Sunny Hostin complains about Lindsey Graham's sister taking his position, but you will not believe why

The View remains the place where daytime television goes to remind everyone that ignorance and self-righteousness make a perfect pair. This time the panel turned its mighty intellect to the news that South Carolina had appointed Darline Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, to finish out his term. 

Sunny Hostin, whose given name is evidently an oxymoron, found the whole arrangement deeply offensive to the cause of womanhood. The ladies then proceeded to demonstrate, once again, that they have no idea what the words they throw around actually mean.

Here is how the discussion unfolded:

SUNNY HOSTIN: I don't love it. I don't love it. You know, she'll be the first woman to be a U.S. senator in South Carolina in the history of the state. And I think that that's just fundamentally wrong that South Carolina just couldn't elect a woman and this is the only way that it was done.I think the experience does matter. And while she is a certified optician and while she has done great work in that field, I don't think that she should be representing the people of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. I just don't. [Sunny would rather a Democrat woman be the first woman senator in the state.]

JOY BEHAR: Is this the very definition of a DEI? [Actually, it isn't. It might be considered nepotism, but D.E.I. is a horse of a different color, and the ladies of "The View" should be familiar with horses.]

SUNNY HOSTIN: Correct! Correct! It's everything that the Republican Party stands against! Everything! Everything! It's DEI. Nepotism. All these things thrown in together. And, you know, at this very same time Pete Hegseth blocked more promotions for women in particular for women of color to become admirals. And so this is happening. I feel like our government is fundamentally broken and I just disagree. I disagree with this. [And Darline is a Republican.]

BEHAR: I agree with you. It's not like taking over your mother's job at McDonald's.

HOSTIN: Yeah, it's not.

BEHAR: You're running

HOSTIN: It's the U.S. Senate.BEHAR: You're in government. You have to know what you're doing.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: You guys are putting too much stock in who's currently in Congress.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah, you got a point. 

Hostin also invoked the solemn testimony of Steve Schmidt to establish that Lindsey Graham had been a bad man all along. On "The View" this counts as serious evidence. 

The panel nodded along as though Schmidt were some neutral historian rather than the usual angry Never-Trumper whose opinions happen to match the room. What the ladies managed to miss, as they always do, is that none of this qualifies as DEI, as I mentioned above. 

DEI is the practice of handing out positions according to race and sex checkboxes while pretending merit is still in the room. Filling a vacant Senate seat with a family member is simply how representative government has worked for most of its history. Brothers, sons, widows, and sisters have stepped in when needed. The republic did not collapse the first dozen times it happened and it is unlikely to collapse now.

The real offense, apparently, is that South Carolina chose continuity over the approved method of holding a special election just so a woman could be elected the approved way. That this woman happens to be the sister of the man who held the seat is treated as some novel scandal rather than the ordinary business of politics. 

The panel then used a Strawman argument and compared the situation to blocking promotions in the military, as though one has anything to do with the other. The geniuses concluded that the government itself is broken [whatever that actually means] because Republicans refuse to play the identity game on command.

It was the usual performance: loud, empty, and entirely untroubled by either history or logic. The ladies of "The View" once again proved that when you start with the conclusion that everything conservatives do is wicked, the facts can be arranged to fit afterward. 

No actual thinking is required and this is what they excel in.

What do you think? I know it's controversial, but it's only temporary if Ms. Graham doesn't win in November's midterm elections.

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New York Professor, Ibrahim Zabad, Celebrates Lindsey Graham's Death, Then Discovers Compassion Before Breakfast

One of the more revealing features of modern academia is not merely its ideological conformity, but the astonishing confidence with which some of its members mistake moral outrage for moral seriousness. The latest example comes from St. Bonaventure University, where political science professor Ibrahim Zabad briefly demonstrated that for certain intellectuals, even death is not enough to suspend political tribalism.

According to Campus Reform, a social media account identified as belonging to Zabad published a late Saturday evening tirade celebrating the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., before deleting it less than 12 hours later.

Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71, was described by the professor as "a certified anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bloodthirsty bigot. He personified belligerence and evil. He supported every savage war Israel launched against the Palestinians and the Lebanese and the Syrians and the Iranians and the Iraqis and the Yemenis."

The post continued with an even more extraordinary denunciation.

"He genuinely endorsed Israel's genocidal war and unabashedly supported the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their native lands. He wholeheartedly and passionately supported the project of Greater Israel along with all the massacres, occupation, dispossession and savagery and barbarism that this entails. He was a merciless warmonger and bigot. Rest in Hell."

One is entitled to disagree with a senator's foreign policy. One is even entitled to despise it. What ought to concern any civilized society is how readily some academics abandon the elementary standards of decency that they so frequently insist everyone else observe. It is difficult to lecture students about empathy while publicly rejoicing at another person's death.

By 5:09 a.m. the following morning, according to Campus Reform, the post had disappeared. In its place was an apology.

"I want to sincerely apologize for the post regarding the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham. My words were inappropriate and disrespectful and failed to show compassion during time of loss and grief. I regretted the post and the words I used."

Whether this represented genuine reflection or simply an appreciation for the consequences of public exposure is something only the professor himself can answer.

St. Bonaventure University, to its credit, did not attempt to defend the remarks under the fashionable banner of free expression or academic freedom. Instead, the university made clear that the professor's comments violated the institution's principles.

"We are aware of the post and subsequent apology by Dr. Zabad. His post about Sen. Graham was clearly not aligned with our university mission and values and we will be addressing the situation with him to ensure that Franciscan values are maintained and lived out at St. Bonaventure."

The incident serves as another reminder that America's universities face a crisis extending well beyond politics. Increasingly, institutions entrusted with cultivating wisdom produce people who confuse ideological fervor with intellectual rigor, and personal hatred with moral courage.

Meanwhile, Washington continued mourning Graham's passing. The longtime South Carolina senator died Saturday evening at age 71. An autopsy performed Sunday suggested he died from an aortic dissection caused by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, although officials said further toxicological and microscopic testing remains pending before a final cause of death is certified.

A statement from Graham's office noted, "The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized, and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death."

In the end, the most striking aspect of this episode is not that an academic harbored intense political views. Universities have always been homes to passionate disagreement. Rather, it is that a professor entrusted with educating future citizens publicly celebrated the death of a political opponent, only to rediscover the virtues of compassion once daylight, and public scrutiny, arrived.

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'The View' grills Tamika Mallory, Women's March co-founder over love of Farrakhan's anti-Semitism

“The View” co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain grilled Women's March co-founder and anti-Semite Tamika Mallory over her ties to Madagascar hissing cockroach, Louis Farrakhan, in a heated discussion on Monday morning.

Mallory tipped her hand and raised eyebrows when she said that the scumbag Nation of Islam leader is the “greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities.”

And Hitler was a vegetarian and liked dogs-so what?

“Tamika, you came under some fire for your relationship with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam,” Hostin told the crap-weasel. “He’s known for being anti-Semitic, for being homophobic, but you do attend his events and you posted… a photo calling him the G.O.A.T., which means the greatest of all time. You are running an organization that says it fights bigotry. Do you understand why your association with him is quite problematic?”

Mallory fired back: “I think it’s important to put my attendance, my presence at Savior’s Day, which is the highest holy day for the Nation of Islam, in proper context.” Which is that she's an anti-Semitic horrible person and there should be no mistake about that.

Mallory then said that “as a leader, as a black leader, in a country that is still dealing with some very serious, unresolved issues, as it relates to the black experience in this country,” she often has to go into “difficult spaces” to promote her cause. Which simply means that if she has to hang out with anti-Semites to get what she wants, so be it.

“I wrote a piece immediately following the beginning of this controversy, talking about wherever my people are, that’s where I must also be,” Mallory said with an air of self-importance. “I also go into prisons… I am trying to help people.” Except not Jews, gays, lesbians, transgender people, Republican women and white men.

Mallory said that “just because you go into a space with someone that does not mean that you agree with everything that they say,” but Hostin immediately pushed back, asking, “Why call him the greatest of all time?”

“I didn’t call him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric. I called him the greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities,” the hater said. A person's rhetoric is a reflection of how they think.

 Meghan McCain, the show’s conservative voice, jumped in.

“I would never be comfortable supporting someone who (said) … ‘I’m not anti-Semite, I’m anti-termite. It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality” McCain said, quoting Farrakhan, a ploy hated by people with something to hide.

McCain added that reporters feel there is anti-Semitism surrounding the Women’s March, mostly because there is, and it doesn't simply surround the March, it oozes like a slug crushed under a bus.

“A lot of people, by a lot of people I include me in this, think you’re using your organization as anti-Semitism masked in activism and that you’re using identity politics to shield yourself from critiques,” McCain said. “You’re talking about all women being invited to that march? I’m pro-life. We were not invited.”

An angry McCain added that all women, including Jewish and conservative women, should be welcomed to the organization. Mallory was joined by Women’s March co-founder Bob Bland in Monday's segment, which didn’t feature co-hosts Abby Huntsman or Joy Behar, who gave up their seats on the show for the Women’s March leaders.

“Those allegations are not true,” Bland responded.

“So the journalist I spoke to was lying?” McCain asked.

Bland accused the journalist of receiving untruthful insight and said the Women’s March “unequivocally condemns anti-Semitism.” But they absolutely do not condemn it, and they also spout anti-Israel crap.

McCain asked if she condemns Farrakhan’s remarks about Jewish people.

“Yes, and we have repeatedly,” Bland said as Mallory remained stone silent. “We condemn any statements of hate.” Balderdash.

McCain, visibly annoyed, said she was confused as she continued to read controversial, hateful quotes attributed to Farrakhan.

“We did not make those remarks,” Mallory said. But she stood by the scumcrumpet who spat those words out.

McCain reminded her that she’s associating with someone who does.


“What I will say to you is, I don’t agree with many of Minister Farrakhan’s statements,” Mallory said of Farrakhan, the minister of hatred.

McCain asked if she specifically disagrees with Farrakhan's rhetoric about Jewish people – to which Mallory said she doesn’t agree.

McCain asked, “Do you condemn them?”

Mallory refused to condemn the remarks [for some strange reason] and simply repeated that she doesn’t agree.

“You won’t condemn it,” McCain pointed out.

“To be very clear, it’s not my language. It’s not the way that I speak,” Mallory said. That does not dispel the fact that she agrees with the sentiment.

McCain then said Mallory [because Linda Sarsour, the other anti-Semitic co-leader, wasn't in attendance] was associating with “extreme anti-Semitism.”

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who was silent for most of the segment, asked if Mallory understood why some people think it would be best if she stepped down from her position atop the Women’s March.

“I also know of people who don’t want me to step down,” she answered, referring to her fellow anti-Semites. “There is both sides of that.”

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'The View' has its view in its nether regions as Sunny Hostin goes berserk

Sunny Hostin: Winner of the Oprah
Lookalike Contest 2018

In a segment on ABC's "The View" leftist racist Sunny Hostin on Wednesday blew a gasket after she heard what Obama did to migrants and admitted she didn't care about the crappy treatment shown to them in the Obama era. She only cares what the Trump administration is doing.

The panel spoke about the recent incident in which tear gas was used on migrants because they were endangering the lives of our U.S. Border Patrol agents. Abby Huntsman and Meghan McCain, both conservatives of sorts, highlighted the hypocrisy of the media in how they covered the incident, largely ignoring even worse actions from Obama's administration.

Citing the conservative National Review, Whoopi Goldberg, one of the most intelligent leftists on "The View" pointed out that the NR argued that when President Obama tear-gassed illegal immigrants crossing the border, no one made a fuss like they are doing now in the media. But co-host Joy Behar, a non-Mensa member, was reticent to believe that Obama did such a thing. This has to do with Behar's lack of knowing anything.

"Do they have a photo like that when Obama was in office?" Behar asked while showing a picture of a woman running from tear gas with her two kids.

In other words, if Behar cannot see a photo of it, then it never happened.

"Homeland Security data does validate that, that it happened multiple times, more than once a month in fact during the Obama years," Ms. McCain responded, disproving Behar's suspicions, but still not convincing her.

Huntsman went beyond that saying: "In that piece it said over a period of four months in 2014 under the Obama years HHS allegedly placed a number of unaccompanied children into the hands of a ring of human traffickers, who forced them to work on egg farms in and around Ohio, leading to a federal and criminal indictment. According to the indictment the minors victims were forced to work six and seven hours a week, 12 hours per day. These are the things we don’t talk about."

Eggs are not heavy labor, however, in the small minds of leftists.

Hostin went ballistic.

"The last I checked President Obama is no longer in office," Hostin said, as she became visibly angry." President Trump is in office!" which means that nothing Obama did was wrong because he did it before, not now. Kind of like what the Nazis did before--but wait--isn't that still wrong even now?

"And he's destroying the country!" Behar added as a little sputter of flatulence was heard.

"I don't care what Obama did!" Hostin continued. "I care what Trump is doing right here right now!"

That's because if you equate the two, then Obama and Trump = Presidents.

But facts don't matter when your hate is on the person, not the deeds.

And the audience applauded like trained seals, not the US Navy kind.

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