AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Viewers rip View hosts for on-air clash over Lindsay Clancy case and calls to excuse child killings
Hosts of The View drew sharp backlash on social media after a heated on-air debate over whether Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose murder trial ended in a mistrial, deserves punishment for strangling her three children. Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Sunny Hostin devoted a Tuesday morning segment to the Clancy case, days after […] The post Viewers rip View hosts for on-air clash over Lindsay Clancy case and calls to excuse child killings appeared first on American Almanac .
Hosts of The View drew sharp backlash on social media after a heated on-air debate over whether Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose murder trial ended in a mistrial, deserves punishment for strangling her three children. Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Sunny Hostin devoted a Tuesday morning segment to the Clancy case, days after a six-week trial collapsed when a deadlocked jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. The segment split the panel between sympathy for Clancy and insistence on accountability, and it split their audience even more sharply, with viewers on both sides flooding the social media platform X to accuse the hosts of ignorance, excuse-making, or prejudging a woman who has not been convicted. The…Open