After per week of midterm election drama, the ladies of The View are definitely ready for the weekend. On Friday morning, Sunny Hostin became frustrated together with her co-hosts’ repeated interruptions and chided them for not allowing her to make her point about former First Lady Michelle Obama. “Can I finish?” she asked. “Can I chat on this show?”

Friday’s moment of tension got here during a bizarre discussion about people reversing cosmetic procedures that attempted to shoehorn in Michelle Obama’s admitted insecurities. The women largely ignored the cosmetic procedures angle in favor of discussing Obama, and so they agreed that by opening up about her insecurities, she’s reminding other women that they are not alone.

“When you concentrate on Michelle Obama, specifically, I feel she was some of the vilified first ladies in history,” said Hostin.

But before she could proceed, Joy Behar chimed in, saying, “No. Eleanor Roosevelt has that distinction.”

When Hostin insisted Obama “was vilified for her looks,” Behar — and Sara Haines, who backed her up — failed to know the subtext of her remark and doubled down. “Eleanor Roosevelt — her looks and her politics,” said Behar, as each Haines and Hostin continued to talk over her from elsewhere on the panel.

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“Can I finish?” asked Hostin, while Ana Navarro reminded their white co-hosts that there was “a racial component” to the criticism Obama received. “Can I chat? Can I chat on this show?”

“There was a racial component, which is why it makes it somewhat bit more insidious,” continued Hostin, before listing off a number of the racist, misogynist, and homophobic remarks made concerning the former first lady during Barack Obama’s time in office. “I do not know some other first lady that went through that. And I feel a variety of it, in fact, was racism.”

“And so once you’re faced with something like that, as a Princeton and Harvard-educated woman who’s worked on her brain, who’s worked on her skill set, and who’s beloved, I feel that takes successful in your self worth,” added Hostin. “Because who determines what ‘American beauty’ is? I’m so sick of this so-called ‘American beauty’ standard! She’s an attractive woman!”

Call it a Behar foot-in-mouth moment or simply an instance of her being dazed by her love of World War II history, but either way: Hostin is totally right on this scenario.

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Claire Spellberg Lustig is the Senior Editor at Primetimer and a scholar of The View. Follow her on Twitter at @c_spellberg.