After Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s The View, it’s no wonder the show was having such a hard time finding a conservative to fill former co-host Meghan McCain’s seat. Between co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar alone, there were accusations the Republican Party wanted to steal the right to vote from black Americans with women next on the list and wanting to “destroy” the entire country. All of it unhinged lies.
According to Goldberg, the “big plan” the right cooked up was to take away the right to vote from all minority groups: “If you take those voting rights away, people are going to be so angry, but there will be nothing they can do about it because we're in charge.”
She then added: “Next thing comes the women. We're going to take your rights away just like we’re taking X, Y, and Z because there’ll be nothing you can do.”
Goldberg followed up with an evidence-free assertion that not only was slavery not allowed to be taught in schools but also Anne Frank and thus the Holocaust:
Listen, when we talk about anti-Semitism, and we talk about Anne Frank and we can't teach what happened to black people, and, you know, there's all kinds of stuff that's suddenly starting to disappear now. That isn't -- that is being sort of called – “Well, that’s just you whining. That's just you saying this is happening to me.”
A couple of minutes later, Behar went to an even darker place and suggested the Republican Party was ready to do away with the First Amendment like in Poland. “[L]et's say the autocrat who's running gets, like 90 percent of the air time. The other one gets 10 percent. They are, you know, censoring journalists. That will happen here,” she said. “That will happen here, I think, if the Republicans are back in power.”
Whining about opposition getting a fraction of the time to speak is rich when it’s on a show with the vast majority of the co-hosts firmly on the left, and this hostile to the Republican view.
Spewing even more noxious bile, Behar added: “You can see that they're intractable right now. You cannot reason with these people. They are shameless, and they will destroy us.”
As they were nearing the commercial break, and after co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Democrats always have to “save the country,” Goldberg equated Republican gatherings to sounding like beetles “agitating” their legs and reiterated the falsehood that the GOP were targeting women:
GOLDBERG: All of y'all thinking this is not going to happen, it's happening!
HOSTIN: Because your vote is not going to count now.
GOLDBERG: That's it. If you can find a place to go and do it.
[CROSSTALK]
BEHAR: If you can't vote, you can't have a country. I'm sorry.
GOLDBERG: If you can't vote, you can't have a country. That's right.
Unironically, at one point Goldberg had either a case of projection or a Freudian slip when she huffed that some Americans “want to be manipulated.” This show has dedicated viewers.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 18, 2022
11:26:30 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Listen. This is part of the big plan. This is part of the big plan to control what happens in America, I believe, what happens in America. If you take those voting rights away, people are going to be so angry, but there will be nothing they can do about it because we're in charge.
Next thing comes the women. We're going to take your rights away just like we’re taking X, Y, and Z because there’ll be nothing you can do.
This country seemingly or many people in it, seemingly want to be manipulated.
JOY BEHAR: To do -- oh. I was going to say to destroy it.
GOLDBERG: Well, I don't know if they realize that it will be destructive. Because – Listen, when we talk about anti-Semitism, and we talk about Anne Frank and we can't teach what happened to black people, and, you know, there's all kinds of stuff that's suddenly starting to disappear now. That isn't -- that is being sort of called – “Well, that’s just you whining. That's just you saying this is happening to me.”
SUNNY HOSTIN: It's coordinated though.
(…)
11:28:17 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: This has been going on for quite some time as you know.
BEHAR: I was going to say, I read a lot about what's going on in the world and Hungary and Poland, and they're doing very badly with freedom of speech. They now have, like, let's say the autocrat who's running gets, like 90 percent of the air time. The other one gets 10 percent. They are, you know, censoring journalists. That will happen here.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
BEHAR: That will happen here, I think, if the Republicans are back in power. You can see that they're intractable right now. You cannot reason with these people. They are shameless, and they will destroy us.
[CROSSTALK]
I sound like its hyperbole, but I’ve been around a long time, and I've seen what can happen.
HOSTIN: Well, I think, it’s true and it's a cycle, and I've been reading a book about, sort of, history repeating itself, and they're saying that --
BEHAR: Yes!
HOSTIN: -- they’ve studied the cycles of history. I can't remember the name off the top of my head.
But again, the Democrats, sort of, do this over and over and over again. Right? They get into power, and then they save the country, and then they lean to the middle, and they put up agendas that sort of are supposed to not necessarily help the communities that put them into power, but instead help the communities that didn't put them into power, and then they lose power.
(…)
11:29:48 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: And it's the same whenever those groups get together, and they start agitating like beetles. You hear their legs going. This is happening. It's happening, and all you women sitting out there, if you thought the abortion fight was nasty, just wait. Just wait. All of y'all thinking this is not going to happen, it's happening!
HOSTIN: Because your vote is not going to count now.
GOLDBERG: That's it. If you can find a place to go and do it.
[CROSSTALK]
BEHAR: If you can't vote, you can't have a country. I'm sorry.
GOLDBERG: If you can't vote, you can't have a country. That's right.
