Wow. We’ve come a long way since Million Mom Marcher Rosie O’Donnell was using her daytime talk show to spout gun-hating propaganda day in and day out, expecting her mostly female audience to buy it hook, line, and sinker. On Tuesday’s edition of The View, three of the four hosts not only voiced support for gun rights, but actually told their female viewers to go out and buy one.
First up, Shepherd offered her “flipside” to the ad which featured a man assaulting her mother and child: “The flipside is when I was at my home and the alarm went off, and I ran to my son’s bedroom and Jeffrey was crying, and I realized all I had to protect me and somebody coming around that corner was a daggone wicker trash basket. And I said to myself and everybody said to me, ‘well get a bat.’ You got one chance to use a bat and if they take it away. ‘Get pepper spray.’ You know how close they got to get to you, if you use pepper spray? You got one of these? [makes a gesture like she’s holding a gun and makes a sound of cocking a gun] They’re not gonna come near you and your child! So when you’re standing there, and you don’t know how to protect your child? Get a gun in your home!”
Huddy then shared the time she was faced with a stalker: “And I remember feeling so vulnerable. And I just remember constantly going to sleep at night wishing that I could go over and grab my dad’s gun.” McCarthy had a similar experience to Shepherd as she revealed: “I’ve been in circumstances like Sherri where, you know people tried to break in and I’m with my son going, I wish I had something to protect myself with.”
Women’s media–everything from daytime talk to Glamour magazine–often has a thinly veiled liberal agenda. They’re not shy about pushing the Democratic Party platform with sappy, stereotypical “think of the children” appeals to women’s emotions.
But it looks like The View ladies didn’t get the memo that guns are scary and should therefore be banned. This is great. I became somewhat anti-Jenny McCarthy because of her anti-vaccine activism, but after seeing this, I think we can put our differences aside. In fact, I might have a new girl crush.