There's the old saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day. That was true on Monday’s The View, as the Mike Pence haters gave him reluctant applause for rebuking President Trump’s claim that he had the power to overturn the 2020 election. But one stubborn host refused to give him any credit.
Right after this, the panel surprisingly and unanimously went after Democrat Stacey Abrams for appearing maskless at an elementary school under a mask mandate.
First, co-host Sunny Hostin bristled at her peers for commending the former VP, after he said at a Federalist Society event that Trump’s comments were “wrong” and “un-American:” “I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone.”
“It took him thirteen months, but I applaud him, nonetheless,” Ana Navarro offered. She sneered that it was the least he could do to, “try to recover a modicum of dignity.” But the CNN Republican demanded he appear before the January 6 committee as well.
Sara Haines and Joy Behar also noted Pence’s comments were “important” with Behar even giving him “points” for doing something that she thought would endanger his or his family’s life.
But Hostin couldn’t abide by this very mild praise. She displayed the show's infamous, anti-Christian bigotry in characterizing Pence as targeting gays:
I don't know that 13 months later, you know, you get applause for doing the right thing. If the bar is that low, my God, where are we? And he's talking so much about constitutional rights. I mean, I remember looking at his record when he was responsible and in charge of the U.S. Coronavirus response, which he was woefully inadequate in that.
…And then when you look at his record as governor of Indiana and he passed so many unconstitutional laws and signed so many unconstitutional laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, and I think he's also spoken against the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. Also, he signed, let’s see, the Indiana religious restoration act which led the way for individuals and businesses to refuse service to the LGBTQ community. He failed to act in response to the AIDS crisis, the HIV crisis. So give me a break. He is who he has always been. He sold his soul to Donald Trump, and now to speak in front of the federalist committee. Um, okay?
As Navarro defended Pence’s integrity as a lifelong conservative, Hostin shot back, “He discriminates against gay people. Is that a conservative value?”
While divided on Pence, all of the hosts seemed embarrassed for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D), after she faced backlash for posing maskless for a photo surrounded by masked children this past week. She was visiting an elementary school where the district mandates mask wearing.
“Could she have read the room a little bit better there,” Behar wondered before admitting she was “shocked” that “one of the most intelligent people in politics” would “slip up…and give aid and comfort to the other side.” Is it really that surprising though, considering how many mask and mandate hypocrites there are on the left?
Hostin agreed with Abrams’ conservative critics that this was blatant “hypocrisy,” but like Behar, she seemed more upset this gave fodder to the right.
“Why do that? Why give the right more ammunition? They always go after her anyway, and I think it was really hypocritical actually.” After reading Abrams’ self-righteous defense of her behavior, Hostin became more critical of the former favorite guest on The View:
The point is she was not wearing a mask when she is one of those proponents of mask mandates….She should have worn a mask. That's a lame excuse.
Navarro reminded the show’s liberal viewers that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was also busted posing maskless recently at an indoor sports event, while Los Angeles has an indoor mask mandate in place. (She forgot to mention that another View favorite, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed were also at this same event posing for photos maskless!)
“[S]o I think people really resent this idea of rules for thee -- you know, rules for me, but not for thee,” Navarro accurately noted. Frequent Democrat-hypocrite defender Behar still grumbled, “Yeah but is it really as egregious as somebody like [Greg] Abbott and [Ron] DeSantis really saying, 'don't wear the masks,' 'no mandates,' 'no masks,' that's much more destructive than one person slipping up in my opinion!”
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You can read transcript portions below:
ABC's The View
02/07/22
11:03 a.m. EasternJOY BEHAR: Very interesting that he came out this way. Don't you think? Will Republicans heed the warning, or will they continue to play the party line about the commission being a witch hunt?
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11:03 a.m. Eastern
ANA NAVARRO: Well, first of all, let's talk about the RNC. The RNC and this censorship against Kinzinger and Liz Cheney -- imagine Dick Cheney's daughter being censured by the RNC which apparently now stands for Republicans with no cajones. It turned into a cult and they worship at the altar of trump. It's ridiculous, and Mike Pence, it took him 13 months, but I applaud him nonetheless.
BEHAR: Yeah.
NAVARRO: I'm not sure what choice he has, right? Because Donald Trump is never, ever going to admit he lost, and Donald Trump is never, ever going to forgive Michael Pence for not having gone along with his conspiracy, and Mike Pence as long as Donald Trump controls the Republican party, which he does right now, is never, ever going to have a political future. So given that, the least he could do is try to recover a modicum of dignity. I would say to Mike Pence, if you feel so strongly about this, instead of speaking in front of the federalist society, you should speak in front of the January 6th committee and tell them what you know.
BEHAR: It was valuable to speak in front of the Federalist [society].
SUNNY HOSTIN: I just -- I don’t know. I don't know that 13 months later, you know, you get applause for doing the right thing. If the bar is that low, my God, where are we? And he's talking so much about constitutional rights. I mean, I remember looking at his record when he was responsible and in charge of the U.S. Coronavirus response, which he was woefully inadequate in that.
BEHAR: Yeah.
HOSTIN: And then when you look at his record as governor of Indiana and he passed so many unconstitutional laws and signed so many unconstitutional laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, and I think he's also spoken against the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. Also, he signed, let’s see, the Indiana religious restoration act which led the way for individuals and businesses to refuse service to the lgbtq community. He failed to act in response to the AIDS crisis, the HIV crisis. So give me a break. He is who he has always been. He sold his soul to Donald Trump, and now to speak in front of the federalist committee. Um, okay?
But the fact that the Republican party in my view is normalizing violence, um, is going to beget more violence. They're saying that was political discourse.
BEHAR: Or tourism–
HOSTIN: 140 police officers.
BEHAR: They really think Americans are that stupid when we're watching --
HOSTIN: Well they are, right? It seems like the American public has the attention span of a gnat, right? Because all of a sudden, people don't remember anything. I remember that 140 police officers were injured, and this is supposed to be the law and order, you know, community, right? The law and order --
BEHAR: Party.
HOSTIN: The Republicans -- the law and order party. Where is that?
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11:07 a.m. Eastern
NAVARRO: …[I] think that we should applaud them for doing the right thing, but you’re right it is a very low bar. But that’s where we are.
HOSTIN: The bar is on the ground at this point.
NAVARRO: Well, okay, and some people will have to crawl under it like insects.
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11:08 a.m. Eastern
NAVARRO: Mike Pence is a lifelong ideological conservative. That's, like, which Donald Trump is not.
HOSTIN: He discriminates against gay people. Is that a conservative value?
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11:14 a.m. Eastern
JOY BEHAR: My question to this panel is should she have read the room a little bit there? I’m a little bit shocked because Stacey Abrams to me is one of the most intelligent people in politics.
HOSTIN: Brilliant.
BEHAR: She kinda slipped up here, they took a picture of here with these kids there without a mask, giving aid and comfort to the other side. That's what she did.
HOSTIN: She did.
BEHAR: I’m surprised at her, to tell you the truth.
HOSTIN: It was an unforced error? Like, why do that? Why give the right more ammunition? They always go after her anyway, and I think it was really hypocritical actually. Her statement. First of all, this has nothing to do with black history month. The point is she was not wearing a mask when she is one of those proponents of mask mandates, and she said, I think, in her statement, her people said that she asked to -- she removed it -- I'm sorry. She wore a mask to the school, but later removed it so she could be heard by students watching remotely, and for the photos on the condition that everyone around her was wearing masks.
BEHAR: Yeah.
HOSTIN: She should have worn a mask. That's a lame excuse.
ANA NAVARRO: This happened the same week that Eric Garcetti got caught taking pictures without a mask at SoFi stadium in Los Angeles, and he was posing with Magic Johnson and other celebrities. He claims he holds his breath taking a picture.
HOSTIN: That's ridiculous.
NAVARRO: It's so stupid!
[laughing]
BEHAR: It's kind of funny.
[laughing]
NAVARRO:...so I think people really resent this idea of rules for thee -- you know, rules for me, but not for thee.
BEHAR: Yeah but is it really as egregious as somebody like Abbott and DeSantis really saying, don't wear the masks. No mandates, no masks that's much more destructive than one person slipping up in my opinion.
