Conservative news organizations and social media platforms have exploded on remarks made yesterday by Joy Behar of The View. The liberal co-host seemed to lament vacation plans spoiled by the Ukraine invasion.
On Thursday’s ABC daytime talk program, Behar voiced alarm about the invasion’s effect on Ukraine and the rest of the globe, especially Western Europe.
Following co-host Sunny Hostin’s remark of the prospect of enormous Ukrainian deaths and the possibility of a European migration problem, Behar commented: “I’m scared of what’s going to happen in Western Europe too. You plan a trip; you want to go there, I want to go to Italy for four years, and I haven’t been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this. It’s like, ‘What’s gonna happen there?”
“We’ve seen this movie before in the last century,” Behar then condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the invasion, referring to World War II.
Conservative sites such as The New York Post and Fox News focused instead on the holiday aspect, disregarding an interpretation of Behar’s remarks as worry about the invasion’s effect on Western Europe. What landed on the headlines on NY Post is “Joy Behar moans Russia-Ukraine war is making her vacation plans uncertain.” Meanwhile, Fox News settles with, “Joy Behar complains Russia-Ukraine war-making her European vacation plans uncertain.”
Behar did not address the vacation remarks on today’s broadcast, despite her name trending on Twitter, but she did so after a panel discussion on anxiety and sadness. “It’s hard not to feel anxious with everything going on in the world right now, between the pandemic and this war in Ukraine. It’s very anxiety-provoking, the whole thing. It makes you feel bad when you wake up in the morning,” she said.
