It’s always fun to watch the left rhetorically eat their own. And that’s exactly what happened during Thursday’s edition of ABC’s The View when co-host Joy Behar’s usual doting praise for President Biden slipped as she blamed his “white privilege” for making him think he could work with Republican (as if he was).
In addition, he proved she had the comedy taste of a middle schooler by mocking the name of Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy because of his question to Biden at Wednesday’s press conference.
Behar claimed that Republicans were scoundrels since the 1990s, when they introduced the Contract With America legislative agenda. This helped the GOP take control of Congress in 1994. Referring to it as “contract on America” (like it was a hit job), she recalled: “And then you had Mitch McConnell say that his whole idea going forward with Obama was to make sure he was a one-term president.”
From there, Behar blamed Biden’s “white privilege” for him being drawn into a false sense of security that he would be able to work with Republicans and that he was too dumb to see it:
So I mean, how dense was Biden in this instance – in these instances? I don’t care that you’re a white privileged senator. You’re a white privilege senator in the United States Congress and so you believe that other white privilege guys will work with you, but they won’t. You’re wrong.
Behar’s comments sparked a heated back and forth pitting her and co-host Sunny Hostin against co-host Whoopi Goldberg over what Biden should have known and when he should have known it (Click “expand”):
GOLDBERG
BEHAR: We did.
GOLDBERG : We didn’t. We had no idea that we suddenly were going to be in the midst of people who were going to say to us, a year in, “no, that’s not the real president.”
HOSTIN : Of course we knew this after the January 6th.
“But you’re talking about him having greater knowledge before January 6 and I’m saying this was — he never anticipated this,” Goldberg huffed as they went to a commercial.
Earlier in the show, Behar flaunted her mental immaturity as she targeted Doocy by referring to him as “Peter Douchey” and pretending she didn’t know how to pronounce his name:
BEHAR: On the other hand he missed an opportunity, in my opinion, when that kid, what’s his name Douchey. What’s his name?
ANA NAVARRO : Not Douchey.
HOSTIN Peter Doocy.
Hostin was the only other co-host the camera panned to during the exchange and even she didn’t seem amused by it.
Behar’s attitude towards Biden did a 180-degree flip from where it was at the start of the show. As the cast was trying to downplay and spin Biden giving Russia the green light to launch a “minor incursion” into Ukraine, she suggested it was former President Trump’s fault Russia was getting ready to invade.
Trump sold Ukraine lethal weapons, and he also installed a Poland-based missile defense system. Former President Obama and Vice-President Biden let Russia take Crimea, and the specter now of an invasion is real.
Joy Behar’s bitterness and hatred towards Republicans was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Progressive and McDonald’s. You can find their contact information here.
Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:
ABC’s The View
February 20, 2022
Eastern at 11:03.51ANA NAVARRO: Let’s start on the Russia stuff, which everybody’s talking about, it’s the Ukraine and what he calls a “minor incursion” into Ukraine.
It was an error and a gaffe. Joe Biden, being so experienced, deserves as much grace and respect as anyone else.
JOY BEHAR: He doesn’t get a much what?
NAVARRO: Grace, as others because he’s so experienced on foreign relations. Right? Right?
You know – And let’s remember Secretary Blinken is down there in Ukraine and they’ve made it now, very decisive, that Russia if they go into Ukraine, minor or major, there will be repercussions.
However, it is very troubling for Trump supporters who saw Trump kowtow and Putin for the past four years. If they decide to sanction Russia, it is something I wish for bipartisanship. Yes, there was bipartisanship.
BEHAR: Are you convinced that Trump’s ring-kisses with Putin have contributed to Putin being more empowered?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes, absolutely.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG : This is the Fox man, too. He’s a caterer and has his back rubbed.
BEHAR: Tucker. Tucker has all the right intentions for Russia.
GOLDBERG. Is Joe inadvertently revealing to people exactly what he will do?
[Long silence]
NAVARRO : He talked a lot. He talked a lot.
(…)
Eastern, 11:05:47
BEHAR: On the other hand he missed an opportunity, in my opinion, when that kid, what’s his name Douchey. What’s his name?
NAVARRO: It’s not Douchey.
HOSTIN Peter Doocy.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Peter Doocy said to him, ‘why are you taking the country so far left?’ He just — what did he say?
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: He said ‘I’m not Bernie Sanders.’
BEHAR: I’m not Bernie Sanders. I like Bernie Sanders but I’m not Bernie Sanders.
Biden could have used that opportunity to ask for lunches for children living in poverty. Is it asking for the nation to put on a mask during an international pandemic and have their vaccines? Is that access to medicines without needing to take out a second loan? He did not – uh, what’s the word?
GOLDBERG: Elucidate?
NAVARRO: Emphasize?
BEHAR: Whatever. The list of things this country has to do was not complete by him. He also didn’t mention the fact that there is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and unemployment insurance. All the programs they call socialist.
(…)
Eastern at 11:18.45
GOLDBERG
BEHAR
[Crosstalk]
NAVARRO = With America. Together with America.
BEHAR: Okay. Well, I like to say is “on America.” And then you had Mitch McConnell say that his whole idea going forward with Obama was to make sure he was a one-term president.
GOLDBERG: Right.
BEHAR: Then he stated about Biden that we were going to block and that we wouldn’t let him do what he wants. So I mean, how dense was Biden in this instance – in these instances? I don’t care that you’re a white privileged senator. You’re a white privilege senator in the United States Congress and so you believe that other white privilege guys will work with you, but they won’t. You’re wrong.
GOLDBERG : This is my suggestion. You can argue that he ought to have known. We all should have known what was ahead.
BEHAR: We did.
GOLDBERG : We didn’t. We had no idea that we suddenly were going to be in the midst of people who were going to say to us, a year in, “no, that’s not the real president.”
HOSTIN : Of course we knew this after the January 6th.
GOLDBERG: Well. You’re referring to him knowing more before January 6, and I think he didn’t anticipate this. You know what? Okay, sorry. It’s time to leave. We must go.
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