‘The View’ Fans Despise Mary Katharine Ham: “Not Feeling This New Conservative Host!”

As the search to find Meghan McCain‘s replacement on The View continues into its second week, fans of the talk show have given one guest co-host the red flag. Conservative journalist Mary Katharine Ham took to the panel on the storied ABC daytime series today, sharing opinions about the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the national anthem that did not resonate with audiences. Viewers of the series were quick to shred Ham on social media, airing their grievances about her conservative ideology.

Former president George W. Bush was the first hot topic on today’s episode — the ladies discussed the shade he threw at Donald Trump in a speech where he equated this year’s insurrection to 9/11. While the entire panel of permanent co-hosts seemed to agree that he was in the right, they also noted his lackluster approach to roasting Trump. Ham, on the other hand, was a bit more angered by the fact that he’d compare the insurrection to 9/11.

“I also emphatically don’t think it’s equivalent to 9/11, and here’s the issue with comparing the two too much — just on loss of life alone,” Ham said. “What does it look like if your ‘terrorists’ are your fellow Americans and people who might believe differently from you? People get caught up in that prosecution of a war on domestic terror and use those tools against them. I have no interest in using them on right or left. I think it goes to dangerous places if we do.”

This statement angered folks watching The View, who called on Ham to acknowledge the riots as “domestic terrorism. “Another moron making excuses for Jan. 6,” one Twitter user wrote. “Stop having these idiots on!!! What is the point?”

And the discussion only got more tense with the next hot topic, which surrounded Bill Maher’s recent statements on the Black national anthem at NFL games. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg slammed Maher’s statements and denounced the racism in The Star-Spangled Banner, and after her three co-hosts united with her argument, Ham stuck her nose out as the sole contrarian.

“Let me speak up for the national anthem for a moment,” Ham opposed. “One of the reasons that we all had chills hearing it t in the days after 9/11 was not because it stood Francis Scott Key or the things that he thought, but because it stood for all of us. The flag stood for all of us in that moment, in those rare moments that we are unified.”

But folks were unimpressed by this argument, especially after Goldberg had already explained the controversy surrounding the mention of slavery in the third stanza of the anthem. “‘…we all had chills hearing the national anthem,'” one Twitter user quoted Ham. “We who? I’ve never…”

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