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During a press conference with the president of Poland to discuss responding to the crisis in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris had one of her infamous and inappropriate laughing fits. But according to the infinite wisdom or intellectual laziness of Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s The View on Friday, Harris was the most qualified and best-prepared VP ever and any criticism of her is “based in racism” and “based in misogyny.”
It was the first topic on the docket and co-host Joy Behar whined that “the right-wing cannot get over” Harris’s inappropriate laughter. “The laugh got them,” she said after shamelessly playing the clip. And what came next was pure gaslighting as they pretended to have never made fun of former Vice President Mike Pence (Click “expand”):
BEHAR: Did you have a problem with any of the way she handled this, ladies? People are talking about it -- I personally think if she was a guy, they would never say it because they made fun of Hillary's laugh, but I don't see them making fun of Pence's laugh or any of the guy.
ANA NAVARRO: Did he laugh?
BEHAR: Well, they don’t laugh very much.
SUNNY HOSTIN: He didn't move the fly that was on his face for, like, an hour.
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