Part of her media tour to promote her memoir Money-Grab Growing up Biden, President Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens appeared with ABC’s resident coven, The ViewOn Tuesday. And as one might expect, they gushed about “the great, fabulous Joe Biden” (as Joy Behar proclaimed) and how “he runs the gamut of emotions” and how they “love that about him.” So, NewsBusters presents some of the dumber questions the cast queried Owens with.
The hands-down most ridiculous question came from Behar herself at the top of the segment, setting the tone for the rest: “What was he like as a kid?”
And after a now-cliché question about the Biden family and tragedy from Sara Haines, co-host Sunny Hostin asked the most critical question (with some pushback from Behar) demanding to know why Biden chooses to supposedly work with Republicans to get things past:
HOSTIN – I’m asking you if you are surprised at how difficult it is for them to make things easier for him. He sat beside the first black president, and I know how they treated him. He was so ignorant to believe that the Republican Party would be any different.
BEHAR: Are you naive? Or do you have the fortitude to succeed?
Conceding to Behar that they had to be nicer to the Bidens, Hostin suggested “he thinks the best of people” while she sees “the worst of people.” “Was he surprised how he’s being treated by his friends across the aisle,” she changed up her phrasing.
“He spent 35 years in the Senate. There was such a comradery and congeniality that doesn’t exist anymore,” Owens lamented. And in trying to give examples of her brother getting bipartisan support, she couldn’t remember the name of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was just confirmed last Friday, calling her the “first Supreme Court justice, the African-American woman.”
Fox News recently reported that in her book, Owens makes the outrageous claim that Democrats are the “pro-life” party. “Instead of wanting to be called ‘pro-choice,’ she says they should have chosen to be the ‘pro-life’ party because they are advocating for better lives for women,” Cameron Cawthorne and Joe Schoffstall wrote.
And keeping with that notion of spewing nonsense, Owens claimed: “he’s created more jobs than anybody in the first year.” “He sure has,” Hostin agreed.
For the final question, after gushing about a story in the book featuring Owens and her brother stealing ice cream from the White House kitchen, self-proclaimed Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin couldn’t think up an original question and essentially asked Hostin’s again:
Sunny pointed out that we live in a very divided world. Where do – I’m a Republican, where do you see the President being able to work with Republicans going forward in the next two years ahead of the election.
If Biden was to be working with Republicans following the election, a more serious questioner on the right would have done so. She could have also asked about the Biden family’s business dealings through Hunter and Jim Biden, her other brother, including how can Joe can claim he doesn’t talk to Hunter about his business dealings while posing for pictures with his partners?
“Well, we’re cheering him on. And we’re cheering you on,” Behar ended the interview.
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ABC’s The View
April 12, 2022
Eastern, 11:51:10(…)
Sunny Hostin says this book is amazing. It is a great book. You can see so many family members in it. Talk about running seven senators for your brother and two presidential elections. When you first started to run for it, you were each in your 20s. You had no prior experience. You are well known for your ability to connect with Republican Party members across the aisle.
I want to ask you if you are surprised at how difficult they make it for you. It’s because he was there with the first African president. He knew what they did to him. He was so ignorant to believe that the Republican Party would be any different.
JOY BEHAR: Is he naive, or does he have the fortitude to do it?
HOSTIN: I think Joe – because we all know him and adore him, he thinks the best of people.
BEHAR: Yeah.
HOSTIN : I sometimes see the worst.
VALERIE Biden Owens: My brother appeals to the higher angels.
HOSTIN: He does.
BIDEN OWENS : That is why we won the 2020 election. Surprised at your — What was your first question? You asked me the most ridiculous question.
[Laughter]
BEHAR: It was just an hour ago.
HOSTIN: Is he shocked at how his friends treated him across the aisle?
BIDEN OOWENS: He’s not disappointed, I believe he is — and not in the fact that my brother is extremely proud to have been elected president of the United States. But he’s – The but part is he’s a Senate man. He served 35 years in Senate. It was a time of comradery, congeniality and camaraderie that is gone. So he – But look, he has reached across the aisle. See the infrastructure.
HOSTIN: That’s true.
BIDENOWENS: See our first Supreme Court Justice, the African American woman.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
BIDEN OWENS: So, he’s – he’s created more jobs than anybody in the first year.
HOSTIN: Yes, he has.
BIDEN – It is working. It is difficult and I’m disappointed. It’s not easy for me to believe he is disappointed. He is stronger than me. You know, you don’t like – you know, when your brother or your child is – you know they meet adversity, you want to go in there and fight. He is a lot more calm.
BEHAR: Can we ask you one more thing?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Real quick. Valerie. Your favorite story is Valerie visiting President Obama at the White House. He steals the ice cream and the two of you just have a great time.
But real quick. Sunny pointed out that we live in a very divided world. Where do – I’m a Republican, where do you see the President being able to work with Republicans going forward in the next two years ahead of the election.
BIDEN OWENS: I think – appealing to their better instincts. Look, I think a leader, no matter if it’s president or whoever, a leader has to have basic characteristics and they have to have the temperament and the character and the empathy and the intelligence. If my brother continues to work like this, people will listen to him.
BEHAR: We’re rooting for him. We’re here to cheer you on.
BIDENOWNES: I am grateful.
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