Whoopi Claims ‘Media Was­n’t Cov­er­ing’ Book­er, Haines Prais­es ‘Results’

To com­plete the lib­er­al media’s lat­est flip-flop on sup­port­ing the fil­i­buster, the Cack­ling Coven of ABC’s The View spent part of Wednesday’s episode gush­ing about New Jer­sey Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tor Cory Booker’s 24-hour, so-called “fil­i­busters” (he wasn’t block­ing leg­is­la­tion). Mod­er­a­tor Whoopi Gold­berg went so far as to ridicu­lous­ly and false­ly assert that “no one” in the media cov­ered Book­er speak­ing until he was done.

“Peo­ple have been fight­ing since the elec­tion,” Gold­berg tout­ed and piv­ot­ing to Book­er. “And just because we’re not aware of it because media was­n’t cov­er­ing – Nobody was cov­er­ing it.”

“That’s true,” clue­less Joy Behar agreed. Pre­tend inde­pen­dent Sara Haines also agreed, but added: “No one cov­ered it till he broke the record.”

Gold­berg also decried how sup­pos­ed­ly, “no one is talk­ing about all the resis­tance that hap­pen­ing in the streets in Amer­i­ca.”

It was unclear what she meant by “the resis­tance hap­pen­ing in the streets.” If she meant the ter­ror­ism direct­ed at Tes­la deal­er­ships and Tes­la dri­vers, media out­lets had men­tioned it. Per­haps she was con­fus­ing the media writ-large with The View since they haven’t dis­cussed nor con­demned it.

Co-host Sun­ny Hostin praised Book­er for using the same unhinged rhetoric that she did. “And what I loved when he real­ly began, he said this is not nor­mal. This is a cri­sis. I have been say­ing this for so long! We are in a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis! Now is not the time to act nor­mal­ly!” she shout­ed.

The cast was also obsessed with Booker’s blad­der:

JOY BEHAR: He said all that with­out pee­ing once!

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s the real sun­ning part. That part.

HOSTIN: With­out pee­ing [inaudi­ble] He was dehy­drat­ed. He was fast­ing for three days. For three days.

Hostin also tout­ed that Booker’s speech obtained “350 mil­lion likes on Tik­Tok live,” as if that meant some­thing. “That’s more peo­ple than exist in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca! So, think about that,” she demand­ed.

In recent weeks, Haines had decried the ‘the­atrics’ of Repub­li­cans cen­sur­ing Democ­rats for their antics and atten­tion seek­ing mis­be­hav­ior. But with Book­er, she had noth­ing but praise for his the­atrics:

I have said to react in rage and hot-head­ed just to show you’re resist­ing and you’re fight­ing, is not effec­tive. This was effec­tive, this was cal­cu­lat­ed, coor­di­nat­ed, and dis­ci­plined. He did it have a vil­lage of oth­er Democ­rats!

“That is what fight­ing looks like if you want results!” she declared.

She didn’t give a sin­gle exam­ple of the “results” that fol­lowed because of Booker’s non-fil­i­buster.

Prov­ing once again to be an emp­ty suit for the Repub­li­can side, faux con­ser­v­a­tive Alyssa Farah Grif­fin want­ed him to become the new leader of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty:

I’ve got noth­ing but respect for the fact he did­n’t eat, did­n’t drink, and did­n’t pee for that peri­od of time. I mean, that shows the sort of old-school kind of fight­ing that I don’t feel like we see in politi­cians any­more. I think there’s going to be a lot of folks who are going to be look­ing at Cory Book­er and say­ing maybe that’s who should be lead­ing the Sen­ate.

“Democ­rats do have the pow­er in the minor­i­ty to go up there and say ‘I’m not going to stop talk­ing until we recon­sid­er this bill or this judi­cial nom­i­na­tion.’ The pow­er of the minor­i­ty exists for a rea­son,” she pro­claimed.

And with­out direct­ly call­ing out her co-host’s hypocrisy on fil­i­busters, Farah Grif­fin weak­ly not­ed: “I know this table dis­agrees, the fil­i­buster is a very pow­er­ful tool espe­cial­ly when it’s a talk­ing fil­i­buster.”

The tran­script is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
April 2, 2025
11:19:39 a.m. East­ern

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SUNNY HOSTIN: And what I loved when he real­ly began, he said this is not nor­mal. This is a cri­sis. I have been say­ing this for so long! We are in a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis! Now is not the time to act nor­mal­ly!

JOY BEHAR: He said all that with­out pee­ing once!

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s the real sun­ning part. That part.

HOSTIN: With­out pee­ing [inaudi­ble] He was dehy­drat­ed. He was fast­ing for three days. For three days.

SARA HAINES: And one thing we’ve talked about at this table but actu­al­ly dis­agreed a lit­tle bit is what the fight should look like. I have said to react in rage and hot-head­ed just to show you’re resist­ing and you’re fight­ing, is not effec­tive. This was effec­tive, this was cal­cu­lat­ed, coor­di­nat­ed, and dis­ci­plined. He did it have a vil­lage of oth­er Democ­rats!

FARAH GRIFFIN: [Inaudi­ble]

HAINES: He did­n’t pee but he used the ques­tion of, like, two dozen Democ­rats stood up to help him with that. That is what fight­ing looks like if you want results!

[Cheers and applause]

HOSTIN: It’s also what lead­er­ship looks like. I just want to say one thing, 350 mil­lion likes on Tik­Tok live. That’s more peo­ple than exist in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca! So think about that.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I’ve got noth­ing but respect for the fact he did­n’t eat, did­n’t drink, and did­n’t pee for that peri­od of time. I mean, that shows the sort of old-school kind of fight­ing that I don’t feel like we see in politi­cians any­more. I think there’s going to be a lot of folks who are going to be look­ing at Cory Book­er and say­ing maybe that’s who should be lead­ing the Sen­ate.

Some­thing I still believe – and I know this table dis­agrees, the fil­i­buster is a very pow­er­ful tool espe­cial­ly when it’s a talk­ing fil­i­buster. It was a lit­tle dif­fer­ent because he was­n’t block­ing spe­cif­ic leg­is­la­tion, but Democ­rats do have the pow­er in the minor­i­ty to go up there and say ‘I’m not going to stop talk­ing until we recon­sid­er this bill or this judi­cial nom­i­na­tion.’ The pow­er of the minor­i­ty exists for a rea­son.

HOSTIN: He stopped the busi­ness of the Sen­ate. There was sup­posed to be a vote on the NATO rep. That did­n’t hap­pen. When Har­ry Reid was the Demo­c­ra­t­ic minor­i­ty leader he knew how to get busi­ness done even though he was the minor­i­ty leader.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know what, here’s what I’m going to say. We can sit back and talk about what peo­ple should be doing, haven’t been doing – Peo­ple have been fight­ing since the elec­tion. And just because we’re not aware of it because media was­n’t cov­er­ing – Nobody was cov­er­ing it.

BEHAR: That’s true.

GOLDBERG: Peo­ple weren’t talk­ing –

HAINES: No one cov­ered it till he broke the record.

GOLDBERG: No. And no one is talk­ing about all the resis­tance that hap­pen­ing in the streets in Amer­i­ca. Peo­ple are resist­ing. They are say­ing, no, no, no.

BEHAR: The town halls too.

GOLDBERG: These are all impor­tant because the bot­tom line is, it’s great that Cory did what he did, but it real­ly is going to be up to us, this is this fight is our fight.

HOSTIN: And he said that.

[Applause]

GOLDBERG: I know. I know but I’m just going to put a peri­od on what I’m say­ing.

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