Joy Behar Asks Anti-Palin Author McGinniss If He Has 'Death Wish' for Writing Book
While CNN gave two tough interviews to Palin-bashing author Joe McGinniss, HLN's Joy Behar joked around with him on her Wednesday show. She referenced his newest tome on Sarah Palin and her family, full of nasty gossip and rumors, and jokingly asked "What, do you have a death wish, Joe?"
In the previous segment, Behar had made fun of Rush Limbaugh's past drug abuse in her interview with Levi Johnston. "Your mother was selling Oxycontin?" she asked Johnston. "What's she – what's up with that? Does she know Rush Limbaugh?"
Not finished with her fun, the HLN host had a laugh over McGinniss' creepy move into the house next door to the Palins. "Could you see Russia from that house?" Behar joked.
In the interview, McGinniss charged Palin as a "blatant racist and a "religious extremist," but Behar challenged only the latter accusation, remarking that Palin was barely a churchgoer – according to Levi Johnston, whom she used to fact-check McGinniss' book in the previous interview.
Behar did press McGinniss over his radical stories against Palin and her family – but while treating him as a respectable reporter, not the author of a book filled with gossip and rumors.
She also gave credence to the fringe conspiracy theory peddled by the Daily Beast, that prominent Republican figures are "Dominionists" and are pushing to end the separation of church and state in America. When McGinniss accused Palin of belonging to such a sect, Behar asked "how is she any different from, say, Rick Perry?"
The "Rogue" author absurdly claimed that the media gave Palin a pass in 2008, saying that "the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008, running for vice president."
Behar made no attempt to challenge his assumption, instead attempting to explain it. "Well, the media likes sort of a star. She's kind of a star."
[Video below. Click here for audio.]
A transcript of the segment, which aired on September 21 at 10:30 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
[10:30]
BEHAR: In his best-sellers "Fatal Vision" and "Blind Faith" Joe McGinniss told the stories of a couple of notorious murderers. In his new book, he looks into the lives of Sarah Palin and her family. What do you have a death wish, Joe? Joining me now is the author of "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," Joe McGinnis. Welcome to the show, Joe.
JOE MCGINNISS, author, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin": Thank you, Joy.
BEHAR: Now, let's start with the moving in next door. I know everybody talks to you about this, but you moved into a house right next door to Sarah up in Wasilla. And here's my question. Could you see Russia from that house?
(Laughter)
(...)
MCGINNISS: But, you know, the thing is, this is a woman who believes that she was anointed by God to have a career in politics, to make America into a Christian republic because the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008, running for vice president, she got to within a few percentage points and one heart beat away from the presidency of the United States.
BEHAR: I know that.
MCGINNISS: Despite the fact that she's a religious extremist, a blatant racist and utterly unqualified to hold any office.
BEHAR: I didn't get that she was trying to turn the nation into a Christian nation or that she was that religious. In fact, I just interviewed Levi Johnston, her son-in-law and he says that she was not religious at all. She went to church twice a year.
MCGINNISS: She may not practice on a regular basis. But since before she ran for the Wasilla City Council, she's been governed by the theology of the Assembly of God, a Dominionist Christian sect that believes in the end – in ending the separation between church and state in America.
BEHAR: Well, how is she any different from, say, Rick Perry?
MCGINNISS: Does Rick Perry want to end the separation of church and state?
BEHAR: I don't think he wants to keep it the way it is so much.
MCGINNISS: Well, he may not. But Sarah is – Sarah`s spiritual adviser is a woman who believes in witchcraft. You know, this is going back into Christine O`Donnell country. You know, Sarah was anointed by that bishop from Kenya a few years ago to protect her from demons. These people are so far out on the fringe, that I don't think they have any business near a national office. And I think that the media – they were so bedazzled by Sarah's freshness, her sauciness, her charm, her personality, her – that they didn`t even look behind the mask. They didn't try to –
BEHAR: Well, the media likes sort of a star. She's kind of a star.
MCGINNISS: She's kind of a star.
BEHAR: And I think the media is drawn to that whether you like her or you don't like her. She's very attractive.
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If there were ever a set of
If there were ever a set of reptiles, it's Joy and Joe..
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
marpel
I agree with your first line. As for the second-I think it's "Deep within my heart lies a melody" Mickey Mouse, I know, but I can't help it -I'm a old country musician.
I wonder how Joy would feel
I wonder how Joy would feel if a stalker had moved in next door to her
and watched her and her children?
joy
talk about looking dead....Joy grab a mirror...get scared they could use that
pulled together face for rubber band stress tests.
BEHAR: I don't think
Well that pretty much says it all.
If he had a death wish, he
If he had a death wish, he would have written a book about Mohammed.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
If he had a death wish, he
If he had a death wish, he would have written a book about Mohammed.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Huh, really?
"...the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008..."
Sorry to quote obama's campaign slogan, but WTF???
Are these people seriously this stupid, or just this evil, i keep askin'
Bingo.
That massive army of lawyers, reporters and private investigators that descended on Alaska were just there for the salmon fishing.
Ahhh.. thanks Sicko'
I completely forgot about salmon season up there.
;-)
Who Cares About Joy Behar?
I don't care what she has to say. Please stop covering her. I don't care how outlandish her outburst. She doesn't matter. See how well behaved she was during the Cheney interview on The View. She spews on her own show - who cares?
Stop covering her.
I second that motion
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A blatant racist?...
In the interview, McGinniss charged Palin as a "blatant racist."
But he also claims that Sarah had a "fetish" for black men at the time and he quotes a friend as saying Sarah had "hauled (Rice's) ass down. They did it in a dorm room, and she was the aggressor!"
"You know, Sarah was anointed by that bishop from Kenya a few years ago to protect her from demons." Kenyan minister Thomas Muthee is not white.
"MCGINNISS: Despite the fact that she's a religious extremist, a blatant racist and utterly unqualified to hold any office." Where is your qualification to make such a determination? I don't see the title of Doctor associated with your name! Robert KKK Byrd was an utter racist, klan member, and he held on to his office until he died!
..."she's been governed by the theology of the Assembly of God, a Dominionist Christian sect that believes in the end – in ending the separation between church and state in America." What is the name for the liberals who insist on the anti-Constitutional wall of separation?
Behar and the Media's double-standard
Every time Ann Coulter goes on any show, they pick the most incendiary quotes they can find and then for the rest of the interview badger her about the vileness of the quotes and tell her she needs to apologize.
We NEVER see the same standard applied to wretches like Behar, Maher or even Jon Stewart or Colbert who regularly throw down the ad hominem.
Brietbart
Has an article about this jerk and his writting credibility where he admits he is not sure of his own lies. I so wish Palin's would sue him and Randon House for millions and permently, shut this pervert up. Looking at him makes one wonder what his purpose in life amounts to. He has been sued before but, this time, he would hopefully be gone for good. What a piece of s$it
Uh-oh, looks like Breitbart strikes again
Dont look good for McGinniss, seems he was making up the headline grabbing parts of the book. Opening up himself and publisher to several suit by several folks. Who would of thunk?
McGinniss's (and his
McGinniss's (and his publisher) best move right now would be to get the best stable of lawyers money can buy. Never mind the talk shows. The lawsuits will be acoming soon. McGinniss is in for the legal battle of his life.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's a little interesting interpretation dealing with libel of public figures.
"In matters of libel, public figures are not as other mortals, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a series of cases since 1964, the court has ruled that a public figure cannot collect libel damages without proving that "actual malice" was involved in the publishing of inaccurate and defamatory material. Actual malice, said the court, means publishing with knowledge that a statement is false or with "reckless disregard" of whether it is false or not."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945563,00.html
Mark Levin was just reading some of McGinniss' emails indicating that he knew some of the allegations were probably false.
This is going to get good.
Yep, that were I heard it
Levin. Must say, it couldnt of happened to a creepier guy
Not qualified to hold public office?
She was a lot more qualified than the idiot in there now who's destroying this country at a rate faster than I thought possible.
I find it despicable that among the other lies he attacks Palin over the birth of Trig. Besides the fact that there is no basis in such a claim, it puts an innocent child and her the rest of family in the middle of a disgusting scandal.
I'm sorry but liberals can be
I'm sorry but liberals can be really creepy.
No Joy
No Joy it is not conservatives or republicans who make death threats when we are being smeared. It is MUSLIMS or liberals who make death threats when some tells the truth about them.
Remember what Ronald Reagan said, if you want to make a conservative mad, tell them a lie, if you want to make a liberal mad, tell them the truth. That is even more true today.
Joy Behar's head is full of cement.
Joy Behar never had a thought in her incompetent cement head.Why would 'The View' have on this piece of trash McGinniss anyway except to attack all Republicans and Conservative. Behar and Goldberg are leftist trash.
Has an article about this
Has an article about this jerk and his writting credibility where he admits he is not sure of his own lies. I so wish Palin's would sue him and Randon House for millions and permently, shut this pervert up. Looking at him makes one wonder what his purpose in life amounts to. He has been sued before but, this time, he would hopefully be gone for good. What a piece of s$it
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