Joy Behar: NPR Not Liberal Because 'Objective' Media Matters Says So
If you were wondering just how far to the left Joy Behar's political views skew, wonder no more.
Discussing National Public Radio's firing of Juan Williams, Behar pitched the tired line that NPR is actually a middle of the road news organization. Her logic (I use the term loosely): "NPR has been vetted by objective Media Matter-type people and they have found that…NPR is very balanced."
You know it's time to recalibrate your metrics for political neutrality when the far-left blog Media Matters earns the label "objective" (video and transcript below the fold).
Of course if you accept Behar's absurd premise that Media Matters is objective, it logically follows that NPR is also middle-of-the-road. if your political views are so far to the left that you consider those Soros-funded character assassins in any way fair or neutral, then it stands to reason you also would not recognize NPR's lefty slant.
Ironically, Behar's view of NPR is skewed even beyond that of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the organization that got Williams fired. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, told Fox News's Megyn Kelly: "NPR obviously has a more liberal viewpoint."
Apparently Behar's political center is to the left even of CAIR's.
Here is a video and transcript of the segment:
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BARBARA WALTERS:If you are a commentator and you’re giving opinions, you’re in one category.
SHERRI SHEPPARD: Is that a pundit?
WALTERS: You can call it a pundit. If you are supposedly giving the news straight, you’re not supposed to give your opinions. Now, that’s changed so much. We’re in a whole other time now. Everybody has an opinion. If you don’t make more noise or scream louder or so on, you don’t get the rating. So it is a funny blurred line. they said he’s a journalist, he’s a correspondent, he’s not supposed to give opinions. But when he goes on another cable show like Fox and does it — so it’s a very blurry line. In the meantime, we hope he’ll come on with us and, if nothing else, give Joy and Whoopi 10%.
SHEPPARD: Bring your checkbook if you want.
BEHAR: I don’t need the money. but the thing of it is that NPR has been vetted by objective Media Matter-type people and they have found that –
ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: Media Matters?
BEHAR: I don’t know if it’s Media Matters, but I was just watching, maybe someone could find this out for me. they have found NPR is very balanced, unlike Fox, which is not balanced. Fox has now become the arm of the Republican Party.
Keep this exchange in mind the next time Behar says, well, anything.
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Ultra-conservative far right-wing NPR
Submitted by ThisnThat on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:08pm.
I can see it coming any day now.
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Pearls of wisdom flow from
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:15pm.
Pearls of wisdom flow from her mouth, and they float.
I didn't know pearls were
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:34pm.
I didn't know pearls were brown and stinky...oh wait, that's not her mouth.
Brown Floaty Pearls
Submitted by Prince of Peeps on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 1:07am.
Oh, yes it is from her mouth.
See ya'
Submitted by jdlybrand on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:16pm.
Keep on moving that goal post Joy, pretty soon you'll be out of the stadium.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
"I don't know"
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:17pm.
Just stop right there, Joy. Leave it at "I don't know', you'll appear far less stupid than you do when you go on to parrot the WH and DNC talking points.
If there was never another "View" post here
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:19pm.
....I would be very pleased.
Well, except for ones where BOR incites them to publicly exhibit their intolerance and stupidity, I can watch that with the sound off.
These women are dumber than a box of rocks. The sad thing is, people actually agree with them. Why, or how, I haven't a clue.
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How dare you insult a box of
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:20pm.
How dare you insult a box of rocks that way.
What's changed, Barbara?
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:22pm.
Walter Cronkite gave his opinion on the Vietnam War when he anchored the CBS Evening News.
Remember the anecdote of LBJ watching Cronkite and saying, "My God, I've lost Cronkite."
Or the yellow journalism of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst.
So, what's different now?
Stop the whining about how journalism is going down the toilet. Journalism was never the pure, professional craft Walters and friends have immortalized it to be. It's just gotten broader and nastier.
A new word ...joybehar
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:23pm.
Examples:
1. Ah, it's a bunch of joybehar.
2. She is a real joybehar.
3. Situation normal, all joybehar.
Balance point
Submitted by mustango on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:26pm.
When Media Matters, NPR and Joy Behar define themselves as the balance point, it's little wonder how large the "fringe" has gotten.
Behar remains one of the most
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:37pm.
Behar remains one of the most clueless and classless liberals I have ever seen on-air.
Good Lord....
Submitted by jdripper on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 12:49pm.
Look at that woman. She is ugly, just through and through ugly that is a female that there is no way anyone could ever declare attractive.
Jack
"So it is a funny blurred
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 1:05pm.
"So it is a funny blurred line. they said he’s a journalist, he’s a correspondent, he’s not supposed to give opinions."He spent 10 years giving opinion without getting fired, so clearly it was ok to give opinion.....as long as it was a liberal opinion.
Joy should become NASCAR driver....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 1:38pm.
...left turn....left turn...left turn....left turn....
Sure...she crashes and burns
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:35pm.
Sure...she crashes and burns regularly.
Joy Behar
Submitted by Lord-come-soon-... on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 1:40pm.
Joy Behar was, is, and shall always be the stupidest person I have ever seen on television. Her only real competition in the stupidity category is Sgt. Schultz.
Sanchez used to hold that
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:36pm.
Sanchez used to hold that title. 'Til he got fired.
I'll buy that
Submitted by Lord-come-soon-... on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 4:34pm.
I had already forgotten about Rick "Hit n' Run" Sanchez!
Joy???? I think Not!
Submitted by Yeti on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:13pm.
Joy is just frustrated that the elephants hoof that she is using for her neck needs replaced. How did this "Bastion of Knowledge" ever get a national voice?
Hey Remember when Media Matters Targeted Imus?
Submitted by laree on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:28pm.
Imus Fisk Bill O’Reilly, Over His Muslim Comment, Bill O’Reilly “I Don’t Object”
WHO IS IN IMUS’S FOX HOLE?
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2010/10/imus-fisk-bill-oreilly-over-his-muslim.html
Joy Behar is an unfortunate person, who apparently doesn't get that George Soros funds NPR, Media Matters, and his Tide Foundations is now behind Arrianna Huffington's Huffington Post.
Joy Behar doesn't think, she just spews on the view.
Of course Behar gets that
Submitted by ML Stovall on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:40pm.
Of course Behar gets that Soros funds NPR. She got the 'memo' just like the rest of the card-carrying media libtards. Do you think she's interested in anything that even resembles truth when it comes to the liberal socialst agenda?
I've said this Elsewhere, since Behar
Submitted by TCinAZ on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 2:45pm.
I've said this Elsewhere since Behar shot her cakehole off about the NPR, Media Matters and Juan Williams issue, But NPR Is ‘Balanced’ and Media Matters Is ‘Objective’, like Joy Behar is “the Voice Of The People”. Like she has “The Folks” as President TOTUS would say, Loving her "finger on the pulse" political acumen of the American Electoral Psyche, with the Latest case, being that of the State of Nevada's Pulse.
Oh yeah, and as For "Spurned Women", Joy. See Ugly Liberal Broads, both Inside And Out, who don't really have Anything Nice to say about those who actually Process Their thoughts before They start yap..yap..Yapping, then walk off the Set! Sound Familiar, Behar?
Good grief!
Submitted by Phryj1 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 3:07pm.
There are people who actually believe Media Matters is objective?!? I knew Joy Behar was stupid, but, holy crap, I didn't think she was THAT stupid!
I have a few friends out in L.A. trying to make it in the TV business. I'll let them know that all they have to do to get on a TV show is be mindlessly loyal, stupid, shrill, obnoxious leftists, and trash conservatives every other sentence.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
whats the difference between between Joy and a 737
Submitted by political maven on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 6:24pm.
The 737 stop whining once it lands in Miami
and as jew I am allowed to say>>>>
what a loudmouth, clueless, YENTA
Joy Behar is Crass
Submitted by Prince of Peeps on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 1:14am.
Joy Behar is Crass. No word describes her better.
Crass -- without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid
Joy Behar
Submitted by BarbArn on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 1:12pm.
We have to excuse the poor woman since she is handicapped. She has this tiny brain that can only hold one thought - her own opinion. She is, without a doubt, the dumbest, most narrowminded human being who has ever been given a microphone. She says "I hate" more than anyone I have ever seen on TV. Can't understand why anyone would take her seriously.