Behar: Palin 'Wants to Be the Next Paris Hilton'; Reagan, Bush Were 'Mental Midgets'

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If you have been a regular viewer of CNN Headline News' "The Joy Behar Show," you've probably seen the nightly cheap shots at conservatives, usually in the form of jabs at Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.

But on Behar's Oct. 20 program, the HLN host used a panel discussion with liberal flamethrower/comedian Janeane Garofalo and S.E. Cupp, conservative author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right" to attack former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

"But [Palin's] favorability, popularity rates are going down," Behar said. "And is it possible her 15 minutes are up?"

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"No way, that's - no," Cupp replied. "She's been out of the spot a little bit, writing her book, and that needs to happen."

Behar suggested this was Palin's way, through writing her book, to get attention similar to the manner a Hollywood celebrity might.

"Maybe that's why she's doing this, to get herself back up," Behar said. "Maybe she wants to be the next Paris Hilton."

Cupp called Behar's tabloid characterization what it was and offered reasons for Palin's lower poll numbers.

"No I think that's a little cheap," Cupp replied. "But see, Mr. Romney's been out of the spotlight and his favorability is down a little, and Mike Huckabee's is up because he's on Fox all the time. I think that this sort of ebbs and flows. And once her book comes out, I think the ratings will go up again."

However, Behar made one of her most extraordinary comments about Palin, insulting her and former Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush.

"People call me, you know, people just call me and say, ‘Do you think she's actually going to have a shot at the presidency?' ... I say, ‘I lived through Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and I never thought those two mental midgets would ever become President, and they did."


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Oh Boy...

"Mental Migets"?  "Paris Hilton"?  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!  Except that Joy looks like something organic that sat
in the sun for about 2 months...

Joyless Ratings

Let's take a look at Joy's Ratings.  She is down from the 9PM re-air of Jane Velez Mitchell and of course trails Hannity.

Oh well.

Joy's going down on

Larry King, Sean Hannity and Rachel Madcow?

 Wow. 

Janeane Garofalo, terrorist

Janeane Garofalo, terrorist from Team America

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Quick!

Erase those innuendoes from my mind! Baseball! Baseball!!

Joy on the March

Let's be fair to Joy and giver Joy her due.

On Friday October 16, she did beat Larry King in the 18-54 demographic, but lost on total viewers.

Can't get enuff of dat Blohar

I find it almost beyond belief that she even averages 523,000 viewers. Are these the same drunks that are wildly applauding her in the View studio audience?

I'd like to see this tested by HLN by them broadcasting a test pattern for one night during her time slot. I betcha the numbers would be about the same.

gah!

isn't that her in the middle?

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The Emperor, he has no clothes

Close!

Bette Midler, who made an impressive debut as a political commentator on Joy's show the first week.

You do realize I am being sarcastic, right? 

Yea I remember that

That was right after her make-over,,,,,right?

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Expect the ratings to

Expect the ratings to further plummet.

Joy

I am shocked that she is using hate speech against short people, shouldnt she be locked up, or at least re-educated?

I am appalled, Behar is such a racist hater!

How can Joy call ANYONE

How can Joy call ANYONE a "mental midget" with a straight face?! 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

Easy: she doesn't know what

Easy: she doesn't know what it means. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Using the word "midget"

Using the word "midget" reveals her cultural insensitivity toward little people.  She should apologize for her bigotry.

BTW- If RWR & GWB are mental "midgets," to use her bigoted rhetoric, then she's a mental microbe.

Joy to the wurld

Joy, Joy, Joy, just to look at you, you seem to be trying to be the next Craig T. Nelson.

And don't forget, Garofalo isn't her name, it's an acronym that stands for

Go ahead, roll on floor and lick Olberman [or Obama, or O'Donnell, etc.] 

That acronym is awesome!

That acronym is awesome!

Mental Midgets?

Where does this botched abortion get off referring to Bush and Reagan as mental midgets? Does she actually think that we see her as having any moral authority to make such a stupid comment? Joy, I think you have more cohoneys than Obama!

General, sir!

Actually, Joy's mom called in and said she wants another crack at that botched abortion.

All those in favor of Joy killing herself, raise your hand! 

General-Joy-Show of hands

All three of my hands are in the air, waving vigorously.

Note:  No one is suggesting anyone harm Joy.  If, however, SHE were to decide to do so, then to coin a phrase---

"You go, bit--    um, er, girl."  Yeah, that's it.  You go, older girl."

Interestingly enough, the killing of oneself - suicide - is the only crime I know of, that when successful, cannot be prosecuted successfully.

MD

"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown)

       

Joy

who  was stupid enough to give this melee mouthed witch her own show, hopefully by christmas they will cancel it

CNN-HN

 "Behar suggested this was Palin's way, through writing her book, to get attention similar to the manner a Hollywood celebrity might."

 Well Joy, is your way of attempting to "stir up trouble" and create "controversy" by attacking conservatives?   Are you attempting to re-create Fox News sky-rocketing popularity for your obscure little program?

You madam, are a joke, keep up the good work insulting all conservatives, it is likely the only thing you know how to do.

"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt." Daniel Hannan

Ah, there's nothing like a

Ah, there's nothing like a sharp, well-educated political wit.

And Joy Behar is NOTHING like a sharp, well-educated political wit. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Hockey

ROFL!!!

Good one! Go Sharks! 

nothing like a

HK: 

You say po-tay-to,   I say po-tah-to.

You say "wit",  I say TWIT.

Cheers.

MD

"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown)

 

correction

And Joy Behar is like a sharp, well-educated political Twit. 

did this fix it?

 

There would be outrage...

You see, folks, this is the sort of bomb-throwing commentary that passes for liberal-wacko (I realize that is redundant) rationalization. Normally this would cause great outrage, considering Reagan just happens to be considered one of the country's greatest Presidents.

Of course, since no one is watching Joy, it sort of makes this like a tree falling in the forest with no one around.

"Hmmmm? Hear what? Where? No...didn't hear a thing" 

there they go again

Liberals have long been assembling a 'box' of accepted etiquette and we're all supposed to play along and stay inside the box.  They leave it at their leisure with impunity.

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The Emperor, he has no clothes

This is why nobody want to hear a word this turd has to say

All she ever does is insult conservatives or have guests that insult conservatives with not one ounce of intellectual debate. Nobody want to watch someone insulting people day in and day out. I bet even an ardent Behar fan has to think to themselves "okay we get it you hate Beck, Palin, Rush and every other conservative let's move on and talk about something else." 

And who cares if Palin's numbers are down

the last time I checked Sarah Palin is not running for any kind of office (She is a citizen now Behar remember!) and even if she were she still has 3 years and some change to turn those numbers around.

Man talk about grasping.

You'll be waiting...

HC, you will have a looooooooooooonnnnnnnnnng wait for "intellectual debate" from this show.

To have an intellectual debate, one must have two intellectual debaters.

S.E. Cupp is the first on that show, as far as I can tell.  Certainly, the host herself could NEVER be classified as "intellectual."

"Ineffectual" maybe.  "Intolerable" certainly. But, no...not intellectual. 

Certainly, the host

Certainly, the host herself could NEVER be classified as "intellectual."

Behar's a Yenta-lectual.

Hey seniors! Ready for Terri Schaivo healthcare? Perfected in the UK. Exported the US. To die for. 

Yeah I know B-town...

but even a square peg like Behar should know that what caused her peers shows (Olbermann, Maddow, Mathews) to fail epically in ratings and like the good little lemming is jumping off the cliff with them. Whatever I will just listen for the "thud" when her show complete its slow motion crash. 

Joy's an intellectual

Joy's an intellectual master-debater. Or something like that.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Beating a dead horse lowers

Beating a dead horse lowers ratings and creates tender dog food. That's about it.

Mental Midgets

Talk about mental midgets. On what planet is this overprocessed redhead funny? She is one of those whose mother thought she was "just hysterical" princesses. Newsflash Ms. Behar, mother lied to spare your feelings. You are a joke on the same level with Jeanne Garofolo. Who cares what an underachiever comedienne has to say about policy? Stick to whatever it is you do. No one cares what your politics are, we already know you are a socialist bordering on Marxist in the same tent with the Marxist in Chief, um, um, um, Barack Hussein Obama.  

It's all relative.  If

It's all relative.  If Bush and Reagan were "mental midgets", what does that make Clinton, Carter and Obama?  Mental lice?  It's a bit rich for someone of Joy Blowhard's very limited intelligence to be commenting on Paris Hilton's intelligence, forget the likes of Reagan and Bush who could buy and sell that brassy, loud, obnoxious, ghastly, hideous yenta.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

The Bamster is the Midget

Our Halfrican-in-Chief is the mental midget. We have ZERO evidence that he possesses above-average intelligence. No SATS, no LSAT, no bar exam results, no transcripts from Harvard, Columbia, Occidental, or his touchy-feely liberal high school, no articles or essays. Nothing but a handful of Affirmative Action degrees from liberal institutions. And on top off all that, more evidence that his book is a fraud:

'Dreams' Authorship Questions Mounting: http://www.americanthinker.com

"Thomas Lipscomb, the founder of Times Books -- publisher of Dreams from my Father, has particular credibility when it comes to examining the dispute over the book's authorship. In an important and thorough examination of the evidence to date on Pajamas Media, he concludes: "The case is still open on Ayers and any responsible news organization should press on.""

 

Meme pushed constantly by the left: Conservatives are "stupid"

Never-ending variations of the playground taunt "You're just stupid" are constantly spewing forth from the mouths the lefties.

I'd love to see someone do a *scientific* study to determine the average IQ of Obama supporters versus supporters of McCain, Bush, Reagan etc.  Wouldn't surprise me if there was a 15 point gap or greater in favor of the big, bad conservatives.

I wonder

how she gets all her nose hair to come out one nostril like that?

I guess when you're in the ratings gutter, you have to resort to trash talk. She'll eventually go the route of o'donnell and barr.

 

Nose hairs? Those are

Nose hairs? Those are tentacles.

Irrelevant

Seen the numbers? Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is watching that show. HLN should just give up and go to 24 hour missing women and children; like Maury did when he went all paternity tests. You have got to know your role. At least that would present more compelling and useful content.

Paternity Tests

I recently spent a day in a hospital waiting room, which of course, had only Maury, the Judges, more Maury.  That is the sum total of the viewership of these shows, Behar's included.

Captive audiences in hospital waiting rooms. It was pathetic.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Change the channel

You could have asked them to change the channel.

I do that every time I see CNN on a monitor. About the only place I don't think a request would be honored is the Atlanta airport.

How is CNN doing financially? Hmm. Gotta check on that.

They're doing so great that

They're doing so great that Ted 'The Cannibal' Turner is making noises about coming back and taking over.

Checked Hoovers

Checked Hoovers and here's what I saw for revenues:

2004 $881

2005 $751

2008 $251

I think Ted is looking to buy at the bottom. He's smart enough to know that he can change the bias to conservative and make a lot of money. Despite their poor choices in politics Ted and the other rich liberals know how to make money and they know how to shelter it from the taxman.

Check this out from ThinkProgress

How's this for a laugh! June 29, 2008

Fox News losing its lead over rival cable networks.

Fox News “has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.” The New York Times reports:

CNN has added 170,000 viewers a night, on average, when compared with the last presidential year, while Fox has shed about 90,000, according to Nielsen. (MSNBC, which added 181,000 viewers in that audience, much of it courtesy of gains by “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” still lagged in third place, with 303,000.)

A Fox News spokeswoman, Dana Klinghoffer, refused “several requests” for comment about the channel’s ratings and strategy.

Update Steve Benen writes, "[A]s the conservative movement falls apart, and the country is ready to move away from the Bush/Republican status quo, Fox News’ schtick has grown pretty tiresome."

Lagging??? What a load!

MSNBC still "lags" behind Fox? Har!..since when is 5 to 1 considered lagging?

Excuse me, but I must now go outside with my bucket as it is once again raining fish here. 

"Behar"

My late father told me this as I was growing up:

Some Day Son, you will meet people that will just make you shake your head in disbelief. They will be incapable of contributing anything to your life or others.

When you meet them, wish them well and be thankful that you can offer something to others.

Little did I know that some of them would get TV shows.

Spew alert

When I first read the headline I spewed my Diet Pepsi on the keyboard. Her calling Reagan and Bush mental midgets was funny. Funniest thing I have heard all day.   

Semper suprene nitens

OBAMACARE: If it ain't good enough for my Congressman then it ain't good enough for me.  

 

Wiki wiki wiki

Wiki, often unreliable (see, e.g., Racist Rush quotes), can provide basic facts, such as:

Joy is not Jewish; she was raised Catholic and, of course, bashes 'em.

She has a BA in sociology and an MA in English.

She finished fourth one year in Celebrity Poker ????

She wrote a children's book titled Sheetzucacapoopoo (real class) 

 An MA in English? That

An MA in English? That was twelve years of her life wasted (and not to imply that the rest of her life hasn't been a waste of time, but if the shoe fits...).

OBAMA = One Big Ass Mistake, America!

Wasted time;

wasted time; wasted breath.

Joy Barharhar is a total waste of perfectly good oxygen (and to heck with the environmental whacko's).

Does anyone know why she got canned as a teacher?   I've heard varying stories, but would like to finally close the book on her.

And I think her mom should check up on that new fangled RetroActiveAbortionKit.  I think it's made by S&W. 

The Real Midget

Speaking of mental midgets, Joy Behar takes the prize.  If ever there was an airhead, it's Joy.

Who Calls Her?

Who are these so called people that just call her and say things about Palin? Is she listed in the phonebook? Can anyone call Joy and spout off at the mouth? I guess Whoopie calls her to get advice on what new controversial statement she should make next. 

 

 

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of the change in the air, however slight. Lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

WHAT A DOLT. If anyone,

WHAT A DOLT.

If anyone, and I mean anyone, that could claim to be a Mental Midget it would be Ms. Look-at-me-I'm-stupid Joy Behar!

Act Of Racist Aggression By Obama’s AG

 

 

 

http://iamnotaracist.wordpress.com/  

This is a joke right?

Behar the least logical and intelligent member of the boob tube morons said this?   Hell compared to her Maher and Beck is absolute rocket scientist.  It should be illegal for someone this stupid to even say the names Reagan, Bush or Palin.  Mental midget is an accurate description of this woman. She thinks that Larry King, Gene Garolalo, Keith Obermann and Rachel Madcow are sage and wise advisors when in fact they are only slightly less of a joke than she is.

 

 

This is why I haven't

This is why I haven't watched CNN in well over ten years. Or Headline News, or any of the other Lib news shows. I only wach FoxNews. And I'm buying copies of Palin's book for myself and family members.

Joy Behar = can't understand

Joy Behar = can't understand normal thinking.

no joy behar

This pitiful excuse for a woman has no credibility in calling anyone, including three dedicated, responsible former Presidents mental midgets.  The only way I could agree with behar is if she had called jimmy carter a mental midget, but since she is one herself, she is incapable of recognizing a mental midget from men who did their upmost to protect our nation from terrorists.  The achievements of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush far exceed anything joy behar could even day dream about, either for herself or her dimwitted pal, barack hussein obama, aka "The Messiah."

Strange "bedfellows"???

Since Palin is going on Obambi's girlfriends show in November, how about Sarah go on Joy (what a miserable bitch, and her name is Joy, there is something wicked bleeped up there) Behar's show and school this never run nothing but her liberal pie hole?

I guess they think if they keep showing Garafalo, they might be able to hook her up with the 13 year old boy on the other network (Tingle legs and Bathtub boy will probably get "all worked up" just watching these two..............).

Chrissy, the funny tingle up your leg is actually Keith, but I hear he has a "ahem", problem delivering the goods so you may have to take matters into your "own hands".   

 

I LOVE S E Cupp and she just went down a peg going on this show, but I still LOVE her.  

 

A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.

That would make you...

If Reagan and Bush were mental midgets, that would make Behar a mental microbe.

As far as Sarah Palin is concerned, she has two things that Paris Hilton will never have, real beauty and brains, oh did I also say that when compared to Palin, Behar looks like a shit pot.

Tom - great comments

Behar looks like a shit pot compared to even Helen Thomas!!!

Oh yeah one more thing, Regan was the "mental midget" that kicked the Soviets ASS!!!

Intellectual Void

It speaks volumes of CNN that they would pick the least intellectual of the four hosts on The View to host her own program, and that group wasn't particularly high on the IQ scale to begin with.

Behar is as intellectual as Sponge Bob, and less funny. 

 

Behar

1uncle:  Behar needs a new writer. They scraped the bottom  to get her a show. Elizabeth is not only prettier but obviously smarter. That snakey- faced guy must be writing her lines.

Behar and truth...big dissconnect!

Note to Joy...Bush had an equivalent or higher undergrad GPA than either "genius" Gore or the other 'genius', Kerry. Bush went on to get an MBA from Harvard and was a USAF(R) jet fighter pilot. All of these require brains...and a fair dollop of guts as to flying a jet fighter. Oh, I am sorry, I was discussing facts, a losing proposition with someone like Behar who is so deep into denial (don't even ((k))now I am lying) and cognitive dissonance that reality never enters her world.

Ronald John Lofaro, PhD

Joy Behar

Joy Behar is like Glen Beck - when Glen was a 12 year old.

She is CNN's answer to Keith Olbermann.

No, Beck was smarter as a

No, Beck was smarter as a 12-year-old than Behar is now.

 

And there IS no answer to Olbermann. If Behar IS the answer to Olbermann then someone asked a crappy question.

Don't hold your breath

for Gibbs or Axelrod to tell us . . . that CNN is not really a news station. 

It is an opinion program masquerading as a news station.

I believe it is unarguable

I believe it is unarguable that Behar isn't exactly a Rhodes Scholar. Frankly Reagan and Bush both are quite a bit more intelligent than Behar. Perhaps she's jealous.

Behar and Garofalo together? Yikes!

I think I would rather suffer through the misery of having a flaming bag of dog sh*t stuffed with an M-80 put on my front porch on Halloween, than to watch the hideous flapping of their over-siliconized lips.

If only they could get Maher to join them. A true trifecta of stupidity and fugliness. I have a feeling that having all three on the stage together would have the same result as say if one were to burp, sneeze , and fart at the same time...instant death. Now that would be good TV.

These menopausal harpies only attack people they fear. No attacks on Snowe, Graham, or the rest of the RINOs.  If either of these a**wipes had a fraction of Reagan's, Bush's, or Palin's intelligence, they might actually be effective. As it is, they have become caricatures of the left.

BEHAR's...

comments managed to offend Sarah Palin, The Bush's, Ronald Reagan, supporters of above named, and little people.

Liberal elites sure can be nasty b*stards.

The bigger picture

I think everyone is missing the point. The real issue here is not the anemic attempt at flame throwing by the post menopausal, human tampon Joy Behar, it’s the fact that CNN proverbial Chuck Wagon’s wheels are coming off. If Joy Behar is the best that the could come up with in that time slot, they are in BIG trouble

Say, Joy, I've never heard

Say, Joy, I've never heard you say anything as remotely close to the caliber of this mental midget:

“The explicit promise in the Declaration that we’re endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights was meant for all of us. It wasn’t meant to be limited or perverted by special privilege or by double standards that favor one group over another. It is a principle for eternity, America’s deepest treasure. Father Hesburgh reminded us, our rights are ‘corollaries of the great proposition, at the heart of Western civilization, that every person is a res sacra, a sacred reality, and as such is entitled to the opportunity of fulfilling those great human potentials with which God has endowed man’…This must be an agenda that opens the gates of freedom so all people can go as far as their God-given talents will take them. For every legal and economic action we consider, I ask: Will this serve to liberate and empower the individual; will it encourage us to reach for the stars, or will it weaken us and drag us down into submission and dependence?” (Ronald Reagan, American Bar Association address, Atlanta, 1 August 1983)

 

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

Old cow.....

It's obvious that this old bag of wind... does not understand that there is a whole big world outside of NYC.  (or wherever the hell she presides)

The absurdity of all these "commentators"...only goes to show, how many people in this country, are truly shit stupid.

 

The American sheeple will

The American sheeple will hopefully see that only the likes of Sarah Palin will run the Leftist cockroaches like Behar back into the woodwork.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

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