Joy Behar couldn’t call her city councilman before Senators Obama and Clinton ran for president? That is what "The View" co-host suggested on the June 11 edition. Complaining about the condition of her neighborhood sidewalk, Behar finally called her city councilman because "Obama and Hillary have empowered me to take charge of my personal politics." Sherri Shepherd enthusiastically replied "you’re ready for a change, yes."
Earlier in the show, the panel shared their experiences weathering the severe storm that hit New York City the previous night. Like clockwork, Behar blamed the storm on global warming stating "there’s a little bit of weirdness going on, you have to admit it, in the world weatherwise." When Sherri Shepherd asked if that results from "the global warming," Behar snapped "of course!" Behar has previously gone so far as to blame earthquakes on global warming.
Barbara Walters politely disagreed. Although conceding Joy’s point that the weather has been odd lately, she was "not sure it’s just now." This is quite a contrast from the Barbara Walters two years ago, who blamed a string of storms on global warming.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below.
JOY BEHAR: There’s a little bit of a weirdness going on, you have to admit it, in the world, weatherwise.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Is it the global warming?
BEHAR: Of course!
BARBARA WALTERS: We’ve had, but I’m not sure it’s just now. There have been quakes and-
BEHAR: Not like this.
WALTERS: -and floods, well, you know.
[...]
BEHAR: What’s happening in my neighborhood is that I am falling in the streets all of the time. Now, I don’t have anything wrong with me. I check myself out. I fall off my shoes, and I fall into holes. Other friends of mine are falling into holes. There’s a big flood in my building every time there’s a rain storm. There’s more poop, dog poop, on the streets lately. There are more people who seem to be indigent around and so-
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What did you do?
BEHAR: Obama and Hillary have empowered me to take charge of my personal politics.
SHEPHERD: You’re ready for a change, yes.
[applause]
BEHAR: So I have called up my local city councilman and I have complained. It happens to be related to someone who used to be on this show. That’s just coincidentally.




















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ah the insightful anecdotal
June 11, 2008 - 13:16 ET by TruthMongerah the insightful anecdotal evidence of the view
we've never had dog poop like this, due to global warming
The missing part of this
June 11, 2008 - 16:26 ET by FairlightThe missing part of this story is that the relative of the ex-View member Joy called about the global warming poop, is none other than Rosie O'Donnell's brother. Apparently they have some sort of ban on the word "Rosie" and can't refer to her by name.
This is who Joy called:
http://assembly.stat...
Say what?
June 11, 2008 - 13:22 ET by GalvanicSo isn't NY
June 11, 2008 - 23:57 ET by DEVILDOCMOMpretty much run by the dims? Who is she complaining to? Does she really think she sounds intelligent? Does she really think bho will help the rain and leaks in her building?
Oh, and is she aware a hiker on the other side of the country died in a snow storm? No, I guess not, does not fit her rant.
DevilDocMom... I promised
June 12, 2008 - 00:08 ET by bigtimerDevilDocMom...
I promised myself I wasn't going to read this blog post or comment here...then you posted this and it's late at night...
I just liked the part where she said she is falling into holes everywhere...do you know how much fun we could all have with that line alone...
ROFLMAO!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson
So Obama and Hillary have inspired Behar
June 11, 2008 - 13:42 ET by Dee Bunkto get the city involved in her dog poop argument with a former co-worker? Wow. That's taking charge! Take all your personal squables no matter how small to the government to solve.
I've had people not pick up their dog poop in my yard before and silly me, I just picked it up. If it bothers me that much and I can't think of a way to politely encourage the offender to stop then I'm certainly not going to get the city involved. OMG! These people don't care to get along with anyone.
Applause? This?
June 11, 2008 - 13:45 ET by AgentAmericanWhere do they get the stable of morons who make up that studio audience? Surely they either pay them to applaud or use pre-recorded applause like they did in the 60's and 70's.
Drill ANWAR
Maybe they can borrow the
June 11, 2008 - 14:18 ET by Cureboy675Maybe they can borrow the laugh-track from that NewsBusted show :)
OK, I'll admit, that was a
June 11, 2008 - 14:21 ET by MassConservOK, I'll admit, that was a good one.
I find it ironic that these
June 11, 2008 - 13:49 ET by KillgraveI find it ironic that these broads on The View probably look at themselves as "liberated" and "modern", yet they continuously fall into ancient stereotypes:
They chatter incessantly about nothing.
They spew dogma that often betrays their ignorance of the world outside their warm, protected environment.
They "reason" purely with their emotions.
They feed off the "feel good" vibes off each other that has absolutely no substance.
They desperately seek and gain validation off their sycophantic studio audience.
Shrieking somehow confers authority, and crying confers validity.
they just sit around and
June 11, 2008 - 14:11 ET by TruthMongerthey just sit around and drink coffee, complaining about men - while the hubbies go out and do all the work:)...
men have it so darn good...
Now that she's been empowered...
June 11, 2008 - 13:51 ET by ThalpyNow that she's been empowered, she needs to follow the yellow brick road. A brain is waiting somewhere, out there.
Thalpy, LOL!
June 11, 2008 - 14:07 ET by AntiMediaThalpy,
LOL!
The more she speaks
June 11, 2008 - 13:57 ET by Meanderingthe farther her IQ falls. She's a sad excuse for a comic first off and secondly she a sad excuse for an American. Ship them all off to Cuba for all I care. I wonder what this is supposed to mean about her local city councilman,
"happens to be related to someone who used to be on this show"
What does that mean? Go live with the Polar Bears in the Artcic while we drill around you!
Is it possible?
June 11, 2008 - 14:01 ET by okiehawk44Is it possible to have an interesting and thought provoking NB without a blog about The View's cohosts or Morning Joe's Mika?
They are not worth a gob of spit in the scheme of things and NB shouldn't give them an ounce of space.
I do agree that there
June 11, 2008 - 15:56 ET by Cureboy675I do agree that there shouldn't be a focus on The View. I don't think anybody really thinks of it as a news show. Its just a bunch of ladies sitting around essentially gossiping. It reminds of the ladies who used to get together and play mahjong with my Grandma. Mika, however does need to continue to be exposed. Because, while I do agree with her opinions most of the time, she has absolutely NO business spouting off her opinions on a news program. Especially when she slides her little digs in when she reads the news each morning. That is disgraceful for a person who wants to call themselves a journalist.
Boo frackin' hoo Mrs
June 11, 2008 - 14:01 ET by Jack BauerBoo frackin' hoo Mrs Clinton.
And Joy Behar you ignorant slattern.
Clinton: The victim-feminist (the femitim?) The non-achieving ersatz achiever.
She only ever ran two things in her whole life: Hillarycare and Hillelect 08. How'd they work out?
And women are supposed to find this incompetent and uninspiring woman a "leader."
But leftist and feminists like Behar are only "inspired" by strong, successful women with whom they agree politically... and apparently a woman who got where she got on a man's coat-tails.
But what about Margaret Thatcher.
By an definition an icon for feminists. You would think. But you'd be wrong.
A brilliant woman who did EVERYTHING herself, based on her own drive and ambition... without relying on the patronage of men... and this started in the 1940s!!
You know, when women knew their place, and it usually in the home. She never played the victim. She never whined. She just got on with PROVING she was better than any man.
She went into politics, won her seat as an MP, worked her way up in the conservative party, won the leadership from the former Prime Minister, became the first woman to lead a western democracy...in 1979, and won three general elections.
But from the start, she was relentlessly reviled, mocked and hated for her clothes, her looks, her accent, her competence.
She wasn't the "role-model" alleged feminists were looking for because she was a conservative. A non-woman in their Stalinist eyes.
Therefore at the forefront of this organized hate manning the barricades with the male-chauvinists, were the so-called FEMINISTS and their komrads on the left.
Oh -- and Mrs T. NEVER complained.
Empowered???
June 11, 2008 - 14:03 ET by ToddonCapeCodJoy's politics have been empowered plenty, long before today.
And she's been just as whacked out in her politics, for years, as she is today!
When is someone going to do
June 11, 2008 - 15:09 ET by marvlWhen is someone going to do the world a favor and wrap a whole roll of duct tape over the hole in Joy Behar's face just below her nose? Make that 2 rolls.
I think Beharo pisses me off more than O'Donnell
June 11, 2008 - 15:22 ET by MrltavernI wonder who really watches this show besides the bedridden and the 80 something year olds who are leaning up against a curtain all day long. If the View had to actually send out thank you's from a store bought box of notes to all of their viewers they'd have envelopes and stationary left over. Something's not right when a show like this can still remain on the air. No one is watching this show.
I'll just add..
June 11, 2008 - 15:23 ET by MrltavernI wish Beharo would've blown away with last night's wind!
Joy Behar is one of those
June 11, 2008 - 15:52 ET by Kenny BunkportJoy Behar is one of those natural "jump on the winning team" people. Probably from her years in the educational system. Her opinions are whatever the ruling elite's opinions are. She needs the intellectual backing of the popular academics because she has no opinions of her own.
If by some freak of the universe, the intellectual elite suddenly started to back the war in Iraq or become critical of global warming, she'd instantly change her views too. She's intellectually insecure. She lacks any internal reasoning skills. As Al Gore said of himself, she lets the experts do the science. As such, her opinions are as predictable as the sunrise.
I doubt if she realizes how cartoonish she appears. It's like having a talking copy of the NYTimes sitting there. Unfortunately, there are a lot of viewers who think she is informed because she does spout the psychobabble so confidently and she does have some education credentials..
Without Obama and Hillary
June 11, 2008 - 16:28 ET by jefflebowskiJoy Behar could not have become the idiot she is today!
This woman is a walking Newsbusters post! Not a week goes by without her uttering something more stupid than the week before!
Jeff Lebowski
www.angrywhitedude.c...
About time
June 11, 2008 - 18:07 ET by JohanIt's about time someone fixed that sidewalk. Isn't that the same sidewalk Randi Rhodes tripped on when she was drunk last year?