‘You Gotta Go Low!’ The View Defends AOC And Crockett Bashing ‘Butch’ Marjorie Taylor Greene
The View panel defended Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on “going low” in their responses to a personal insult from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
On Thursday evening, the House Oversight Committee met to debate a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. The committee dissolved into chaos after Greene asked Democrats if they would hire Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter.
Crockett pressed Greene on the relevance her question had for the committee, which resulted in Greene bashing the Texas lawmaker for “fake eyelashes.” Ocasio-Cortez demanded Chairman James Comer (R-KY) remove Greene’s comments from the record while Crockett responded that Greene had a “bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body.”
During a Friday airing of The View, panel members such as Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin disagreed with Alyssa Farah Griffin that the committee members should not have responded with personal insults after Greene’s initial remark.
GRIFFIN: But I don’t love taking the bait though. And I love Jasmine Crockett —
BEHAR: And by the way, why can’t they go after her the way they should? Why just comes from one side to be obnoxious? No.
GRIFFIN: The problem is if one goes scorched Earth to the floor and the other meets them there, our politics is just going to descend.
HOSTIN: Going high doesn’t work anymore. If you go low with me, I’m going to go to the Earth’s crust.
GRIFFIN: What are we telling our kids though?
HOSTIN: Bullies only respond to that.
HAINES: The genius in Crockett’s response was though they had ruled against her and she was saying, so let me know where the line is.
HOSTIN: And she went lower.
HAINES: And to me, that was a good way of showcasing the absurdity and hypocrisy of that rule in this instance. I do understand in general what you’re saying.
HOSTIN: You gotta go low, Alyssa. You gotta go low!
Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.
