The View’s Joy Behar agreed with Sean Hannity’s denouncement of anti-quarantine protesters carrying firearms at demonstrations.
Hannity, on his show Monday night, condemned protesters in Michigan who brought long rifles to rallies, calling their “show of force” a threat to law enforcement officials despite dubbing himself the “number one supporter” of the Second Amendment.
During Tuesday’s edition of The View, Whoopi Goldberg prompted Behar, saying, “So Joy, things were very weird, and you actually found yourself agreeing with this guy.” Behar answered by denouncing the protesters with guns, whom she referred to as “intimidators,” and questioned why other Republicans had not followed Hannity’s lead.
“First of all, things are really bad when even Sean Hannity is out there telling these crazy people to stop it. Just stop it. … I come from the generation, as do you Whoopi, where we protested the Vietnam War,” she explained. “People were carrying flowers and love beads. Nobody was carrying a gun. OK? That is not a protest.”
“That is a terrorist act or the indication of — I don’t say that they’re terrorists, but they’re certainly intimidators,” Behar added. “They’re trying to intimidate people with this. And the radio silence on the Right, by the way, about this — besides Sean Hannity, I haven’t heard anybody else say something like that. … The whole thing is very political.”
Behar’s comments were made in the context of fellow co-host Sunny Hostin expressing her dismay that some people brought Nazi symbols and Confederate flags to the rally.
“I was floored. I was hurt. I just couldn’t believe it,” Hostin said. “When you have Gov. Whitmer of Michigan saying that there were a lot of people carrying nooses and Confederate flags, I don’t understand what that has to do with protesting to get back to work [with] the coronavirus.”
