The View co-host Joy Behar on Tuesday chastised what she described as male members of her audience for not applauding professor and Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
Ford made headlines in 2018 when she spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school party she and Kavanaugh — then a Supreme Court nominee — attended. She alleged he cornered her in a bedroom, slammed her onto a bed and tried to take her away. his clothes, while putting his hand over his mouth.
She appeared on the left-leaning ABC talkfest Tuesday to promote her recently released memoir, “One Way Back.”
Behar asked Ford what percentage of the 10,000 letters of support she claimed to receive were from men, to which Ford replied about 10 percent, which angered Behar.
“What men need to understand, they need to step in to help us. We cannot do this ourselves. I notice, I look when people were clapping. Some men didn’t applaud in that audience,” Behar said, gesturing toward the audience.
The View co-host Joy Behar on Tuesday chastised what she described as male members of her audience for not applauding professor and Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
You could audibly hear someone say “wow” in response to Behar’s request on the show.
Ford discussed the memoir and was asked what she wanted readers to take away from it.
“I think people will hopefully be able to relate to a lot of different things in the book, like what it’s like to express yourself in any context, and what it’s like to face retaliation, but also that it is possible to survive, and it is more important that we all find a way to be courteous and respectful, to listen to each other and support each other,” she said .
According to St. Martin’s Press, the book will share “fascinating new details about the preparations” for his testimony in 2018; “her overwhelming consequences”, when she allegedly received death threats and was unable to live at home; and “how people unknown to her in the world restored her faith in humanity.”
Kavanaugh was controversially appointed as a Supreme Court justice in October 2018, following an intense and contentious nomination hearing that included several allegations of sexual misconduct.
The most vocal accuser, Blasey Ford, alleged that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party when they were teenagers.
His emotional testimony led even some Republicans to question whether Kavanaugh, nominated by President Donald Trump to replace outgoing Justice Anthony Kennedy, would have enough votes in a Senate where the Republican Party held only a 51-49 majority.
She told the panel that at a high school party, she remembered Kavanaugh holding her on a bed and forcibly groping her. Ford said she “believed” she was going to be raped and that Kavanaugh might “accidentally kill” her.
Ford made headlines in 2018 when she spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school party she and Kavanaugh — then a Supreme Court nominee — attended. She alleged he cornered her in a bedroom, slammed her onto a bed and tried to take her away. his clothes, while placing his hand over his mouth
She appeared on the left-leaning ABC talkfest Tuesday to promote her recently released memoir, “One Way Back.”
According to St. Martin’s Press, the book will share “fascinating new details about the preparations” for his 2018 testimony.
Kavanaugh was controversially appointed as a Supreme Court justice in October 2018, following an intense and contentious nomination hearing that included several allegations of sexual misconduct.
The current Supreme Court justice has repeatedly denied the allegations, simply insisting that the meeting never took place.
Despite media fervor and Senator Harris insisting that Ford and the American people “deserve better,” Kavanaugh was nominated to succeed Anthony Kennedy by a vote of 50 to 48.
“I never considered myself a survivor, whistleblower or activist before the events of 2018,” Ford said in a statement tied to the book’s release.
“But now what I and this book can offer is a call to all other people who may not have chosen these roles for themselves, but who choose to do what is right.”
“Sometimes you don’t speak up because you’re a natural troublemaker. You do it to cause a ripple that might one day become a wave.