On Monday, ABC’s The View kicked off their second week of season 27 in an absolute panic over President Joe Biden’s abysmal poll numbers, including a Wall Street Journal poll that found 73 percent think he’s too old and only 37 percent approve of his handling of the economy. Their purported political diversity was nowhere to be seen as they joined in a chorus calling for the polls to be ignored, hinted the polls were biased towards Republicans, and even suggested Democrats had never supported their incumbent president before Biden.
It was racist co-host Sunny Hostin who cooked up the BIG LIE that Democrats were new to backing their incumbent presidential candidate.
“I think it's nice to finally see the Democrats supporting the incumbent, and you have someone like Gavin Newsom who everyone says, you know, he's maybe running for 2028 saying, ‘No, I'm not in line yet,’” she boasted. “We saw a change over from Pelosi to Hakeem. No, now you're ready. Now this is your turn. Democrats seem to finally have gotten the memo. They got the assignment.”
Hostin also pushed the ridiculous talking point that the Republican Party had never experienced infighting. “[T]he Democrats are toeing the line and doing what Republicans usually do. Republicans usually just toe the line. They just follow the party line,” she touted. Meanwhile, last season they relished in the House GOP squabble during the speaker election process.
Back from her third bought with COVID, moderator Whoopi Goldberg voiced her usual skepticism of polling data but took it a step further by seemingly suggesting they were biased in favor of Republicans because Biden’s approval was so low. “Every time we're up against a Republican, it's, like, ‘Oh, your approval rating is down.’ You know what will tell what your approval rating is? Is when you win like what happened with Biden. Biden won,” she chided.
Faux conservative and dedicated Biden sycophant Ana Navarro whined that concern over Biden’s advanced age was just “a narrative that has been created to cause panic in people.” She also decried the “montages and things of Joe Biden with his eyes closed and, you know, spreading this narrative that Joe Biden is too old, that it's sleepy Joe, that it's that and that.”
Hostin and Navarro both took part in a bizarre form of self-flagellation where they put themselves down in other to help prop up Biden as some sort of specimen that embodied the pinnacle of human health (click “expand”):
NAVARRO: Okay. Joe Biden is old, but he ain't dying any time soon. I don't know if you guys saw him this weekend. He was at the G20. One moment he was in India, then I turned on the TV he was in Vietnam, then I turned on the TV he was giving a press conference. And at the end of being up for, like, 24 hours working in a completely different part of the world, he said, “You know what? I got to go to bed” while Republicans were all pouncing on the fact that the man who had been up for 38 hours had to -- I had to go to bed just watching him on TV.
(…)
HOSTIN: I am so tired of people questioning her qualifications. The woman is ready to lead if she needs to lead, but I don't think Joe Biden's going anywhere because I see him on his bike in Delaware. I can't bike that much!
Alyssa Farah Griffin, the other faux conservative, implored the White House to ignore the concerns about Biden’s age and health, warning that acknowledging them “gives fuel to this narrative that allegedly 73 percent of Americans feel that he's too old.”
Their collective defense of Biden was made all the more laughable when you take in the fact that, during Good Morning America earlier in the day, Navarro and Hostin both tried to claim the cast had a diverse set of political opinions:
NAVARRO: We've got different generations, different races, different backgrounds, different educations. Different, you know --
SUNNY HOSTIN: Different opinions.
NAVARRO: Different careers…you're not just hearing the same opinion from people who all look the same and sound the same and grew up the same.
Yeah, Ana, you're right. We’re not hearing the same opinion from people who look the same. We’re hearing the same opinion from people who just look different.
The View’s unified defense of President Biden’s age was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from CarShield and Dawn. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read"
ABC’s Good Morning America
September 11, 2023
8:21:58 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: We've got different generations, different races, different backgrounds, different educations. Different, you know --
SUNNY HOSTIN: Different opinions.
NAVARRO: Different careers. You've got comedians, you’ve got an EGOT, Whoopi Goldberg, who comes back today. I’m very excited about that. I think that's what makes it interesting. That you're not just hearing the same opinion from people who all look the same and sound the same and grew up the same.
Hostin: Yes.
(…)
The View
11:18:01 a.m. EasternNAVARRO: So, what do they need to focus on? They need to focus on the undeniable. Joe Biden is old and that's a narrative that has been created to cause panic in people. And so, what's the second part of that narrative? Joe Biden is old and Kamala Harris is unprepared.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Go on with the rest of this because you know there's another part to that.
NAVARRO: Okay. Joe Biden is old, but he ain't dying any time soon. I don't know if you guys saw him this weekend. He was at the G20. One moment he was in India, then I turned on the TV he was in Vietnam, then I turned on the TV he was giving a press conference. And at the end of being up for, like, 24 hours working in a completely different part of the world, he said, “you know what? I got to go to bed” while Republicans were all pouncing on the fact that the man who had been up for 38 hours had to -- I had to go to bed just watching him on TV.
(…)
11:19:21 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: I am so tired of people questioning her qualifications. The woman is ready to lead if she needs to lead, but I don't think Joe Biden's going anywhere because I see him on his bike in Delaware. I can't bike that much!
(…)
11:25:24 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Don't even acknowledge from the Democrats' perspective that there is a chance she might have to step in because it re-kind of gives fuel to this narrative that allegedly 73 percent of Americans feel that he's too old.
11:26:16 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: Do they ever primary the incumbent?
FARAH GRIFFIN: No, and I – They very rarely do, but --
HOSTIN: It just doesn't happen. And so, I don't think they're breaking with tradition in any kind of way. I think they're doing -- the Democrats are toeing the line and doing what Republicans usually do. Republicans usually just toe the line. They just follow the party line.
I think it's nice to finally see the Democrats supporting the incumbent, and you have someone like Gavin Newsom who everyone says, you know, he's maybe running for 2028 saying, ‘No, I'm not in line yet.’ We saw a change over from Pelosi to Hakeem. No, now you're ready. Now this is your turn. Democrats seem to finally have gotten the memo. They got the assignment.
(…)
11:28:28 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Every time we're up against a Republican, it's, like, ‘oh, your approval rating is down.’ You know what will tell what your approval rating is? Is when you win like what happened with Biden. Biden won. Everybody was, like – [shocked sound]
NAVARRO: I think part of the reason that that -- those numbers are what they are is because for the last three years, Republicans every chance they get have been doing, you know, montages and things of Joe Biden with his eyes closed and, you know, spreading this narrative that Joe Biden is too old, that it's sleepy Joe, that it's that and that. And, you know, all these montages of Kamala Harris laughing. My God, they pick at her laugh because I guess --
GOLDBERG: Or dancing.
NAVARRO: On that side, nobody laughs.
(…)
