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]]>A combative interview between the hosts of The View and GOP congressional candidate Kim Klacik went off the rails after the Baltimore native called out Joy Behar‘s past use of blackface.
The exchange began when Klacik was asked about President Trump’s admission to veteran journalist Bob Woodward of wanting to “downplay” the severity of the coronavirus early on and was asked by Sara Haines if the downplaying of the disease “cost lives.”
“First of all, I think that we didn’t handle the pandemic as a country great as a whole,” Klacik said. “This is why I talk about bring the biotech industry right back to the Baltimore city port. We’ve allowed a lot of jobs and manufacturing to go overseas thanks to NAFTA in the Bill Clinton administration and that’s why [Trump’s] pulling it back. Had we had that medical equipment industry here, we probably would have been more equipped to better handle the pandemic.”
Behar, however, wasn’t satisfied with her response.
“Excuse me, I have to say something to you,” Behar pushed back. “He told Bob Woodward that it was a very serious issue and it’s airborne and that it was terrible. And then he went out and told the American people, ‘Don’t wear masks, it’s all going to go away.’ You have to put some blame on your president. I’m sorry, you’re putting it on something extraneous here. Talk to the point, please.”
“Is this Joy speaking?” Klacik asked.
“Yes,” Behar responded.
“Is this the same Joy that paraded in blackface not too long ago?” Klacik then followed. “C’mon, Joy, I don’ think you should be asking these questions.”
“That’s not true!” Behar exploded as the congressional candidate continued speaking. “Excuse me, excuse me! The Black community had my back! They know that that was not blackface, that was a homage!”
“The Black community has my back, too!” Klacik shot back.
Behar then received an assist from Sunny Hostin, who mocked the GOP hopeful’s claim that the Black community has her back, telling her “The Black community does not vote for you! The Black community did not vote for you! What planet are you living on?!?”
“Can we all be respectful please?” Meghan McCain is heard asking.
As Klacik attempted to rebut Hostin amid the shouting, Behar quickly wrapped up the interview and thanked the Maryland candidate for appearing on the show.
This wasn’t the first time Behar was called out on “The View” for wearing blackface. Last year, Donald Trump Jr. also lambasted the liberal co-host for the offensive costume she had worn decades ago at a Halloween party.
“We’ve all done things that we regret. Joy, you have worn blackface,” Trump Jr. said at one point during the contentious segment. “Whoopi, you said that Roman Polanski… it wasn’t ‘rape-rape,’ when he raped a child.”
Goldberg snapped back: “Now that you’ve broken this piece of ice, because I guess it is the fight you wanted…are you questioning my character?”
“I’m not questioning your character. I’m talking about, you’re questioning my father’s character and I say we all have done and said things,” Trump Jr. said before being interrupted by Goldberg.
In 2019, footage of Behar dressed up what she described as “beautiful African woman” was resurfaced by TheWrap amid a series of blackface scandals making national headlines.
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Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
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]]>“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s response to the coronavirus, saying he was “just right on” in the early stages of the pandemic.
“I think people in New York took it very seriously,” she said, “because we were the epicenter.”
Hostin’s comments came amid widespread criticism of Cuomo’s requirement that New York nursing homes accept patients who tested positive for the coronavirus – something many said was the cause for many deaths among the elderly.
New York’s government recently released a report on the issue that garnered significant backlash as it found no strong link between Cuomo’s nursing homes order and some of the nation’s deadliest nursing home outbreaks.
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The report says the virus’ rampant run through New York nursing homes was propelled by the 37,500 nursing home workers who became infected between mid-March and early June and unknowingly passed the virus on.
It also said 80 percent of the 310 nursing homes that admitted coronavirus patients already had a confirmed or suspected case among its residents or staff before the directive was issued.
Several experts cast doubt on the study, including a University of Texas epidemiologist, Catherine Troisi, who said to the Associated Press, “Would this get published in an academic journal? No.”
Cuomo also faced backlash this week over a poster he promoted that touted the state’s coronavirus response.
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The report came as Cuomo said schools could eventually start reopening in his state. He warned, however, that New York wouldn’t “use our children as the litmus test” or “guinea pigs.”
Co-host Joy Behar suggested that schools should just add another year onto the end of the K-12 timeline in order to make up for the lost time during the virus.
President Trump’s administration has been adamant about reopening schools and threatened to revoke funding for schools that didn’t open on time.
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“In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS,” he tweeted last week.
“The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children & families. May cut off funding if not open!”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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]]>“The View” hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain have been sounding off regularly on President Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and the race between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Yet none of them have weighed in on a disturbing sexual assault allegation facing Biden leveled by his former staffer Tara Reade, who went public with her 1993 claim four weeks ago.
“The View” isn’t alone in the blackout. ABC News, which the daytime talk show is a part of, has not covered the controversy on-air and only acknowledged Reade’s claim in the republishing of an Associated Press report on its website on April 13, nearly three weeks after Reade came forward.
In addition, the network’s chief political anchor George Stephanopoulos failed to ask Biden about the allegation during an interview on ABC’s Sunday show “This Week” earlier this month.
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“ABC News remains part of the embarrassing medley of news outlets that must still be wishing Americans either don’t find out about Reade or they forget about it amidst this global pandemic that it doesn’t become a mainstream campaign topic,” NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News.
The long-running daytime program, however, dedicated substantive coverage of the sexual assault allegations that were leveled against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation in 2018. The show’s liberal hosts, Goldberg, Behar, and Hostin, were outspoken in their defense of Kavanaugh’s prominent accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
McCain was absent for the majority of the Kavanaugh saga as she took time off to grieve the passing of her father, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Joy Behar accused GOP lawmakers who were supportive of Kavanaugh of “not protecting women” and deemed the Trump appointee “probably guilty.”
She went on to claim that Republicans wanted to “retain white power in this country” by siding with Kavanaugh over Dr. Ford.
Almost from the very beginning, Sunny Hostin declared that Dr. Ford’s allegations were “very credible” and “extremely important” ahead of Kavanaugh’s lifetime appointment. Following her testimony, Hostin declared that Dr. Ford was “150 percent credible” and that Kavanaugh wasn’t nearly credible as his accuser.
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In a heated discussion with former co-host Abby Huntsman, Hostin, a former attorney, argued that “you don’t need corroborating evidence” to prove a sexual assault in court.
“Testimony is evidence! You don’t need corroborating evidence. You don’t need a rape kit. You don’t need witnesses because oftentimes, guess what? There are no witnesses during rape! When you’re talking about evidence, testimonial evidence is the very best in the system!” Hostin exclaimed.
Hostin made similar remarks when she grilled then-Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, who had voted in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and touted her record as a sex crimes prosecutor of winning cases despite a lack of evidence to support the victim.
“As a former sex crimes prosecutor, I’ve prosecuted many cases with just a woman’s testimony because with sex crimes, there typically are no witnesses in the room. And I’ve convicted every single person based on a woman’s testimony,” Hostin said.
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The hosts were quick to defend Dr. Ford from President Trump, who they blasted for repeatedly attacking the Kavanaugh accuser on Twitter, at the White House, and on the campaign trail.
“The View” even welcomed disgraced anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti by phone to tout his client Julie Swetnick, whose allegation of being gang-raped by Kavanaugh was widely considered as non-credible following extensive vetting of her claim.
Whoopi Goldberg expressed concerns about rushing a “lifetime appointment” and supported the FBI’s investigation into the Kavanaugh allegations. She mocked President Trump’s praise of Kavanaugh by reading remarks the president made about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un, suggesting Trump doesn’t have the greatest judgment of character.
The Oscar-winning actress-turned-pundit called on men to “step up” in defense of women who come forward with allegations.
“This is where the men need to step up. The problem has been we have not, as women, we have not taught the men that they need to step up. So when we sort of say, ‘Oh no, that’s just male behavior,’ we’ve let this stuff go and now we’ve made a stand and said, ‘Look, this is not going to fly anymore,” Goldberg said.
Goldberg appeared to have had a change of heart in 2019 when former Nevada Democratic lawmaker Lucy Flores, one of the several women who came forward accusing Biden of inappropriate touching, voiced her concerns about the then-likely presidential candidate. The “View” host defended Biden as a “hands-on kind of guy” and scolded Flores for not telling the then-vice president how she felt at the time.
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“That pisses me off… I don’t want Joe to stop doing that,” Goldberg reacted to the idea of Biden no longer expressing affection towards women.
“I don’t either,” McCain agreed and then defended Biden’s character as a family friend. “Joe Biden is a good, decent man. He has never made me feel uncomfortable once. I’ve been around him a lot.”
While Hostin praised Biden for his “appropriate” response to Flores and his vow to “listen” to his accusers, Behar stressed that the allegations made against him are distant from the ones that triggered the #MeToo movement.
“It’s a long way from smelling your hair to grabbing your hoo-ha. I mean, let’s tell the truth,” Behar said. “I think it would really be unfortunate if we got rid of everybody who is just an affectionate kind of person. Those are nice people too.”
The Hill media reporter Joe Concha slammed “The View” for “priding itself on being fearless and candid” while ignoring the Biden allegation.
“You’ll never find a more blatant example of bias in broad daylight than when comparing the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh getting unlimited airtime in 2018, with many in media deploying a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ mantra regarding the coverage and perspective provided,” Concha told Fox News. “Biden in 2020, sadly predictably, gets a pass. No questions asked. Literally. It’s the most insidious bias of all: The bias of omission. And who gets hurt the most? The true victims of #MeToo, a movement hijacked by political operatives with no regard to the damage they’re causing in weaponizing it.”
Tom Elliott, the founder and news editor of the media company Grabien, knocked ABC News and “The View” hosts for professing their “#MeToo bona fides” and then “casting those alleged beliefs aside” when it became politically inconvenient.
“For ABC, shouldn’t the focus be on making news? Not just getting Democrats elected?” Elliott asked.
CNN MISSING IN ACTION ON BIDEN ASSAULT ACCUSER TARA READE’S STORY
NewsBusters’ Houck pointed to the ABC daytime talk show has “the single most rank hypocrisy” when it comes to the weak coverage of Reade’s assault claim against Biden.
“‘The View’ represents perhaps the show with the single most rank hypocrisy when it comes to covering for Joe Biden regarding Tara Reade’s allegations but going all-in with ruining the reputation of Brett Kavanaugh, no matter the facts,” Houck said.
Even liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., smells a double standard, saying the Reade allegations are “legitimate to talk about.”
“[I]f we want, if we, again, want to have integrity, you can’t say, you know — both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us,” she said in a conversation with the women’s organization The Wing.
ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
For nearly three weeks, the mainstream media largely avoided Reade’s allegation. The tides began to shift following Rich McHugh’s report in Business Insider the Friday before Easter that Reade had filed a criminal complaint against Biden.
The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News published their first reports on Easter Sunday. ABC News and CBS News followed suit with their online reports on Monday and Tuesday. CNN waited until Friday to issue its first report about the allegation on its website.
CNN, as well as broadcast networks ABC News and NBC News, have yet to report the allegation on-air.
Reade’s story first resurfaced in an article in The Intercept. Podcast host Katie Halper then interviewed Reade, who said that in 1993, a more senior member of Biden’s staff asked her to bring the then-senator his gym bag near the Capitol building, which led to the encounter in question.
“He greeted me, he remembered my name, and then we were alone. It was the strangest thing,” Reade told Halper. “There was no like, exchange really. He just had me up against the wall.”
Reade said she tried to share her story last year, but nobody listened to her. Earlier this month, she filed a criminal complaint against Biden with police in Washington, D.C.
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The Biden campaign vehemently denied Reade’s allegation.
“Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false,” Kate Bedingfield, the deputy campaign manager and communications director for the Biden campaign, said in a statement to Fox News.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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