Hostin decried any suggestion that Bowman pulled a “stunt” and cooked up a conspiracy theory that there was an ulterior and nefarious reason the emergency exit Bowman was trying to get through was closed: “I know Jamal, and so again, I’m a little biased, but the doors that are normally open so that he could get to the chambers to read were somehow miraculously closed. How did that happen?”

She equated it to being stuck in an elevator and pushing all the buttons in a blind panic. “And so, yes. Sometimes you’re freaking out and you’re in an elevator and you’re pressing all the buttons!” she shouted.

Goldberg suggested the only “stunt” going on was from Republicans in wanting Democrats to read the Continuing Resolution to fund the government in a short amount of time. This also, according to her, included Republicans closing the emergency exit to sabotage Bowman, thus it was reasonable for him to pull the fire alarm[.]

[Uh … sure. The pull station has the word FIRE on it, the door is clearly marked as an emergency-exit only WITH INSTRUCTIONS on how to properly operate it, but yeah … totes a GOP plot. At what point does this toxic stew of stupidity become embarrassing enough to ABC *News* to shut it down? — Ed]