If you don’t support abortion on demand, you’re against women’s rights. That’s according to "The View’s" Joy Behar. Debating how closely aligned John McCain’s policies are with the Bush administration, it led to a mention of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. [Audio available here.]
BEHAR: I said to [McCain] off the camera, I said to him "listen how can you be against Roe v. Wade? You can not turn on women like that."
HASSELBECK: Why is that turning on women?
BEHAR: Because it’s against women and you know it.
Earlier in the segment, discussing Barack Obama’s recent comments opining that "values voters" vote that way out of "bitterness," Joy Behar dismissed notions that Obama is an elitist and slapped that label on Republicans for advocating "tax breaks to the rich." An outraged Whoopi Goldberg shouted "I am sick of this ‘tax breaks to the rich’ crap."
BEHAR: Talk about the Republican party. Talk about an elitist party, the Republicans are the ones who give tax breaks to the rich. Those are the elitists.
[applause]
GOLDBERG: Wait, wait, whoa! Whoa, wait, wait. I’m sorry. I am sick of this "tax breaks to the rich" crap.
BEHAR: Well, because you’re rich.
[laughter]
GOLDBERG: Well, you know what? You know what? Excuse me. That’s right and what let’s- Now do you have any issue with how I’ve spent my money? Have I not done good things in the world? Have I not shared my money? Then why should I not get my $600 back? Dammit, give me my money! Hey, you know what? No, I don’t get it. They’re not giving it to everybody.
I an admittedly humorous crack, Joy Behar mocked Hillary Clinton for claiming to support gun rights hypothesizing what Hillary would have done had she truly been a gun advocate.
BEHAR: But, you know, she’s talking about the Second Amendment now. That’s why he called her Annie Oakley. All of a sudden she’s a gun toting Second Amendment champion. I don’t know that’s exactly so her platform all of these years.
HASSELBECK: Well, she supports hunting, hunters’ rights.
BEHAR: If she was so pro gun, she would have shot her husband a long time ago.
[laughter and applause]
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BEHAR: Because it’s
April 14, 2008 - 14:31 ET by radiofitz34Well, it's not really against women. It's against having careless sex and not being accountable for it. It's also the women who have suffered the most because of 34 years in making it a large part of the femminist platform.
look at it from the baby's view
April 14, 2008 - 15:27 ET by wizardjrabortion is against babies, it tends to kill them
abortion is against babies
April 14, 2008 - 15:33 ET by TruthMongerabortion is against babies - and Joy knows it:)
Pro Baby
April 14, 2008 - 20:50 ET by MendolPro-Life is pro baby, if that means it is anti-woman........so be it.
Not really
April 14, 2008 - 20:58 ET by GrannyGrump42Most women like babies. And a whole lot of the women undergoing abortions are distraught and weeping and repeating, "I have no choice!"
http://www.unfaircho...
What kind of help is it, to facilitate something you don't want to do?
Behar ignores that a good
April 14, 2008 - 14:35 ET by zfBehar ignores that a good deal of those casually offed fetuses would have grown up to be women.
Democrats are the elitists, they think only rich government elites are smart and moral enough to use money wisely and enjoy taking it from others for the 'greater good' and then using it to dictate to the unwashed peons how to live their lives based on the Democracts ideas. Feh. Behar isn't hurting for money and I don't see any poor folks or "common men" appearing on her show. Physican, heal yourself.
Ok, I can't stand Behar the few times I've seen her, but...
April 14, 2008 - 14:37 ET by sarcasmo"If she was so pro gun, she would have shot her husband a long time ago."
I have to admit, that's pretty funny.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
What About the Consequences?
April 14, 2008 - 14:38 ET by Gothampc"BEHAR: Because it’s against women and you know it."
Let's discuss what's really against women, Joy.
How many of those aborted babies would grow up to be women? How will abortion decrease the female population?
What about the abortions that are botched causing women to become sterile?
What about the psychological and physical fallout on a woman when the body changes to accommodate the pregnancy only to be confused when the baby is ripped out?
Because it’s against
April 14, 2008 - 14:43 ET by motherbeltBecause it’s against women and you know it.
So there!!! That's a liberal; state your opinion as fact, then add "and you know it!" Or as Bill Maher did, add "That's a fact!"
If a woman gets "punished with a child," then being pro-life is against women.
End of discussion.
Does Behar get royalties every time she says "Tax cuts for the rich!"? Whoopi Goldberg at least has half a brain. She said Dammit, give me my money!
MY money. She at least realizes that a tax rebate is a rebate of her own money. Behar probably thinks it's "government's money" and wonders how much it "costs" to give everyone a check.
Mom, has anyone ever asked
April 14, 2008 - 17:17 ET by FastEdsomeone like Joy, How much money will YOU get when the "rich get taxed"? or, how much extra was taken out of your pay check when the rich got taxed? Ummm?
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Joy is probably one of
April 14, 2008 - 17:38 ET by motherbeltJoy is probably one of those people who think that those who get a refund don't pay taxes, they "get money back."
Yes Joy, I am aginst women.
April 14, 2008 - 15:17 ET by bassndudeYes Joy, I am aginst women. Especially ugly women. Look in the mirror Joy...who in the world would put you into a position that would require you to consider an abortion?????????
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Not a nice thing to say Bass,
April 14, 2008 - 17:14 ET by FastEdbut my wall clock hasn't worked since the View was on the TV in our house, when noJoy was alone on the screen!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
I feel so sorry for Behar....
April 14, 2008 - 15:23 ET by paddyI mean....to be that ugly and that stupid...!
That's a cross most of us will never have to bear.....
BEHAR: If she was so pro
April 14, 2008 - 15:41 ET by Darth DutchBEHAR: If she was so pro gun, she would have shot her husband a long time ago
Hmmm, that seems to be against men as well.
"BEHAR: I said to [McCain]
April 14, 2008 - 17:30 ET by rwesley"BEHAR: I said to [McCain] off the camera, I said to him "listen how can you be against Roe v. Wade? You can not turn on women like that."
I guarantee you this louse, Behar, said nothing of the sort to McCain. She lacks any spine to ask such a question.
BEHAR: I said to [McCain]
April 14, 2008 - 18:25 ET by CortillaenBEHAR: I said to [McCain] off the camera, I said to him "listen how can you be against Roe v. Wade? You can not turn on women like that."
HASSELBECK: Why is that turning on women?
BEHAR: Because it’s against women and you know it.
Congratulations, Ms. Behar, you've just been awarded the Circular Logic Medal for the Defense of Idiocy with Ignorance above and beyond the Call of Liberalism.
*sigh* It's sad that this is probably the typical depth of her thought processes. "This is true." "Why?" "Because." If I hadn't had such a good time shooting two days ago, I'd be looking for a brick wall right about now.
www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi
Not all abortions are freely chosen
April 14, 2008 - 18:35 ET by nkviking75How many of those "women" are young teens pressured into an abortion by their older boyfriends or their parents, or sold on it by a Planned Parenthood "counselor" (read "salesperson") who pressures that girl toward abortion and away from any alternative? How many of these young "women" are influenced by feminist teachers or counselors? Abortion is not always a free choice, despite the rhetoric.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
First things first
April 14, 2008 - 19:53 ET by GrannyGrump42There is nothing I find more insulting than the Leftie assertion that because I have a uterus, I must have a burning desire to evict in shreds any fetus hapless enough to implant there. I happen to love my children unconditionally, and not just when they fit nicely into my plans.
Yes, there are some women who are enthusiastic about abortion, but there are just as many, if not more, who consider it an abomination and a violation of everything we are and stand for.
I wish to God that I could get abortion-loving women to admit that they're only speaking for themselves.
With friends like these...
April 14, 2008 - 20:55 ET by GrannyGrump42Weren't these women?
http://realchoice.0c...
Funny, I don't see a bit of Leftie concern for their lives.
Where were the woman-loving Lefties when Rapin Osathanondh decided that he didn't need anybody to monitor Laura Smith while he had her under general anesthesia?
http://realchoice.0c...
Where were the woman-loving Lefties when a nurse-practitioner at Planned Parenthood ignored Edrica Goode's infection and proceeded with wicking it into her uterus?
http://realchoice.0c...
Where were the woman-loving Lefties when Christin Gilbert was going septic in a motel room, attended only by her parents?
http://realchoice.0c...
Where were these woman-loving Lefties when 15-year-old Tamiia Russel's abuser had his sister shop around Detroit until an abortionist was locaed that was willing to violate parental consent laws and proceed with what was probably an illegal, third-trimester abortion?
http://realchoice.0c...
Oh, I forgot -- they're too busy "protecting" women from the prolifers who stand between abortion mills and their paying customers:
http://realchoice.bl...
Let's look real hard at who is the real threat, who it is that is doing the damage:
http://realchoice.0c...
With friends like the Left, who needs enemies?
As much as they claim to be
April 14, 2008 - 21:43 ET by CortillaenAs much as they claim to be "pro-choice", the simple fact is that Planned Parenthood is purely "pro-abortion". Proof? Simple: It's their business. I hate hearing about these kinds of deaths and injuries, but I hate even more how so many people just don't get it. Does the Hippocratic Oath mean nothing these days? One would think that doctors and nurses, above all others, would be disturbed by the mere thought of destroying the life forming within a woman, but it seems there are more than a few willing to not only do so, but ignore the woman's safety in the process.
I can't help but wonder if the so-called doctors and nurses that participate in the wholesale slaughter of the unborn and, in some cases, the mothers as well won't be remembered as even more inhumane than the perpetrators of any other massacre around the world. Does the number of children thrown into Nazi furnaces even compare to the number ruthlessly murdered here? The dead in the Soviet Gulags and Cambodian killing fields, do their numbers even compare? Yet, the slaughter of innocents continues unabated, sanctioned by the government, not in some third-world country, not in some totalitarian nation with no regard for its people, but here.
Liberalism is the ideology of emotion, but the murder of thousands of unborn children finds them resolute and of stony heart, immovable. For all their claims, they aren't the side of compassion.
www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamto Musashi
"Because it’s against
April 14, 2008 - 21:52 ET by lotr"Because it’s against women and you know it."
Well, then Nature herself is "against women." Whether she realizes it or not, such mentality is implicit in statements like this.
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- the overturning of Roe v. Wade (God willing) would not outlaw abortions in the U.S. In fact, I could imagine only a handful of states outright banning it, if any at all. It would, however, hand the power back to the states to enact legislation and/or restrictions in accordance with the will (and conscience) of their constituents.
BEHAR: If she was so pro
April 14, 2008 - 23:51 ET by bigtimerBEHAR: If she was so pro gun, she would have shot her husband a long time ago.
True Joy...that 's where she learned how to down other shots so well ...once a poltical whore always a political whore, and Hillary isn't goingt to shoot down anything but shooters instead of her ol' man with dud bullets until it MsPrez...then Katie bar the door!
Wonder if she's closet drinker...she seems to have had practice...she wears it well...lol.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Well, I am generally against
April 15, 2008 - 08:29 ET by SmartypantsWell, I am generally against abortion, but listening to Joy Behar is making me change my mind, and not for the reasons she would believe...
Whoopi!
April 15, 2008 - 08:37 ET by GordyOnce again, Whoopi is above the fray. That woman has single-handledly turned that show around. A Democrat that hates the phrase 'tax cuts for the rich'...who knew?
-gordy.
Demagoguery
April 15, 2008 - 12:09 ET by StrictConstructionistThe phrase "tax cuts for the rich" is demagoguery at its finest. It gives people who don't understand the progressive tax structure - like Joy Behar - the impression that ONLY the rich are getting or benefiting from these tax cuts. Its "TAX CUTS FOR EVERYONE". Libertarians and Conservatives should start referring to Liberals idea of taxes as "Tax increases for the poor". After all, ALL will see their taxes increased - its no difference. In any event, the top 10% of earners are paying about 80% of the bill - stop complaining JOY BEHAR.
At least Whoopi isn't TOTALLY inept. I never thought I'd be saying that.
As it pertains to the idotic and irrational statement of being against Roe v. Wade as being anti-woman - perhaps its being PRO-Constitution - you know, that "scrape of paper" as FDR called it, which is the Supreme Law in the land. That document that is meant to limit the roll of the federal government for its intended purpose - no more, no less. As it pertains to abortion, we are dealing with a third party, which takes it out of the privacy issue. It should be a state issue.
Lets say you don't buy the Constitution argument, there is another one, its called being PRO-LIFE. Nooooo, not "ANTI CHOICE" or "ANTI WOMAN", but GENUINELY Pro-Life. Meaning you genuinely believe that we are dealing with a living human being, and abortion amounts to nothing less than infanticide.