Another celebrity uses the same tired line that Bush has trampled on the Constitution. This time it is Richard Lewis pontificating on the October 17 edition of "The View." Calling for Americans to get out and vote Lewis also blamed "fundamentalists" for America’s demise.
"The Constitution has been trampled the last eight years, period. This is not what this America is supposed to be for. I have friends if they’re pregnant and they don’t want to have a child, I go ‘oh God I respect that.’ It’s the reverse. It’s the- this country is a reasonably great country, about 85 percent, I’m just making that up. It’s the fundamentalists that are screwing this up. I think it’s the, I think it’s the- the comedy will mean nothing."
Earlier in the show, Joy Behar, bizarrely hypothesized that Republicans are "all blondes" "except for Sarah Palin" (Behar is obviously forgetting Laura Bush) The segment then led the panel to address the rumors that Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving "The View" for Fox News. Hasselbeck denied such rumors declaring "I certainly love my ladies here. I’m not going anywhere."
Finally, Joy Behar announced she saw the Oliver Stone film, "W," and surprise, surprise, she thought it’s "fabulous," and added "it’s incredible how close George Bush and Sarah Palin are."
Relevant portions of the transcript follow.
JOY BEHAR: You know what? She’s a Republican. They’re all blondes.
[laughter]
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: They’re not. That is not true.
BEHAR: It is. Except for Sarah Palin-
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Sarah Palin has highlights. I noticed she’s got a little high lights there.
BEHAR: She’ll be blond. If they win, she’ll be blonde. Believe me. [laughter] And if she loses, she’ll be blonde and have a job on Fox TV because they’re all blonde over there. True or not true?
HASSELBECK: That’s, that’s such a-
BEHAR: Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
HASSELBECK: Please don’t, please- wait, whoa, whoa, whoa! Please don’t put me in the same sentence as Ann Coulter. Thank you very much.
BEHAR: No, she’s a Republican though and blonde.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And let’s clear this up. Are you going anywhere?
HASSELBECK: I’m not going anywhere.
GOLDBERG: Okay, let’s just get that out of the way.
[applause]
BEHAR: Oh, the Fox thing? No.
HASSELBECK: I mean, look, I love Fox. I’m staying here.
GOLDBERG: I just wanted to clear that up.
BEHAR: Everybody asks me. People are constantly stopping me. Is Elisabeth leaving and going to Fox? So tell them outright again I am not saying it.
HASSELBECK: I am not leaving "The View."
SHEPHERD: You are not leaving.
HASSELBECK: I certainly love my ladies here. I am not going anywhere.
[applause]
GOLDBERG: Just before we go. What did you go to see that was interesting?
BEHAR: I went to see "W," which is an indictment against George W. Bush and you-
GOLDBERG: Was it a good movie?
BEHAR: It’s fabulous! [laughter] And it’s incredible how close George Bush and Sarah Palin are, just saying.
[...]
RICHARD LEWIS: The Constitution has been trampled the last eight years, period. This is not what this America is supposed to be for. I have friends if they’re pregnant and they don’t want to have a child, I go "oh God I respect that." It’s the reverse. It’s the- this country is a reasonably great country, about 85 percent, I’m just making that up. It’s the fundamentalists that are screwing this up. I think it’s the, I think it’s the- the comedy will mean nothing.
GOLDBERG: So it doesn’t, you don’t think it has any effect.
LEWIS: It’s the ten percent of the people that are going to have to say do we want to have the country that the founders wanted or do we want to just screw up this whole amazing idea to have the greatest country in the world? And that’s what’s going down.
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It amazes me when people who
October 17, 2008 - 13:55 ET by SmartypantsIt amazes me when people who know nothing about the Constitution feel qualified to state when it has been "trampled". Of course, people like Lewis don't care about the Constitution. If it was B.O. "trampling" it, that would be just fine. So Democrats can tell us what kind of light bulbs we have to use in our homes or take over half of our pay checks away from us and that's fine, but George W. Bush cannot listen to terrorist phone calls, because he's "trampling" the Constitution.
Richard Lewis is a comedian?
October 17, 2008 - 13:56 ET by mizflame98I didn't know that. I saw his act once and I thought he was imitating a whiny little girl.
“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
Funny, how the liberals now
October 17, 2008 - 14:01 ET by Chris NormanFunny, how the liberals now rely on "comedians" and party hacks as their "brain trust" to present the "intellectual" arguments for liberalism..
McNotObama '08
So true
October 20, 2008 - 09:43 ET by seldumondeThat would be funny if it wasn't true... they're about to put Al Franken in the Senate. Truly, I don't know what universe I have managed to slip into.
Liberals don't like fundamentalists
October 17, 2008 - 14:05 ET by c5thenMainly because they don't like being reminded that there are standards and rules that can not be violated without paying the consequenses. Since they didn't agree to them, they feel that they shouldn't be held to them.
It's ironic that it's all about choice, but they ususally make the wrong one.
Ironic, isn't it...
October 17, 2008 - 14:12 ET by Paul Atreideshow liberals have their own fundamentalism.
Question it, and you'll get the Joe The Plumber treatment.
but all blondes aren't conservative
October 17, 2008 - 14:10 ET by mom_roxCondi better call quickly for a coloring appointment - changing her hair color to blonde may take a while.
regarding Barack Obama's tax plan - I never received a job from a poor person.
Another VH1: Where are they now? documentary subject
October 17, 2008 - 14:11 ET by Paul Atreidesrears his ignorant mouth.
I'm amazed at all of the people, whose rights have been taken away from them, are able to get up on a nationally-broadcast mainstream television show and declare all sorts of wild, unsubstantiated accusations without being machine-gunned by the government. Please, Richard, give us directions to Cheney's dungeons so that we can see where you and your liberal friends were taken to lose your rights.
richard lewis?
October 17, 2008 - 14:12 ET by candanceThat Richard Lewis?
He's a constitutional lawyer now?
Behar is humbled by his genius.
Richard Who?
October 17, 2008 - 14:14 ET by YahooWatcherRichard Lewis? Was he on Hollywood Squares?
He Was the Round One...
October 17, 2008 - 15:03 ET by dodecahedronI think he sat on Whoopie's lap.
Filthy By Association...
October 17, 2008 - 14:43 ET by dodecahedronIt's interesting that Elizabeth Hasselback doesn't want to be put in the same sentence as Ann Coulter, but she doesn't mind being in the same pigpen every day as Behar and Goldberg.
Run Elizabeth! Run!
Richard Lewis
October 17, 2008 - 14:46 ET by gkm1959When I first saw the photo, I thought it was Crackhead Bob from the old Stern show.
What a burn out!!!!
WOW...
October 17, 2008 - 14:59 ET by killbill2I thought Richard Lewis was dead...
Lewis...you burnt out old
October 17, 2008 - 15:03 ET by bigtimerLewis...you burnt out old dying breed...get a grip...do you not watch the news and follow the bouncing ball on who is getting trampled on you one man freak show... ACORN Lewis...wake up..oh never mind, you and all your ilk are lemmings who don't have a clue about anything when it somes to reality...La-La-Land hasn't done you any good at all...
As to Elizabeth...I have never cared for her, I try to refrain from saying anything deragotry here about her out of respect for others opinions, but she went and proved my point today as to her words about not putting her in the same sentence with Coulter...
Elizabeth, you have always been in the same category as other weak-kneed so-called conservatives the msm loves to use...you sweetheart, couldn't hold a flicker of a flame on a candle to Anne...
Go fly a kite...and take your other clucking hens with you.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Amen BT
October 17, 2008 - 15:20 ET by cocodrieAnn Coulter is my kind of woman.
Richard Lewis is just another tvland boob!
October 17, 2008 - 15:06 ET by IamTinmanAlong with Joy and Babs.
I can't rant any more about these losers. Their own words should be obvious enough.
Fundementalists built this country whose freedoms Lewis and Behar enjoy.
Enough said, my stomachs getting nervous .
Trample This!
October 17, 2008 - 15:07 ET by TeamcheeserThey actually have a picture of Obama's buddy, William Ayers, trampling the U.S. flag.
Oh wait. Richard Lewis wasn't being literal... never mind.
Comment
October 17, 2008 - 15:13 ET by VinncyG"Richard who"?
LOL
October 17, 2008 - 15:40 ET by oilcanWell Richard, the Consitution may have been trampled upon the last eight years [in your opinion], but be prepared for it to be burned to ashes the first 100-days of an O administration. In its place, The Manifest Destiny by Karl Marx will be our guiding light for our government.
Richard, I've seen your act.
October 17, 2008 - 19:31 ET by Mike BrattonYou're a funny guy.
But cogent political analysis is above your pay grade.
And speaking as one of those fundamentalists you don't like, let me suggest you rethink your advocacy of abortion-because-you-don't-like-the-political-climate. "I have friends if they’re pregnant and they don’t want to have a child, I go 'oh God I respect that.'"
Gee, Richard, how can anyone reasonably respect the killing of a child because Mom (and, possibly, Dad) isn't fond of who's currently occupying the White House?
Oh, and lay off the Botox for awhile. You've got that sleepy-eyed Joe Biden look, and it's not fooling anyone.
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport...
Comedy Central
October 17, 2008 - 19:35 ET by misterbillMaher, Lewis, Goldberg, Franken, Garofalo--
They'll have you in stitches!!!!!!
I dimly remember a time when "comedians" made me laugh.
The Ugly Hags View...
October 17, 2008 - 23:59 ET by semolina_filcherand irrelevant celebretards. I can name all kinds of demeaning nomenklatura on all these individuals but that is far too up in my pay grade. Richard Lewis, didn't he play a king in the Robin Hood: Men in Tights movie? Shows you where he's been. Now he has some insight on how the USCons has been trampled upon for the last eight years? Really this Bush Derangement Syndrome has been overplayed and W isn't even running for office. And as for the Sea Hags, Joy Blowhard, just shut yer yap, will ya? Whoopsie Goldberg, that goes same for you. And my darling Elisabeth, Fox is beckoning...you need to join that group of Fox anchorettes. Leave the uglies behind with their contemptible alphabet networks. FrankenMaherGarofaloGoldbergBeharBernhardCho, a company of unfunny clowns.
Richard Lewis
October 18, 2008 - 08:46 ET by GeneralAlLeave it to a Hollywood Moron like Lewis to give us a lesson on the Constitution, and furthermore, try to lay the blame for "screwing it up" at the feet of Fundamentalists, AKA, Evangelicals! I wonder if this idiot even has ever read the Preamble or knows the difference between the the amendments and the Bill of Rights?
I am sick of these sicko celebreties acting as though they are the authoritative voice for the public to follow. They can "act" like an informed American, but I "am" an informed American and will never swallow any of this Communist bull!
Richard Lewis and Trampling on the Constitution
October 18, 2008 - 09:20 ET by GeneralAlLewis is right! The Constitution has been trampled on for the last eight years! It started with the "hanging and dimpled chads" in 2000! The Commiecrats wanted to win so bad that they came up with this idea of interpreting the way you would have voted when you failed to punch a choice for president. They even tried to see if there was some kind of "dimple" in the chad to imply that the person had tried to punch it but it didn"t go through! All this because we have come to see voting as a right instead of a priviledge. In the original Constitution voting was limited to property owners. They had a stake invested in this country and made responsible decisions based upon that stake. As time has proven, if you have nothing invested, you care less about the end result, leading up to modern day entitlements! We allow felons, illegals, and uneducated to make our choices for us. The Commiecrats carefully put a little sugar out there for these people to entice them to vote their way. Since it doesn't hinder their lifestyle, they don't care!
Since 2000, the Commiecrats have systematically manipulated elections, destroyed the lives of opponents, and recently threatened their opposition! Just ask Milt Rosenberg here in Chicago! Obama"s Storm Troopers all but threatened to send him to Auschwitz for having two people opposed to the Fuhrer-Messiah on his show. There is an old saying well worth repeating for the liberals AKA commies: "Be careful when you point your finger at someone, because you have three fingers pointing back at you!"
Yes , Richard Lewis is right! The Constitution has been trampled on by his America hating, race baiting, Christian bashing, and Communist loving friends in the Democrat AKA Communist Congress, media and Hollywood AKA Sodom and Gommorhea lunatics!
And the left wants to be
October 18, 2008 - 12:30 ET by rbosqueAnd the left wants to be taken seriously? If Bush "trampled" on the Constitution, then I wish they would point out exactly where he did so. Amazing how all these left wing comics have law degrees.