‘The View’s’ Sunny Hostin Retains Bat Guano Crazy Queen Crown

In this ever-changing world, it can be comforting to know that some things will never change. Like “The View” will never be anything resembling sane. And “The View’s” Sunny Hostin remains queen of bat guano crazy. 

Expectedly, Sunny went on a rant Monday — marking the fourth-anniversary of the political demonstration at the U.S. Capitol that turned riotous with her usual flare for hyperventilating hyperbole. 

The co-host at ABC’s home for the criminally delusional insisted “we need to find moral clarity.” (Don’t you love being lectured about “moral clarity” from people with suspect moral compasses?) Where have all the moral giants gone, like former Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell? Sunny lamented. 

“I just remember after Jan. 6 you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on Jan. 6 where it belongs, squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders,” she fondly recalled. “And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing their moral center. You had Condoleeza Rice, I believe, on this very show, saying, ‘You know, we have to move on from Jan. 6.’”

Yes, the former secretary of state had the audacity to say that politicians should be focusing on concerns everyday Americans were talking about, like rapidly rising grocery and gas prices, and that teaching white kids that they are natural-born racists in a systemically white supremacist America is wrong. That was in October 2021. Americans had just begun to wade into the misery of the Biden years. Sunny glowered at Rice, insisting that the “past will become prologue if we don’t find out what happened on Jan. 6.” She really likes the “past is prologue” line. 

Well, we have learned quite a bit about “what happened on Jan. 6,” and the facts don’t comport with the politically driven narrative that “insurrection” peddlers like the morally bankrupt Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff have been selling. My Federalist colleague Tristan Justice on Monday detailed “The Top 10 Lies Of Liz Cheney And The January 6th Committee.”

What we learned from November’s election is that voters didn’t buy the lie that Jan. 6, 2021 was the “darkest day” in U.S. history, as delusional leftists still expect us to swallow. 

Failing History

And the beat goes on for The View’s Sunny Hostin, who insisted that Jan. 6, 2021 was an “atrocity.” There is to be no moving on in Sunny’s bleak world. 

“It was one of the worst moments in American history,” the lawyer-turned-talk-show-host declared to applause from The View’s brainwashed audience. How bad was it? Holocaust bad, Sunny said.  

“And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened like the Holocaust, chattel slavery …” she asserted.

Really? World War II? Really? 

Nope. 

World War II was “the largest and most violent conflict in human history,” according to the Defense Casualty Analysis System and anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of world history. An estimated 15 million human beings died in battle, with another 45 million-plus civilians killed, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The United States alone counted at least 418,500 dead over the course of its engagement. You get those kinds of fatalities in a world war. 

How about the Holocaust? Not even close, Sunny. 

“The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa. The height of the persecution and murder occurred during World War II. By the end of the war in 1945, the Germans and their collaborators had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum sadly records. Millions more non-Jews also were persecuted and slaughtered. 

The Jan. 6, 2021 gathering at the Capitol was mostly a  demonstration of frustrated Americans who believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged. It grew unruly and ultimately riotous. It was not a “mostly violent” rebellion. It was not an insurrection. Democracy wasn’t anywhere close to dying. If that were true, as a friend wrote following Sunny’s absurd comments, “the J6ers nearly toppled democracy with fake gallows and an orderly tour through the Capitol with zero firearms.” 

Two people directly died from the riots: Trump supporters Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a Capitol police officer, and Roseanne Boyland, trampled in the crush of the crowd. 

The events of Jan. 6, 2021 bear no resemblance to “chattel slavery,” a very anti-democratic business Sunny’s ancestors apparently were well acquainted with, according to some disappointing genetic testing.   

The View co-host, again, insisted “we need to never forget” Jan. 6 “because past becomes prologue if you forget and erase.” 

But what happens when useful idiots have no concept of history or sense of proportion? Well, you get the queen of bat guano crazy, Sunny Hostin. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.