During Tuesday’s The View, co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin were both joyless and gloomy as they lashed out at actor Billy Bob Thornton because an interview he did where he explained that he didn’t want to shove his politics down the throats of his fans. Behar, of all people, called Thornton “uninformed” as she asserted that “every minute” America was slipping closer to “autocracy.” From Hostin, we heard the nagging “silence is complicity” shtick.
What could Thornton had said that had them that outraged? This: “I don’t know anything about politics. I have no idea. I mean – and the stuff I believe about it, I don’t want to force it down somebody else’s throat because I’m not an expert on that.”
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