The View's Behar Defends Hilary Rosen's Attack on Ann Romney
On Thursday’s episode of The View Joy Behar did what she does best: defend the indefensible. The ladies of the show were responding to comments made by Democratic donor and PR guru Hilary Rosen, who on CNN Wednesday said regarding Ann Romney, “His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kind of economic issues that a majority of women in this country are facing.”
The ultra-liberal Behar couldn’t resist the opportunity to attack Mrs. Romney by saying that, “whenever the wife of a politician, very few of them actually work for a living. And she’s talking about economic issues -- she's not the one who's putting bread on the table as millions of women are doing.” [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Behar's defense of Rosen was met with strong criticism from her fellow panelists, including liberals Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.
Conservative-leaning Elisabeth Hasselbeck was the strongest voice in striking down Behar and Rosen’s insulting comments saying that, "Women work in partnership with their partners. And I think it's terrible that a DNC insider, a liberal insider... gets out there and marginalizes and discriminates against any woman whether she’s home or working or has kids.”
Even as fellow liberals the Obama campaign itself has publicly disagreed with Rosen's attack, Behar refuses to show civility or budge from her partisanship long enough to offer a kind word for Ann Romney.
As we've repeatedly noted, Behar has shown a penchant for being the most strident, most shrill anti-conservative voice on The View this campaign season where she has viciously attacked conservative women such as Sarah Palin and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
You can read the relevant transcript below.
ABC THE VIEW
April 12, 2012
11:03 a.m.
WHOOPI GOLDEBERG: So, on a completely different note, after Mitt Romney said his wife Ann tells him about economic issues women face today, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen is under fire for responding with this, and I quote. His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kind of economic issues that a majority of women in this country are facing.
JOY BEHAR: Yeah, it’s true. I mean, you know, you can say it was sort of a mishandled sort of quote. But whenever the wife of a politician, very few of them actually work for a living. And she’s talking about economic issues -- and she's not the one who's putting bread on the table as millions of women are doing.
ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: Hang on hang on. Women work in partnership with their partners. And I think it's terrible that a DNC insider, a liberal insider, hang on, gets out there
GOLDBERG: Just call her a strategist.
HASSELBECK: And marginalizes and discriminates against any woman whether she’s home or working or has kids.
BEHAR: She’s not marginalizing. She’s talking about a specific thing. She's talking about earning money
HASSELBECK: She's talking about any woman who is home who may be home with their kids.
GOLDBERG: I’m sorry, I just feel like -- and I'll tell you why I don't like what she said, because women who stay home and raise their children are working.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: They work.
GOLDBERG: This is something that we have had to deal with for years, trying to explain to men about what raising children is like. So, for me, I just thought it was -- she spoke before she thought.
SHEPHERD: And even if she thought --
BARBARA WALTERS: Also, you know, there was a time with the women's movement, when if you didn't have a job you know, if you stayed home and you said I'm a housewife or I raised my children, you had to get any kind of a job, we have gotten to the point I hope where there is a choice. What Mrs. Romney said was, I made a choice. To stay home and raise five boys. And believe me, it was hard work. So I mean...
BEHAR: . But it wasn’t about economic-- it wasn't economic work, it wasn't that she had to go out and fry doughnuts at Wendy's.
HASSELBECK: How was her husband supposed to be gone if she wasn't there? Let me tell you something...let me finish.
BEHAR: No let me finish. It’s nothing wrong with staying home with a child. I did it myself for three years when my child was born.
HASSELBECK: Who handled the bills? Who saw the money coming in? Who went to the grocery store and knew how much milk was costing when the husband was at work?
BEHAR: We had no money so that’s not even an issue. In all seriousness, she's talking about earning money, that's all she's talking about.
Hasselbeck: No, she's not.
BEHAR: And she's talking about women out there who are not rich like the Romney’s .
GOLDBERG: This young woman made a misstep. I don’t...I think if she had thought about what she meant to say, this would not have been the way she said it. I think the way she said it was really wrong. And that’s why everybody is You know, I think --
SHEPHERD: And I think that even she would have been in trouble, cuz it's almost like that subject of, you know, do you breast-feed or don't you breast-feed? Whenever you say you don't know what it's like as a stay-at-home mom and what we're going through you always will get in trouble. I'm not quite sure how she could have phrased it to stay out of --
BEHAR: The problem Sherri is when she said she never worked a day in her life, there was something snotty about that.
GOLDBERG: That is the issue and it's wrong.
BEHAR: But I understand what she meant.
WALTERS: But Romney has from the very beginning in a sense said don't hate me because I'm rich, you know how we all hate those women who say, don't hate me because I'm beautiful? What he has said, and I don’t want to quote, what he has said, you know one of the good things is that I am able to make money and I can tell you how to make money. When we have had both Bush’s, the wives stayed home. Reagan, Nancy Reagan, stayed home. This is a woman who knows what the problems are with raising children. What the problems are with trying to keep a marriage that's balanced. There are other things.
SHEPHERD: But does she know what the problems are if I don't have health insurance for my kids?
WALTERS: She doesn’t have to.
GOLDBERG: But that's -- but what she says is, you know, there are some problems I didn't have, but there are other problems that I did have to face.
HASSELBECK: Is it fair she has MS? Is it fair she had breast cancer?
BEHAR: That’s irrelevant to this point.
GOLDBERG: Well, the issue is, I think, and you know, this is just me, I think she could have phrased what she had to say in a completely different way.
HASSELBECK: She won’t do that Whoopi. She’s unapologetic. She’s gone on. Cuz I give you credit for being so far right now.
GOLDBERG: But I’m just telling you where I'm at. I just think she's...I just...whatever.
WALTERS: Thank goodness, I hope we have gotten to the point in this country, it has taken many years where women can choose. If you can afford to stay home with your kids --
BEHAR: if you can afford it.
WALTERS: Otherwise, you have to pay for nannies.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:01pm.
I want to have sex with all five of these women--at the same time.
Unreal
Submitted by jimk319 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:04pm.
I think I'll go home and tell my stay-home wife (with our two kids) that she doesn't work.
Then I think I'll tend to my black eye.
A black eye?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:16pm.
That's getting off lightly.
I wonder how Behar would feel if she was told she doesn't work because she just sits around talking.
Yes. Please do that and report back.
Submitted by Lipton on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:51pm.
I am am a working mom, but I admire SAHMs. I can't imagine how hard it must be.
The black eye would be well deserved :).
Joy is such a trooper,
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:05pm.
Joy is such a trooper, blindly following the DNC marching orders...
Maybe the DNC will order her to finally get that frontal lobotomy?
hmmm
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:05pm.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...
Shepherd says...
Submitted by NOLAgirl on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:11pm.
SHEPHERD: But does she know what the problems are if I don't have health insurance for my kids?
Every state has a safety net for uninsured children. Every single one of them....
Blohar coins a new term: it wasn't "economic work"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:13pm.
I still don't know why the musings of this absolute moron make headlines here.
Cuz Wendy's frying their own donuts is ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:06pm.
really big news.
Inaccurate news; but then, Behar is a lib.
MD
Is this anything similar to Whoopi's famous...
Submitted by KyWriter on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:27pm.
... comment about "rape" rape?
Behar is as clueless about this imbroglio as Rosen herself.
Submitted by KyWriter on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:19pm.
She is handsomely feeding the fire that Rosen started and has flamed out of control. This is the same fire that has effectively toasted Obama's central strategy of creating a fake Republican "war on women." Keep it up, Joy; even your liberal creeps, er peeps, know better than to mouth off on this. Geez, you are profoundly, titanically stupid.
Galactically stupid
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:35pm.
....thy name is Joy Behar.
I loathe this loudmouth.
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The producers are probably worried
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:31pm.
I would imagine a good demographic of The View's audience are stay at home mom's. I wonder how that is going over, that a mother of five doesn't work.
If Ann Romeny is a Mormon then I assume she went on her two year missionary trip. If she did, she learned more about poverty and need than the idiot Joy ever will know.
edit
I'm listening to Andrew Wilkow. SAHM are calling in and they are angry. Behar will apologize or "clarify" tomorrow.
Side note
Submitted by Shreve on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 4:56pm.
As a side note on Mrs. Romney serving a mission.
Her wikipedia entry shows her as marrying Mr. Romney at 20. LDS women don't serve a mission until they're age 21+. LDS men, however serve theirs 19+.
But I still think she knows what poverty is like.
Something in common
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:23pm.
Joy Behar and Hilary Rosen have one thing in common: they are both disgusting pigs. That Behar would defend Rosen should come as no surprise. Rush just described these liberals as rude, crude, and nasty, which hits the nail right on the head. They don't know anything but being rude and vulgar. It's a fact that liberals have more venom for their fellow Americans than the enemies of our country, especially muslims, who they wouldn't dare vilify the way they treat Christians.
Talk about your "War on Women!"
Submitted by pockets64 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:29pm.
And here after all of these years of having it beaten into me that what women do, be it at the office or at home with the brats, is real work. In fact, men have been invited to try staying at home and doing the house-husband role if we think it so easy.
Wasn't it liberal Hollywood that put out the movie "Mr Mom" to show just how hard it is for a man to take on the domestic roll?
Stay-at-home mothers don't deal with economics????
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:31pm.
She’s never really dealt with the economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing—in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and how do—why we worry about their future."
I was a stay-at-home mom for years. I was also the family's CFO. Who do you think worried about the money and where it went, and how to stretch it and how to save???
Apparently Rosen thinks only women in the workplace worry about feeding their kids, sending them to school and worry about their future. She tweeted back (paraphrasing) that she was talking about Romney not having to care for her kids AND earn a paycheck like MOST American women do.
How many of those women are doing so by choice, Hilary???
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one out of every three American children is born to a single mother.
But those are the only women who count to Rosen, as she explained on some morning show that she's talking about the "waitress in Nevada with a couple of kids" (No mention of a husband)....as far as Rosen is concerned, only single mothers are real women.
And it is increasingly a CHOICE, Hilary. Women are "choosing" to have kids on their own; whose fault is that?
Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wellesley College (Mass.) and author of the book, “Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family,” says the disappearing stigma of being a single mother is another reason.
“I think marriage has become this more idealized version and people aren’t as willing to settle for what they might have in the past,” she said.
Women between the ages of 30 and 40 years old are choosing to be single mothers more and more, Hertz said. For these women, the reasons for entering a single motherhood could be attributed to the idea that they don’t need a man to have a family.
These feminists really need to get a grip. They claim "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" but they sure want everyone else to step up and take the place of that man they don't want in their lives!!
It is the limited mind and
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:43pm.
It is the limited mind and confused thought patterns of a feminist.
They want what they want and want someone else to deal with any problems, perferably the government.
Yep.....
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:43pm.
....only from the wallet standpoint.
Single motherhood is destroying this country.
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~Good piece on it
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:48pm.
in the American Spectator.
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/12/the-coming-cultural-disintegra
Thanks for the article
Submitted by GW on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 4:30pm.
It makes me want to buy the book.
Here's an oldie but goodie:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/dan-quayle-was-right...
~Sad stuff
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:30pm.
..especially the part about all the divorce propaganda aimed at children. A few years ago I was at the library with my little girls and glanced at the back of a book my 3 year old had picked up..and realized it was about divorce. A cute little picture book with bunnies, all about a little girl who has two homes now. >.<
We were at the checkout desk and I handed that to the librarian and asked him to re-shelve it. He looked at the book, looked at my pregnant self, grinned and said, "We don't need that, now do we?" and put it on the shelf behind him.
Children need a mom AND a dad
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 4:00pm.
emotionally too. Girls without dads fall into single motherhood at a greater rate than girls with dad's. All kinds of nasty stats about girls without dads.
Boys are also affected. I noticed my 20 year old nephew on Easter following my husband around like a puppy. It was "Uncle Tim this" and "Uncle Tim that". I've noticed he does that with his other uncles. His mother divorced his dad because his dad was a cheating louse, she did the right thing. But even if women need a man like a fish needs a bicycle (which I disagree with), children need two parents.
Now that we're talking about job experience...
Submitted by OxyCon on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:36pm.
Can someone tell me Obama's (lack of) job experience? As far as I can tell, Obama has never held a 9-5, 5 day a week job in his life. Hard working Americans who are struggling to keep their heads above water cannot relate to Obama's sparse resume.
And 3 plus years later he
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:53pm.
And 3 plus years later he still isn't. Take a look at his schedule, it's a joke.
I just heard Rosen is
Submitted by ant on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:38pm.
I just heard Rosen is represented by the same PR firm headed by Mao-loving Anita Dunn that represents Sandra Fluke..Wow...Democrats really bring new meaning to the term 'campaign'. It's like an orchestrated war.
This is no surprise she is
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:40pm.
This is no surprise she is part of the "Crazy Debbie" cult of Obama Zombies. She and Hillery have the same limited IQ, the same lack of political knowledge, the same talking points and it looks like the same hair stylist and enjoy a nice after dinner Kool-aid.
Has this women ever said anything intelligent? I did not think sooo.........
“America will never be destroyed from the outside, If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves,” Abraham Lincoln
The View
Submitted by driguana on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:55pm.
For the life of me, I can't imagine how anyone could watch this program. The few times I have tried, it seems like all of the women are so unhappy with life....especially Goldberg, who I actually used to like as an actress and Behar, who is apparenlty the programs unhappiest.
Who watches the View?
Submitted by Lipton on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:52pm.
I would imagine there would be some SAHMs watching that show. Seems sort of dumb to diss them, but I forgot who we were talking about.
Liberal shrew
Submitted by ohio granny on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:25pm.
She has never seen a democrat she doesn't like nor a republican she does. She is a liberal shrew and a democrat whore.
HEY!!!!!!
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 3:57pm.
Stop insulting Shrews and Whores!
If Rosen 'married' a lesbian, she'd have children who looked
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:27pm.
just like Obama.
Now who didn't see this coming? LOL.
NB level comment
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:51pm.
"Lord, please protect us from Lesbian Sandinistas……"
LOLOL.
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This is the "New Feminism"
Submitted by LinTaylor on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 3:04pm.
This is the "New Feminism" right here. It doesn't matter if a woman chooses to be a stay-at-home mom and leave the bread-winning to her husband. Any woman who isn't elbowing her way into the boardroom and lecturing men about what slime they are is "not a real woman", just like how young blacks who actually try to do well in school and get good jobs are mocked by their peers as "acting white".
They
Submitted by bobsmom on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 3:04pm.
are forgetting a WHOLE demographic of "stay at home moms who don't work", that we subsidize with our entitlement programs. I'd venture to guess Ann Romney knows a helluva a lot more about the economy, et al, than the average welfare queen. And that demographic is part of the Dem base. I don't mean to be vicious with that, they just can't have it both ways.
Liberals hate women who don't have 'D' on their voting cards
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:18pm.
Remember the 2004 campaign with John F'n Kerry and his snob wife, Teresa Heinz? Heinz did the same thing. 2 weeks before the election, Heinz came out with a statement mocking Laura Bush saying 'she never had a real job'.
This led Rush Limbaugh to launch a brilliant and devastating rebuttal of how the Left treats women. He said, 'You want to know what Democrats really think about stay at home moms? All you have to do is go back to the original Clinton campaign. When asked what she would do if she became first lady, Hillary Clinton said something like, 'Well I'll tell you what I'm NOT gonna do - I'm not gonna sit at home all day and bake cookies!' Make no mistake, these people are who they are, and one of the things they are is being governed by a militant feminism!'
How right he was. They're back on it again, sneering at women who make choices they don't agree with. If you choose to raise your family, you've 'betrayed' the feminists and must be punished. Your opinions are invalid because you're not as 'smart' as them, not as 'educated', not as 'sophisticated', what have you.
The simple truth is this: If you're a liberal democrat and you're a woman, you can do absolutely nothing wrong. If you're a conservative republican and you're a woman, then EVERYTHING you do is wrong.
When you're a liberal democrat woman, you can screw up your life in absolutely stupid, horrible, and perfectly preventable ways and you're lionized and lifted up as a 'victim' - not of the Democrats' horrible policies and lies that led you to your debased state, but of the Republicans who did nothing to force you there. You can be a hooker, you can get multiple pregnancies, be totally irresponsible, do drugs, smoke, and all kinds of other nonsense. But as long as you get abortions and say you'd rather work than raise your kids, you're golden as far as the Democrats are concerned.
But you can live a totally exemplary life on the other hand. You can stay free from drugs, booze, unwanted pregnancies - but if you're a Republican woman, then you are the enemy and must be mocked, sneered at, insulted and even destroyed by the media. Just ask Sarah Palin and any number of other Republican women. By all accounts, Sarah Palin is just the sort of accomplished woman the liberals say they want to support. But look what they did to her - because she was running alongside McCain against the liberals' 'sort of god', Barak Obama.
Mothers
Submitted by rusino on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:38pm.
I stayed at home to raise my children. That is not all I did. I ran the household. Did the banking. Did the books. Paid the bills. Ran the kitchen. I was chief cook and bottle washer. Ran the laundry. Made sure the dry cleaning was done. Made appointments with Doctors and repairmen. I was social secretary to Husband and children. Not to mention my part time job as Chauffeur.
I am also sure that there are more items that other Stay at Home Mothers could add to this list. We do not just BABY SIT!
How to increae the collective IQ of "The View"
Submitted by SeniorD on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:49pm.
Replace Joy Behar with a rock and watch the collective IQ jump 50 points.
Dear Ms. Behar
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 6:11pm.
You are an idiot of galactic proportions. Your stupidity seems to know no limits.
My wife doesn't work ether, and it isn't because I'm rich. I have to work my &%$#@! off to provide for us and our kids, and it's not "easy". There are many women that "stay at home" to raise their kids, and it's a choice couples make to put their kids ahead of $$. Since my wife is a Nurse, the money we forfeit by her not working is no small sacrifice, but her, the kids, and I all benefit greatly from her being at home with and for the kids.
If you think attacking Ann Romney for being married to a rich guy is going to make me or my wife vote for President ObamAA+, then you must be doing drugs.
Sincerely,
Free Stinker
P.S. - You and all your liberal friends can kiss my arse.
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She has a job
Submitted by kramspott on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:02am.
I am in full time ministry. My bride is the mother to my ten children, of which, she has made the call to stay at home and home school all ten. Years ago when discussing finances and getting to a point of frustration I blurted, "Well you know honey, I'm the one with the job." As soon as those words left my tongue, I knew I'd misspoken and would regret it for some time. She let me have both barrels and that she had a job also and went into great detail what feeding, disciplining and teaching our children entailed as part of her resume. I will never again say that home school mothers or ANY SAHM does not have a job. For Mrs. Rosen to speak as she did tells me, that in her heart, she has great contempt for ANY woman making other choices than what she made - illustrating the point that she is incapable of being tolerant to our diversity. A mantra the left espouses - but cannot keep or honor.
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