{"id":2389942,"date":"2025-01-13T21:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hostin-slammed-after-calling-criticism-of-cas-wildfire-problems-racist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:52:44","slug":"hostin-slammed-after-calling-criticism-of-cas-wildfire-problems-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hostin-slammed-after-calling-criticism-of-cas-wildfire-problems-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostin slammed after calling criticism of CA&#8217;s wildfire problems &#8216;racist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhostin-slammed-after-calling-criticism-of-cas-wildfire-problems-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sunny Hostin,\u200c a co-host of *The View*, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-allowed-recently-covid-positive-rep-onto-house-floor-to-vote-for-her\/\" title=\"Report: Pelosi allowed recently COVID-positive rep. onto House floor to vote for her\">faced backlash<\/a> after criticizing remarks by Fox \u200bNews host Jesse Watters. Watters suggested that the mismanagement of the\u200c California\u2064 wildfires\u200d was a result\u2063 of\u200c &#8220;woke politics and DEI&#8221; (diversity, Equity, \u2062and Inclusion). Hostin expressed her \u2064disgust at the \u2062politicization\u200d of\u2062 the\u2064 emergency, aimed \u2064specifically at Watters&#8217; comments. She highlighted the \u200cinappropriateness\u200d of attributing the wildfires to political \u2064ideologies \u2062rather than\u200d addressing the \u2063immediate issues surrounding fire management. The situation has sparked\u200c a \u2063debate about \u2064the intersection\u2062 of politics and environmental crises.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Sunny Hostin slammed after calling criticism of California wildfire problems &lsquo;racist&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1933979\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>The View<\/em> co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sunny-hostin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sunny Hostin\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> slammed a fellow television host for commentary that blamed the mismanagement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Los Angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> wildfires on &ldquo;woke politics and DEI.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;In terms of politicizing this fire, that&rsquo;s what I have been most disgusted by,&rdquo; Hostin said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>She turned her criticism to Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jesse-watters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jesse Watters\">Jesse Watters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2753670&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=b85805c94f53ee971e84a20d07d097e5\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;This is what he said &hellip; he blamed L.A. fires on diversity. He blamed them on California&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">woke&#038;mdash<\/a>;&rdquo; Hostin said as one of her co-hosts interjected with a quip.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Maybe because one burn was burning bright and one was darker? Is that the kind of diversity he&rsquo;s talking about?&rdquo; Whoopi Goldberg joked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was unbelievable. I thought [his comments were] fake news,&rdquo; Hostin responded. &ldquo;He said that California&rsquo;s &lsquo;woke politics and DEI&rsquo; are the reasons for the fires because Newsom has been tearing down dams because [of] Native Americans &mdash; but called them &lsquo;Indians&rsquo; &hellip; wanting some of the river back so they can catch salmon.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is stolen land, first of all, OK? California is stolen land,&rdquo; Hostin said in reaction to Watters&rsquo;s comments. &ldquo;Second of all, that&rsquo;s part of what always happens. These dams &mdash; there&rsquo;s preservation of the dams. So that was just complete, not only misinformation, but it was racist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Watters addressed Hostin&rsquo;s criticism Monday night on his show.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2753678&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=faf2b7961504cf1cbb63e60615e631e6\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;DEI didn&rsquo;t cause the fire but it distracted the state from preparing to fight it,&rdquo; the Fox News host responded to Hostin.<\/p>\n<p>Watters went on to share the example of Janisse Qui&ntilde;ones, the CEO and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-little-known-story-of-an-irish-regiment-that-helped-turn-the-tides-of-the-american-civil-war\/\" title=\"The Little Known Story Of An Irish Regiment That Helped Turn The Tides Of\u00a0The American Civil War\">chief engineer<\/a> of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/autismcapital\/status\/1878230135671005592?s=46&amp;t=gRROFjbymmJxptiuuAQr6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"bragged in a recent interview\">bragged in a recent interview<\/a> about how &ldquo;social equity&rdquo; was her No. 1 priority in her job.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680; The LA Water Chief who is paid $750,000 a year: &ldquo;What attracted me most to the role was social equity. It&rsquo;s important for me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice and writing the wrongs that we&rsquo;ve done in the past.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmlLFsHuba\">pic.twitter.com\/FmlLFsHuba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Autism Capital &#129513; (@AutismCapital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AutismCapital\/status\/1878230135671005592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about priorities. The water chief was focused on DEI,&rdquo; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Watters continued to give examples of how the leadership&rsquo;s priorities were mismanaged on a local and state level and failed Los Angeles residents through wrong priorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1933979\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1933979\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny Hostin criticized a TV host for linking California wildfires to &#8220;woke politics and DEI,&#8221; calling the comments racist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2389943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sunny-Hostin.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4045,7375,14621,5243,23907],"class_list":["post-2389942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-california","tag-criticism","tag-hostin","tag-racism","tag-wildfires"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Sunny-Hostin.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389946,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389942\/revisions\/2389946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}