Dan Bongino, the host of the syndicated conservative talk radio show The Dan Bongino Show and Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News, went on the attack, calling Joy Behar a “dumb fraud” after she made shocking claims on daytime television.
During an episode of The View, the panel was discussing the January 6 Capitol riot and remarks made by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who expressed that he wasn’t as concerned about pro-Trump insurrectionists compared to potential radical leftist protesters like Antifa. “I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned,” Johnson said.
Joy Behar was clearly upset by Johnson’s comments and responded forcefully. “If I was surrounded by people carrying weapons, people erecting nooses, screaming ‘hang Mike Pence,’ bludgeoning a police officer to death, I might be a little scared,” Behar said. “But Ron? No, he’s not scared of those people, he’s scared of this fictitious idea of Antifa. A thing that doesn’t even exist.” Even when challenged that Antifa does exist, Behar stuck to her belief. “It’s an idea, it’s not a real thing,” she affirmed.
Dan Bongino, while on The Sean Hannity Show, took the opportunity to criticize Behar’s remarks. “You know fictitious entities don’t put people in body bags,” he began. “And that’s what happened in Oregon when a Patriot Prayer member was killed by a member of Antifa.”
“Joy Behar doesn’t know that. Joy Behar is frankly kinda dumb,” Bongino declared. “So, she probably doesn’t read the newspaper. But she may want to read that obituary of that man who was killed by the ‘fictitious entity’ who killed him, a known Antifa supporter. Joy Behar’s triple digits IQ is fictitious, not Antifa.”
Bongino then elaborated on his philosophy about conservative protest behavior. “This concept isn’t hard,” he said. “Conservatives have an emergency brake on their behavior. That emergency brake is ‘faith, family, and God-given rights.’ This may be a shocker to liberals but we don’t wanna take away your freedom of speech, and we certainly don’t want to attack you for it. Listen to me and listen to me clearly: radical leftists are obsessed with power and violence, and have no emergency brake on their behavior at all. They don’t give a damn about God-given rights.”
Sean Hannity then played a clip of Joy Behar lamenting the possibility that her home state of New York might elect a Republican governor. “I don’t want a Republican coming in there and turning over some of these policies,” Behar said. “And then exonerating or pardoning Trump who is going to be indicted.”
Dan Bongino was taken aback by Behar’s remarks. “Did you just hear what she said?” the radio host asked. “Is that even sane? Is this woman even of planet earth?” Bongino continued to criticize Behar and the radical left. “This is painful to watch,” he commented on Behar’s rant on The View. “These people have no principles. These are the same people, the same Democrats, who park their boats in Rhode Island to avoid paying taxes. These are the same people who swear government healthcare is a panacea and then argue to get Obamacare not applied to them while they’re in Congress. They’re nothing but frauds.”
Additionally, Bongino shared on his Facebook a resurfaced video that he says is very relevant regarding “radical leftists” protesters. “I want you to watch this and remember as you look around at the chaos in blue cities across the country: they WANTED chaos,” he wrote. “This is some of the most raw emotional TV I have ever seen.”
Bongino mentioned the emotional interview Sean Hannity conducted with Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr, whose 19-year-old son was tragically shot and killed inside Seattle’s CHOP zone in 2020. According to Fox News, “At one point in the interview, Hannity became emotional as Anderson described the daily trauma of waking up to the realization that his son is no longer alive.”
“I wake up in the morning … I look for my son in the morning,” Anderson tearfully explained. “He’s not there anymore. You know what I’m saying? It’s like I go in there, I’m kissing a picture. He’s not there. You’re taking away generations. You’re taking away our youth. You are taking away, my son never had a chance to have another child. My grandbaby would never be … that’s a generation taken from me.”
Anderson expressed his understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement during his interview but said, “But that’s not my movement right now. My movement is [to] let them know that was my son.” Despite his grief, Anderson told Hannity, “I am being a Christian now, in my heart” as he strives to guide his family through this difficult time. “Everything is in God’s hands now,” he said. “God’s going to take care of it, I feel like … God is going to take care of me and he is going to take care of my son.”
According to the Seattle Times, “Lorenzo Anderson was shot multiple times early June 20 [2020] near what was the boundary of the CHOP zone before it was cleared by police on July 1.” Fortunately, after being on the run for over a year, officials in Washington state arrested Marcel Long for the killing of Lorenzo Anderson, who was a special needs teenager. “A Black special needs teenager lost his life because of the negligent and incompetent actions and inactions of the city of Seattle, County of King, and the state of Washington,” the Anderson family attorney stated. “Lorenzo was let down in both life and death by these entities.”
