The president and those allied with him have never exactly been known for respecting viewpoints different from their own. That’s the foundation of the platform that got him elected, which consisted of deporting or banning millions of people who don’t fit the white conservative Christian mold.
Considering these facts, it’s unsurprising that after co-host of The View Joy Behar expressed how taken aback she was at comments about Vice President Mike Pence hearing the voice of Jesus Christ, Fox & Friends hosted a bash-session.
Their bash-session against The View and Joy Behar featured none other than right wing icon Tomi Lahren.
After being pressed by the hosts, Lahren, acting like Behar had personally insulted her family or something, commented:
‘Well who is she to judge how often our vice president speaks to his lord and savior. Who is she to mock anyone for their faith. These people are really, really amazing to me because they preach day in and day out about tolerance and love — tolerance and love for everyone except conservative Christians, and then they can mock you and it’s funny and you’re something they can use for their jokes around the table and they can all cackle about it.’
Again, Behar was expressing how aghast she was that someone would, as Pence has allegedly done, be open about hearing the “voice” of Jesus Christ. She wasn’t criticizing Christianity as a whole.
Maybe Lahren is having doubts about the whole thing. Why else would she become so ridiculously agitated at the very mention of a question of her apparent faith. Her agitation is of a different form from host Brian Kilmeade’s, who stuck to the lame attempts at being clever style of agitation.
After Lahren’s initial comments, he quipped that if someone said they were talking to Allah, Behar “would not be mocking that.”
She responded by, in part, mocking transgender people and again ignoring the fact that Behar didn’t say “all conservative Christians are stupid.” She simply expressed surprise at someone having an apparent conversation with a voice.
Nevertheless, Lahren commented:
‘Again, they live in a world where men can be women, women can be men, but if you’re a conservative Christian, you have a mental illness. There’s something wrong with the women at that table, for sure.’
Lahren, of course, isn’t alone in her criticism of transgender people; the very president of the United States abruptly moved to ban transgender people from serving in the Armed Forces last year.
Kilmeade eventually suggested that Behar must be Jewish, considering the circumstances, before being corrected by a behind-the-scenes staffer speaking into his earpiece and told that Behar is not.
Check out video of Lahren’s appearance on Fox below; she and the hosts went on to discuss other issues, such as one student body’s decision to ban the national anthem from pep rallies because of its original racist lyrics.
Lahren, of course, found grave error in that decision, suggesting that the young people didn’t understand the alleged disrespectful ramifications of their decision.
There’s a reason that Fox & Friends is the president’s favorite television show, since again, they’re echoing the president here. He has long maintained that those who choose to participate in a peaceful silent protest during the anthem are committing a grave sin.
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