Judge Judy fires back at critics over America remarks: Its gonna take a lot more to shut me up
EXCLUSIVE - Judge Judy responded to the furor caused by her love-it-or-leave-it remarks about America last month, explaining that she wasn’t calling America "perfect," but that the country is based on certain principles she is compelled to defend."I have a house, and I have a home.I consider America my home," Sheindlin told USA Today in the now-viral interview exchange.
"America has been good to me.I think that it’s the greatest country in the world.""If you don’t like this country, go somewhere else," she continued.
"Don’t come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, ‘I want to change it.’ There are other countries that are the something else that you want.Go there.
Go there.But don’t come into my home and say, ‘I want to change it.’"JUDGE JUDY SAYS THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE AMERICA SHOULD 'GO SOMEWHERE ELSE'ABC's "The View" dedicated a whole segment to Sheindlin’s take.
While Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin came to her defense, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro expressed disappointment with the judge’s words.Hostin even said she detected "selfishness" in her comments, arguing that they focused too much on individual success.
She suggested that patriotism means fighting to make your country better for everyone.Judge Judy Sheindlin is interviewed on the set of "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Oct.4, 2016.
(Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)"I take umbrage with what she said, and I don’t like it at all," Navarro also said of Judge Judy’s remark, adding that it’s because she loves America that she feels she has "the duty and responsibility to call out the grift and the cruelty and the racism and the abuses of power and the anti-American actions that [Trump] is taking on."Sheindlin said she didn’t understand Hostin’s response."If you listen to what I said, I was saying my country is America," she told Fox Digital."Every American should feel that way.
And America is my home.Every...