While Joy Behar spent the last four years in a rage against President Trump, she sees the next four years as a welcome vacation, just like Joe Biden’s enablers in the media at large. On today’s The View, Behar and her co-hosts were brimming with excitement for Jake Tapper’s “feel good” and "refreshingly boring” interview with Biden and Kamala Harris on CNN last night.
After playing clips from that softball CNN interview, that left out the more bizarre exchanges, Behar gushed, "So it's like we left the nuthouse and now we're entering Disneyland!"
All her co-hosts agreed. Sara Haines fawned over the Democrats saving America: “Yes. I think overall this interview was a lot of uh, feel good moments. It felt like help was on the way,” she praised before gushing over Biden’s “empathy” for Republican senators who didn’t want to cross President Trump. “I just thought that was so thoughtful and deliberate, and it mattered to me,” she said hopefully.
Ana Navarro equally lauded, “[h]ow normal, how sane, how adult, how productive the entire conversation felt.” After bashing William Barr as Trump's "minion," she touted the relationship between Harris and Biden, adding "It was just -- I mean, really, it felt like, you know, a new day is dawning."
Behar quipped she liked how "boring" it was: "It's refreshing. It's a little boring though, isn't it? I like that."
Sunny Hostin was also overjoyed by the "return to normalcy," (ie: a return to a friendly press who doesn't push back) and shared her hopes that Harris would exert her influence on the incoming administration:
You know, it was quite boring, and it was normal, and I have been searching for that return to normalcy, and, you know, it was -- it was just so refreshing for me that there are adults in the room now, and that's what it looked like. It looked like someone who was presidential, someone who was vice presidential, and I loved it. I also agree with Ana. I loved hearing that Kamala Harris will be an equal partner much in the way that Joe Biden was an equal partner with President Obama. We always know, you know, knew that they had this incredible relationship, and I loved that he said that she will be the last person in the room when he makes significant decisions, that she has been in on every single decision that has been made, and that she will really, he said also, whatever the most urgent needs are that he is not able to attend to, he has confidence in turning to her. So I am really looking forward to seeing what she will be responsible for...
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Read the transcript, below:
The View
12/4/2020
JOY BEHAR: So it's like we left the nuthouse and now we're entering Disneyland. [chuckles] So let me ask you this, I think Ana, maybe. Did this give you a good preview of how they'll run the country? No, Sara. Sara's up first.
HAINES: Yes. I think overall this interview was a lot of uh, feel good moments. It felt like help was on the way. In fact, President-Elect Biden even tweeted a couple of days ago, you know, my message to everyone struggling right now is help is on the way, and the part that specifically jumped out was the end of that clip, was the way he spoke about Republican senators, and this is always something I look for in any leader, is kind of the empathy they offer that who is on the other side, and here is a man who has talked about collaborating, cooperating, working with the other side. It would have been easy in this interview -- he said, I'll say this tactfully. This was President-Elect Biden, and then Jake Tapper said, you don't have to be tactful. He said, no, it matters and I will, and I loved that because what he then showed was a certain empathy about the difficult position these Republican senators are in, but it wasn't just the empathy. It was the strategy of it. This is a man that keeps talking about working across the aisle, cooperating with the other side. The fact that he might be dealing with a Republican Senate. This was such a great route to take which is, don't take the low hanging fruit. Don't stomp on it. Just say, they're in a tough position. That's okay. They'll come around. I just thought that was so thoughtful and deliberate, and it mattered to me.
JOY BEHAR: I wonder. I wonder if he's going to be able to do it. It's heavy lifting, don't you think, Ana? What do you say?
ANA NAVARRO: I think he's going to try very, very hard. Look. My takeaways from this were just how normal, how sane, how adult, how productive the entire conversation felt. There were points where, you know, there was one point where he said, this is when Jake Tapper asked Joe Biden about prosecuting Donald Trump and about the pardons, and he said, this is not my Justice Department. This is the people's Justice Department. Before Trump, I would have told you that's, like, a president saying the sky is blue, but given what we're living through right now and seeing how Donald Trump treats William Barr like his minion, and Bill Barr behaves like a minion, it is so refreshing. I was also so heartened to see the relationship and the, you know, just how well the cooperation is between Kamala and Joe Biden, and hoping that it, you know, it emulates what the relationship was between Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and I loved his answer on diversity and the cabinet. Instead of him saying, all these people do is whine and ask, you know, he said, that's what they should be doing. They should be pushing me and judge me when this is over because I plan to have a cabinet that looks like America. It was just -- I mean, really, it felt like, you know, a new day is dawning.
BEHAR: Yes. It's refreshing. It's a little boring though, isn't it? I like that.
[chuckles]
BEHAR: I’ll take it. I want to be bored in 2021.
HOSTIN: Yes
BEHAR: It's always on the stuff to talk about. Sunny? What do you say, Sunny?
HOSTIN: [chuckles] You know, it was quite boring, and it was normal, and I have been searching for that return to normalcy, and, you know, it was -- it was just so refreshing for me that there are adults in the room now, and that's what it looked like. It looked like someone who was presidential, someone who was vice presidential, and I loved it. I also agree with Ana. I loved hearing that Kamala Harris will be an equal partner much in the way that Joe Biden was an equal partner with President Obama. We always know, you know, knew that they had this incredible relationship, and I loved that he said that she will be the last person in the room when he makes significant decisions, that she has been in on every single decision that has been made, and that she will really, he said also, whatever the most urgent needs are that he is not able to attend to, he has confidence in turning to her. So I am really looking forward to seeing what she will be responsible for. Because we know that Biden was instrumental in getting the Affordable Care Act passed. We know that he was instrumental in the H1N1 pandemic. Well, not pandemic, but the H1N1 issue, and I'm really thrilled for Kamala and to just see a woman of color being represented in terms of that level of leadership. It shows my daughter what she’s capable of.
