Joy Behar: Sean Hannity a 'Dangerous Force in America'

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Sean Hannity is a "dangerous, dangerous force in America," says "View" co-host Joy Behar. This was sparked, on the October 13 edition, by a discussion of Andy Martin spreading rumors about Obama’s background and an interview on "Hannity’s America." Elisabeth Hasselbeck reported that she spoke with Sean Hannity, who says he condemns Mr. Martin’s actions, and has controversial figures of all political stripes including Reverend Wright.

When Sherri Shepherd proclaimed it is no different than Obama’s condemnation of William Ayers, Elisabeth reminded that panel that a television interview is different than sitting on a board. Whoopi Goldberg immediately pounced on the comment and told Elisabeth to go to FactCheck.com (perhaps she meant FactCheck.org?). In a pot and kettle moment, Joy Behar, who has a history of airing false information on "The View," chastised Elisabeth to "not say it unless you’re sure what you’re talking about."

Later in the program, Joy Behar went on a rant against Sarah Palin, noting alleged cronyism and in another pot and kettle moment, Behar opined that Palin "overuses her power and underuses her brain."

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Relevant pieces of the transcript follow.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: Words are very powerful. And, I think that, that campaign has been inciting, you know, with the palling around with terrorists, it’s just inciting a fear and I think, you know, it only starts with one person, this crazy lady here, and it’s another person. That’s how mobs get started. And I think that, that’s a really dangerous thing that they’re doing and I see that they’re backing off of that whole thing. I saw Palin now. She’s on the abortion stuff, but you know, they’re backing off the whole "he pals around with terrorists."

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Well, I mean, I think that look, the facts are the facts. You know, the fact that he did work with him, and he was a terrorist, he was unrepentant. They did work together. I think that Americans are, are smart enough to make their own assessment. I do believe that.

SHEPHERD: But Elisabeth I think when you say "terrorist," in this climate that we have today, when you say "terrorist," that immediately invokes a fear in people. And when you say terrorist, you think, you’re supposed to kill terrorists. And I think when you say, he pals around with terrorists, that makes it seem- I mean, they knew exactly what they are doing when they said those words.

[...]

JOY BEHAR: There’s other things going on. I mean, today’s "Times" has exposed the fact that this guy Andy Martin started this cyberspace rumor that the guy was a Muslim and all of these lies about Obama. And then, and then it picks up. It starts to pick up steam and then the lie, the lie, the lie, the lie. And Sean Hannity, who I really think is a dangerous, dangerous force in television.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: Really?

BEHAR: Yes I do because for-well, specifically in this case, he had this guy, his name is Andy Martin, who was perpetuating these lies. They had him on for a whole hour where he allowed this Andy Martin to spew his vitriol and his lies and never once questioned his- the authenticity of what he was saying. And this Andy Martin, by the way, has been diagnosed as some kind of a mental case.

HASSELBECK: Can I- I actually spoke to Sean about this. I talked to Sean Hannity today, this morning.

BEHAR: Oh, oh really? How is Sean?

[laughter]

HASSELBECK: He’s great. And he said, he welcomes you on his show, and he has, first and foremost, he’s actually condemned-

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: He’s been on this show. He’s actually-

HASSELBECK: He’s great, first of all-

BEHAR: I don’t like this particular thing though.

GOLDBERG: You’re right.

HASSELBECK: This was on "Hannity’s America." He actually didn’t interview this man. He didn’t interview him. A producer interviewed Martin. Sean Hannity wasn’t there.

GOLDBERG: It was on his show.

HASSELBECK: It was on his show and he acknowledges that. He also publicly condemned what Martin said as he did with Jeremiah Wright, with-

BEHAR: But so did Obama condemn what William Ayers said!

HASSELBECK: Let me finish. Can I just get- let me just get this point, please.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, yeah.

HASSELBECK: Please. Sean Hannity has made a career of having people with controversial views express their opinion, okay, including Khalid Abdul Muhammad, Reverend Wright, Malik Shibazz, Martin, okay? He has condemned what they have said across the board. He’s condemned it. So to say what- do you have issue with having someone with an opinion on?

BEHAR: Well, when he has those people on that he disagrees with, he interrupts them so much, you can’t even get a word in. This guy had a whole hour.

HASSELBECK: I don’t think we- first of all, I don’t think that we had an issue when he had on Reverend Wright, or when Farrakhan was saying- He never- no. I’m saying where was the issue then when he had them on? I think it’s a selective sort of moralism that’s going on. This is his career and it happens to be people that say things that are controversial that are not his opinion. They simply are on his show giving his opinion. He condemned what he said.

GOLDBERG: Well, I’m glad that he did because, you know, you can say that he’s had these other folks on. Reverend Wright wasn’t attacking any one specific person. He’s just pissed at America. You know, Shibazz has a different view. So if Sean says, and I believe him, because you know, I like him and I know Sean.

HASSELBECK: He says you guys can come on anytime.

GOLDBERG: Well, I would if he would just, you know, be on my time schedule. But, but if he says, through you, that he condemns what that man says, and he doesn’t buy it, I buy Sean.

SHEPHERD: And why can’t we accept that, that he condemned him because I believe Barack Obama condemned everything that Ayers did, so if we can accept that Sean Hannity [applause] condemned this guy-

HASSELBECK: But, Sean Hannity didn’t sit with this man for 20 years. He didn’t sit with this man on a board there’s a big difference-

GOLDBERG: Okay, don’t, don’t do that. Go to FactCheck.com [sic].

BEHAR: You don’t know what you’re saying. Don’t say it unless you know for sure what you’re saying.

[...]

BEHAR: Let me say something about Sarah Palin. This is a whole line of events about her. Number one, there’s Troopergate. [applause] Let me just lay this out for a second.

HASSELBECK: Unload! Unload!

BEHAR: Number two, she is into cronyism, big time this woman.

HASSELBECK: Why would you say that?

BEHAR: Let me tell you why. May I tell you why? Because she put, as the head of agriculture in Alaska one of her girlfriends from high school. You know why? Because the woman liked cows, okay? [laughter] That is a fact.

HASSELBECK: That’s an exaggeration.

BEHAR: Look it up in FactCheck.

HASSELBECK: She did hire her, but to say that it’s because she liked cows-

BEHAR: She also- anybody who disagrees with this woman and her politics is considered a hater. This is Cheney in a dress, okay?

[applause]

SHEPHERD: Can I go back-

HASSELBECK: Those are kind of weak points against her.

[...]

BEHAR: She overuses her power and underuses her brain.


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The View...of the nuthouse.

 I have no idea why people even bother to cover this show.  It has a panel of 4 harpies and a conservative.  Yeah, that makes for entertaining daytime television.  Who is Barbara Walters sleeping with in order to keep that show on the air?

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

VOTE FOR NO MORE COVERAGE

To everyone that blogs about this idiotic show, please stop.  i hate thinking of the idiots on the show, the dumba--es in the audience and at home watching, and their effect on our young generation.

please stop blogging about these idiots.  we already know the scenario...behar craps some stupid lie, undergunned elizabeth makes uninformed counterpoint, whoopi says shut up.

Quality, not quantity.

The view from the nuthouse

To communists any view that opposes theirs is dangerous.

The old Soviet Union didn't fail, it just ran out of money.

One thing that is clear, and that is the leanings of our media, which is the real problem America has. 

"...overuses her power and

"...overuses her power and underuses her brain."

As opposed to Behar, who overuses her mouth and - oh, forget it...

McNotObama '08

" HASSELBECK: But, Sean

"

HASSELBECK: But, Sean Hannity didn’t sit with this man for 20 years. He didn’t sit with this man on a board there’s a big difference-

 

GOLDBERG: Okay, don’t, don’t do that. "

 

 

Okay okay, dont do that, stop telling the truth

allow me to love America the

allow me to love America
the truth would hurt these folks. rose colored glasses can make you blind.
when BHO institutes Sharia Law and these FOLKS are under a Berka. WHY did/t someone tell us.
God Help us from Stupidity.

What Goldberg is telling

What Goldberg is telling Hasselbeck is don't tell the truth.  They try to bottle her up and shout her down, because if she were allowed to finish and someone heard it and went out and questioned the story and researched and uncovered the actual facts, they may not vote for the messiah.  They might tell their friends.  Obama is trying to stay inside a nice little facade, created and abetted by the MSM.

"GOLDBERG: Okay, don’t, don’t do that. "

Whoopi, your man can't stand the harsh light of day. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

»→ Hasselbeck

What she should do is tell the pack o' pigs "You've got your opinions and you certainly don't want mine.  Adios losers, I think I can start another show with better balance and a highewr intellectual level on both sides"

Underdog & Pitbull 08

Exactly.  But they need

Exactly.  But they need her to raise the Intelligence Quotient above 80 and the Attractive Factor above, "I think I'm going to be sick." 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

You're right CA.

Her panel is already lined-up in alphabetical order. Place the calls Elizabeth. Place the calls.

Consider the left's version

Consider the left's version of fairness:

1. The View -- 4 leftists and ONE conservative

2. CNN -- election coverage, 7-8 liberals and Dem operatives and 2-3 conservatives.

3. MSNBC -- almost completely liberal, except for one or two right-leaners.

This is what awaits us if Obama wins -- their version of equality is everyone toes the party line, and all other viewpoints shunned, filibustered, or embargoed. 

So in their world view, if

So in their world view, if you have someone on their show then you agree with their politics/message?

Didn't they have both John McCain and Cindy McCain on that show?  So does everyone on the show agree with those two? 

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. - Ronald Reagan

which is scarier?

the fact that behar has a pulpit from which to spread her lies, or that there are enough stupid housewives/househusbands that are raising the next generation that keep this crap alive.  just think, there are thousands of kids that are learning from someone that thinks Behar has some indicia of intelligence.  scary.

God (with a G not a g) help us. 

The enemy is clear sight...

Defeat them Novebmer 4. The enemy is clear f**king sight. It's time we got mad.

Drill ANWAR

Joy is a persuasive

Joy is a persuasive argument for some ladies should be allowed anything sharper than certain female protection products in their life.

 

Running with scissors or perhaps even standing with them should require adult supervision.

Don't be too hard on

Don't be too hard on Joyless. She is an authority on un derused brains. The shoe box hers is in under her bed has seldom been opened.

Can anyone

Can anyone imagine an uproar that is not partisan-driven for trying to fire a cop who taser a young boy, threatened to kill several people on more than one occasion, hunted illegally, got into drunken barroom brawls and then hid behind his badge to avoid assualt charges?  The outcry shouldn't be that Palin tried to fire this pervert, but that anyone in the chain of command for the state police wanted to keep him. 

Back on topic, the rote response to Obama and Ayers appears to be that Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was an active terrorist.  Two points, Ayers is an unrepentant SOB, who stated as recently as 3 years ago he wished he could have been more successful in killing people and destroying government property [I believe Obama was in his mid-40's then].  Why did Ayers feel the way he did back then.  Oh, the poor little dear was the son of wealthy parents and their money made him feel guilty.  Second point, my great-great-great-grandparents hadn't been born yet when the last slave was freed in the Civil War.  Why is there talk by Obama of educational reparations for blacks?  Why are they talking of taking my tax dollars for something like this?  Joy, I was about negative 100 when the last slave was freed.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

So Behar has the hots for Hannity

Behar is fixated on Hannity which means she has the hots for him. That is about as ewww of a moment to make Hannity want to scrub his skin raw washing that thought off as any as I have seen today.

Whooper I don't quite get in her comments as Ayers and Obama are two peas in a pod on created boards in Ayers via Annenberg funded Obama.

Jack Cashill actually today broke a major story he is correct on in Ayers was the source for Dreams of my Father as Obama's vocabulary does not match. I will not reveal what I clarified to Mr. Cashill on this in English definition, but Obama speaks a different branch which Ayers in his branch fine tuned.

In closing, Thank You Mr. McCarthy for no boob shots of Behar, but she still makes me cringe. Am just glad I'm not Sean Hannity with having her all sultry over me. Guess that is why he makes the big bucks. Rush Limbaugh must be just sorrowful that Behar is no longer sudzy over him.

I would suggest Behar speak to Alaskan Security as he stated there was no Troopergate as he said Todd Palin followed Alaskan Protocols for first family security and he sent Mr. Palin to discuss the issue of the trooper as the trooper had threatened to murder both the Gov. and her father.

Strange the View audience would be applauding the murder of people.

 

Jack Cashill's link

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77815

 

 

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Justin...I do not know how

Justin...I do not know how you do this everyday and keep your sanity....

You deserve a medal.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

"You deserve a

"You deserve a medal."

bt,

...or at least a basket of eggs from the henhouse.

McNotObama '08

If Elizabeth was on

If Elizabeth was on vacation it would take a heck of a long time to collect a basket of those from this clucking hen-house.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

WTF? SERIOUSLY WTF!

If Hannity interviewing Andy Martin is a representation of who Hannity is as a person, then what does it say for Barbra Walters to interview Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Oh, I forgot, we "don't go there."

What a freaking joke these stupid "cows" are!

To the left, all socialists

To the left, all socialists are heroes despite the number of atrocities they have committed. And I think your comment is an offense to cows everywhere!!! ;)

Benny, you forget!

The liberals love and admire Castro, Chavez and Amalamadingdong!  The left admires any enemy of the US.

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.com

Behar opined that Palin

Behar opined that Palin "overuses her power and underuses her brain."

Joy can only say that because she has no brain.

I've never seen this show,

I've never seen this show, but reading the transcripts I can't help but wonder why Elizabeth is constantly being told to not "go there" or "we don't discuss that" every time she's trying to make a point. This is a talk show, isn't it? Let her talk! They get to "go" whereve they desire, even if it's joyfully smearing a public figure.

Why is Elizabeth even there? Just get it over with and fire her so the shrews can continue on with their vitriolic kaffeklasch. Who watches this sh!t?!!!

I'll Tell You What's Dangerous!

These dumb b!tches and the idiots who watch them is the most dangerous force in the world!

The idiocy of the American

The idiocy of the American people as represented by dimwits like Behar is more dangerous a thousand terrorists.

matt, It is pretty

matt,

It is pretty sobering and disheartening to realize that Behar is cheered when she makes these imbecilic comments. It's even more distressing to realize that many of these morons (and I mean that in the literal, not pejorative sense) go out and vote.

McNotObama '08

Did you ever wonder where

Did you ever wonder where they get those audiences?  They are probably all welfare moms and dads.  Who else can be off during the day when most people are working?  They probably rotate the Jerry Springer audiences in and out of the various studios.   

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

Could be, or it could be

Could be, or it could be that they're all vacationing imbeciles who think, sheep-like, that it puts them in "the cool crowd" to cheer and applaud the show's left wing simpletons rather than the one weak voice of sanity. 

McNotObama '08

Need to start factchecking factcheck.org

This article and the Views references to factcheck.org led to me check a few things...

Factcheck.org is supposed to be "unbiased..." check this out, factcheck.org said:

'Even the description of Ayers as a "terrorist" is a matter of interpretation. Setting off bombs can fairly be described as terrorism even when they are intended to cause only property damage, which is what Ayers has admitted doing in his youth. But for nearly three decades since, Ayers has lived the relatively quiet life of an educator. It would be correct to call him a "former terrorist," and an "unapologetic" one at that. But if McCain means the word "terrorist" to invoke images of 9/11, he's being misleading; Ayers is no Osama bin Laden now, and never was.'

To me, factcheck.org is ABSOLUTELY being biased...

"...only property damage"  He killed someone.  And they tried to wipe out Judge Murtaugh's entire family with fire bombs at all the doors and under the gas tank of the car (Ayers wife claimed that one).

McCain never mentioned 9/11, so factcheck is putting their own spin into the discussion, that is very misleading.

He would be "former" or "unapologetic" if he didn't go around saying he should have done more... show's he's still a terrorist. 

Ayers is no Osama bin Laden, but he absolutely is an incompetent version of Timothy McVeigh. 

And here's one more, factcheck.org says:

'We find McCain's accusation that Obama "lied" to be groundless. It is true that recently released records show half a dozen or so more meetings between the two men than were previously known..."' so claiming that Obama is hiding things IS true, isn't it.

And on the comments Obama made about air-raiding villages, from factcheck.org:

'The ad asks, "Who is Barack Obama," then calls him "dishonorable" for supposedly saying that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians."'

They go on to say:

'What Obama said ... was a criticism of administration military strategy and not a criticism of "our troops"'

Oh, reeeeaaallly... they give the entire Obama quote to prove their point (they think):

Obama: "We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."

Sure sounds like he's saying that our troops (the "we" in the contraction above), are just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.

This isn't "factchecking," their OWN QUOTE proves the McCain ad that they are debunking is actually accurate!!!

It's time that newsbusters.org started challenging the bias at factcheck.org... throwing in subjective comments as above is not describing "facts."

One more important point...

Ayers and Dorn were NEVER punished for their crimes... what did Ayers say "Guilty as sin, free as a bird, isn't America great!"

If you've never been punished and rehabilitated, you are still what you were.  At what point does someone go from being a terrorist to being a "former terrorist?"  Five minutes after their last bomb wen't off?  50 Years after?  No, only after they have been captured, punished, and deemed to be able to reenter society... Ayers and Dorn have NEVER gone through that redemption process.  I guess to the libs, it's like a fetus in the womb... it's alive when it's convenient for them to call it alive.

Factcheck my arse.

 

Oh, Behar and Hannity...

Of course she thinks he's dangerous, he has a different opinion than hers. 

That's why this lemmings in the press will absolutely LOVE the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine. 

So will cable and satellite networks, since that's where Rush and the others will go.  At least until Obama and Pelosi find a way to censor that, as well.

Joy is just upset because

Joy is just upset because Hannity has prettier hair than her's.

 

Roger... Now that has got

Roger...

Now that has got me laughing out loud!

Good one...yes, Joy being the green-eyed monster...again.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Joy is several fries short

Joy is several fries short of a Happy Meal...

Joy Behar a force for Ignorace in America

Why do people continue to watch this tripe on the View and consider it a good source of political anything.Half the time Ms Behar spouts some of the most hackenyed  liberal pap that I have ever heard.But like a pack of dogs- 4 libs against 1 neocon- they feel their is worth in their opinions since the pack validates itself.Therefore,the libs opinions are final opinions.

Turn the View OFF.It will help you live a better life.

 

"A man may be killed but never humiliated."-Shaolin proverb

AND I thought jews and

AND I thought jews and muslims...didn't like eachother!

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Why Are You Waisting Your Time with Them?

When she talks to the others it like trying to teach algebra to a heard of cows... What she saying makes sense, they just don't have the capacity to comprehend it.

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

What an ugly View

This ugly hag, Joy Blowhard needs to chill in the corner, with Ms. "Succeed" Goldberg so they can make whoppeee together.  Seriously, anyone else really care about what these bitter, ugly tarts have to say about anything conservative?  C'mon Elizabeth, the View from there isn't really as nice as the view inside the Fox News Channel studios where you belong. 

 

 

For being soo stupid, Joy

For being soooo stupid, Joy Behar sure seems to be quite certain about a lot of things.  Maybe there is a connection there.....

 And I don't know if Hasselbeck is locked into a contract with Baba Wawa but I'd be looking to dump that couch full of brain damage and get a job where I wasn't treated like a Special Olympics competitor by people who eat soup with forks.

factcheck.org

Speaking of fact checking: factcheck.org is the run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania founded by the same money that founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. While I have no idea if the Annenberg's intended their generosity to be used in the efforts of social engineering and attempts at skewing information but it is seems that the projects supported by the funds supplied by the Annenberg estate are being used to create a socialist America through schools, college campuses and 'information' websites.

The Annenberg Foundation is

The Annenberg Foundation is now run by Leonore Annenberg, a Stanford educated liberal arts major.  Need we say more.  Those who say "Annenberg was a Reagan conservative" had better be clear, Walter Annenberg was a Reagan conservative.  Leonore is totally unknown.

Who knows what Walter or Leonore knew when handing out money to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, my bet is that the old guy (he was in or near 90 at the time the challenge was funded), didn't know that Ayers was involved, or if he did, it was under the guise of his father, Thomas Ayers, the Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison (one fo the largest power companies at the time).  Yes, Billy was a spoiled brat terrorist, the worst kind.

Remember that great conservative, Barry Goldwater?  Remember what happened to him when he married that much younger liberal gold(water)digger Susan Shaffer Wechsler just a few years before his death?  He went left.  Don't know if that happened with the Annenbergs, but i'm developing suspicions.

In any case, factcheck.org is neither factual, nor checking squat.  It's very clear that they are injecting their own subjective liberal messages.

Thanks

Thanks, Leonore Annenberg is a good place for me to start tracking info.  Maybe we can find her campaign contributions?

BLOHAR: Obida glibida blahby

BLOHAR: Obida glibida blahby dloaskd kvchhhh Barack in a blahblahbada.

[laughter] [applause] [more laughter] [series of dots]

The View studio audience, drunk again.

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