Joy Behar scolds The View audience for not applauding Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford
The View co-host Joy Behar on Tuesday chided what she described as male members of her audience for not applauding professor and Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
Ford made headlines in 2018 when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school party she and Kavanaugh (then a Supreme Court nominee) attended, where she claimed he cornered her in a bedroom, laid her on a bed pinned down and tried to take her away. her clothes off as he pressed his hand over her mouth.
She appeared at the left-wing ABC Talkfest on Tuesday to promote her newly published memoir “One Way Back.”
Behar asked Ford what percentage of the 10,000 letters of support she claimed to receive were from men, to which Ford responded about 10 percent, which angered Behar.
“What men need to understand is that they need to help us. We cannot do this ourselves. I notice it, I watch when people clap. Some guys don’t clap in this crowd,” Behar said as she gestured to the audience.
The View co-host Joy Behar on Tuesday chided what she described as male members of her audience for not applauding professor and Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford
Someone could audibly say “wow” in response to Behar’s question during the broadcast.
Ford discussed the memoir and was asked what she wanted readers to take away from it.
“I think hopefully people will be able to relate to a lot of different things in the book, like what it’s like to speak up in any situation, and what it’s like to face retaliation, but also that it’s survivable , and it is more important that we all find a way to be polite and respectful, to listen to each other and to support each other,” she said
According to St. Martin’s Press, the book will share “compelling new details about the lead-up to her 2018 testimony; “its overwhelming aftermath,” when she reportedly received death threats and was unable to live in her home; and ‘how people unknown to her around the world restored her faith in humanity.’
Kavanaugh was controversially appointed to the Supreme Court in October 2018, capping a divisive and intense nomination hearing that included several allegations of sexual misconduct.
The most outspoken of the accusers, Blasey Ford, alleged that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party as a teenager.
Her emotional testimony left even some Republicans wondering whether Kavanaugh, nominated by President Donald Trump to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, would have enough votes in a Senate where the Republican Party had only a 51-49 majority.
She told the panel that during a high school party she remembered Kavanaugh holding her down on a bed and forcibly groping her. Ford said she “believed” she was going to be raped, and that Kavanaugh might “accidentally” kill her.
Ford made headlines in 2018 when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school party she and Kavanaugh (then a Supreme Court nominee) attended, where she claimed he cornered her in a bedroom, laid her on a bed pinned down and tried to take her away. taking off her clothes as he pressed his hand over her mouth
She appeared at the left-wing ABC Talkfest on Tuesday to promote her newly published memoir “One Way Back.”
According to St. Martin’s Press, the book will share “compelling new details about the lead-up” to her 2018 testimony
Kavanaugh was controversially appointed to the Supreme Court in October 2018, capping a divisive and intense nomination hearing that included several allegations of sexual misconduct.
The current Supreme Court judge repeatedly denied the allegations and simply insisted that the meeting never took place.
Despite media fervor and Senator Harris’ insistence that both Ford and the American people “deserve better,” Kavanaugh was nominated to succeed Anthony Kennedy by a vote of 50 to 48.
“I never saw myself as a survivor, a whistleblower or an activist before the events of 2018,” Ford said in a statement related to the book’s release.
“But what I and this book can offer now is a call to action for all the other people who may not have chosen these roles for themselves, but who choose to do what is right.”
‘Sometimes you don’t speak out because you are a natural disruptor. You do it to create a ripple that could one day become a wave.”