Earlier today my colleague Tim Graham noted how on February 5, Time magazine's Michael Grunwald compared GOP critics of the Democratic stimulus package to the geese that downed US Airways Flight 1549:
It's hard to take Republican leaders too seriously when they criticize the recovery plans for the economy; it's sort of like those geese criticizing the evacuation plans for US Airways Flight 1549.
Well, Grunwald's quip got a larger audience today as a co-host of ABC's "The View" regurgitated the line on the Feb. 10 edition of that program:
There's a lot of obstruction going on, it seems to me. You know, Obama's like that pilot Sullenberg, -berger, who, you know, and the Republicans are like the geese that flew into the, you know, it's like they're stopping the plane.
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Joy To The World:
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 17:48 ET by TeamcheeserBehar (reading from post-it notes...):
"I... uh... you know... can't... have... an... original... thought."
A silly goose like this
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 17:55 ET by Chris NormanA silly goose like this squawker should be careful about repeating certain quotes...
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Forget Joy and her inane
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 18:22 ET by bigtimerForget Joy and her inane BS...I don't give a flying fig what this imbecile says, anytime, anywhere.
What I want to know is just what CAN'T Whoopi take anymore?
How is she or any of her ilk getting hurt?
Give me a break.
Obama is like the geese
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 18:44 ET by eaglewingz08Obama is like the geese which is trying to screw up the economy with his libtard proscriptions. Republicans are like Sullenberger trying to avoid these stalinists and neutralize their disasterous policies.
Right you are
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 18:57 ET by bigtimerRight you are ea08...
...at least he is first class all the way...something neither of the critters chattering have a clue about...or ever will.
Just maybe...
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 19:19 ET by ontheright...it's like Obama is the unions who allowed this plane to fly when there were documented issues only a few days, weeks prior...and the Repubs are the pilot who had to do the best he could, with what he had...
Republicans like to get
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 19:49 ET by rbosqueRepublicans like to get sucked into jet intakes! Check!
Obama is like the brave pilot. Check!
Joy Behar needs a hemispherectomy and radical craniofacial surgery. Check!
Joy BlowHard
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 19:51 ET by God Bless the USAJoy BlowHard's at it again. Spewing on the View. RUN ELISABETH, RUN.
Same old Behar....
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 20:18 ET by motherbeltThis is nothing new for Joy; she is shameless about stealing material.
I caught her last year criticizing President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, in exactly the same words that had been used in a newspaper article. And she passed if off as her own, thinking she sounded so smart an intellectual (that was the giveaway)>
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
this show...
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 20:21 ET by katainkent968K viewers on average. That's more than watch the evening news programs. (except Fox). How sad is that?
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke
Just out of curiousity
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 20:26 ET by bigtimerJust out of curiousity anybody know whatever happened to Justin who used to cover the view for years here?
I wish him well where-ever he is...we all gave him so much heck about The View....just in jest towards him.
bigtimer
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 22:38 ET by sherylsimsWas Justin the one who went to the DNC and went around outside and talked to the people hanging out there? I remember he asked a communist woman to give him her hat (cuz they don't believe in private ownership of property) she told him no. That was my first exposure to Newsbusters. Ahhh the memories. The young man was a genius I tell ya!
Too stupid and unfunny for
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 22:32 ET by Radical1979Too stupid and unfunny for words. She was once a teacher?! No wonder our school system is failing. How will she blame the Republicans now that the spending, forgive me, stimulus bill has passed?
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Tue, 02/10/2009 - 23:56 ET by reality vs libsWhoppi says, "but damnit I just want somebody to try something". Ok Whoppi, just trying something is good enough? Anybody can just "try something". How about trying something that will work. Joy steals the line "the republicans are like the geese" blah blah blah. The geese in this instance are doing the right thing (except three RINO'S) as they are trying to modify this stupid waste of money pork spending bill.
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
Calvin Coolidge
And we are surprized?
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 01:13 ET by NorthCoasterAnd we are surprized to find Joy is sharing a play book with other Leftists??
Oh, come on now,
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 11:55 ET by FastEdit's not like the libs "borrow" from others. That's like saying the NYT's never hired anyone who would "borrow" stories - oh wait, never mind. (Borrowed from Imus, so there - attributed)
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Behar reads "Time" because,
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 12:59 ET by HockeyKidBehar reads "Time" because, judging by its title, "National Review" has words with too many letters.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
wow
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 13:14 ET by texan1953Is she still alive?