‘The View’ co-hosts try to humiliate Cheryl Hines over vaccines and RFK Jr.— and fail miserably
If the show “The View” isn’t paid for by advertising from pharmaceutical companies, you’d never know, because they defend vaccines with a tenacity that can only be rivaled by the manufacturers themselves.
And in a recent interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s wife, Cheryl Hines, the panel could not have fought harder in favor of those pharmaceutical companies — never once grazing the truth despite minutes of speaking over Hines.
“You know, Cheryl, it’s not fair to really put you on the spot about him because you’re his wife. I know that. But when you say that they are pro-vaccine, it seems as though Bobby and Trump are casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine, which makes Americans very nervous,” co-host Joy Behar said.
“So, that’s the problem that we’re having,” she added.
“It’s interesting because I don’t know if you saw ‘60 Minutes’ just did a piece about the vaccine injury compensation program. So, people that have had vaccine injuries can be compensated if they can prove it. And they have paid out $5.4 billion for vaccine injuries,” Hines replied.
“So, my question is, can we do better?” she asked.
“Is it all vaccines or just the COVID vaccine?” Whoopi Goldberg interjected, to which Hines replied, “It’s all vaccines.”
“So, the question is — yes to vaccines. Yes, they are important, and they are an important part of our health care. Can we do better? Can we make them safer? Can we listen to parents who say, ‘My child got the vaccine and changed and stopped hitting markers, stopped developing the way they were developing.’ Can we listen to people when they say that instead of saying, ‘You’re crazy?’” Hines continued.
But that wasn’t all the ladies of ‘The View’ went after Hines for.
Sunny Hostin called RFK the “least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history,” lamenting that this is “very dangerous.”
Having previously pointed out that Obama’s head of HHS was an economist, Hines responded, “Why is he less qualified than an economist?”
“He has spent his career studying toxins, studying people’s health, fighting for one guy who was using Roundup for his job,” Hines continued.
“He has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. And I think it’s just a very dangerous thing,” Hostin continued, adding, “and I say it with the utmost respect.”
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t shocked by what she’s hearing from the women on ‘The View,’ but she is disgusted.
“‘The utmost respect,’” she mocks. “Like, it’s just so tacky. ‘With all due respect, I actually think your husband is a terrible ... person.’ Like, you can’t just say stuff like that. And it’s just so laughable.”
Gonzales points out that Joe Biden’s HHS secretary was Xavier Becerra, who had zero medical background.
“He was also a former politician and a lawyer. And the closest thing that he came to anything health-related was bringing felony charges against the Center for Medical Progress activists who exposed Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling fetal tissue,” Gonzales explains.
Not only that, but Biden’s assistant secretary for health was “Rachel” Levine — a transgender woman.
“That just tells you all you need to know about all of these recent Health and Human Services secretaries who haven’t given a s**t that we have become more sick,” Gonzales says, “We have become sicker than ever before.”
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Guilt by association: Hollywood libs turn on Cheryl Hines
Hollywood celebrities took a break from cosplaying the ‘50s-era blacklist in “Trumbo” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” to start a new version. But communists needn’t fear the Hollywood blacklist 2.0.
Such hypocrisy is par for the course in a town that seems to get all of its political opinions from Aaron Sorkin screenplays.
The ones looking over their shoulders on film and TV sets these days are conservatives. Or, in the case of Cheryl Hines, the conservative-adjacent.
Hines is a registered Democrat, like her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But now that RFK Jr. has bowed out of the 2024 presidential race and backed Donald Trump, Hollywood has pretty much revoked the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" alum's liberal privilege.
It's not that Hines herself has endorsed Trump. Instead, her offense is in suggesting that Trump supporters like her husband may in fact have the country's best interests at heart, whether or not you agree with them.
Cue the Hollywood Reporter, which uncorked a veiled threat at Hines:
But despite the show of unity with her husband, Kennedy’s decision to align himself so closely with Trump will make for, at best, some awkward dinner table conversations at home; at worst, it may result in a full-scale shunning of Hines by the Hollywood establishment.
Why would THR say that? It’s an industry bible and knows what goes on behind the scenes in La La Land. That’s why.
The magazine understands that openly conservative stars like James Woods and Kevin Sorbo no longer work in Hollywood due to their beliefs. Both stars lost their respective agents due to political differences.
The Oscar-nominated Woods is essentially retired from Hollywood films. Sorbo mostly works in self-produced features. The “Hercules” star cares more about freedom and dignity than echoing the industry’s mandated talking points.
And for every loud and proud conservative like screen legend Jon Voight, there are many others (actors, screenwriters, crew members) who keep quiet for fear of professional retaliation.
Conservative artists once met in private across Los Angeles under the moniker Friends of Abe. They networked, swapped discriminatory horror stories, and, sometimes, wept over the mistreatment.
Or, as THR calls it, “shunning.” Hines’ full-scale shunning may already have started.
Former “West Wing” star Bradley Whitford attacked Hines on social media.
"Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights. Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage," Whitford wrote on X.
Whitford more recently appeared in deranged dystopian fantasy series "The Handmaid's Tale," a show he often cites as reflective of the right's intolerant, anti-women policies. And yet the outspoken feminist — who by all accounts ranks higher in the Hollywood pecking order than Hines — seems more than happy to bully a 58-year-old woman for having the "wrong" opinion. Punch down much, Bradley?
Such hypocrisy is par for the course in a town that seems to get all of its political opinions from Aaron Sorkin screenplays.
Perhaps the upcoming “Reagan” could have a used a rewrite from the "American President" scribe. Maybe then the film's marketers wouldn't have found their promotion of the film throttled by Facebook. But the Dennis Quaid-starring biopic dares to portray our country’s 40th president in a favorable light — and to offer work to Voight and Sorbo as well as other openly conservative stars like Nick Searcy and Robert Davi.
Naturally, “Reagan,” which premieres August 30, was made outside the Hollywood ecosystem. That's the blacklist 2.0 for you. You won't hear any complaints from Whitford — or from most of his peers.
Emmy winner Alec Baldwin did allow that such anti-conservative bias is “unfortunate” in an Instagram post. It’s notable that the high-profile Democrat keeps working despite a history of angry outbursts and an on-set accident in which he shot and killed the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.
Then again, Hollywood loves second acts. As long as you can still make somebody money, there are very few mistakes you can't come back from.
Unfortunately for Cheryl Hines, being MAGA by association probably is one of them.
See it: Woody Harrelson sports RFK Jr. hat while posing for photo with the presidential candidate's celebrity wife
Actress Cheryl Hines, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posted of herself posing with actor Woody Harrelson, who can be seen in the shot sporting a "KENNEDY 2024" hat.
"Great seeing you Woody," Hines wrote, adding several heart emojis as well as the hashtags #friends, #hats, and #rfkjr.
The comments on Hines' post were mixed.
"Omg! Woody? He's absolutely lost it! I thought he was better than that!" one person wrote.
"Woody, you're smarter than that!" someone else responded.
"I guess they were right about impaired judgement from smoking too much weed," someone else commented.
"See this makes me happy!!! Of course Woody would be a supporter!!!" someone else wrote.
"All the cool people love RFK and Cheryl!" another commenter wrote.
While Kennedy and Marianne Williamson are both running against President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, polling indicates that Biden has an enormous lead over his competitors and is positioned to coast to a primary victory.
Kennedy has pointed out the need to secure the U.S. border.
"The reason for strong border control is not xenophobia, bigotry, or hate. The reason is humanitarian conscience," Kennedy noted in a post on X.
"Democrats and Republicans can agree that the humanitarian nightmare that has resulted from essentially handing immigration policy to the drug cartels is unacceptable. We need to take back control," he declared. "Ruthless criminal cartels have woven drugs, immigration, and human trafficking together into a multi-billion dollar business," he noted. "Biden administration policy has greatly exacerbated the situation. The border is out of control. Immigration is being administered by the cartels, not our government," he wrote.
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Actress Cheryl Hines rips husband Robert Kennedy Jr.'s 'reprehensible' suggestion that Anne Frank had it easier than us as we face vaccine passports
Actress Cheryl Hines blasted husband Robert Kennedy Jr.'s "reprehensible and insensitive" remarks Sunday suggesting Holocaust victim Anne Frank had it easier than us as we face loss of freedom under vaccine passports.
What are the details?
"My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive," Hines tweeted Tuesday. "The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own."
Kennedy — son of late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of late President John F. Kennedy — said during his speech at the rally against vaccine mandates that they're part of looming totalitarian control.
He said that "even in Hitler's Germany ... you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did."
Kennedy added that — unlike life under Hitler — technology within the next five years will make it so that "none of us can run, and none of us can hide." With that he mentioned Bill Gates' satellites, 5G technology, digital currency, and vaccine passports.
"The minute they hand you that vaccine passport, every right that you have is transformed into a privilege contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates," Kennedy said. "It will make you a slave!"
What else?
Anne Frank ultimately was taken to a Nazi concentration camp where she died, and Kennedy faced widespread condemnation over his reference to her, including from the Auschwitz Memorial: “Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured and murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany — including children like Anne Frank — in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decay."
When a Twitter user asked Hines, "Do you stand with your husband?" her response was much less direct.
"My husband’s opinions are not a reflection of my own," Hines replied Monday to the Twitter user. "While we love each other, we differ on many current issues."
The Hill reported that following Hines' initial tweet, another Twitter user said she should go further with a statement that her spouse was “wrong” and that “no one should compare anything to the horrors of the Holocaust.”
“Yes, I agree with you,” Hines replied, according to the outlet.
Kennedy — apparently minutes prior to Hines' Tuesday tweet blasting him — tweeted the following: "I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry."
Cheryl Hines Addresses to Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Speech About Vaccines & Nazi Germany | THR Newsyoutu.be
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