The View audience gasps as Joy Behar attacks Alyssa Farah Griffin
Viewers were shocked after The View's liberal panelist Joy Behar confronted her conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin as the former Donald Trump staffer argued the Republican party backed LGBTQ rights.
The audience was so stunned, in fact, it let out an audible gasp at Behar's comments.
On Thursday, Griffin claimed the Republican party was in support of LGBT rights during a panel discussion, to which Behar retorted 'Yeah, but your party tends to steal elections.'
The audience could be heard audibly gasping as Behar added 'They have more advanced ways of doing it, I bet.'
Claims of election stealing were popularized by former President Donald Trump against Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
The false belief remains widely held among Republican voters.
The discussion of LGBT rights took place on ABC's The View at the start of LGBT Pride Month.
Griffin, a former Donald Trump staffer, argued that young right-wing voters support queer rights and Behar argued that the Republican party was targeting the gay and trans communities.
'I think they're using it as a political cudgel — to vilify one group of people unifies all these other people,' Behar said of anti-trans and anti-drag laws introduced by conservative lawmakers.
She then asked the panel if they felt America may soon rival Russia by limiting LGBT freedoms.
'The answer is no, and those on the right who are targeting the LGBTQ+ community are on the wrong side of history,' Griffin replied.
'The facts bear it out. Eight in 10 Americans favor more laws to protect the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination — 67 percent of those are Republicans.
'The biggest voting block in 2024 will be millennials and Gen Zers, we are the generation of marriage equality. We are the generation of freedom. We're not going backward on these issues' she said.
Griffin claimed the Republican party was in support of LGBT rights during a panel discussion
The discussion of LGBT rights took place on ABC's The View at the start of LGBT Pride Month
The View co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that some white Republican women want to 'protect the patriarchy' because it benefits them
Adding: 'To anyone in my party, it's not where the majority of the country is, and it's such an egregious misreading.'
Behar then retorted, 'Yeah, but your party tends to steal elections. They have more advanced ways of doing it, I bet.'
Griffin did not directly disagree with Bahr, instead responding: 'Well, they tried. They didn't, though. It reminds me of my favorite person in the bible, Ecclesiastes, who says there's nothing new under the sun.
'This has been tried. It's fear-mongering. It's trying to target the minority within the minority to create fear and stoke it. It will not work.'
The incident marks the second time this week The View has drawn controversy over comments made by its hosts.
On Tuesday The View co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that some white Republican women want to 'protect the patriarchy' because it benefits them.
The comments were made during a discussion of a Washington Post article about female voters in Pennsylvania who said they will still vote for former president Trump even after he was found liable for sexual assault and defamation.
'I think that women, white women in particular, want to protect this patriarchy here because it's to their benefit,' Hostin said.
'They want to make sure their husbands do well. They want to make sure their sons do well. They want to make sure their children do well. They want to make sure they do well,' Hostin explained.
She added that 'most of the women in some of these studies are married, white women' who 'fall in line with what their husbands are doing, how their husbands are voting.'
Griffin: 'Eight in 10 Americans favor more laws to protect the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination — 67 percent of those are Republicans.'
Behar accused the Republican party of 'stealing elections' during an LGBT rights debate
Conservative Griffin is a former Donald Trump staffer
Behar has also clashed with Senator Tim Scott as she said on air that he did not 'get' racism
The comments led to a backlash from Fox Business host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery who said that 'there is a special place in hell for women who don't support other women' including those that want to be stay-at-home mothers and support their families.
Kennedy said that she believed 'most people vote because they want their husbands, their spouses, their kids especially to have as much opportunity as they can in this country. That's not racism, that's rationality.'
After referring to Hostin as 'a garbage person with garbage opinions,' Kennedy said, 'when you have other women like that, shaming moms who are doing their very best to provide for their families and lead by example, and then someone like Sunny in the fart factory is somehow maligning us.'
Behar has also clashed with Republican Senator Tim Scott recently, as she said on air that he did not 'get' racism despite being African American and living in the deep South.
Behar said on May 23 that Scott was 'one of these guys, like Clarence Thomas, black Republican, who believes in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, rather than understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities,' she said.
'He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. That’s why they’re Republicans.'
The comment quickly proved divisive on social media, spurring several political commentators to weigh in and criticize Behar.
Appearing on a podcast Tuesday, South Carolina's Scott, 57, decried The View host's on-air comments as the 'dumbest, most offensive thing he's ever heard on TV'.
'I’m used to having the left attack me because of the truth of my life,' Scott explained to pollical commentators Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 'This proves their lies.'
The former junior South Carolina senator continued: 'I say that because of this – when I help write the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act [of 2017], they called me a prop.
'When I started talking about refunding the police, they called me a token.
'When I pushed back on President Biden’s most malign agenda, they called me the "n-word".
'I’m used to it,' he declared. 'Here’s what’s dangerous and offensive to me, for every young child in America wanting to think for themselves, draw their own conclusions.
'What they're saying to them is, "stay in your lane, do not stick your head out because we're going to tell you how to think because you never learned anything about what you should think."'
Source: Daily Mail
