"The View" is the dumbest show on TV, but it usually takes a full week of episodes to prove it.
Not this time.
The ABC show hosts delivered three ice-cream headaches by mid-week, the kind of embarrassing content that would send producers scrambling for the exits in most time periods.
Not today. In this era, the crazier the content, the more clicks and eyeballs ensue.
"The View," of course, lives for such ignominious content. The show might be even more unhinged than former co-host Rosie O'Donnell.
Maybe.
They did their level best to prove it this week. First, the hosts trashed Darline Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. The younger Graham will be replacing her brother in the Senate following his sudden, tragic death just a few short days ago.
Co-host Sunny Hostin declared the decision as "the very definition of DEI." That proves Hostin, who is a lawyer, doesn't know said definition.
It’s DEI. Nepotism. All these things thrown in together.
DEI and nepotism are two very separate matters. Maybe next time the topic comes up, a "View" producer can whisper the facts in her earpiece.
Now, in a traditional scenario, the nepotism card might be summoned courtesy of the Graham announcement. The fact that Lindsey Graham passed unexpectedly, and his sister will simply finish his term, make it ghoulish to play that card. Suggesting her ascension smacks of DEI theatrics is almost too dumb to process.
But that's how the modern "View" rolls.
In another head-scratching moment, co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested the illegal immigrant killed by ICE this month after allegedly steering his car into an agent had a good reason to do so.
Lorenzo Salgado reportedly refused to follow an agent's orders and rammed an ICE vehicle with his car. Why, he was only protecting himself against evil white men, said the "Ghost" alum.
And forgive me, it is also chock-full of white guys. And you don't know what’s going- it's a truck- it's like- common sense tells you not to do that!
That's an actual sentence uttered on a nationally broadcast TV show. Flip the race of the people in question and consider how fast a TV personality would hit the unemployment line.
The final blow to our collective intelligence came, once again, via Hostin. The far-left pundit said earlier this month that neighborhoods featuring American flags make her feel "unsafe."
That's an actual sentiment uttered on a nationally broadcast TV show.
This week, Hostin revisited the comments. Did she have second thoughts? Had she reconsidered the full picture behind her views? Does she suddenly understand how unpatriotic such a sentiment might be?
Apparently not.
The only saving grace for "View" watchers? She doubled down via the "Behind the Table" podcast, not her usual ABC perch.
I was going to say what's interesting is that this is not a new conversation in the Black community.
Nobody plays the Race Card as hard, or as often, as Hostin. She added that the Stars and Stripes has been co-opted to become a white supremacy symbol.
She must still be on the Southern Poverty Law Center's email list. As we've learned recently, the supply of white supremacy just can't meet the Left's demand of it.
Darn!
One thing we can say about "The View" - it never disappoints in flexing its intellectual bankruptcy.
