now, so she's -- I think she's been very nice about it but let's not forget what the Republicans allowed to have happen here. And thank God they started to wake up and see that it doesn't work for the country. You can't, you know -- we are one nation, and when you screw the president, you screw the people. I mean that's just the way it is. So let's all just decide that we know what happened and we're going to move on. But let's not forget, you hurt a lot of people's feelings and I don't know that they really feel like you've apologized for some of the nasty things you've said. But what do I know? I'm just a hack on TV.
