Bitter hosts The View continued their vile character assassination of recently acquitted Illinois teen Kyle Rittenhouse, Monday. Joy Behar doubled down on her outright lie that Rittenhouse “came to initiate violence” while host Sunny Hostin suggested the white teen was a racist who valued property more than human life.
Since it was the first show after Friday’s verdict, Joy Behar ranted that because the court ruled in “Rottenhouse’s” favor, it “opened the Pandora’s Box for all the crazies out there.”
She perpetuated the left’s fear mongering that armed teenagers were going to be targeting innocent liberal protesters:
“I can’t go and protest without worrying that some nutcase is going to have a gun, cross the state line and come and shoot me. Here’s the problem. That’s what I have to worry about!” she ranted to audience applause.
Sunny Hostin also feared it. “I think people now will think that someone can legally come to a protest and under the cover of law kill me!”
Sara Haines, Sara’s cohost, retorted a bit, and said that Rittenhouse was a case of self defense under Wisconsin law. Behar, however, chimed in with an improbable lie. “He came to start violence, but he didn’t!” she fretted.
As many news outlets do on Fridays, hosts attempted to bring up racism. Sunny Hostin consistently boils everything down to race so it’s no surprise she did the same here.
Behar even helpfully set her up, asking, “Sunny, if he were black would he be free now?”
“No. He wouldn’t be alive now,” Hostin said smugly as the audience weirdly cheered for that divisive statement.
Rittenhouse was also attacked by her as a racist, who seemed to care less about property than people.
“There’s another notion this isn’t about race. Not about race, we still do have to remember that he responded to a protest about racial injustice so that’s a part of this and instead of you know, protesting he was there to protect property as property is more important than life,” As the audience agreed, she cried.
But as NewsBusters’ deputy managing editor Nick Fondacaro noted yesterday, the media is ignoring a ruling in Florida that flies in the face of this notion:
[O]Andrew Coffee IV was also found innocent of Rittenhouse’s charges. He is a Florida black man. In this case, Coffee shot at Sheriff’s deputies during a SWAT raid on his home where he was asleep when the deputies announced themselves and arrested his father. Coffee began firing in self defense when they entered his bedroom. His girlfriend, however, was shot and killed by the deputies. Coffee pleaded self defense and was found not guilty by the jury.
While assassinating Rittenhouse’s character, the hosts tried to clean up the reputations of the two men he killed: Joseph Rosenbaum, the convicted child molester who chased and threatened Rittenhouse while shouting racial epithets, and Anthony Huber, who hit him with a skateboard, grabbed Rittenhouse’s gun and also had a violent past. [click “expand”]:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG – Let me tell you something that got me. The father of Anthony Huber was one of those young men killed and shot by Kyle Rittenhouse. It puts everything in perspective.
[plays CNN clip of Huber’s father]
GOLDBERG : Now he was doing nothing. He tried — he had seen an active shooter. When he saw another person get shot, it made him feel he was doing right.
HOSTIN: That’s right.
GOLDBERG : So, even all of the excuses around the world doesn’t change the fact three people were shot. Two were killed. It seems to me that it was murder. I’m sorry. This man is a legend.
HOSTIN: His son died. Another family lost their child. Another family lost their son. A child may have been molested by someone else One of his friends had mental problems, but he didn’t know any of it. He just knew someone was there on the AR-15, and that is something we should keep in mind.
BEHAR: Identify the person who molested your child
HOSTIN: Rosenbaum.
BEHAR: This was not the man who protested for Black Lives Matter.
HOSTIN: We do not believe that’s the case.
Hostin also excused Kenosha rioters as “the voice of the unheard.”
Protests took place on Monday. They said that only 1% of those protestors started torching buildings. Martin Luther King said a riot is the voice of the unheard, and that’s what we saw…
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Here’s a portion of the transcript:
The View
11/22/21
KYLE RITTENHOUSE: I’m not a racist person. I voted for the BLM. I am a supporter of peaceful protests.
JOY BEHAR: So why was he there carrying a gun? [applause] [scoffs] Sorry.
BEHAR:That’s what it means. It’s the question. [ Applause ] It’s frightening the entire thing.
Cornell William Brooks was once the president and CEO of NAACP. He claimed that Rittenhouse could be benefited by the law. However, he called Rittenhouse Rottenhouse. [laughter]It is culturally dangerous to associate radicalized violence with it. “ This is going To me, it would have grave repercussions. While we can discuss the legality and all the other aspects, I cannot protest it without being worried that someone will have a gun and cross the state boundary to shoot me. Here’s the problem. This is the problem. [ Applause ]I am from the generation that protested Vietnam War.
All that said, I believe strongly in the power of protests. It is something I believe in. It’s important to show up and speak out, because the government doesn’t always hear you. So that is my fear, that he has opened Pandora’s Box for some crazy people out there.
…
SARA HAINES: You can have all of these things at once. You should not have been there.
JOHN BEHAR: Sunny. If he was black, would he still be free?
SUNNY HOSTIN : He would not be here now. [audience CHEERS]
It’s not true. Shooter activeIt’s not clear to me that this is an easy self-defense case.[applause]All that said, I did say last week that the chart is indicative of our country’s current state. It is kind of indicative of our country’s current state. People will be scared to exercise their constitutional rights to protest. This young man Kyle Rittenhouse is loved by so many as a hero under the Second Amendment. He’s a great hero for self-defense. My belief is that people will believe they can now legally protest my actions and then, under the guise of law, kill me.
…
SUNNY HOSTIN Protests took place on Monday. There was a small, but vocal group that, according to them, only 1% of the protesters started torching buildings. Martin Luther King said a riot is the voice of the unheard, and that’s what we saw. Two days later, on Tuesday, protestors were arrested by police. They were tear gassed with tear gas and pellets.
HAINES: Is Kyle Rittenhouse a part of this?
…
WHOOPI GOLDBERG – Let me tell you something that got me. The father of Anthony Huber was one of those young men killed and shot by Kyle Rittenhouse. It puts everything in perspective.
[plays CNN clip]
GOLDBERG : Now he was doing nothing. He tried — he had seen an active shooter. When he saw another person get shot, it made him feel he was doing right.
HOSTIN: That’s right.
GOLDBERG : So, even all of the excuses around the world doesn’t change the fact three people were shot. Two were killed. It seems to me that it was murder. I’m sorry. This man is a legend.
HOSTIN: His son died. A second family also lost their son. Another family lost their son. It is possible that a child was molested One of his friends had mental problems, but he didn’t know any of it. He just knew someone was there on the AR-15, and that is something we should keep in mind.
BEHAR: Find out who molested the child
HOSTIN: Rosenbaum.
BEHAR: This was not the man who protested for Black Lives Matter.
HOSTIN: We do not believe that’s the case.
HOSTIN – This doesn’t concern race. Although it’s not about the race of Hostin, we must still remember that he replied to a protest against racial inequity so that was a part and parcel of this. [applause]Protesting that he was not there to protect his property, because property is far more important than life.
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