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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Not Very Sunny Hostin feels unsafe in neighborhoods flying Old Glory

The good news is that America's 250th birthday came and went without incident. The bad news is that someone forgot to warn Sunny [whose given name is an oxymoron] Hostin that millions of terrifying suburban homeowners might celebrate by displaying . . .  the American flag. OMG!

The View co-host has once again insisted that neighborhoods covered in Old Glory make her feel "unsafe," reviving a claim she first made in 2021 as though patriotic front porches are the latest national security threat. Interestingly, Hostin has never been attacked by a patriot nor the flag, so she might actually be pulling our collective leg.

During a discussion about America's semiquincentennial, Hostin reminded viewers that she still stands by her mental disorder that creates irrational fear and causes her to get the willies.

"I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show," Hostin recalled. "I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag, and they equate being an American or an American flag with White supremacy and that should never be the symbol of White supremacy, but they have weaponized."

Can we finally agree that white supremacy is incredibly minute in our nation, and while it exists, it's highly probable that Hostin has never been the target of such disgusting behavior by someone flying Old Glory at their home. This is why her condition is possibly mental, or perhaps it's racist as she sees everything in terms of race and anger.  

One almost expects the next public service announcement to warn Americans that exposure to excessive patriotism may cause spontaneous cable news anxiety. 

Hostin's comments followed discussion of a viral image showing a group of white nationalists riding a Washington, D.C., Metro train while wearing American flag-themed insignias. The extremists deserve condemnation, but Hostin's leap from a handful of actual racists to ordinary families flying flags outside their homes requires an Olympic-level long jump.

"That, for me, was a defining image of modern America for Black Americans," Hostin said.

Apparently, the existence of fringe extremists now means every retired veteran, every family celebrating Independence Day, and every homeowner with a flagpole is part of the same terrifying landscape. By that logic, criminals who wave rainbow flags would make Pride flags suspicious, yet somehow that standard only seems to apply to Old Glory. And let's not forget those folks whose uniform has an American flag displayed.

Guest host Michelle Buteau eagerly joined the performance after spending the Fourth of July celebrating with a cake reading "America, Do Better B----," because Buteau is also a virtue-signaling person and knows that it's safer to be condemning our great nation than to take a conservative stand defending her.

"When you say it’s the best nation. The best nation for who? Because if we are celebrating 250 years, what are we exactly celebrating, is what I want to know," Buteau said. "So I’m really glad that picture was taken, because that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms, down the street. That picture is how we feel and nobody will believe us. So look at that picture and understand how it feels."

But somehow Buteau and Hostin along with her ilk, have no intention of leaving for what they see as a "better country." That's because there is no better country.  

Fortunately, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin managed to inject a rare dose of sanity into the conversation.

"The flag belongs to all of us," Griffin replied.

That simple statement seems almost revolutionary on an anti-American program determined to portray the Stars and Stripes as some sort of warning label.

Hostin has been telling this story for years. Back in 2021 she defended another media personality who claimed American flags made her uncomfortable, insisting that neighborhoods decorated with the nation's flag sent an unmistakable message.

"When someone of color, a Black woman, is telling you her feelings, people need to listen and not, you know, repudiate it and not say, 'Well, that can’t be true,'" Hostin had said at the time, later adding, "When I drive into a neighborhood, and it’s not July 4th, and I’m not in a predominantly military household neighborhood and there are flags, American flags, everywhere, alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with stars in a circle, I feel threatened."

Then came the dramatic conclusion.

"Because the message is very clear," she continued. "It’s a message of White supremacy. It’s a message of racism, and it’s a message of their country, not my country. I don’t understand why that would receive backlash. People need to listen when I am saying this is how I feel. This is my experience in this country."

Feelings are real. They are not automatically facts.

If someone genuinely believes that a cul-de-sac full of parents grilling burgers beneath American flags is an inherently dangerous place, the problem probably is not the flags. More likely, it is years of media conditioning that has convinced some people patriotism itself is suspicious by leftists like Hostin.

The irony is impossible to miss. The same commentators who insist the American flag "belongs to all of us" also spend an astonishing amount of time explaining why ordinary Americans should be viewed with suspicion for displaying it. You can't have it both ways, but she's too thickheaded to see this.

If Sunny Hostin truly feels endangered every time she sees Old Glory fluttering in the breeze, Americans can be forgiven for wondering whether the fear is rooted in reality, or simply another daytime television performance designed to turn patriotism into pathology.

I vote for pathology.

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No so bright Sunny Hostin wins this week's "The View" Dummy Award

"I was like, yo."

It's hard to imagine anyone of at least average intelligence conflating earthquakes, emerging cicadas and solar eclipses with climate change. They are not related other than the fact that they happen and we can observe these events. And regarding eclipses and cicadas, they are quite predictable, with earthquakes less so.

Then we have the women of "The View," America's most notable overachievers. Of these "geniuses" the winner of this week's Dummy Award is the execrable Sunny Hostin, a woman whose given name is an oxymoron as she is one of the least bright people in the public eye.

Hostin suggested that for some, and for herself, the fact that an earthquake, emerging cicadas and a solar eclipse all happening in the same year, proves that climate change is real. It's an idiotic opinion regarding unrelated phenomena, and while her co-hosts would normally go along with most idiotic positions, Hostin actually got some blowback from her comrades.

"All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on," Hostin said Monday.

Something is really going on? What is she alluding to? Aliens? Trump?

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey on Friday and on Monday the highly anticipated and totally predicted solar eclipse occurred across the continental U.S. and Canada.

Hostin also recalled how her studio makeup artist "put on her coat" and "ran down the hallway" during the earthquake, saying "Jesus is coming" and "the rapture is here." This is mainly due to the idea that in order for one to work for the women of "The View," one has to be crazy.

What was unpredictable was that co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg disagreed with her take on the effects of global warming on the moon and sun, and bugs that come around every 17 years.

"Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It's underground. It can’t," Behar said, baffling Hostin with her brilliance.

"How about the warming of the planet?" she responded.

"No, it happens," Goldberg said. "And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen, and they actually can say when these things are going to happen."

The audience was now totally confused, not knowing who to believe.

Hostin pointed out how it was the first time in 100 years that two different cicada broods would emerge for their mating seasons at the same time, but Goldberg promptly shut her down, arguing it happens every 17 years.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin also joked that Trump caused the quake, "I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey … Fun fact. So, it originated with Trump."

The audience was now really, really confused because a fake conservative told them what they already believed.

Others have caught big blowback for similar stupid takes, including Green Party member and U.S. Senate candidate for New Jersey Christina Amira Khalil. Her tweet went viral after she posted a similar theory to social media claiming the earthquake that rocked New York and New Jersey on Friday was caused by climate change.

Whatever happened to, "I don't know what a woman is; I'm not a biologist?" when it comes to earth science and astrophysics?

"I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes," she said. "The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever."

Khalil is not an earth scientist, but she's definitely a moron. 

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"The View's" Asunción Cummings Hostin denies that she compared white Republican women to roaches

Of the hundreds of people who watch "The View" and heard Asunción Cummings "Sunny" Hostin compare white Republican women to "roaches" if they vote for GOP candidates, they now have to believe that she never said that. 

So if you were able to watch the replay of her statement [assuming you had first digested your food to keep from upchucking] you know that her denial is bull crap.

Hostin and her cohosts on the ditsy ABC midday talk show spent much of Tuesday’s broadcast discussing the midterm elections — which were already underway all across the country as she spoke — and Hostin tried to walk back her comments from a few days earlier.

After a commercial break, weak Alyssa buckles to racist Sunny and claims she "misquoted" her.
FACT CHECK FALSE: Sunny did call white women roaches, and she is a racist.
She then goes on to say that the rhetoric still needs to be brought down. pic.twitter.com/nYQNvjNOiA

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro)

Republican token Alyssa Farah Griffin, the token conservative, began the segment with a warning, saying that she was concerned about the tone of the language many on the far left were using to talk about their political opposition — and Hostin rudely interrupted.

“This won’t be a popular opinion at the table, but I worry that some of the far left has become so negative in how they talk about the other party —” Griffin began.

“Who are these far left people?” Hostin interrupted.

“Sunny —” Griffin tried to continue but Hostin continued talking over her.

“You can both-sides this,” she pushed back. “Because the far left — the far left — did not storm the Capitol.”

“Last week you called — last week you called white Republican women cockroaches,” Griffin said.

“Actually I didn’t,” Hostin pointed an accusatory finger at Griffin. “I used a —”

“You said they were acting like cockroaches —” Griffin continued.

“That was a metaphor,” Joy Behar protested.

So it's okay to say that Hostin is like a mule's ass, using a metaphor.

The women began talking over each other to such a degree that 

Caryn Elaine Johnson, aka Whoopi Goldberg,  scolded them, demanding that they “tone it down” so that people could understand what they were saying because it was beginning to sound like a kindergarten school bus that tickles Kamala Harris' fancy.

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Hostin then repeated the analogy, saying that white suburban women voting Republican was “like roaches voting for Raid.”

So by that comparison the Republican Party wants to exterminate women, which isn't too hyperbolic when you consider who voiced the statement in the first place.

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