Whoopi Goldberg-Fox News ‘Recruited Domestic Terrorists,’ Not Protected by First Amendment
Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts of The View on Wednesday that Fox News reporters should be prosecuted as “domestic terrorists.” During an unhinged segment discussing the ongoing Dominion lawsuit, the panel suggested that the First Amendment should not protect Fox News and claimed that the network has allowed white supremacists to infiltrate the military.
“I have a question. I have a question. How come this is not thought of as being recruiting?” Goldberg said to her co-hosts, referencing Fox’s coverage of the January 6 protest. The View host blamed the network, saying it had encouraged people to storm the capitol complex.
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“How come they’re not thinking about this as radicalizing?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin asked, “like recruiting domestic terrorists?”
Goldberg responded, “Why is this not being scrutinized in the way that they scrutinize other things?”
“Because to me this should be against the law. You should not be able to lie to the American, knowingly. It’s one thing if you made a mistake and you didn’t know. But we heard for five or six years how, you know, the media was a lying sack of doo.”
“Fake news,” Joy Behar added.
Goldberg agreed, “They were fake news.”
The View also attacked Fox host Tucker Carlson for releasing previously unaired footage of January 6, showing police officers politely escorting “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley throughout the capitol and into the senate chamber. “These were not insurrectionists,” Carlson said on his show. “They were sightseers.”
Goldberg and her co-hosts tried to brainstorm how the Department of Justice could prosecute Carlson and Fox News without dealing with the Constitution.
“What do we do as Americans to say this is not okay?” Goldberg asked.
“You’d have to change the First Amendment,” co-host Sara Haines told her.
“Well, the First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie,” Goldberg said, willingly lying to her audience.
“That’s their defense is free speech,” Haines said.
Co-host Sunny Hostin then piped up during the segment, praising Goldberg’s words as “something I don’t think I’ve ever heard on television” regarding domestic terrorism.
“Because you had the FBI director, Chris Wray, say the number one threat to our country, to the survival of our democracy is domestic terrorists. How do you recruit domestic terrorists? How do you do that? Misinformation…”
Hostin continued, “having these kinds of rallies, saying these things, and these Substacks. And someone with Tucker Carlson… how many millions and millions of viewers…”
Hostin trailed off before bragging, “We get 3 million on this show. That’s a lot! I’m really proud of it.”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin steered the topic back to Carlson, reminding Hostin, “he’s the most watched man on cable news.
Behar then jumped back in, claiming that Fox was doing lots of their “recruiting” at military bases and airports. “The proliferation of the lies is going out to places that it should not,” she said.
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Hostin then boldly added that “white supremacists have infiltrated all of the armed forces.”
Behar agreed. “Yes.”
Later in the segment, Hostin read a statement from Fox News defending themselves from Dominion’s allegations. The network has called the lawsuit a “blatant violation of the First Amendment,” and have said they were only “covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting president.”
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