Posted on 04/16/2020 7:16:54 PM PDT by Morgana
This week, we’re seeing more in the media reveal their contempt for anyone concerned about government overreach, as journalists attacked people protesting their state’s strict stay-at-home orders. Joy Behar added to the hate, offering her own scathing suggestion to the thousands in Michigan who showed up yesterday to protest their Democrat governor. On Thursday’s The View, the co-host claimed anyone who dared to defy their local guidelines should have to sign away their rights to be treated at a hospital if they did get sick.
Whoopi Goldberg opened the show asking her co-hosts what they thought about protesters in Michigan “defying local distancing regulations” to protest their Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, after she placed some of the strictest stay-at-home orders in the country. Co-host Sunny Hostin complained that it was “a racist protest” because some apparently waved confederate flags. The nutty takes continued when Joy Behar was asked to respond. For the unforgivable sin of protesting their Democrat leader, Behar said Michiganders, who “watch Fox too much” should waive their rights to be treated at a hospital “if and when” they contract COVID-19:
BEHAR: Well, I would like to ask them if they're willing to sign away their right to treatment if and when they get infected. Are you going to say, Ok, I don't need a ventilator because I thought I should go out and defy the governor's order, okay? And I would like to know if people in states who are following the guidelines like us in New York, can be sure that these people don't come here. I mean they blocked an ambulance the other day. Can't they be charged and arrested for that? I understand the fact that, you know, they can't get their veggies, but hello. We're talking about this disease being way more infecting and worse than they even thought, you know?
WHOOPI: Right.
BEHAR: By the way, they're watching Fox a little too much. They're watching Laura Ingraham who tweeted, ‘time to get your freedom back,’ and the brilliant Janine Pirro, in early March she was parroting Trump who said, the infection rate would drop as the weather warms. This is who they're listening to. Again, do you say ‘I won't get the treatment if I get the virus’? That's my question.
The hosts also went after Republican Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana for emphasizing the need to re-open the economy, even if it does spread the virus faster. Whoopi called this a “crazy partisan” take, while Sunny Hostin claimed Republicans were prioritizing the economy over people’s lives (because apparently the economy has no impact on someone's livelihood):
“[T]he real question is, if you open up the economy, I mean, do you open it up and then trade that off, money for lives? It's just money for lives,” she fretted. Later in an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Hostin reiterated how Kennedy was “arguing the economy over people’s lives.”
Meanwhile, Behar claimed each state needed to follow New Zealand’s example, or we would be in lockdown until 2022:
[A]s Governor Whitmer pointed out, their behavior of going out only extends the need for stay-at-home orders. They're only extending their misery by going out and ignoring these -- I mean, they have to look at other countries. I believe it was New Zealand basically has the whole thing under control because she locked down the whole country. Okay. I'm not comparing us. We don't have as few people like they do, but still. Those are the things. If each state behaved like New Zealand, maybe we could fix this before 2022!
A “right” means you don’t have to sign anything away to exercise it.
if that means no mandatory vax and no chips, gladly.
i self-treat as the norm.
emergency treatment in an accident is one thing, this is entirely another
Exercise civil rights...lose your health care.
Democrats are just evil.
I can’t get a needed endoscopy, colonoscopy and a loose tooth fixed. But killing babies is considered essential.
A person’s country is in a lot of trouble when that happens
I think though that overall many babies lives will be saved by the states considering it non-essential. Because this going to go on for a while and will take some women past the point of legally being able to have the abortions but I could be completely wrong
Here to hoping both of these skanks get it and lets see if they beg for Trump drugs?
It’s more us against them everyday.
Being on a national TV show, that provides her with a platform to protest whatever she wants five days a week, she should be forced to waive her rights to virus treatment too.
There is no way I’m going on a ventilator.
It’s largely a death sentence.
They'll just find another butcher to perform a late-term abortion, somebody like Kermit Gosnell who illegally performed late-term abortions, but just had the paperwork backdated. There's plenty of Gosnell's out there to do it.
Galling that these rich bitches who haven’t lived the life of a normal person in decades do nothing but use their perch as a propaganda machine to rile up their fan base - their ignorant ass fan base - against common sense and American freedoms.
Does Joy Want homosexuals to sign away sex because of tens of millions of HIV infections around the world
Get tough or die.
Joy probably applauded the Chinese that were taken out at Tiannamen Square...they exercised their God given rights.
Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea if the internet and TV went off. No more talking heads.
Has she sworn that she would never take Trump Pills if she gets the Rona?
Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea if Disney went off.
bttt!
If it stops even some, that’s more than none.
And the meantime we keep praying
They let slip the ultimate goal of government controlled health care: the power to provide or deny a person treatment based on their political beliefs.
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