The rhetoric from ABC’s The View has steadily grown more and more dangerous and possibly inciting, as co-host Sunny Hostin spent part of Thursday’s show maligning all 74 million Republican 2020 voters by calling them the “biggest domestic threat” to the country after House Republicans opposed a Democratic-led effort against so-called “domestic terrorism.” Both she and co-host Sara Haines scoffed at concerns that slapping on labels could lead to a slippery slope.
After playing soundbites of GOP opposition on the House floor and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) calling Republican representatives racist, co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg dismissed the existence of Antifa and called the GOP the real terrorists:
GOLDBERG: I mean, when did Washington really get to be a place where stopping domestic terrorism is divisive?
BEHAR: I guess when they're part of the problem. [Laughter]
GOLDBERG: Domestic terrorists are voting on the bill.
Later, Hostin chimed in with some nonsense from FBI director Christopher Wray claiming that right-wing “domestic terrorism” was “the biggest domestic threat.” This was said in 2020 after Antifa and Black Lives Matter terrorists besieged multiple U.S. cities around the country.
She then parroted talking points from the liberal Anti-Defamation League to claim “the right” had “committed” 450 murders:
So, over the past decade, the ADL has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists of the right. Of those 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent of those murders.
“And so, there is no way someone that the Republican Party, especially those in the extreme right-wing, are going to vote for this bill because it exposes the party for what it is: the party of insurrectionists, the party that welcomes white supremacists under its tent,” she announced as the reason House Republicans (include Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)) didn’t support the bill.
This is the same ADL that can’t get the definition of racism correct and whose leader gave his personal absolution to Goldberg after her anti-Semitic comments about the Holocaust.
“I thought they said a couple of weeks ago, I thought everyone was against white supremacy. I thought that was what everybody was said,” Goldberg sarcastically asked the rest of the cast. Hostin’s ghoulish response was to label all of former President Trump’s voters as extremists. “It's hard to take a stand against it when those are your voters,” she sneered.
Former Trump press secretary-turned-self-enriching Never Trumper Stephanie Grisham piped up with a half-hearted notation that “the ACLU, at one time, also [did] not liked that language” in the bill and asked Hostin if the slippery slope argument was “valid.”
Given her unhinged nature, Hostin denied that it was. She also got back up from Haines, who scoffed that the slippery slope: “They're, like, what are we going to say, is that next, like parents and school?”
Meanwhile, Hostin made that exact claim just two days prior: “[Y]ou've got an 18-year-old kid who drives 200 miles to kill black people with a single vision to kill black people. And now we have parents storming school boards[.]”
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The transcript is below, click "expand":
ABC’s The View
May 19, 2022
11:07:25 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I mean, when did Washington really get to be a place where stopping domestic terrorism is divisive?
JOY BEHAR: I guess when they're part of the problem. [Laughter]
GOLDBERG: Domestic terrorists are voting on the bill.
(…)
11:14:17 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think what happened, Whoopi, is that, you know, in March of 2020, Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI testified in front of Congress and said, the most pressing issue in our country is domestic terrorism and white supremacy.
BEHAR: Yes.
HOSTIN: That is the biggest domestic threat. This bill was put up by three Republicans, as you mentioned, in September of 2020. It was approved by unanimous vote.
GOLDBERG: Unanimous.
HOSTIN: Unanimous. The question is what has changed? Well, what has changed is well, we had the Buffalo shooting, right, and what has changed is the most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.
So, over the past decade, the ADL has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists of the right. Of those 450 killings, right wing extremists committed about 75 percent of those murders. And so, there is no way someone that the Republican Party, especially those in the extreme right-wing, are going to vote for this bill because it exposes the party for what it is: the party of insurrectionists, the party that welcomes white supremacists under its tent. And that's what changed.
Because everyone is asking changed, that’s what changed.
GOLDBERG: I thought they said a couple of weeks ago, I thought everyone was against white supremacy. I thought that was what everybody was said.
HOSTIN: It's hard to take a stand against it when those are your voters.
BEHAR: Those are your voters.
STEPHANIE GRISHAM: I have a legal question for the lawyer because I know Republicans are nervous that a bill like this would lead to a slippery slope of labeling things that actually domestic terrorism, and I know the ACLU, at one time, also [did] not liked that language. So, is that a valid reason to worry?
I mean, I am so disappointed that they're playing politics with this. So, let me be clear, but I do want to understand.
HOSTIN: No, I don't think it's valid. I think, you know, what do you stand for if you don't stand against hate? What do you stand for?
[Applause]
SARA HAINES: And I think that all the things we reference see that we reference as domestic terrorism, when you see that – They're, like, what are we going to say, is that next, like parents and school? I think it's always an individual shooting people up that's domestic terrorism.
(…)
