‘The View’ Backs Amber Ruffin’s Assessment that Trump and His Supporters Are Not Humans

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RUFFIN: “It feels great. It makes them feel like human beings.”
BEE: “Yes.”
RUFFIN: “But they shouldn’t get to feel that way because they’re not.”
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Goldberg: “You know, it’s a funny thing, free speech.”
HOSTIN: “Yeah.”
Goldberg: “What do you think about the decision to drop her?”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “So at first, I thought the White House Correspondents’ Association were being a bunch of cowards, but then I watched that.”
Goldberg: “Mm-hmm.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “And the most important thing that journalists need to do in this moment is be able to show that they can objectively, without fear or favor, cover this administration.”
Goldberg: “Mm-hmm.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “And objectively is the key word. And for a lot of Americans, when there’s record high distrust in the media, if you have them sitting in a room with somebody who basically said, ‘Trump Administration officials are subhuman, they are a bunch of murderers, it adds to distrust in the press. It comes off as a kind of a tacit endorsement of what she’s saying.”
Goldberg: “Mm-hmm.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “And I think it’s an important event to highlight good journalism.”
HOSTIN: “Mm-hmm.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “My worry is, without having a comedian all together, that that will fall by the wayside and fewer people will tune in.”
HAINES: “Why would you even go? I go for the funny part.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “I actually support the decision. And I — I worked with most of the people in the White House —“
Goldberg: “Mm-hmm.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “— Correspondents’ Association. Eugene Daniels is a very serious journalist, and I think it was actually the prudent decision.”
Goldberg: “OK.”