Sonny Hostin's cannibal revelation spikes with 10-day suspension (TV brewing)

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The news background for this incident
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cele...48905.html
EXCERPTS: Hostin shocked her co-hosts on ABC's The View Tuesday with her on-air confession that she was the holdout juror who dug in for an insanity verdict in the trial of Daniel Rakowitz, 35 years ago...

"[...] I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don't know if people remember it, The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park," she said.

"The guy who ate the victims?" co-host Joy Behar gasped.

"Yes!" Hostin confirmed. [...] That was me," she boasted.

[...] Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reacted: "And you got this guy off?!"

[...] As her co-hosts squirmed awkwardly, she continued: "All that being said it was so clear to me in the jury room. We were sequestered for 9 days , one juror threw a chair at me, they were so angry with me but one by one I picked them off and said 'what about this' 'what about that' and we, all 12, unanimously voted that he was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity."

[..] The bragging irked conservatives online immediately and contemporaneous reporting soon emerged that initially appeared to blow Hostin's story apart. A New York Daily News article from 1991 identified the holdout as an "unemployed man," not Hostin — prompting online accusations that she had simply rewritten her role in the case decades later.

But then another newspaper clipping emerged which kept Hostin's basic claim alive. A Newsday account from the same day, unearthed by Newsbusters, reported there were actually two holdouts.

But the full account presents a different problem – what Hostin herself told reporters in 1991 bears little resemblance to the story she told on The View this week.
MIKE ZEROH
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: All of the co-hosts of The View are very much frustrated with Sunny Hostin for essentially creating all this negativity for The View in 2026. What Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro did is just typical Disney trying to save its image. We all know that it's a big joke because the suspension is nothing more than a 10-day vacation.

Now, the main reason why Josh made this call that was a unanimous decision between the Disney board members is that there was just too much antagonism that Sunny was bringing onto the set days after she made that horrifying comment. It turns out that the suspension had more to do with the fact that she was arguing with her co-hosts Joy, Whoopi, Alyssa, Anna, and Sarah backstage multiple times during the tapings and was creating adverse environments.

That was the deal breaker for Josh D'Amaro to do something. And already many known viewers and critics are labeling this as a poor form of punishment that won't really teach Sunny Hostin any level of discipline at all in the long run.

And this has been done before many times by Josh. It was also done many times by Bob Iger. And I've said this once, but I'll say it again. These suspensions are a complete joke. They're absolutely pathetic. It is nothing more than a CEO propping up this facade that they are taking some level of responsibility or showing some level of accountability. And it's just not working at all.

[...] And now Sunny Hostin is playing the race card. Now she's playing the victim card. She's saying that what Josh D'Amaro did is racist, discriminatory, and fascist. Stuff like that.

Josh D'Amaro is reportedly upset with Sunny Hostin behind the scenes for making such a delicate and damaging comment off-script for the show that turned off not just the co-hosts but also the live audience in the studio and viewers at home.

And already the View is dealing with serious consequences due to its ratings being in sharp decline. More on that later, by the way.

In addition to being a racist move and discrimination, Sunny Hostin says they are denying her free speech. Yet this is nothing more than just Disney trying to protect its bottom line. [...] ABC and the Walt Disney Company have actually allowed these hosts to spew garbage on an almost daily basis for the past several years. That's not going to stop. Sunny is not going to be removed. The ten-day suspension is merely a slap on the wrist for show...

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I'm not sufficiently engaged with the story to find out whether Josh had the dead people delivered (Amazon Prime?) or whether he killed them himself. Either way we're looking at meat and making a cost comparison between (for example) a mass-produced bird from a high-efficiency facility which has been killed by someone else.. and the stiff in the fridge. Any good Republican is going to say "Meat is meat - eat the stiff." .. so not insane (just Republican). Panty-waisters are going to babble on about killing being wrong - which is insane - but probably safe to accept an invitation to join them for a meal.
As a .. well something..the browser kindly pasted in "a mass-produced bird from a high-efficiency facility" so maybe I should go with that..
A cultural reference I am familiar with .. but others may not be ..
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