Posted on 02/27/2025 2:37:58 PM PST by Morgana
The View co-host Joy Behar apologized to Elon Musk live on-air after calling him 'pro-apartheid.'
Behar made the claim during a rant on Thursday's show against the South African billionaire and his relationship with President Donald Trump.
'The guy was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa,' she said, later calling Musk a 'foreigner' and 'a foreign agent.'
'So, [he] has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.'
After a commercial break, Behar retracted the comment and admitted that she had no evidence of it being a true.
'Now I'm getting some flack because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid. I don't really know for sure if he was,' she said.
'He grew up at that time when apartheid was in full bloom, before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that. He was around at that time, but maybe he was, maybe he wasn't - he might have been a young guy, too.
'So, don't be suing me, okay Elon?'
Behar drew chuckles from the audience before again attacking the administration.
'They're allowed to say any lie they want but we have to be really strict,' she continued. 'That's why this show's important.'
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When you are ordered to apologize every few weeks maybe youre not really the one to bring the nation any kind of “news”.
Dittos gov. You nailed it.
If someone were to create a TV show with ONLY the MSLSD apologies and corrections, it would have 10x, 50x the audience of the current MSLSD.
Sullivan is not total protection against slander of public figures—it just raises a high bar.
The plaintiff has to prove malicious intent.
MSNBC defines malicious intent—and Musk’s high powered lawyers could discover every email the Mad Cow had ever written in the last decade.
The only remedy for this behavior is that the network fire the entire lot of them. Otherwise, sue the network also. It obviously wasn’t an “error”.
Yeah, no kidding. Him and his wife. Socialist gutter hellhole. And its getting worse.
I’m retired, but no way would I ever waste my time watching those intellectual illiterates
Who cares what a lying, radical leftie says? It’s a given that what any nut case democrat/liberal says is pure B..S., or just plain lying.
The same lawyers at ABC who made that other lady on The View issue a couple of retractions on air must have been monitoring the show. They probably heard her say that and said, “NO, NO, NO!”
Could never watch the whole program but the clips are telling tale “progressive” agenda. The left can never finish an argument just hurl insults.
Majority of Voters are not into expanding the welfare state and income redistribution.
They need to be sued for calling Trump a liar. They’ve accused him of thousands and thousands of Lies on a daily basis.
Trump needs to sue them for that and force them on air to make a list of the ‘lies’ or publicly apologize
Apology not accepted.
kinda wonder why people named joy are so miserable...
South Africa was a racist violent hellhole under apartheid.
Still is, but with the roles reversed.
Take the apology but SUE HER INTO OBLIVIAN.
Maybe Mandela can give her a nice necklace.
Probably Musk threatened to sue unless she apologized on air.
Typical Democrat ploy ... throw out crap and then try to cover it up with perfume.
It was one of the most proserous counties in Africa. Apartheid was a communist vilification like Hitler.
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