The normally Mean Girls of The View were unusually toned down Monday in the aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Instead of blaming Trump for the violence – which I anticipated they would – they used the opportunity to prop up Joe Biden, for making a statement about his competitor in the presidential race.
“We can all agree with President Biden… we need to lower the temperature in our politics,” said Joy Behar, who suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. “We must not go down this road in America … we can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”
Commentator Ana Navarro, who claimed to be “shocked and heartbroken” by what happened at the Pennsylvania rally – not to Trump mind you – said this was “not supposed to happen in America.”
While in one breath lecturing us about the need to “tamp down the rhetoric,” she couldn’t resist reminding viewers about the Jan. 6 attack of three years ago on the U.S. Capitol, for which the left will never stop blaming Trump.
Behar also couldn’t help but remind viewers that the shooter was a registered Republican. That’s not entirely true considering reports say he gave a donation to Democratic-aligned political action committee in 2021.
All I can say is their shock and horror is too little, too late.
I wondered if they’ve been living under a rock or so infused with hatred for Trump and for Republicans or so tone deaf they refuse to see what has been going on in America throughout Biden’s term.
I’m referring to the violent protests in support of George Floyd during which Black Lives Matter and its supporters set buildings on fire and created mayhem in cities throughout America.
Biden’s own vice-president, Kamala Harris, backed a bail fund, encouraging followers on X to donate to help the protesters in 2020. One bailed out went on to murder an arch-nemesis, according to reports.
There are the open borders with no vetting of illegals, some of whom have gone on to rape and murder innocent young women.
Let’s not forget the violent protests of the past nine months on university campuses and on city streets by pro-Palestinian agitators with few attempts by the left to put a stop to the rabid rise in antisemitism (not unlike our prime minister who has enabled the rise in Jew hatred).
At least most parties toned down their rhetoric – at least for now.
News agencies like CNN, MSNBC and our own CBC have cleaned up their act and written headlines that are far more accurate than late Saturday, when they describe the attempted assassination as Trump falling down, not mentioning the shooting whatsoever.
It left one thinking he’d fainted from dehydration.
I suspect that won’t last long.
Give them a few days and they’ll be back to calling Trump “Hitler,” a “dictator,” “an authoritarian in waiting,” and a “threat to democracy”
Look, I will freely admit that Trump is no angel and repeatedly says things that are outrageous.
But I suspect that the left in the U.S. and Canada is as much incensed by his outspokenness and the fact that he doesn’t beat around the bush.
That and the fact they are also in a panic because Biden is far too old to be running again and it would appear that the Democrats have been covering up his mental state for quite some time. Still, some couldn’t wait.
Former Biden press secretary (now a leftist commentator for MSNBC) Jen Psaki couldn’t resist adding fuel to the very incendiary fire the left has helped create by fear mongering.
Biden water carrier Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation, was forced to retract her rush to judgment of Trump in this post:
One Canadian media pundit has been absolutely over the top. Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne has been tweeting practically every two hours since the attempted assassination, essentially victim blaming and speculating that this will “embolden” his so-called violent followers. His classless tweets reek of desperation:
This article from the former editor of the radical left publication the Nation tries, as did the ladies from The View, to prop up Biden and the Democrats for acting with class (as they should have) following the shooting. She doesn’t resist taking cheap shots at Trump.
Trust me, the calls to lower the political temperature will only result in a temporary reprieve.
If Trump continues to advance in the polls and Biden continues to falter, the political fires will rage once more.
