With co-host Whoopi Goldberg taking right here normal Friday off, most of The View solid appeared to really feel empowered to confront racist Sunny Hostin after she tried to defend Ilhan Omar, the antisemitism Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman who, after spewing hate for years, was punished on Thursday for when she was stripped of her place on the Home Overseas Affairs Committee. Hostin was caught off guard, scrambling to take swipes as co-host Pleasure Behar led Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin within the pile-on.

After some compulsory bashing of Republicans with cries of “hypocrisy” and “racism,” Behar put the highlight on Omar, saying she didn’t purchase Omar’s assertion that she didn’t know she was utilizing anti-Semitic tropes when speaking about Jews and Israel. “Imagine me I perceive that. As a result of the best wing could be very hypocritical. However she mentioned that she didn’t know that what she mentioned that was construed as anti-Semitic … I do not consider her,” she declared.

Hostin shortly stepped in to defend Omar by arguing that she didn’t find out about anti-Semitic tropes as a result of she’s an immigrant and supposedly solely America was anti-Semitic. Behar instantly stepped in to name out Hostin’s nonsense:

HOSTIN: I do. I feel she’s an immigrant. I feel she’s had a distinct expertise.

BEHAR: She’s been right here a very long time.

HOSTIN: That is a trope that’s largely – you hear on this nation. So, I’m not stunned she didn’t know.

BEHAR: That isn’t a trope – excuse me! That isn’t a trope that’s simply right here on this nation. That could be a worldwide trope.

“Possibly it’s in all places,” Hostin clownish conceded.

On the again foot, Hostin shifted to taking part in her tried and true race card, calling the deal with Omar “pure racism” and demanded: “We should always name that out once we see it and we hear it and we have a look at it.”

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And, after all, she boiled down any criticism of Omar to a type of “racialized goal[ing].” “Different members of the caucus of the Republican caucus have focused her. And so, the suggestion that in some way that it’s merely hypocrisy I feel devalues what this actually is and that is racism,” she sneered.

After some whataboutism with a few congressional Republicans, Haines teed up on Omar and referred to as out the “more-complex dialog right here along with and past racism.” She identified that whereas Omar may apologize for what she says about Jews, “she retains getting into the identical puddle. So, finally, it’s a must to say, ‘Your actions converse louder than phrases.’”

Omar retains getting into the identical anti-Semitic puddle Goldberg bathes in.

With Hostin reeling, Farah Griffin noticed a gap. “I’ve constantly mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Paul Gosars they should not be on committees. However I don’t assume she needs to be on the Overseas Affairs Committee,” she proclaimed.

Farah Griffin drew consideration to Omar’s ridiculous suggestion that the U.S. and Israel have been like Hamas and the Taliban, and the way she used the identical anti-Semitic tropes proliferated by Nazi propaganda grasp Joseph Goebbels:

She’s equated Hamas, a U.S. State Division-designated terrorist group, with the U.S. and Israel, in addition to the Taliban. However she additionally trafficked – I’m not going to repeat it as a result of we’ve to watch out with that – a trope about Jews controlling energy, which dated again to a Nazi-era movie produced by Goebbels a few Jewish particular person hypnotizing individuals for energy. She doesn’t perceive the insurance policies she’s engaged on.

Hostin was so tousled that her swipes have been touchdown on herself. “I feel that’s devaluing her by saying she doesn’t perceive international coverage,” she chided Farah Griffin, regardless of beforehand utilizing Omar’s ignorance as a protection simply moments earlier.

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The transcript is under, click on “broaden” to learn:

ABC The View
February 3, 2023
11:05:31 a.m. Japanese

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JOY BEHAR: I’ve to say about her, although, one thing she mentioned that I’m unsure – I imply, I get what you are saying. Imagine me I perceive that. As a result of the right-wing could be very hypocritical. However she mentioned that she didn’t know that what she mentioned that was construed as anti-Semitic, she did not know that was what they name a trope, a Jewish trope. And that she didn’t know that. That individuals equate cash with Jews, for example. I do not consider her.

SUNNY HOSTIN: I do. I feel she’s an immigrant. I feel she’s had a distinct expertise.

BEHAR: She’s been right here a very long time.

HOSTIN: That is a trope that’s largely – you hear on this nation. So, I’m not stunned she didn’t know.

BEHAR: That isn’t a trope – excuse me. That isn’t a trope that’s simply right here on this nation. That could be a worldwide trope.

HOSTIN: Possibly it’s in all places. Let me simply say this —

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: She was on the Overseas Affairs Committee. She ought to know higher.

HOSTIN: The opposite piece of it, Pleasure. It that, I feel – I take her at her phrase that she did not know. And she or he nonetheless apologized and met with Jewish members of her caucus.

BEHAR: Superb, that’s good.

HOSTIN: That different factor is, I do not assume that is hypocrisy. I feel its pure racism. And I feel we should always name that out once we see it and we hear it and we have a look at it.

I do not assume its hypocrisy as a result of she was elected in 2018 I consider. Yeah, 2018. She has been the topic of targets, racial targets, or racialized targets since then. Donald Trump mentioned throughout one in all his rallies in 2019 that she needs to be — ship her again. Different members of the caucus of the Republican caucus have focused her. And so, the suggestion that in some way that it’s merely hypocrisy I feel devalues what this actually is and that is racism.

SARA HAINES: Could not it’s racism — completely she’s skilled racism. However together with her, the laborious half is I feel there’s hypocrisy concerned which taints the water. You may’t Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene again on committees after which saying, “Oh, that is about antisemitism.”

However I do assume there’s a more-complex dialog right here along with and past racism, which is, she has mentioned issues and apologized, however she retains getting into the identical puddle. So, finally it’s a must to say, “Your actions converse louder than phrases.” As a result of she does it, a pair years later she does it once more after which a pair –

HOSTIN: Do you assume —

HAINES: So I feel it’s a good choice needs to be made that she’s not on this particular committee.

HOSTIN: Do you equate –

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FARAH GRIFFIN: I’ve constantly mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Paul Gosars they should not been on committees. However I don’t assume she needs to be on the Overseas Affairs Committee.

HOSTIN: Why?

FARAH GRIFFIN: This can be a committee tasked with Israeli-U.S. relations. She has proven a lack of expertise of antisemitism at a time when it’s on the rise within the U.S. and across the globe.

She’s equated Hamas, a U.S. State Division designated terrorist group with the U.S. and Israel, in addition to the Taliban. However she additionally trafficked – I’m not going to repeat it as a result of we’ve to watch out with that – a trope about Jews controlling energy, which dated again to a Nazi-era movie produced by Goebbels a few Jewish particular person hypnotizing individuals for energy. She doesn’t perceive the insurance policies she’s engaged on.

If she desires to cope with refugees on a committee, as a result of she has experience and expertise, I am there for that.HOSTIN: I

assume that’s devaluing her by saying she doesn’t perceive international coverage.

BEHAR: However not this committee. This committee can be thought of on-the-job coaching relating to Jewish relationships.

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