On Friday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The View,&#8221; co-host Joy Behar complained about President Donald Trump&#8217;s impeachment acquittal in the Senate, comparing the president to alleged wife-murderer O.J. Simpson.
The co-host also said Trump&#8217;s &#8220;winning,&#8221; confessing that he&#8217;s made her &#8220;crazy&#8221; and &#8220;nuttier and nuttier.&#8221;
&#8220;By the way, acquittal, acquitted, doesn&#8217;t mean you didn&#8217;t commit a crime,&#8221; Behar said on Friday. &#8220;Three words: O.J. Simpson.&#8221;
After shocking the audience by ripping out her ear piece, Behar continued to complain, &#8220;I&#8217;m crazy, today. He&#8217;s made me crazy, this week.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, he&#8217;s winning because I&#8217;m getting nuttier and nuttier,&#8221; the host added.
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Joy Behar: &quot;Just because you were acquitted doesn&#39;t mean you didn&#39;t commit a crime. Three words: O.J. Simpson&#8230;I&#39;m crazy today, he&#39;s made me crazy this week. He&#39;s winning because I&#39;m getting nuttier and nuttier.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qdmSf3ZsUW">pic.twitter.com/qdmSf3ZsUW</a>
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On Wednesday, President Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment in the Senate. Nearly every Republican voted &#8220;not guilty,&#8221; save for one &#8220;guilty&#8221; vote from Trump critic and Utah Senator Mitt Romney on the &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; impeachment article.
In a hand-signed letter sent to each Republican senator, Romney claimed he was acting to uphold his oath before God.
“As a Senator-juror, I swore an oath, before God, to exercise ‘impartial justice,&#8217;” the twice-failed presidential candidate wrote. “I am a profoundly religious person. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.”
“Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and disruptive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine,” said Romney.
“As it is with each senator, my vote is an act of conviction,” he concluded. “We have come to different conclusions, fellow senators, but I trust we have all followed the dictates of our conscience.”
Behar is no fan of President Trump, or anyone on the Right, for that matter.
In 2016, for example, Behar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/view-co-host-id-vote-rapist-over-conservative-amanda-prestigiacomo">argued</a> that it was preferable to vote for men who&#8217;ve allegedly raped or killed women than vote for a conservative.
The co-host was referencing former President Bill Clinton, who was accused of raping Juanita Broaddrick, and former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
Here&#8217;s the partial transcript via <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2016/01/05/joy-behar-id-vote-rapist-long-theyre-liberal?platform=hootsuite#.9sl4tnp:8vLH">NewsBusters</a>:
<blockquote>BEHAR: It puts her in a bind. On the other hand, it’s her policies that really matter. Like, Republicans have voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Now, that to me, is more important than anything that Bill Clinton did or didn’t do because it’s what she’s going to vote for, how she’s going to lead the country that matters more than that. On the other hand, he is a dog. Let’s face it. 
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BEHAR: People have to understand, it’s policy. Teddy Kennedy. Remember Chappaquiddick? Am I the oldest person in the room? Chappaquiddick. I mean, a girl drowns and he abandons her and she drowned and women still voted for Teddy Kennedy. Why? Because he voted for women’s rights. That’s why. That’s the bottom line of it in my opinion. I mean, I don’t like either one of them, to tell you the truth, Teddy or Bill. They’re both dogs as far as I’m concerned. But I still will vote for Bill Clinton because he votes in my favor.</blockquote>

Joy Behar

Joy Behar, Furious Over Acquittal, Says Trump’s ‘Winning’: ‘He’s Made Me Crazy!’

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The View

During a Tuesday morning impeachment roundup, &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin took major issue with the way Robert Ray, an attorney for the president’s defense, portrayed The New York Times’ &#8220;1619&#8221; project — a series of articles that the news organization hopes will “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
<blockquote>RAY: In a[n] ahistorical sleight of hand worthy only of the Times’ recent &#8220;1619&#8221; series — a series, by the way, roundly criticized by two of my Princeton [University] Civil War and Reconstruction history professors as inaccurate. </blockquote>
“What could any of that have to do — I thought that was just a dog whistle, you know, a racist dog whistle quite frankly, to the base. I didn’t understand it, I didn’t think it was effective,” says Hostin, as co-host Joy Behar decried it as a “smokescreen,” according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-view-co-host-trump-team-used-racist-dog-whistle-during-impeachment-defense">Washington Examiner</a>. 
During the trial, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) was also unsettled by the reference, and told <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/28/tim-kaine-robert-ray-1619-slavery-impeachment-trial/4595856002/">USA Today</a> that “it seemed like an ad hominem attack on people trying to get at the roots of the effects of slavery in the United States.”
People who have been following the reaction of leading historians to the Times’ slavery project will understand that the president’s lawyer invoking the &#8220;1619&#8221; project to make a point about an “ahistorical sleight of hand” isn’t a “dog whistle.” Rather, it’s a point directed at the serious factual inaccuracies that plague the Times&#8217; project. 
Sean Wilitz, a history professor at Princeton University, recently published a comprehensive article in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-project-new-york-times-wilentz/605152/">The Atlantic</a> talking about factual problems within the Times’ &#8220;1619&#8221; project. 
One of the statements Wilitz takes issue with includes an assertion that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” Wilitz thoroughly refutes this point: 
<blockquote>By 1776, Britain had grown deeply conflicted over its role in the barbaric institution that had reshaped the Western Hemisphere,” Hannah-Jones wrote. But apart from the activity of the pioneering abolitionist Granville Sharp, Britain was hardly conflicted at all in 1776 over its involvement in the slave system. Sharp played a key role in securing the 1772 Somerset v. Stewart ruling, which declared that chattel slavery was not recognized in English common law. That ruling did little, however, to reverse Britain’s devotion to human bondage, which lay almost entirely in its colonial slavery and its heavy involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Nor did it generate a movement inside Britain in opposition to either slavery or the slave trade. As the historian Christopher Leslie Brown writes in his authoritative study of British abolitionism, Moral Capital, Sharp “worked tirelessly against the institution of slavery everywhere within the British Empire after 1772, but for many years in England he would stand nearly alone.” What Hannah-Jones described as a perceptible British threat to American slavery in 1776 in fact did not exist.
In London, there were growing calls to abolish the slave trade,” Hannah-Jones continued. But the movement in London to abolish the slave trade formed only in 1787, largely inspired, as Brown demonstrates in great detail, by American antislavery opinion that had arisen in the 1760s and ’70s. There were no “growing calls” in London to abolish the trade as early as 1776.
This would have upended the economy of the colonies, in both the North and the South,” Hannah-Jones wrote. But the colonists had themselves taken decisive steps to end the Atlantic slave trade from 1769 to 1774. During that time, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island either outlawed the trade or imposed prohibitive duties on it. Measures to abolish the trade also won approval in Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, and Virginia, but were denied by royal officials. The colonials’ motives were not always humanitarian: Virginia, for example, had more enslaved black people than it needed to sustain its economy and saw the further importation of Africans as a threat to social order. But the Americans who attempted to end the trade did not believe that they were committing economic suicide.</blockquote>
Wilitz continues to bring up other points, and comments that saying the “reason the Revolution was fought was to protect slavery” is as inaccurate as saying “that southern secession and the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.”
Wilitz and other leading historians recently wrote a letter to the Times asking them to correct factual errors inside the project, while maintaining that they still believed in the goal of educating the public about slavery. The news organization responded with its own <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html">letter</a>, saying in part that “we disagree with their claim that our project contains significant factual errors and is driven by ideology rather than historical understanding.”

Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump Continues

View Co-Host: Trump Impeachment Defense Used ‘Racist Dog Whistle’

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On Wednesday, the New York Post’s Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/01/08/none-of-the-view-ladies-are-speaking-to-rude-meghan-mccain/">reported</a> that the leftist hosts on ABC’s “The View” have become so disenchanted with co-host Meghan McCain, the only genuine conservative on the show, that they have stopped speaking to her, with one insider claiming the other hosts believe McCain is “rude.”
Page Six wrote that one insider commented, “They aren’t speaking to each other. It’s been about a month. None of the ladies talk to Meghan now. Abby was the last woman standing. It’s bad. Meghan’s so rude. Abby tolerates Meghan, but she doesn’t genuinely like her. Their friendship has soured.”
On Tuesday, co-host Abby Huntsman pontificated about former national security adviser John Bolton saying he might be willing to testify vis-à-vis the impeachment proceedings targeting President Trump. She loftily stated,  “I think he ultimately has a conscience … He’s someone that I think would be speaking [about] what he thinks is right, not what politically he believes or doesn’t believe.”
McCain was more jaundiced in her view, stating, “The idea that he went home and grew a conscience … Maybe I’ve been in politics too long.” Huntsman, offended, snapped, “Well, I’ve also been in politics. [It’s] my upbringing too, and a lot of people have been around politics or know politics, whether you have family or not … This show is about opinions.”
Page Six added:
<blockquote>Other sources see McCain as “rude and dismissive” to “The View’s” guests and the co-hosts and “very self-important.” An exasperated <a href="https://pagesix.com/tag/whoopi-goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a> even <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/12/17/behind-the-scenes-of-whoopi-goldberg-and-meghan-mccains-blow-up-at-the-view/">called her out on-air last month</a> as McCain talked over the other co-hosts. “Girl! Please stop talking! Please stop talking right now!” Goldberg later explained, “Don’t assume that we’re over here with butcher knives under the table,” although some insiders say they may as well have the knives sharpened.</blockquote>
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Might want to look at the track record of how they treat conservative women on this show&#8230; just saying. <a href="https://t.co/YSGeSD0FU1">https://t.co/YSGeSD0FU1</a>
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1215310247260233729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Or you could read <a href="https://twitter.com/RaminSetoodeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RaminSetoodeh</a> great book about the history of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a> to see how past hosts were treated. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ladieswhopunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ladieswhopunch</a>
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1215312531595591682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Alternative view: they don&#39;t talk to McCain because they can&#39;t stand that she disagrees with them <a href="https://t.co/1Lke2BAtkd">https://t.co/1Lke2BAtkd</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1215299729472376832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stop-talking-angry-whoopi-snaps-on-mccain-for-trying-to-offer-conservative-take-mccain-responds">The Daily Wire</a> reported in December that in an episode of “The View,” host Whoopi Goldberg repeatedly told McCain to &#8220;stop talking.&#8221; McCain was attempting to discuss the fact that much of the country disliked the impeachment proceedings against President Trump, but co-host Sunny Hostin kept interjecting, prompting McCain to say, &#8220;Let me finish. If you want a conservative perspective ever —&#8221;
Goldberg interrupted, &#8220;Girl, please stop talking. Please stop talking right now. &#8216;Cause you know what —&#8221;
McCain fired back, &#8220;No problem. I won&#8217;t talk for the rest of the show,” eliciting this response from Goldberg: &#8220;I&#8217;m okay with that.”
One American News Network host Liz Wheeler tweeted, &#8220;Infuriating. EVERYBODY should watch [Whoopi Goldberg] rudely tell Meghan McCain to stop talking … THIS IS WHAT LEFTISTS DO. If you&#8217;re a woman who DARES be conservative? Forget &#8216;respect women.&#8217; They&#8217;ll try to shut you up. Never back down, @Meghan McCain!”
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro added, &#8220;Nothing says tolerance and diversity like Whoopi Goldberg telling Meghan McCain to shut up after McCain says literally *a* sentence about the political fallout from impeachment. So much sisterhood from Goldberg.”
McCain concluded, &#8220;Dems and Rs alike need to confront the ugly truth: both parties are failing to be impartial jurors. I won’t be quiet, even if the reality reflects poorly on the entire political establishment. I have a responsibility to speak for the 50% that feels media doesn’t represent them,” adding later, &#8220;Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it’s politically inconvenient.”
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/01/09/get-these-broads-a-mirror-janice-dean-shuts-the-ladies-on-the-view-down-for-whining-that-meghan-mccain-is-so-rude/">Twitchy</a>

ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8211; Season 22

Snippy Hosts On ‘The View’ Won’t Talk To Meghan McCain, Report Says

Meghan McCain

Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made a series of controversial comments during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday, saying that killing terrorists who kill Americans &#8220;does not make America safer.&#8221;
&#8220;So let’s start with the air strike ordered by the guy in the White House,&#8221; leftist co-host Whoopi Goldberg said. &#8220;What’s your take on all this? Do you find the timing as odd as some of us did?&#8221;
&#8220;So my take on this is Soleimani was a bad guy, but the question is what’s the right response?&#8221; Warren responded. &#8220;The job of the president of the United States is to keep America safer, and having killed Soleimani does not make America safer.&#8221;
Right of center co-host Meghan McCain grilled Warren for her refusal to call Soleimani a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; and had to repeatedly press Warren to admit that was the truth.
&#8220;You issued a statement calling Soleimani a murderer. Later, you issued a second statement saying he was, &#8216;an assassination of a senior foreign military official,'&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;This is a man who is obviously responsible for hundreds of American troops’ deaths, carnage that we can’t imagine. The Treasury Department and the State Department have both designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. I don’t understand the flip-flop. I don’t understand why it was so hard to call him a terrorist, and I would just like you to explain the change.&#8221;
&#8220;This isn’t a change. They’re true,&#8221; Warren responded. &#8220;The question is what is the response that the president of the United States should make and what advances the interests of the United States of America? Think about Saddam Hussein. You want to talk about a bad guy, right? However, going to war in Iraq was not in the interest of the United States. We lost thousands of American lives. It cost us here at home. It has cost us around the world. It has been apart of this cost in the Middle East that has ended up with millions of people who have lost their lives, who have been injured, who&#8217;ve been displaced.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think he&#8217;s a terrorist?&#8221; McCain asked.
&#8220;He is part of a group that&#8211;&#8221; Warren responded.
&#8220;But is he a terrorist?&#8221; McCain pressed.
&#8220;He is part of a group that has been designated,&#8221; Warren said as she continued to dodge the question.
&#8220;So, he&#8217;s not a terrorist?&#8221; McCain pressed.
&#8220;Of course he is, he&#8217;s part of a group that our federal government has designated as a terrorist,&#8221; Warren responded.
Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers and for wounding thousands more.
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Under questioning from <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a> — who called Soleimani&#39;s killing &quot;an assassination” — now says “of course” he’s a terrorist <a href="https://t.co/nS4OCRFdv8">pic.twitter.com/nS4OCRFdv8</a>
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Later in the interview, far-left hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar falsely claimed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s decision to not confirm Obama-Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court was &#8220;unconstitutional.&#8221;
Warren jumped on the bandwagon and falsely claimed that McConnell “violate[d] every principle of how that constitution is written” by not confirming Garland.
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Far-left hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin falsely claim that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell not confirming Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court was &quot;unconstitutional.&quot;
Then Elizabeth Warren adds McConnell “violate[d] every principle of how that constitution is written.”
Woof. <a href="https://t.co/jfF6Vg71sz">pic.twitter.com/jfF6Vg71sz</a>
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Toward the end of the interview, Warren claimed that she had come up with a plan to pay for all of her massive government programs, which are estimated to cost up to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-policies-100-trillion-town-hall">$100 trillion</a>, without taxing the middle class.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have plans to increase taxes on the middle class,&#8221; Warren claimed. &#8220;I figured out how to do every plan I’ve done without increasing taxes on the middle class.&#8221;
Warren refused to talk about how she would pay for her government-run healthcare system.
&#8220;Trump just spent $2 trillion on the military, I don’t want anyone ever to ask Warren how she’s going to pay for medical care,&#8221; Hostin said.
&#8220;And there you go!&#8221; Warren said as she cheered the suggestion that she should not be transparent about her proposed policies.
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Warren is being dishonest&#8230;
WARREN: I figured out how to do every plan I’ve done without increasing taxes on the middle class&#8230;
SUNNY: Trump just spent $2T on the military, I don’t want anyone ever to ask Warren how she’s going to pay for medical care.
WARREN: There you go! <a href="https://t.co/uFVWntvA87">pic.twitter.com/uFVWntvA87</a>
&mdash; Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1214594413722251269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Warren Makes Troubling Comments On Killing Terrorists, Health Care, Constitution In Wild Interview

Qassem Soleimani

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The View,&#8221; Whoopi Goldberg repeatedly told co-host Meghan McCain, the lone right-leaning voice at the roundtable, to &#8220;stop talking.&#8221;
Goldberg blew her fuse when McCain attempted to talk about how at least half the country feels about the partisan impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. As was to be highlighted by McCain, polling post-impeachment inquiry has only spelled trouble for Democrats looking to take control of the White House in 2020.
Discussing the political ramifications of impeachment, McCain attempted to give a &#8220;conservative perspective,&#8221; though she was talked over by co-host Sunny Hostin.
&#8220;Let me finish,&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;If you want a conservative perspective ever —&#8221;
&#8220;Girl, please stop talking,&#8221; Goldberg interrupted. &#8220;Please stop talking right now. &#8216;Cause you know what —&#8221;
&#8220;No problem,&#8221; an irritated McCain answered. &#8220;I won&#8217;t talk for the rest of the show.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m okay with that,&#8221; Goldberg told McCain, scolding the co-host for her &#8220;behavior.&#8221;
While the Left celebrated Goldberg shutting up McCain, conservatives pointed out the irony of the actions by Whoopi, a supposedly pro-&#8220;diversity&#8221; intersectional feminist.
&#8220;Infuriating. EVERYBODY should watch [Whoopi Goldberg] rudely tell Meghan McCain to stop talking&#8230;,&#8221; said One American News Network host Liz Wheeler. &#8220;THIS IS WHAT LEFTISTS DO. If you&#8217;re a woman who DARES be conservative? Forget &#8216;respect women.&#8217; They&#8217;ll try to shut you up.&#8221;
&#8220;Never back down, [Meghan McCain]!&#8221; she added.
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Infuriating. EVERYBODY should watch <a href="https://twitter.com/WhoopiGoldberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhoopiGoldberg</a> rudely tell Meghan McCain to stop talking&#8230;
THIS IS WHAT LEFTISTS DO.
If you&#39;re a woman who DARES be conservative?
Forget &quot;respect women.&quot; They&#39;ll try to shut you up.
Never back down, <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a>!<a href="https://t.co/X0IbTi58ls">pic.twitter.com/X0IbTi58ls</a>
&mdash; Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1206628138307866624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Nothing says tolerance and diversity like Whoopi Goldberg telling Meghan McCain to shut up after McCain says literally *a* sentence about the political fallout from impeachment. So much sisterhood from Goldberg,&#8221; commented Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.
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Nothing says tolerance and diversity like Whoopi Goldberg telling Meghan McCain to shut up after McCain says literally *a* sentence about the political fallout from impeachment. So much sisterhood from Goldberg.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1206636465720983554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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McCain tweeted about the bias against conservatives following the show, clearly as a response to her interaction with Goldberg.
&#8220;Dems and [Republicans] alike need to confront the ugly truth: both parties are failing to be impartial jurors. I won’t be quiet, even if the reality reflects poorly on the entire political establishment,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;I have a responsibility to speak for the 50% that feels media doesn’t represent them.&#8221;
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Dems and Rs alike need to confront the ugly truth: both parties are failing to be impartial jurors. I won’t be quiet, even if the reality reflects poorly on the entire political establishment. I have a responsibility to speak for the 50% that feels media doesn’t represent them.
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1206621170289840130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, McCain commented on recent polling that shows &#8220;support for impeachment is officially under water.&#8221;
&#8220;Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it’s politically inconvenient,&#8221; she said.
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Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it’s politically inconvenient. <a href="https://t.co/HbHRQdATJ3">https://t.co/HbHRQdATJ3</a>
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1206622354178289665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pretending half the country doesn&#8217;t exist won&#8217;t make them disappear,&#8221; McCain concluded. &#8220;The culture war is real, and Americans who aren&#8217;t part of the overwhelmingly anti-conservative media deserve to have their views represented.&#8221;
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Pretending half the country doesn&#39;t exist won&#39;t make them disappear. The culture war is real, and Americans who aren&#39;t part of the overwhelmingly anti-conservative media deserve to have their views represented.
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1206627397950410753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Polling on support for impeachment should have Democrats worried. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/support-for-democrats-impeachment-efforts-hits-new-critical-point-in-polls">The Daily Wire</a> last week, &#8220;a new Real Clear Politics average poll, which was featured by Fox News’ Chris Wallace and Bret Baier on Thursday, noted that support for impeachment is now the lowest it has ever been and the opposition to it is at the highest it’s ever been.&#8221;
“Time is not their friend,&#8221; Wallace said of the Democrats, &#8220;and there was a fascinating poll today, it’s actually the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls and it shows that support impeaching and removing the president is at its lowest since this whole thing began two months ago. Opposition to impeaching and removing the president is at its highest, it&#8217;s basically, the two lines have intersected at I think 46%.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a> simply asks if they want to hear the conservative perspective on topics discussed on the show.<a href="https://twitter.com/WhoopiGoldberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhoopiGoldberg</a> replies: “Girl, please stop talking. Please stop talking right now..”
This is how Leftists think everyday life should be like. <a href="https://t.co/aSVkBCgiRN">pic.twitter.com/aSVkBCgiRN</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1206631580518801408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8211; Season 21

‘STOP TALKING’: Angry Whoopi Snaps On McCain For Trying To Offer Conservative Take; McCain Responds

Whoopi Goldberg

In an appearance on &#8220;The View&#8221; on Monday, comedian and actor Tim Allen addressed how the politically correct &#8220;thought police&#8221; have influenced how he approaches his stand-up comedy in recent years.
Allen, whose popular right-leaning show &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; was famously canceled by ABC in 2017 despite excellent ratings, sparking allegations of political bias on the part of the network, brought up the &#8220;thought police&#8221; after co-host and fellow comedian Joy Behar asked him about how he handles the &#8220;PC culture&#8221; that is so strongly influencing comedy these days.
&#8220;So what do you think now?&#8221; asked Behar. &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s a little bit different now — there&#8217;s a PC culture out there [that] makes it really hard. I think my act, if I brought that old act back, I&#8217;d be driven out of town.&#8221;
Allen responded by saying he grew up watching comedians Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. &#8220;You can&#8217;t even go back and talk about the book he wrote,&#8221; Allen lamented in reference to Pryor.
&#8220;What I got to do sometimes is explain — which I hate — in big arenas, that this is a &#8216;thought police&#8217; thing, and I do not like it,&#8221; said Allen. &#8220;But [I say] &#8216;when I use these words, this is my intent behind those words. So as long as you understand my intent&#8230;'&#8221;
&#8220;I still get people [saying], &#8216;Well, just don&#8217;t say it,'&#8221; he added, imitating his critics. &#8220;And I say I&#8217;m not going to do that.&#8221;
Behar then interjected that even when you qualify statements like he just described, people still &#8220;take it out of context and put it on Twitter or put in on Facebook.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised that they haven&#8217;t because I do use some provocative words,&#8221; Allen remarked, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s words I really got from my parents.&#8221;
The increasing pressure to self-censor their acts, Allen said, &#8220;is an alarming thing for comedians.&#8221;
The View tweeted out the exchange:
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Tim Allen looks back on how standup comedy has changed through the years, discusses the level of political correctness comedians face today: “It is an alarming thing for comedians.” <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/vmmUxg4sD6">pic.twitter.com/vmmUxg4sD6</a>
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Former &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; host Jay Leno, who Allen mentioned at the beginning of his exchange with Behar, has likewise recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jay-leno-smacks-late-night-shows-one-sided-james-barrett">addressed</a> the negative impact of PC culture on comedy. In March, Leno spoke with NBC’s &#8220;TODAY&#8221; about how things are &#8220;different&#8221; for comedians now.
&#8220;So it’s been five years since you left ‘The Tonight Show,’ and you see the place we are right now in this country. Do you miss being on the show? Or is it such a different time that it would be hard to do?&#8221; Leno was asked.
&#8220;No, it’s different — I don’t miss it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, everything now is if people don’t like your politics — everyone has to know your politics.&#8221;
&#8220;I kind of used Johnny [Carson]’s model,&#8221; Leno explained. &#8220;People couldn’t figure out: ‘Well, you and your Republican friends…’ or ‘Well, Mr. Leno, you and your Democratic buddies…’ And I would get hate mail from both sides equally. And I went, ‘Well that’s fabulous! That’s exactly what I want.'&#8221;
“But when people see you as one-sided, it just makes it tough,” he continued. &#8220;And plus, I did it when, you know, Clinton was horny and Bush was dumb, and it was just a little easier.&#8221;
“You know, now it’s all very serious, everything so&#8230; I’d just like to see a bit of civility come back to it, you know?&#8221; he remarked.
Leno also offered some hope about the future of comedy, saying he does believe that the pendulum &#8220;will swing back the other way.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-colbert-invites-on-hillary-starts-lock-him-up-chant-suggests-chelsea-slap-trumps-mouth">WATCH: Colbert Invites On Hillary, Starts ‘Lock Him Up’ Chant, Suggests Chelsea ‘Slap’ Trump’s Mouth</a>
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Tim Allen

WATCH: Tim Allen Discusses PC ‘Thought Police’

Jay Leno

Political Correctness

The new journalism standards are simple: Orange Man Bad. Consider it the new AP Style Book.
It’s why virtually every journalistic mistake made casts President Donald Trump in a poor light. Quick: name a gaffe that attempted the opposite effect.
We’ll wait.
That reporting credo extends to Trump’s immediate family. And, thanks to the far-left Hollywood Reporter, we saw just that in action today.
The outlet covered the chaos on “The View” when Donald Trump, Jr. and his girlfriend, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle">Kimberly Guilfoyle</a>, appeared today to hawk his new book, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/donald-trump-jr-kimberly-guilfoyle-to-venture-into-hostile-territory-on-the-view/">“Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us</a>.”
The debate got ugly at record speed, something that should surprise no one given the liberal show’s fury against President Trump. Even “The View’s” token conservative, Meghan McCain, loathes the Commander in Chief.
Trump, Jr. landed some rhetorical body blows during the debate. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/booing-is-fing-us-up-view-melts-down-donald-trump-jr-visit-1253109">THR pulled a muscle</a> or two hiding the truth behind them, and then some.
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The First Son called out “The View’s” Joy Behar for once dressing in blackface. Behar denied it repeatedly. The THR scribe let her lie go unchallenged.
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Don Jr. just blew the panel up by bringing up the time Joy Behar wore blackface. Whoopi and her both immediately said he was lying.
Jezebel called it &#8220;blackface-lite.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/sub4OKedgw">https://t.co/sub4OKedgw</a>
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1192481525369053184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Then, Trump Jr. mocked “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg for once defending director Roman Polanski drugging and anally raping a 13-year-old girl as not “rape-rape.”
Here’s how THR characterized that moment.
During another commercial break, one woman in the audience tried taking Goldberg to task for a comment she made more than 10 years ago about Roman Polanski, which Don Jr. tried to repurpose as an attack on Goldberg.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” the woman said to Goldberg. “Then be quiet and listen to me,” the co-host responded.
If readers are learning about Goldberg’s “rape-rape” comments for the first time, you’d assume Trump Jr. lied.
He didn’t.
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Here is <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheView</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://twitter.com/WhoopiGoldberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhoopiGoldberg</a> defending Hollywood pedophile Roman Polanski, claiming what he did wasn&#8217;t &#8220;rape-rape.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/dS0SGJ1ub1">https://t.co/dS0SGJ1ub1</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1192482117990658048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Perhaps the most egregious bias came with recent news that paints ABC, which syndicates “The View,” as a biased, unreliable outlet.
Project Veritas released a video of ABC News anchor Amy Robach sharing how she had a killer scoop on the late Jeffrey Epstein three years ago. Her bosses, she said, spiked the story.
Here’s Robach, <a href="https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2019/hot-mic-amy-robachs-jeffrey-epstein-allegation-will-media-reveal-the-whistleblower-nyt-library-controversy/">caught on a hot mic</a>, describing what happened.
“It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton — we had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it’s all coming out and it’s like these new revelations. And I freaking had all of it. I’m so pissed right now. Every day I get more and more pissed. … What we had was unreal.”
Imagine the girls who might have been spared from Epstein’s clutches had ABC covered the story at the time?
Here’s how THR detailed this part of the Trump Jr./”View” exchange.
Trump tried attacking ABC for the network’s handling of a 2015 interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused the late Jeffrey Epstein of sexual misconduct. “ABC right now is chasing down a whistleblower about all the Epstein stuff,” he said, referring to a network investigation to determine who leaked an internal recording of ABC News anchor Amy Robach.
Trump “tried” attacking?
Sexual misconduct? Epstein was a <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28352055/jeffrey-epstein-criminal-case-facts/">convicted pedophile.</a>
Add it all together, and Trump Jr. exposed both ABC and “The View” during a contentious interview. “The View” deserves credit for inviting the First Son on the show. THR deserves even more credit for highlighting how entrenched liberal media bias is in entertainment reporting.
A version of this article was also published on <a href="http://hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

The View.

Media Bias 101: THR Plays Defense For ‘View’ Hosts

Media Bias

The Hollywood Reporter

Donald Trump Jr. blasted a far-left co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; during an interview on Thursday, hitting back at comments that she made by reminding her that she is not perfect, saying, &#8220;Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve all done things that we regret,&#8221; Trump Jr. said. &#8220;I mean, if we&#8217;re talking about bringing the discourse down. Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
&#8220;No I haven&#8217;t!&#8221; Behar shouted back. &#8220;I did not go in blackface, please!&#8221;
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2019: <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a>: &#8220;We&#8217;ve all done things that we regret. I mean, if we&#8217;re talking about bringing the discourse down. Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
Behar: &#8220;I did not go in blackface, please!&#8221;
2016: Joy Behar: &#8220;It was a Halloween party, I went as a beautiful African woman.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wtGNvM6mbz">pic.twitter.com/wtGNvM6mbz</a>
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1192491757369528326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
However, it appears as though that Behar&#8217;s claim is false, according to a report earlier this year from entertainment journalist Jon Levine.
Levine, who now works at The New York Post, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/that-time-joy-behar-wore-darker-makeup-to-dress-as-a-beautiful-african-woman-in-the-70s-video/">reported</a> at The Wrap:
<blockquote>“The View” co-host Joy Behar attended a Halloween party dressed as a “beautiful African woman” during the 1970s, which included darkening her face with makeup, the host said in a 2016 episode of the daytime talk show.</blockquote>
“That is me. I was 29. It was a Halloween party, I went as a beautiful African woman. That’s my hair,” Behar said. “I had makeup that was a little bit darker than my skin, but that’s my actual hair, though.”
Then co-host Raven-Symoné, who is African-American, responded, “You mean blackface.”
“Joy, are you my auntie, Joy?” Symoné continued. “She looks black.”
&#8220;The View&#8221; even posted a photograph of Behar&#8217;s costume.
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Joy Behar admitted during a taping of The View in 2016 to dressing as a “beautiful African women” at a Halloween party when she was 29 which involved makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin”
The show even ran an image of the old photo <a href="https://t.co/qKQqzDPxyn">pic.twitter.com/qKQqzDPxyn</a>
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1093272835076837377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest posted a side-by-side photo of Behar next to her wearing the costume, writing, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@</a>DonaldJTrumpJr is right. Here&#8217;s the picture of Joy Behar wearing blackface.&#8221;
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Here&#8217;s the picture of Joy Behar wearing blackface. <a href="https://t.co/Z8Fv6zg8fq">pic.twitter.com/Z8Fv6zg8fq</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1192481682558988288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Left-wing website Jezebel <a href="https://jezebel.com/hmm-here-is-joy-behar-dressed-as-a-beautiful-african-w-1776541379">reported</a> on the segment where Behar discussed her costume when it first aired in 2016, calling Behar&#8217;s look, &#8220;blackface-lite.&#8221;
Trump Jr. shared the segment showing Behar in her custome, writing, &#8220;Here&#8217;s @TheView&#8217;s Joy Behar admitting on national TV that she in fact wore blackface. Why are they denying it now?&#8221;
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Here&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheView</a>&#8216;s Joy Behar admitting on national TV that she in fact wore blackface. Why are they denying it now? <a href="https://t.co/B9ReOYrwXY">https://t.co/B9ReOYrwXY</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1192482760885227522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Behar made news earlier this week when she suggested that Democrats should deceive American voters by not telling them about their desire to confiscate people&#8217;s guns until after they get into office.
“They should not tell everything they’re going to do,” Behar said. “Like if you are going to take people’s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take the guns away. Don’t tell them ahead of time.”
Co-host Meghan McCain quickly responded, “That’s what people like me think you’re going to do.”
Behar also strongly opposes free speech. She stated over the summer that she wanted President Donald Trump to be charged with &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
“Why can’t he be brought up on charges of ‘hate speech’?” Behar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-joy-behar-wants-trump-arrested-hate-speech-amanda-prestigiacomo">stated</a>. “Why can’t he be sued by the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] for ‘hate speech’?”
“I don’t get it,” Behar continued. “How does he get away with this?”
Behar, who is often consumed by her disdain for the president, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-claims-trump-culprit-behind-synagogue-ryan-saavedra">falsely claimed</a> earlier this year that Trump was responsible for the April attack on a synagogue in California.
“He’s provocative. He gives dog whistles constantly to these people,” Behar said. “Take responsibility for your actions, Mr. President. You are the culprit.”
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Trump Jr Torches Behar: ‘You’ve Worn Blackface,’ Behar Denies. Here’s The Photo Of Behar’s ‘African Woman’ Costume.

Donald Trump Jr.

&#8220;The View&#8217;s&#8221; segment with 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) erupted into fireworks Wednesday when Gabbard confronted co-host Joy Behar over Behar&#8217;s suggestion that Gabbard is a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and a Russian plant.
Gabbard returned to &#8220;The View&#8217;s&#8221; table on Wednesday after a rough first appearance earlier in the year, when co-host Meghan McCain <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-views-meghan-mccain-confronts-tulsi-gabbard-for-spouting-propaganda-from-syria">brought up Gabbard&#8217;s friendly relationship</a> with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but this time, Gabbard came prepared for a fight &#8212; but with McCain&#8217;s left-leaning co-host, Behar.
In the show&#8217;s &#8220;hot topic&#8221; segment on October 21, Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin doubled down on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recent claims that Gabbard is a Russian sleeper agent within Democratic ranks, poised to disrupt the 2020 presidential election by launching a third party bid that will ultimately hand the election to Republicans.
Hostin called Gabbard a &#8220;Trojan horse.&#8221; Behar chimed in, calling Gabbard a &#8220;useful idiot.&#8221;
When she returned to &#8220;The View&#8221; stage on Wednesday, Gabbard came loaded for bear, confronting Behar over her claims and denying that she&#8217;s a &#8220;traitor.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to start with something that I think is also important about facts because recently on your show here — some if you have accused me of being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or&#8230;&#8221; Gabbard began, triggering Behar to interrupt.
“We haven’t accused you,” Joy Behar chimed in, clearly trying to forestall a confrontation.
“‘Useful idiot’ I think is the term that you used,” Gabbard snapped.
&#8220;I know Hillary Clinton thinks you’re a witting asset,” Behar said. “You might be unwitting. Not that that means you’re stupid, but people can be used,&#8221; Behar retorted, implying that Gabbard couldn&#8217;t think about the situation for herself.
“Let me start with how offensive it is to say that I am a witting or unwitting asset of a foreign country,” Gabbard said. “This is a country that I’m willing to lay my life down for. If you are saying it’s not deliberately, then you are implying that I am too stupid and naïve and lack the intelligence to know what I am doing. That’s extremely offensive to me and every woman of color.”
“I want to let your viewers know exactly who I am,” Gabbard continued. “Set the record straight. I am a patriot. I love our country. I am a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, the security and the freedom of all Americans in this country.”
Behar also accused Gabbard of participating in &#8220;propaganda&#8221; and promoting &#8220;white nationalism&#8221; by going on Fox News.
“Well, I guess we’re getting a little bit far ahead of ourselves, but Franklin Graham finds uh-you refreshing,” Behar shot back at Gabbard. “He doesn’t find me refreshing. The white nationalist leader says he can vote for you. You were on ‘Tucker Carlson’ at least ten times. Why didn’t you go on Chris Wallace?”
“You raised a second issue about why I go on Fox News,” Gabbard responded. “I go on Tucker Carlson, go on Bret Baier, go on Sean Hannity, go on MSNBC, go on CNN. I am here to speak to every single American in this country about the unifying leadership that I want to bring as president, not just speak to those who agree with me, but to speak to those who may disagree.”
&#8220;This is why I’m here,&#8221; Gabbard finished. &#8220;Because you and other people continue to spread these innuendos that have nothing to do with who I am.&#8221;
The segment appeared to leave Behar speechless, but unsatisfied. Gabbard seemed pleased with the performance.
Since Clinton made her comments on David Plouffe&#8217;s podcast, Gabbard has shot up in the rankings among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls and is now solidly in the second tier.

Tulsi Gabbard Crushes Joy Behar In Clash Over Clinton Accusations On ‘The View’

Hillary Clinton

Tulsi Gabbard

ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Joy Behar suggested on Monday that Democrats should wait until they are elected into public office before they reveal to the American people their true political intentions.
&#8220;They should not tell everything they&#8217;re going to do,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;Like if you are going to take people&#8217;s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take the guns away. Don&#8217;t tell them ahead of time.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what people like me think you&#8217;re going to do,&#8221; co-host Meghan McCain swiftly responded.
Behar&#8217;s remarks arose during a segment where the panel was discussing former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s (D-TX) decision to end his presidential campaign and drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination.
O&#8217;Rourke, who was initially hesitant to reveal where he stood on a host of issues in the onset of his presidential run, pivoted to the far-left after relaunching his campaign over the summer. Most notably, the former Texas lawmaker was the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to call for a nationwide mandatory gun confiscation program for all so-called &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221;
The proposal has been a divisive topic for the Democratic Party. While O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s declaration that &#8220;Hell, yes, we&#8217;re going to take away your AR-15 [and] your AK-47&#8221; has received massive applause from his left-wing supporters, many Democratic lawmakers have since been distancing themselves. Democrats, including those in leadership, have largely been sounding the alarm that such an anti-Second Amendment idea will backfire and simply fire up the Republican base.
&#8220;Beto, when my husband told me he got out of the race, I think he&#8217;s actually like a beta test for why going so national and being beloved by the media is so dangerous,&#8221; McCain said before noting that the former Texas lawmaker generated a massive war chest while running to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during the 2018 election cycle. Accordingly, he received more campaign contributions in one quarter than any Senate candidate in American history, ultimately ending up with approximately $80 million.
McCain also noted that O&#8217;Rourke drew national media attention and fawning coverage prior to his entry into the race, including comparisons to former President Barack Obama. O&#8217;Rourke subsequently hired a host of Obama&#8217;s previous staffers to work on his 2020 campaign.
O’Rourke’s demand to seize millions of firearms from law-abiding American citizens came as his presidential candidacy had been struggling to gain traction. Both his fundraising and polling numbers were relatively stagnant over the last two quarters despite relaunching his campaign for a third time in August. O&#8217;Rourke had not broken 5% support in any nationwide polls since April 2019, and when he ended his bid for the presidency, he was receiving less than 2.% of the vote on average, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Real Clear Politics</a>.
&#8220;He also made some statements about religious institutions get their tax status removed from them because they didn&#8217;t support same-sex marriage,&#8221; McCain continued. &#8220;So he did a lot of, like, battleground culture war, and he ran as the most left, most woke candidate and look where he ended.&#8221;

Joy Behar Suggests That Democrats Shouldn’t Warn Americans ‘Ahead Of Time’ Before Taking Their Guns

Beto O'Rourke

Gun Buybacks

As other Democrats distance themselves from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s paranoid antics of seeing a Russian under every stone, the die-hard Hillary devotees of “The View” sided with her completely over the latest feud with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), referring to the 2020 presidential candidate as a “useful idiot.”
“She told us about Russia, she told us about the probable interference,” said co-host Sunny Hostin. “She was secretary of state. She has deep world knowledge of world issues. I thought, where’s the lie? I’ve often said that Tulsi is sort of the Trojan horse in this. She’s polling at only 1.2 percent, yet she’s still in the race. You have her <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9AoMU7dpBMfN5_2ySDen0xBrxpw">being touted</a> by people like Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson.”
Co-host Joy Behar then added that Gabbard has not explicitly denied Hillary’s claims that she is a Russian asset, asserting that she is a “useful idiot.”
“She hasn’t denied it,” Behar said. “She hasn’t said anything in her tweets. ‘How dare you? It’s outrageous. Of course, I’m not.’ She didn’t say that. She’s just going after Hillary. I just think that she could be a useful idiot the way Trump is a useful idiot to the Russians,” the liberal co-host proclaimed. “That they see something. They say, ‘Oh look, a useful idiot. Let’s play this.’”
Conservative co-host Abby Huntsman, however, believed that Hillary Clinton had a personal vendetta over the 2016 election.  “It surprised me Hillary Clinton was not smarter and more tactful in how she talked about it,” said Huntsman.
The feud between Gabbard and Hillary erupted into a social media firestorm last Friday when the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0MbrzZXRAzII9O2Hc9vzTLtrkXg">former first lady said</a> that Russia is grooming Gabbard for a third-party run during an appearance on the podcast “Campaign HQ.”
“I think they have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She is the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton said. “They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”
“That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset — I mean, totally,” she continued. “They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.”
Gabbard immediately took to Twitter to blast Clinton as “the queen of warmongers.”
“Great! Thank you [Hillary Clinton],” Gabbard said. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.”
“From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why,” she continued. “Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.”

‘The View’ Backs Hillary’s Tulsi Gabbard Smear: She’s A ‘Useful Idiot’

On Tuesday, the women of “The View” hammered New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly for elevating an unsubstantiated accusation against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in its Sunday Review section that excluded the vital detail that the alleged victim did not recall the incident in question. Only after the Times was called out for the omission did it update with the significant correction.
During the questioning by the co-hosts, Pogrebin and Kelly again deflected blame to their editors and made key concessions regarding their credibility. Pogrebin also copped to writing an infamous now-deleted tweet posted by the Times about Mr. Kavanaugh’s genitalia.
“The New York Times’ ran an excerpt of your book over the weekend in the opinion section that included a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh. But you guys left out a key detail; the alleged victim — who you name by name in the book, but you’re not gonna name her here on the show — ‘refused to discuss the incident’ and ‘several of her friends said [that she doesn’t] recall it happening,’” McCain laid into the reporters.
“I think this is sort of Ground Zero for why so many people mistrust the media, why The New York Times has the nickname ‘The New York Slimes’ from many people in conservative circles,” continued McCain. “The Times actually had to run an editors’ note following up. How did this vital fact get left out?”
Kelly claimed “there was no desire to withhold vital information from our readers,” citing that the book included the detail initially omitted from the opinion piece. “We had to edit for length and clarity,” she rationalized.
The Times reporter then shifted blame to her editors. “During the editing process there was an oversight, and this key detail about the fact that the woman herself has told friends that she doesn’t remember and has not wanted to talk about it got cut,” she said.
“It was an oversight and the Times corrected it and, uh, we’re very sorry that that happened,” Kelly added.
McCain then pressed the reporters as to why they used the alleged victim’s name in their book despite the fact that the woman did not want her name revealed.
“I understand that the woman didn’t want her name out publicly,” the co-host told the reporters. “If not, why is her name in the book?”
“Her name is in the book because we think it’s relevant information,” Kelly unapologetically stated.
Kelly noted that former Kavanaugh classmate Max Stier provided the name. McCain again chimed in: “He’s a Clintonite, right?”
“He did, I understand, work for <a href="https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/almID/1202762936597/?slreturn=20190817132007">Williams and Connolly</a>,” confessed Kelly.
“Why wasn’t that in the piece, if we’re talking about credibility?” co-host Abby Huntsman pressed.
“Right, uh, I understand it’s relevant background,” conceded Kelly. “We didn’t see all of that context to be necessary,” she added, “but I understand why you’re bringing it up and I think it’s fair.”
McCain also inquired about Kelly and Pogrebin “throwing The New York Times opinion editorial board under the bus.”
“In my experience, I get the final say,” McCain said of the opinion pieces she’s written for the Times. “So, where was the disconnect there?” she asked the reporters.
Kelly said the editing process is “a team effort [and] there was just an oversight here.”
“Did you guys just miss it?” pressed co-host Sunny Hostin. “Did you miss that that was so important? You are the authors of the book, did you just miss it … in The New York Times opinion piece?”
“I think actually the way it happened was the Times was concerned about naming her. … In that sentence there has her name, it also had that she didn’t remember it,” Pogrebin said, claiming that when they removed the sentence, they accidentally omitted the most vital detail of the claim.
“Did you read it right before it went to print?” Hostin continued her questioning.
“Ya know, we thought we did,” responded Pogrebin. “And as soon as we realized it, we corrected it,” she claimed.
During the interview, Pogrebin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51801/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-about-brett-amanda-prestigiacomo">confessed</a> to crafting a controversial tweet about Justice Kavanaugh’s “penis.” The tweet, which was later deleted and disavowed by the Times, read: “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun. But when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn&#8217;t belong at Yale in the first place.”
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51801/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-about-brett-amanda-prestigiacomo">New York Times Deletes Tweet About Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Penis’</a>

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WATCH: Ladies Of ‘The View’ Hammer New York Times Reporters Over Bungled Kavanaugh Smear

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about Whoopi Goldberg going after the Left for promoting Hollywood blacklists. Video and partial transcript below: 
You know, one of Trump&#8217;s superpowers is something that people criticize him for — a little bit on the Right, mostly. On the Left, [they cite it] as evidence of hypocrisy, which is that Trump doesn&#8217;t seem very religious. You know, he&#8217;s not a guy who really goes to church a lot. Obviously he&#8217;s been thrice married. He has a complex relationship with religion, let&#8217;s put it that way.
Trump prefers things that are more tangible. He likes to build buildings. He likes money. You know the Trump game — I have the Trump board game from the &#8217;80s and it says “Trump: The Game,” [and] “It&#8217;s not whether you win or lose, but whether you win.”
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So because of this he talks about building the wall, cutting taxes, fixing trade deficits — very tangible things. Now we know, you and I know, there is no conflict between faith and science — that science rests on religious premises and principles, and that the smartest people in the history of the world have spent [a] very long time as exegetes of the Bible and apologists, and defending &#8230; Christianity. St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the smartest men that ever lived — Saint Augustine. Isaac Newton spent the last years of his life interpreting the Bible. Blaise Pascal, the inventor of the calculator [and] one of the great geniuses of the modern era. George Lamaitre, Father George Lamaitre, the Catholic priest who discovered the Big Bang. [Also], the man who discovered genetics. All of these people.
There&#8217;s no conflict between true faith and science. But there is a conflict between false faith — false religion — and science. And what the Left is peddling, this election, is false faith. On guns, on the environment, on immigration, and on crime, which puts Trump in a good position to make a tangible case to the American people. The economy is booming, unemployment is low. We have relative peace abroad and the wall is being built. He&#8217;s got to get it done though. He&#8217;s got to actually take the steps in that direction. It looks like he&#8217;s doing it, he&#8217;s got to keep it up through 2020.
And some evidence, I&#8217;ll leave you just with this. I&#8217;ll leave you with Whoopi Goldberg, which sounds like a threat but it&#8217;s actually a good thing to hear some evidence that the Left is going too far — is that even for well-known liberals, well-known supporters of left-wing policies, they&#8217;re saying enough is enough. Stop it. We talked yesterday about how Hollywood left-wingers Eric McCormack and Debra Messing from “Will and Grace” are calling for a blacklist and an outing of conservatives in town. Whoopi Goldberg, a left-winger, was asked about this on “The View,” a left-wing show, and in no uncertain terms she said this is dreadful.
<blockquote>GOLDBERG: Your idea of who you don&#8217;t want to work with is your personal business. Do not encourage people to print out lists, because the next list that comes out, your name will be on, and then people will be coming after you to know why you. No one, nobody.
We had something called The Blacklist, and a lot of really good people were accused of stuff. Nobody cared whether it was true or not. They were accused, and they lost their right to work. You don&#8217;t have the right. In this country, people can vote for who they want to, that is one of the great rights of this country. You don&#8217;t have to like it. But you — we don’t go after people because we don&#8217;t like who they vote for. We don&#8217;t go after them that way.
We can talk about issues and stuff, but we don&#8217;t print out lists. And I&#8217;m sure you guys misspoke when you said that because you — it sounded like a good idea. Think about it, read about it. Remember what the blacklist actually meant to people. And don&#8217;t encourage anyone, anyone, to do it.</blockquote>
The polls are showing us, the candidates are showing us, the culture is showing us that the Left is moving further left. This is not a cause necessarily for alarm. Obviously, in the long run, that&#8217;s a bad thing. When you look at the short term, when you look at the elections, when you look at how this could affect our politics in the near future, you see that the Left is even losing dyed-in-the-wool liberals like Whoopi Goldberg. All of that is good news for us who want to restore a little bit of sanity to our culture and to our country.
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KNOWLES: Whoopi Goldberg Attacking Hollywood Blacklists Is Good News For Sanity

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On Thursday&#8217;s episode of “The View,” co-host Joy Behar asked why President Donald Trump has yet to be “charged” with “hate speech.”
“Why can&#8217;t he be brought up on charges of ‘hate speech’?” Behar asked sincerely. “Why can’t he be sued by the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] for ‘hate speech’?”
“I don’t get it,” she said. “How does he get away with this?”
Behar was referencing Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49495/walsh-trumps-tweets-are-gift-his-enemies-matt-walsh">recent tweets</a> about four freshman congresswomen — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — that sparked a media frenzy, as well as the president’s campaign rally on Wednesday night in North Carolina where “send her back” was briefly chanted by the crowd about Rep. Omar. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49641/excellent-trump-president-denounces-send-her-back-ryan-saavedra">condemned</a> the chant on Thursday, telling the press: “I disagree with it &#8230; I felt a little bit badly about it &#8230; I was not happy with it, I disagree with it.”
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">wrote</a> in a series of tweets on Sunday. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.”
“I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” he added.
Behar’s idea that Trump should apparently be silenced and charged by the government flies in the face of constitutional freedoms. The First Amendment protects Americans, even Donald Trump, from being persecuted for controversial speech that might be deemed subjective “hate speech” from opponents. One would think Behar, as a comedian with a history of controversial statements herself, would be well aware of this.
Earlier this year, famed media figure Christiane Amanpour said Trump supporters chanting “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton were engaging in “hate speech” and should have been banned from doing so, as <a href="https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1113139340215902208?lang=en">highlighted</a> by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra.
“‘Lock her up’ was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language?” Amanpour asked former FBI Director James Comey. “That it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it’s kind of ‘hate speech’ — should it have been allowed?”
“That’s not a role for government to play,” Comey answered. “The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it is misleading and it’s demagoguery. The people who should have shut it down were Republicans … It wasn’t a role for government to play.”
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WATCH: Joy Behar Wants Trump Charged With ‘Hate Speech’

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On Saturday, former Disney star Bella Thorne preemptively released private nude photos of herself after hackers attempted to extort the actress. &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg seemingly felt no sympathy for the 21-year-old, slamming Thorne over the incident.
Literally sitting on the edge of her seat as co-host Sunny Hostin expressed her sadness over the young star&#8217;s misfortune, Goldberg chimed in, &#8220;If you&#8217;re famous, I don&#8217;t care how old you are, you don&#8217;t take nude pictures. Once you take that picture, it goes into the cloud, and it&#8217;s available to any hacker who wants it.&#8221;
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BELLA THORNE POSTS NUDE PICS TO THWART HACKER: Actress Bella Thorne said she took her &#8220;power back&#8221; by sharing nude photos of herself after blackmailers threatened to leak them &#8211; the co-hosts discuss if this was the right move. <a href="https://t.co/1091s9Fn2d">https://t.co/1091s9Fn2d</a> <a href="https://t.co/VqFXmggPle">pic.twitter.com/VqFXmggPle</a>
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Thorne was not pleased, offering a tearful response to Goldberg through a video message posted to Instagram.
&#8220;Whoopi, now that everyone&#8217;s seen my shit, and I just want to say watching this interview, you made me feel really bad about myself, and I hope you&#8217;re happy, I really do,&#8221; Thorne said.
&#8220;Shame on you Whoopi,&#8221; the actress continued. &#8220;Shame on you for putting that public opinion out there like that for every young girl to think that they&#8217;re disgusting for even taking a photo like that.&#8221;
In a note posted to Twitter with the accompanying nude photos, Thorne informed her followers of the hack and that she was being extorted, explaining that she&#8217;d rather take her &#8220;power back&#8221; and leak the photos herself.
&#8220;For the last 24 hours, I have been threatened with my own nudes,&#8221; Thorne said. &#8220;I feel gross, I feel watched, I feel someone has taken something from me that I only wanted one special person to see.&#8221;
&#8220;For too long I let a man take advantage of me over and over and I&#8217;m f***ing sick of it,&#8221; the actress wrote, adding, &#8220;NOW U DON&#8217;T GET TO TAKE ANOTHER THING FROM ME. I can sleep tonight better knowing I took my power back. U can&#8217;t control my life, u never will.&#8221;
Screenshots of text messages from the alleged hackers said &#8220;YO BELLA&#8221; and &#8220;Got all the videos&#8221; along with the nudes of Thorne.
So-called &#8220;revenge porn&#8221; and extortion over privately sent nude photos have become far more prominent in the digital age. Actress Jennifer Lawrence, for example, spoke out about her nude photos being leaked. &#8220;Just because I&#8217;m a public figure, just because I&#8217;m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this. It does not mean that it comes with the territory,&#8221; the &#8220;Hunger Games&#8221; star <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/10/jennifer-lawrence-cover">told</a> Vanity Fair in 2014. &#8220;It&#8217;s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.&#8221;
Some states have even adopted laws combating &#8220;revenge porn,&#8221; such as California. According to the Shouse California Law Group, the California Penal Code Section 647(j)(4) PC describes revenge porn as &#8220;&#8216;any person who intentionally distributes the image of the intimate body part or body parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse&#8217; as someone guilty of a disorderly conduct offense,&#8221; The Daily Nebraskan <a href="http://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/california-s-revenge-porn-law-explained/article_27376030-2f15-11e9-96d4-43e216f952c5.html">reported</a>, adding: &#8220;This law is among the many California computer crimes. It is a misdemeanor offense, where people convicted for their first offense can be sentenced to up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. If the victim was a minor, however, the penalty can be increased to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.&#8221;
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So now Sunny Hostin of &#8220;The View&#8221; thinks Jesus Christ would be attending a parade that celebrates a sexual morality contrary to thousands of years of Jewish and Christian teachings.
Over the weekend, as &#8220;Pride Month&#8221; kicked off on June 1, Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island reiterated church teaching that the faithful should not partake in LGBT Pride events throughout the month of June.
&#8220;A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ &#8216;Pride Month&#8217; events held in June,&#8221; Tobin tweeted. &#8220;They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children.&#8221;
Tobin&#8217;s tweet became a sensation on Twitter, with multiple leftists and LGBT activists denouncing him as a bigot. On &#8220;The View&#8221; Monday, <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=238135">co-host Sunny Hostin said</a> Tobin promotes a viewpoint contrary to what Jesus would do, which apparently would involve celebrating what is considered sinful in the Bible.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad you brought that up because I was on Twitter this weekend and I read this tweet by the Bishop Tobin who is a Catholic bishop,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And he comes out, and he says that he wants to remind all Catholics not to support or engage in any pride, participate in any pride, parades or anything supporting the LGBTQ community because it&#8217;s against Christian values and it is harmful to children.&#8221;
Hostin gladly tweeted in response to Tobin that her Catholic children will be attending a Pride event as well as herself.
&#8220;And I tweeted out that my Catholic children will be attending pride events as this Catholic will,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8221; And you know, my faith always taught me what would Jesus do? And I know Jesus would be attending that pride parade, with pride.&#8221;
Hostin then went on to bring up the Catholic sex abuse scandal, wrongfully characterizing it as an issue of pedophilia when a majority of the victims are post-pubescent teenage boys,
&#8220;And I also know that God is love, Jesus is love, love is love,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;For a Catholic bishop to come out and say something like that given the history of pedophilia in the Catholic church, given what the Catholic church has hidden about the abuse of children, some would say that being at a pride parade would be much safer for a child than it has been to be in a Catholic church for many years.&#8221;
While Hostin is certainly within her rights as an American to express her religious sentiments, her views do not align with the Catholic Church, which teaches that homosexual actions are sinful while demanding of the faithful to treat such people with kindness and compassion. Hostin has conflated kindness and compassion with acceptance and endorsement, which the Catholic Church also forbids. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
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Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that &#8220;homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.&#8221; They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God&#8217;s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord&#8217;s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
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The same Catechism has equally strong language condemning such actions as masturbation, birth control, pre-marital sex, and adultery. It does not single out homosexual men and women with calls to chastity and demands that all the faithful live chastely.

Sunny Hostin On ‘The View’: Jesus Would Be Attending A Gay Pride Parade

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On Monday, in a shocking turn on &#8220;The View,&#8221; the audience, which had hitherto swooned in past shows over Democratic presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke, turned on him after hosts Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg tore into him, with McCain attacking the media&#8217;s fawning coverage of him while pointing out that a woman would be pilloried if she left her kids and went on a road trip to find herself, as O&#8217;Rourke did after losing his Senate race to Ted Cruz in Texas. That elicited applause from the show&#8217;s typically leftist audience, which prompted Goldberg to agree with McCain and mock O&#8217;Rourke, bringing laughter.
McCain started by asserting:
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I think there is, there&#8217;s a sort of cognitive dissonance; I don&#8217;t know which comes first; you&#8217;re right. Bernie, Biden, Buttigieg, they&#8217;re polling in the top three (unintelligible) in Iowa, New Hampshire, most swing states right now. Polls can change. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s that journalists are following them because they&#8217;re doing so well; I will say it is noteworthy Pete Buttigieg is a minority in and of itself; he&#8217;s an openly gay man so that&#8217;s historical as well.
I will say that what bothers me of all the coverage of the candidates so far is &#8212; and I know you like him, but Beto&#8217;s coverage infuriates me on an almost daily basis. No woman could ever lose running for Senate and then go on a Jack Kerouac road trip, abandoning his wife and kids, finding himself (Goldberg starts laughing) then do an announcement on the cover of Vanity Fair, that&#8217;s what he did, and then going on &#8212; he did; he left them and went on a road trip to find himself after he lost. No woman could do that. And then he went on &#8212;
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Behar, interrupting, turning to host Abby Huntsman: &#8220;But we could say that about your husband.&#8221;
McCain: &#8212; Just one second. And then he went on the cover of Vanity Fair and said he was born to run. I believe that if Kamala Harris or Amy Klobuchar or Elizabeth had done any of those similar things they would be lambasted in the media. (Audience applauds)
Goldberg: Well, yeah, because if you have children, you can go, but nobody would understand.
McCain: You&#8217;re a grown-ass man finding yourself after you ran? I don&#8217;t understand it. (Audience applauds.)
Goldberg: Oh, honey.
McCain: I never get applause, so clearly people are agreeing with me. Imagine Kamala doing that?
Goldberg: Men are always, &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;ve got to find myself.&#8221; But women, you can&#8217;t get up and just leave your kids. You know, people will not &#8212; they don&#8217;t care if you find yourself when you have kids. You find your kids. That&#8217;s what you do.
O&#8217;Rourke went on a road trip in January, <a href="https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/a-lot-of-big-trucks-rolling-down-pancake-blvd-and-there-arent-any-sidewalks-699ca6bc7ce8">writing</a> in his public blog:
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Have been stuck lately. In and out of a funk. My last day of work was January 2nd. It&#8217;s been more than twenty years since I was last not working. Maybe if I get moving, on the road, meet people, learn about what&#8217;s going on where they live, have some adventure, go where I don&#8217;t know and I&#8217;m not known, it&#8217;ll clear my head, reset, I&#8217;ll think new thoughts, break out of the loops I&#8217;ve been stuck in.
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Did Beto just lose The View <a href="https://t.co/kGvTG0eKwE">pic.twitter.com/kGvTG0eKwE</a>
&#8212; David Rutz (@DavidRutz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1122886390168137728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: McCain, Goldberg Mock Beto On ‘The View.’ Audience Applauds.

On Tuesday, the leftist intellectual giants on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; could not stop gushing about how the Obama administration was &#8220;scandal-free,&#8221; causing co-host Meghan McCain to burst out laughing at the absurdity of the claim as they berated her, as <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/04/02/view-hosts-berate-meghan-mccain-insist-obama-admin-was-completely">Newsbusters</a> reported.
Co-host Abby Huntsman got the ball rolling when she stated:
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My issue is the hypocrisy right now. I hate hypocrisy in politics and if this were on the other foot, if this were the Obama Administration, and there were 25 officials that had been denied, or that had been, said, &#8220;We have concerns,&#8221; and they still got overridden, this would be the top issue right now for every Republican in the country. And it should be for every single American.
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The omniscient Joy Behar stepped in: &#8220;None of this happened&#8212;I remember when people say, &#8216;This was Obama.&#8217; Nothing like this, even remotely close, ever happened in the Obama Administration. Completely scandal-free.&#8221;
McCain couldn&#8217;t help herself; she burst out laughing. Behar snapped, &#8220;Can you name a scandal?&#8221;
McCain answered, &#8220;Yes, but I don&#8217;t want to do this with you this morning.&#8221;
Behar pressed, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to hear a scandal that was in the Obama administration.&#8221;
McCain fired back, &#8220;&#8220;The Iran deal. Number one. I mean, billions of dollars in unmarked bills in the middle of the night given to Iran. Yeah, that&#8217;s a big scandal.&#8221;
Co-host Ana Navarro sarcastically interjected, &#8220;I&#8217;ll give you an Obama scandal. He wore a tan suit. Michelle showed her arms. And he ate Grey Poupon!&#8221;
Co-Host Sunny Hostin echoed, &#8220;&#8220;I&#8217;m just saying &#8212; the Obama-administration was indeed scandal-free!&#8221;
It&#8217;s too bad that the leftist co-hosts on &#8220;The View&#8221; don&#8217;t read conservative sites: In January 2017, just before Obama left office, Newsbusters gave a quick rundown of &#8220;<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2017/01/16/seven-most-undercovered-obama-scandals">The Seven Most Undercovered Obama Scandals</a>,&#8221; prompted by claims of a scandal-free Obama administration from assorted media figures such as former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, Time magazine&#8217;s Joe Klein, ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl, NPR&#8217;s Steve Inskeep, and Time&#8217;s Rana Foroohar.
Some of the scandals of the Obama administration included Obama&#8217;s <a href="https://aclj.org/free-speech/president-obamas-irs-scandal-seven-years-counting">IRS targeting the Tea Party</a>; the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal/">Fast and Furious scandal</a>; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-took-lying-to-new-heights-with-the-iran-deal/2018/06/07/b75f72d2-6a7c-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?utm_term=.52378fe97403">lying to the American public</a> about the Iran deal; the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/06/benghazi-scandal-hillary-clinton-state-department-obama-administration-house-committee/">Benghazi massacre and subsequent spin by the administration</a>; the <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/10/inside-cyberattack-shocked-us-government/">biggest data breach in the federal government&#8217;s history</a>, at the Office of Personnel Management and <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/4/phoenix-va-builds-new-backlog-200-veterans-die-wai/">the VA scandal</a>, just to name a few.
As John Fund and Hans Spakovsky wrote in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-scandal-free-administration-is-a-myth-1484611574">The Wall Street Journal</a> in January 2017:
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One reason for Mr. Obama&#8217;s penchant for secrecy is his habit of breaking rules&#8212;from not informing Congress of the dubious prisoner swap involving Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban, to violating restrictions on cash transfers to Iran as part of a hostage-release deal. The president&#8217;s journalistic allies are happily echoing the &#8220;scandal-free&#8221; myth. Time&#8217;s Joe Klein claims Mr. Obama has had &#8220;absolutely no hint of scandal&#8221; in his presidency. The media&#8217;s failure to cover the Obama administration critically has been a scandal in itself&#8212;but at least the president can&#8217;t be blamed for that one.
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Hosts On ‘The View’ Claim Obama Administration Was ‘Scandal-Free.’ Meghan McCain Cracks Up.

Barack Obama

A fiery Elisabeth Hasselbeck ripped former colleague Rosie O&#8217;Donnell over &#8220;objectifying&#8221; comments she made about Hasselbeck in her new book, &#8220;Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of &#8216;The View.'&#8221;
While O&#8217;Donnell worked alongside Hasselbeck on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in 2006-07, she developed a &#8220;crush&#8221; on the sole conservative voice opposite her, she reveals in the book. But O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s comments on Hasselbeck became increasing bizarre from there. Using a deluge of sports metaphors, O&#8217;Donnell talks about how she attempted to groom Hasselbeck, whom she viewed as a &#8220;freshman&#8221; talent, and claims the two shared mutual &#8220;lesbian undertones.&#8221; Evidencing Hasselbeck&#8217;s alleged lesbian leanings, O&#8217;Donnell oddly pointed to the mother of three&#8217;s success as a college softball player. Seriously.
Here&#8217;s the controversial excerpt from the book, as <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/rosie-odonnell-elisabeth-hasselbeck-the-view-1203171207/">reported</a> by Variety (emphasis added):
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Joy Behar speculated that O&#8217;Donnell had a crush on Hasselbeck, which O&#8217;Donnell confirms in the book. &#8220;I think there were underlying lesbian undertones on both parts,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell says about her working relationship with Hasselbeck. O&#8217;Donnell backed up this idea with some dubious evidence. &#8220;I think this is something that will hurt her if you write it. She was the MVP of a Division 1 softball team for two years that won the finals. There are not many, in my life, girls with such athletic talent on sports teams that are traditionally male that aren&#8217;t at least a little bit gay.&#8221;
Although O&#8217;Donnell was attracted to Hasselbeck, she never wanted to act on it. &#8220;There was a little bit of a crush,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell says in the book. &#8220;But not that I wanted to kiss her. I wanted to support, raise, elevate her, like she was the freshman star shortstop and I was the captain of the team.&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell changed sports metaphors from baseball to basketball. &#8220;I was going to Scottie Pippen her. If I was Jordan, I was going to give her and the ball and let her shoot. But it was in no way sexualized.&#8221;
O&#8217;Donnell said that she was deeply hurt by Hasselbeck, and their fight on TV was about more than just politics. The final straw was when Hasselbeck wouldn&#8217;t defend O&#8217;Donnell from conservative critics. &#8220;It felt like a lover breaking up,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell says about her last day on TV with Hasselbeck. &#8220;The fight that we had, to me as a gay woman, it felt like this: &#8216;You don&#8217;t love me as much as I love you.&#8217; &#8216;I&#8217;ve taken care of you.&#8217; &#8216;You have not.&#8217; &#8216;How could you do that to me?&#8217; &#8216;I didn&#8217;t do anything to you.&#8217;&#8221;
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Hasselbeck appeared on &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday &#8212; though she is no longer a cast member &#8212; and rebuked O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s comments as workplace misconduct and underscored her former colleague&#8217;s apparent lesbian privilege.
Hasselbeck described the remarks as &#8220;reckless,&#8221; &#8220;untrue,&#8221; &#8220;insulting,&#8221; and &#8220;disturbing,&#8221; E! News <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1026888/elisabeth-hasselbeck-responds-to-rosie-o-donnell-s-crush-claims-on-the-view">reported</a>.
&#8220;That person happened to be me,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;But if you replace what Rosie said and you take her name out and you put in Ruben or Robert, then we would be in a situation where you would see the objectification of a woman in the workplace.&#8221;
&#8220;And that&#8217;s disturbing because where we may be really against that when it comes from a man to a woman, you don&#8217;t get a pass because you&#8217;re a lesbian objectifying a woman in the workplace. You just don&#8217;t,&#8221; Hasselbeck added.
The conservative voice noted she was disturbed over the &#8220;words in [O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s] statement that said she had intentionally tried to groom me and take me under her wing.&#8221;
She made it clear to O&#8217;Donnell that &#8220;the feeling was not mutual,&#8221; Hasselbeck noted, though she &#8220;did respect her as a co-host and as a person in the office&#8212;as I think it should happen in all workplaces.&#8221;
&#8220;But I think what we&#8217;re hearing is: We should be as disturbed about that in this case as we have been in the fact if her name was Robert,&#8221; she reiterated.
The former &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host took issue with O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s lesbian stereotyping of female athletes: &#8220;it&#8217;s a lie and it&#8217;s reckless to attach a sexuality&#8221; to a female&#8217;s participation and ability in athletics.
However, the Christian mother said she forgives O&#8217;Donnell for the hurtful comments, and hopes they can reconcile.
&#8220;I believe that above all, like, I&#8217;ve been given a lot of grace by God, and I mess a lot of things up and I certainly will continue to do so,&#8221; Hasselbeck said. &#8220;I feel like I have the grace of forgiveness and that I forgive Rosie. I absolutely forgive her because I was disturbed by what she said and I was offended by it. She has my forgiveness full-heart, and I really pray that she can just have the peace that she deserves.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope that she&#8217;s at peace, and I hope that she and I can get to a place of peace at some point,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But more, I want it for her than anything else. So, that&#8217;s all I have about that.&#8221;

Rosie O’Donnell Talks About ‘Crush’ On Elisabeth Hasselbeck: ‘Lesbian Undertones On Both Parts.’ A Fiery Hasselbeck Responds.

Lesbian

Rosie O'Donnell

Sexual Harassment

Over the weekend, the conspiracy theory accusing First Lady Melania Trump of using a body double while paying her respects to victims of a devastating tornado in Alabama trended on Twitter. President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to criticize the media for covering the unfounded conspiracy theory.
&#8220;The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it&#8217;s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;They are only getting more deranged with time!&#8221;
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The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it&#8217;s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places. They are only getting more deranged with time!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105827007991025666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Vox<a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18263811/trump-fake-melania-tweet-explained"> reported</a> that Trump&#8217;s tweet came shortly after &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; did a segment criticizing ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for discussing the conspiracy theory.
&#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host Ainsley Earhardt called &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8220;hypocritical&#8221; because &#8220;they preach tolerance, yet they&#8217;re not tolerant of people who don&#8217;t agree with them.&#8221;
Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-friends-ridicules-the-view-for-fake-melania-conspiracy-classic-mean-girl-environment/">accused</a> the co-hosts of &#8220;The View&#8221; of creating a &#8220;classic mean girl environment.&#8221;
&#8220;This was an excuse to be able to mock her, to say she looked short, her face was a different shape, classic mean girl environment,&#8221; Bruce said. &#8220;When you&#8217;re in college or high school there&#8217;s the pretty girl who is nice and you go with a marker to mark up her locker and then you gossip about her and you call her names. That&#8217;s what these adult women were doing to the First Lady. What it did of course, is it reminds us of their jealousy, their envy, the fact that they have nothing else to do other than being mean.&#8221;
The White House director of communications for Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham, pushed back on Monday against &#8220;The View&#8221; for discussing the baseless conspiracy theory, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44511/white-house-slams-view-pushing-conspiracy-theory-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.
&#8220;@flotus &amp;@potus traveled to Alabama to pay their respects &amp; comfort victims of the tornado devastation,&#8221; Grisham tweeted. &#8220;In typical fashion, @theview chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@flotus</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@potus</a> traveled to Alabama to pay their respects &amp; comfort victims of the tornado devastation. In typical fashion, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theview</a> chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful. <a href="https://t.co/KzG2c4Th4a">https://t.co/KzG2c4Th4a</a>
&#8212; Stephanie Grisham (@StephGrisham45) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephGrisham45/status/1105165179707379712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In the segment, &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Joy Behar pointed out that &#8220;some people think that the First Lady is using an imposter to stand in for her.&#8221;
&#8220;You mean there are two women that have to pretend they are listing to [Trump]?&#8221; Behar asked. 
Behar then shared the photos of &#8220;Fake Melania&#8221; that conspiracy theorists are using to push their theory, claiming &#8220;that one does not look like her, sorry, I wasn&#8217;t going to go along with this but that one in that picture doesn&#8217;t look like her.&#8221;
&#8220;I spent like an hour on Saturday involved in this,&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Melania is a very tall statuesque women. The one that we saw &#8212; the first one that we showed &#8212; she looks kind of short.&#8221;
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Grisham called the attack &#8220;disgusting.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve always found it sad that a group of women spend so much time attacking another woman, whose only goal is to help children, but today&#8217;s episode went beyond the petty mean girl spirit that we&#8217;re used to. People died, people lost family, people are hurting. I watched the President and First Lady hug, speak with, and comfort people who had lost everything &#8212; and these &#8216;ladies&#8217; are laughing about body doubles. It was disgusting.&#8221;

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