ABC News is not sending us their best. That much was obvious during Tuesday’s edition of The View when the Cackling Coven went to bat for Dr. Anthony Fauci following a House hearing the previous day. Mid their rambling, one of them shared their new sneaking suspicion that the origin of the COVID-19 virus lay outside the United States. Not only that, another heard rumors that it came from a laboratory somewhere.
Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) huffed that the House had “15 months of an investigation spending real taxpayer dollars” and “They say they cannot find out what happened here in the United States in terms of the origin of COVID.”
It was then that Hostin floated her suspicion, which most Americans already understood for years by this point: “Well, maybe because the origin wasn't in this country. Maybe it was in another country and maybe they need to now start looking for – at other countries.”
What made Hostin’s apparently new theory even more ridiculous was the fact that at no point was there a serious idea that it originated in any place other than Wuhan, China.
But the dumb didn’t stop there. Co-host Joy Behar added that she heard it originated someplace more specific. “Didn’t they say it possibly came out of a lab?” she asked, to which Hostin responded with a “Yes.”
The irony of this exchange was that Behar had just finished mocking Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for being stupid. “The other thing about it is that Marjorie Taylor Greene has no business being on a committee about science,” she proclaimed. “She's really dumb!”
Earlier this year, Behar suggested it was NATO that defeated Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Just adding to the pile of stupidity, moderator Whoopi Goldberg seemingly went on a rant talking about Republican on the committee supposedly suggesting that the coronavirus wasn’t even real:
GOLDBERG: Can we point this other thing out too? Real people died during this. This was not something people made up. This was not something that, you know, people were fooling around with. So, if you're concerned – because I listened to a bit of it. This is why I don't turn the television on, because all I want to do is put my foot through the TV because I don't understand real people died.
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Families lost love – lost children, lost grandparents and you're questioning the validity of this thing saying people made it up.
Of course, she provided no evidence of her claim. And she may not have even seen it herself since she huffed: “This is why I don't turn the television on…”
Faux-conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin whined that Republicans were grilling her best friend. “This has my blood pressure like through the roof, today. Dr. Fauci is my friend. It was my honor to serve with him,” she said.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 4, 2024
11:05:40 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: The other thing about it is that Marjorie Taylor Greene has no business being on a committee about science. First of all –
[Laughter]
This is the woman who says –
[Cheers and applause]
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
BEHAR: Let me finish. She says that Jewish space lasers cause fires. That was the first thing. But first of all, she has skipped seven of the ten hearings. Okay? That's another point. But this is something that she said that I think is just hilarious. She has publicly questioned this, “If the Earth spins at a thousand miles an hour why can't we feel ourselves moving?!”
[Laughter]
She's really dumb!
HOSTIN: Did she say that during a committee meeting?
BEHAR: She's dumb. It's a quote. She's really stupid, you know, and so disrespectful to Dr. Fauci. And, by the way, science evolves. What you know on Monday, what --
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Can change.
BEHAR: Can change on Thursday. This was an evolving disease also we didn't really know anything about.
SARA HAINES: It was changing as well.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: This has my blood pressure like through the roof, today. Dr. Fauci is my friend. It was my honor to serve with him.
(…)
11:08:36 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: And the other thing that I will just say is, 15 months of an investigation. We have real problems in this country. 15 months of an investigation spending real taxpayer dollars really, really just gets to me.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: And I think that people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other people need to start doing the work of the people as opposed to try to send these messages. They say they cannot find out what happened here in the United States in terms of the origin of COVID. Well, maybe because the origin wasn't in this country. Maybe it was in another country and maybe they need to now start looking for – at other countries.
BEHAR: Didn’t they say it possibly came out of a lab?
HOSTIN: Yes.
GOLDBERG: Can we point this other thing out too? Real people died during this. This was not something people made up. This was not something that, you know, people were fooling around with. So, if you're concerned – because I listened to a bit of it. This is why I don't turn the television on, because all I want to do is put my foot through the TV because I don't understand real people died.
BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Families lost love – lost children, lost grandparents and you're questioning the validity of this thing saying people made it up.
(…)
