A while back, George W Bush confused APEC with OPEC, and Australia with Austria. He was still young and not senile.
More recently, the imbecile Pete Hegseth, then Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, was unable to name a single country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during his confirmation hearings. Hegseth may be forgiven because he's a born moron who is constantly drunk.
Donald Trump himself is rich in these expressions of his ignorance: He thought that Argentina is the name of the idiot-dictator of the country of Argentina (actual name is Javier Milei).
And the show goes on. Sara Haines below, like many Americans, does not deal with details. Like children who start speaking by recognizing categories of sounds rather than specific sounds (e.g. they will use "f" instead of "th" (both unvoiced fricatives), as in Anfony instead of Anthony, Americans lump together "generally similar" stuff into one category.
In the head of an American, Muslims are one giant clump of radical, backward, primitive women-haters who wear robes, towels with alternator belts on their heads, and ride camels. No distinctions are made for geography, culture, history....This is stereotyping at its best steming from illiteracy and ignorance. And Americans top the list of ignorant people around the world, with the danger that they own some of the deadliest weapons on earth. Remember the saying: It's better to have a smart enemy, than a dumb friend. That is why I keep warning all the asslickers of Donald Dumb that they have a dumb "friend" in the Donald and one day they'll live (nor not) to regret it.
For comparison, the Muslim equivalent of what Haines did below would be for a Muslim talk show host to "assume" and stereotype all white women (American or otherwise) are sluts because they are free to sleep around.
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“The View” cohost Sara Haines issues rare correction about her comments on the treatment of women and girls in Iran
The daytime talk show cohost said she "misspoke by conflating the theocratic rule of the Ayatollah in Iran with the Taliban's control of Afghanistan."
Sara Netzley
Fri, June 20, 2025
Jeff Lipsky/ABC Sara Haines for 'The View'
The View cohost Sara Haines hit social media to issue a rare correction and clarify remarks she made on Wednesday criticizing the freedoms afforded to women and girls in Iran.
Haines shared her statement in an Instagram story after a fiery discussion of the conflict between Israel and Iran between the hosts during Hot Topics, the opening segment of the ABC daytime program.
“Yesterday on the show, I spoke about the treatment of girls and women in Iran and misspoke by conflating the theocratic rule of the Ayatollah in Iran with the Taliban's control of Afghanistan,” she wrote. “To clarify: girls and women in Afghanistan are currently banned from attending school, while in Iran, women do have access to education and make up a significant portion of university students.”
On Wednesday's show, the bulk of the debate was between hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Griffin condemned Iran for its atrocities against its people, stating, “Let’s just remember too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings. They don’t adhere to basic human rights.”
Goldberg took issue with Griffin glossing over the United States’ own record of human rights abuses.
“Let’s not do that," she replied. "Because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car. I’m sorry, they used to just keep hanging Black people.”
Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farrah Griffin on 'The View'
Haines, who earlier had described Iran as “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” weighed in to suggest why the rest of the panel were more focused on the plight of women in Iran: The View hosts are also women.
“And they are not doing well there,” she said. “They are not doing well in Iran. They are not educated, they can’t own property.”
Although the conversation shifted before Haines could finish her remarks, she later returned to the subject, adding, “They can’t go out of their houses.”
After the episode aired, Haines used her Instagram account to correct some of the information she had shared.
“When referencing education, I was speaking specifically about access under authoritarian regimes — not the capabilities or achievements of Iranian women,” she wrote. “I want to be clear: I was not implying that women in Iran are uneducated or making any pejorative generalizations.”
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Haines concluded her statement by reiterating the concerns that drove her to make her remarks on the show: "I would not want to be a woman living under the current regimes in either Iran or Afghanistan. Despite their differences, both governments impose serious restrictions on women's rights and freedoms.”
Haines became a permanent host on The View in 2016 but left two years later to cohost GMA3, the third hour of ABC’s Good Morning America. GMA3 stopped production in 2020, after which Haines returned to The View.
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