‘The View’ Hosts Butt Heads on Defacement of Mona Lisa: ‘Asinine’ or Effective?
thewrap.coma video posted by a witness included audio of him saying “Think of planet Earth, there are people destroying it,” in French as he was escorted from the museum.For half of the “View” table, the stunt was way off the mark.“It’s asinine!” guest host Tara Setmayer exclaimed.
Though she laughed at the extreme circumstances, she added that people are talking more about the stunt itself, rather than the reasoning behind it.“We’re talking about that, as opposed to the cause,” she said. “So I think those kinds of stunts — like he wore a wig, and he dressed up as an elderly woman in a wheelchair to smuggle it in — we’re talking about that, as opposed to what the issue is that he’s actually protesting.
So I think that stunts like that don’t work at all.”Of course, hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar disagreed a bit.“I think they work.
I mean, we’re talking about it,” Hostin said with a laugh. Hostin pointed out that, because of the glass in front of it, the Mona Lisa can’t truly be destroyed, so it wasn’t at any real risk.
Read more on thewrap.com