***The complete post is on NewsBusters***
It’s a fact that the ladies of ABC’s The View find political violence palatable when it’s Republicans who are the targets and their lives are in danger. But on Tuesday’s show, they were trying to tie Republicans and Fox News to an attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul, claiming “this is on your hands,” falsely suggesting Republicans have not condemned the attack, and demanding people stop speaking bad about Democrats lest they get hurt.
Whoopi Goldberg began the discussion by lashing out at Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for “crazy comments” pointing out the Pelosi home had lax security. She chided Lake by saying she should know “the consequences of lies and stupid rhetoric” since she comes from the same state as former Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
With Giffords as the spring board, Sara Haines ridiculously tried to blame the attack on a Republican “fire Pelosi campaign” from over 10 years ago. She went on to ramble incoherently about Republicans talking about mental health and seemingly blaming the attack on Republican efforts to supposedly “gut health care at every corner.”
“There’s got to be an out-of-bounds. This is: take your jersey off and condemn this at all costs,” she demanded.
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