On Thursday, the hosts of The View trashed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s appearance during the third GOP debate, and CNN’s Brooke Baldwin is having none of it.
“Sometimes, you got to call it like you see it, and I saw something today that angered me” the CNN host said, “not just as a journalist, but as a woman.”
The hosts of The View were especially critical of Fiorina’s smile, which has become a topic of discussion recently in several newsrooms.
“You know what Carly said which really made me laugh?” co-host Michelle Collins asked Thursday morning. “She kicked off her thing saying, ‘You know, people tell me that I didn’t smile enough during the last debate.'”
“She looked demented!” she added, pulling a silly grin. “Her mouth did not downturn one time.”
Fellow host Joy Behar added, “I wish it was a Halloween mask. I’d love that.”
“‘Smiling Fiorina’? Can you imagine? It’d give me nightmares,” Collins said.
Baldwin was not at all amused by these remarks.
“Listen, I love The View. I have been a longtime [Whoopi Goldberg] fan. I think Joy Behar is one of the funniest people on TV. But ladies! Come on. Double standard much?” she said, referring to when the hosts of The View confronted 2016 GOP candidate Donald Trump for saying far less disparaging things about Fiorina’s looks.
“Why do we have to talk about [Fiorina’s] looks? Because she’s a woman? All this yapping about women and appearance, and then The View today! All I’m saying is: We women can be the worst to one another. We say, ‘Don’t talk about their looks.’ Look what happens. … We can do better than that,” she added.
