DIM ‘VIEW’ OF DUO
Hosts, even Meghan, rap Mo. gun wavers
The “View” hosts found a foe to pick on who wasn’t Meghan McCain.
On Tuesday’s edition of the morning-show gabfest, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar and McCain were all in agreement that the St. Louis couple brandishing firearms Sunday at Black Lives Matter demonstrators outside their opulent home had overreacted.
“If I were protesters, I would not appreciate having an AR-15 headed my way or a woman who seems crazed with her finger on the trigger,” Behar said of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, married personal-injury lawyers in their 60s. “I would not enjoy that at all. I don’t think any of these protesters had weapons.”
While Mark McCloskey contends that the protesters destroyed a gate into the ritzy enclave, video shows protesters holding open the gate before streaming through, according to St. Louis TV station KSDK.
After Hostin, who’s also an attorney, acknowledged Missouri is an open-carry state, she asserted that brandishing a weapon in a threatening manner is potentially felonious.
She then cast doubt on the couple’s intentions after they reportedly altered the story.
“At first, it was this angry mob came out down my street; I felt threatened,” explained
Hostin. “Now, they’re saying I wasn’t threatening the peaceful protesters, but I saw two white men in the group and those two white men had weapons, but not the peaceful protest.”
After Hostin wrapped up her argument, the socially conservative McCain initially appeared to be preparing an impassioned defense of the couple.
“I have six things to say, so just bear with me,” said the daughter of former Arizona
Sen. John McCain. After mentioning that “the Second Amendment is a big thing of mine” and name-dropping Dana Loesch, the former spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association — seemingly establishing roots for her argument — McCain went off on Patricia McCloskey.
“This woman had her finger on the trigger the entire time, and trigger control is a big thing, especially with pistols. You’re never supposed to put your finger on the trigger unless you’re intending to shoot,” said McCain. “So right off the bat, I have a problem with this.”
The protesters were walking through the gated Portland Place community en route to the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, whom they were planning to speak out against after she had previously announced the names and home addresses of citizens demanding police reform, CNN reported Monday.