“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin insists she was not calling white suburban women cockroaches.
During a segment of the show on Tuesday, conservative co-host Alyssa Farah-Griffin raised concerns about the way the “far-left” talks about conservatives.
Hostin asked, “Who are these far-left people? … Because the far left did not storm the Capitol.”
“Last week, you called white Republican women cockroaches, or you said they’re acting like cockroaches,” Farah-Griffin said.
The two proceeded to talk over each other while they disputed what Hostin originally said. Whoopi Goldberg then interjected as she said, “I’m going to ask you to tone it down a bit cause I can’t hear anything.”
“She said I called white women roaches, which my mother is a white woman so I would never say that,” Hostin responded.
She noted her exact quote was that white women who vote for Republicans are “almost like roaches voting for Raid.”
“It was a joke that I used on this show a few weeks ago… referring to Latinos, and no one had anything to say about it,” Hostin went on.
She added, “I continued by saying, do they want to be in Gilead?”
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After a commercial break, weak Alyssa buckles to racist Sunny and claims she "misquoted" her.
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FACT CHECK FALSE: Sunny did call white women roaches, and she is a racist.
She then goes on to say that the rhetoric still needs to be brought down. pic.twitter.com/nYQNvjNOiA
Finally, she accused Farah-Griffin of “twisting what I said.”
After a commercial break, the conservative panelist said, “I do want to clarify. I misquoted Sunny. I think she clarified what she said. It was a simile. It was an analogy. It was not saying white Republican women are bugs.”
“Now I think the point I was trying to make is part of the left…some on the left though have taken such a negative approach to people who view things differently,” she added.
Farah-Griffin also argued the tone of the rhetoric needs to be brought down.
Hostin’s comparison last week came after a poll released by The Wall Street Journal found white suburban women now say they favor Republicans over Democrats by 15 percentage points — marking a 27 percentage point swing in support from August.
In September, she told her fellow panelists it is “so interesting to me that there are so many Latinos that vote Republican because they vote against their own self-interest.”
