After being fairly cogent most of the week in terms of blaming Hamas terrorists for the slaughter of Israeli civilians and defending Israel’s right to defend itself (with the only outlier being racist co-host Sunny Hostin), ABC’s The View veered back off into asinine territory on Thursday with claims Republican infighting over who would be speaker of the House “invites” Hamas to attack Israel.
“The world is seemingly blowing up right now, and the U.S. looks weak on the world stage because we can't even name a speaker of the House,” Haines proclaimed.
Even though such an operation by Hamas would need months if not a year or more to plan and finance, Haines insisted the week-old speaker fight within the Republican conference was what invited Hamas to launch their attack:
And last week it was kind of amusing, we talked about it here, you have the McCarthy is out, Gaetz is enjoying 30 seconds in the sun and Jim Jordan is your next best option and everything was kind of funny. And then perspective slaps you in the face. And on Saturday after that terrorist attack I kind of looked at in and thought, you know, this division invites enemies in.
Without evidence, she also blamed the infighting for the “massive spread of disinformation” about the fighting between Israel and Hamas. She lectured House Republicans to “watch more news” with no explanation about what she was referring to as “disinformation”:
And so, as a result of this, we talked about maybe watching less news. We were all yesterday teasing about like for our mental health we need to do that. I would encourage House Republicans to watch more news for perspective.
Faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin predicted that “if this goes weeks on end, maybe moderate Republicans would work with Democrats” and elect liberal New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as speaker.
Fill-in moderator Joy Behar built off of Farah Griffin to claim Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was reveling in the speaker fight. “But they have to know, Alyssa, that Putin is watching this! That's why he wants Trump back because Trump divides people! That's why!” she shouted.
Behar then lost it over the fact that she shared a birthday with Putin and she couldn’t understand how he was a Libra; then announced she didn’t believe in “astronomy” instead of astrology:
BEHAR: I have the same birthday as him. I will not get over that.
HAINES: Quit telling people that!
BEHAR: How could he be -- I want to know, how he could be a Libra!? You know, I don't believe in astronomy but that's a balanced personality like moi.
HAINES: Astrology. You do believe in astronomy.
BEHAR: I mean, astrology.
Things are back to normal on The View.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 12, 2023
11:06:00 a.m. Eastern(…)
SARA HAINES: The world is seemingly blowing up right now, and the U.S. looks weak—
JOY BEHAR: That's right.
HAINES: -- on the world stage because we can't even name a speaker of the House. And last week it was kind of amusing, we talked about it here, you have the McCarthy is out, Gaetz is enjoying 30 seconds in the sun and Jim Jordan is your next best option and everything was kind of funny. And then perspective slaps you in the face. And on Saturday after that terrorist attack I kind of looked at in and thought, you know, this division invites enemies in.
And right now we're seeing a massive spread of disinformation on our -- online as a result of this. And so, as a result of this, we talked about maybe watching less news. We were all yesterday teasing about like for our mental health we need to do that. I would encourage House Republicans to watch more news for perspective.
(…)
11:08:18 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Listen, if this goes weeks on end, maybe moderate Republicans would work with Democrats, but the problem is, they're so afraid of losing their seats and getting primaried --
BEHAR: But they have to know, Alyssa, that Putin is watching this! That's why he wants Trump back because Trump divides people! That's why! And Putin isn't – isn’t – please. I can't. I have the same birthday as him. I will not get over that.
HAINES: Quit telling people that!
BEHAR: How could he be -- I want to know, how he could be a Libra!? You know, I don't believe in astronomy but that's a balanced personality like moi.
HAINES: Astrology. You do believe in astronomy.
BEHAR: I mean, astrology.
(…)
