Television host Joy Behar referred to the leftist political activist group antifa as a “fictitious idea” and “not a real thing.”
“You know, he’s right out there. He’s right out there with his racism. There is no dog whistle for him,” Behar told her co-hosts on The View in response to Republican Sen. Ron Johnson saying he wasn’t afraid of the rioters on Capitol Hill on Jan 6. “It’s like I’m a racist. Have a nice day. You know what I mean? It’s funny. When I was watching this, it was so aggravating to listen to this idiot. I mean, he and I are very different.”
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Behar continued: “I’ll tell you this right now. If I was surrounded by people carrying weapons, people erecting nooses, screaming, ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ bludgeoning a police officer to death, I might be a little scared. But Ron, no, he’s not scared of these people. He’s scared of this fictitious idea of antifa, a thing that doesn’t even exist. He needs to go. He needs to go, and soon.”
Behar’s co-host Meghan McCain took issue with the statement that antifa, which is responsible for violence as recently as last week, is a “fictitious idea.”
“The idea that antifa doesn’t exist is just factually inaccurate and wrong and a lie,” McCain said.
“I just want to clarify that Christopher Wray, who was the FBI director, says that antifa is an ideology, not an organization,” Behar shot back. “There is no sign that they were involved in the Capitol siege. Let’s be clear.”
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McCain then said, “I’m not saying they were involved in the Capitol siege. I’m saying they exist.”
“It’s an idea,” Behar responded while pointing to her head. “It’s an idea, not a real thing.”
President Biden also referred to antifa as “an idea, not an organization,” citing the FBI Director in the first presidential debate in September. Wray appeared at a House hearing in September and testified that antifa is a “real thing” while clarifying that antifa is “not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”
Last year, antifa was responsible for rioting in Portland for over 100 days in a row and has played prominent roles in riots throughout the United States that have cost billions in damages.
