Shrieking stirred a meltdown on the latest installment of “The View” as one host’s bone spur-inspired tirade signaled the left’s dwindling outlook hitched to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The ladies of ABC’s daytime talk show found themselves squabbling over corporate media writ large Friday as the apparent best efforts to put a thumb on the scale of the 2024 election hadn’t stopped former President Donald Trump from surging in the polls.
As Harris and her allies sought to sell a narrative of the GOP leader being a “fascist” who admired Adolf Hitler, co-host Joy Behar was seemingly left fuming over the former president even having an opportunity to comment.
“I’ve been around a long time, we all know how old I am — I’ve never heard a presidential candidate speak highly of Hitler, ever. This is a disgrace,” she asserted. “Like I said yesterday, my father was in World War II. My uncles fought in Germany. My uncle has a Purple Heart, okay? This guy has bone spurs and goes on television and demonizes people like my family. Screw you!”
The co-host was referring to the medical diagnosis that led to Trump’s deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War.
Behar had previously blown her top over the claims by Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, who in part alleged the president had said, “Well, but Hitler did some good things,” as she herself ranted, “I don’t even know what to say anymore. If people still follow this fascist pig, then I don’t know what else to say.”
“I really don’t. It’s like, how many times do we have to hear him say that, referring to immigrants as ‘animals,’ and Hitler called cleansing Germany of all those parasites, referring to immigrants, and he called Jews ‘lice.’ And this guy Trump calls people ‘vermin.’ It’s the same language that Hitler used, okay?” she continued.
Provoking themselves to anger, “The View” aired a clip from Trump’s Thursday rally in Arizona where he’d said in part, “There’s a lot of people coming out of the Congo, not just South America. They’re coming from 181 countries as of yesterday right in — we’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world.”
“He’s an idiot! He’s an idiot!” bristled Behar. “Come on. The guy is ridiculous. And by the way, can I say one thing? I don’t want to hear this from somebody who didn’t even serve, okay?”
“Let’s be clear here. He’s a total racist. He’s not talking about Norway, or Denmark or Sweden,” she accused as co-host Sunny Hostin made the argument that referring to Trump as a “fascist” and a “threat to society” qualified as “factual information”
Similarly outlandish, Sara Haines equated the coffee klatch at “The View” with news as she said, “It is our job as the media — the fourth estate — to report, to be journalists, to give information, to fact check. Our job is not to decide who gets to hold the mic or not.”
Their commentary matched a growing panic on the left that had many concluding the ladies weren’t going to be happy with the November 5 outcome.
There is probably more to why they are doing this! Maybe they are in fear!
— Ula Enriquez (@ULAEnriquez) October 25, 2024
The View is the most dangerous and disturbing show on T.V. Seriously, they are discussing fact checking and unfair media
— Belle Starr (@TexanStarr) October 25, 2024
You aren’t journalist on the view! And saying he’s held to a different standard? Absolutely, that’s why he’s indicted, impeached, and shot at!
— rachelok (@rbzebra) October 25, 2024
Donald Trump is not a fascist
Nor is he a threat to democracy.
The threat to democracy is the Democrats installing Kamala as the candidate for president without 1 single vote is proff of that.— Charlene (@CharleneYork18) October 25, 2024
In other news, when you’re the candidate that caused @wapo to break decades of tradition endorsing Democrats, maybe you just really suck as a candidate. #KamalaAintIt
— Michelle (@1Sweetness34) October 25, 2024
See this the fighting within has already begun
— FunFACTS (@drivn22) October 25, 2024
Where have you nut jobs been? All the media does is bash Trump. I can’t wait to watch you all crying soon! #MAHA #MAGA2024
— Shawna Jo (@shawnajo75) October 25, 2024
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