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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Silences Joy Behar by Pointing Out Bush is Just as Well Educated as Obama

By Noel Sheppard | April 12, 2011 | 22:59

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Joy Behar on Monday's "The View" crowed about Barack Obama being "a very intelligent guy" because he went to Harvard Law School and Columbia University.

Without skipping a beat, Elisabeth Hasselbeck marvelously asked, "Then doesn't that make President Bush very smart as well then? Yeah?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: In this country where Americans are supposed to be Americans, we have a group of people who after fact after fact after fact. It wouldn’t, if it was like a question that nobody knew the answer. But they have gotten the answer 500 million times and they're still asking the same dumb question. This is not about anything but crap. 

In case you couldn't tell, the ladies were once again talking about Donald Trump and Obama's birth certificate:

JOY BEHAR: And every time they ask it, his numbers go up every time he brings it up. 

BARBARA WALTER: What are they trying to do? Have him take an office, haha, he was born in Kenya, he should not be president, we should have a new election! 

SHERRI SHEPHERD: Mike Huckabee even said if they would, Hillary Clinton’s camp would have gotten him on that if he was not born in this country. 

GOLDBERG: Forget Hillary Clinton’s camp. How about the people that actually do that work to make sure that everyone who is running for president is, is a citizen? Because this idea that, I don’t know, but the thing that there must be something wrong, and, you know, he cheated. You know this is all B.S. This is all B.S. 

JOY BEHAR: You know what else he said? He said that the first book "Dreams from my Father" was written by this guy Ayers, this guy that they hate, that made a big to-do-da, and that the second book that Obama wrote was written by like a high school graduate or something. President Obama went to Harvard Law School and Columbia University, okay? He is a very intelligent guy. 

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Then doesn't that make President Bush very smart as well then? Yeah?

[Laughter]

GOLDBERG: And on that note we will be right back. 

BEHAR: She got me on that one.

At least Behar admitted she was gotten.

Wouldn't it be nice if the rest of the media that have been ridiculing Bush as an idiot while holding Obama up as the smartest president in history would recognize that they both have advanced degrees from Harvard?

A conservative can dream, can he?

Brava, Elisabeth. Brava!

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Inject Ertha Kitt saying

Submitted by dreamsincolor on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:03am.

puuuuuuuuuuuuufffffect-a

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I have to admit. I am kinda enjoying this.

Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:12am.

Ann Coulter was on Hannity the other night saying "every responsible, conservative organization to look at it and shot it down, which is why you hear it being talked about exclusively on the liberal cable stations".

This seems to be driving the liberals batpoo nuts. It just won't die. I don't know what Mr. Trump's endgame is he is certainly tickling the liberals loonybin switch, not throwing it, just push it a little, not making electrical contact, just push it a little bit, ah, it's back, ok push just a hair. let go, ah, what if we push it just halfwayyyyyy. no. ok, let's try again.....

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Mr. Donald...

Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:39am.

He has nothing to lose, he's putting it all out there with no regrets. I think he has NO chance of being elected, he's just doing what all the rebubs won't/can't do for political purposes... he has big nads! Ask the questions Donald, no biggee. Where is all Barry's papers?? I have no prob with that. I don't give a flying rat's gonads about the birth cert... but where are all his papers from school?? from his senate stuff and his lawer stuff?? Why bury/hide it?? I don't get it. Good for the Donald to ask what everyone else is chicken sh!!te to ask. Go for it Donald!
Common Col. West, jump in there! We can do it!!!
Otherwise, I pick The Vet for Prez, He won't pull no punches!

_____________________________________________________________ I'm not too drunk to dance! It's just that people keep stepping on my hands!
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Just as the saying is used in

Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:28am.

Just as the saying is used in professional wrestling, it is applicable to politics: "never say never."

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Slam-dunk!!!

Submitted by Ozconservative on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:14am.

Good job Elizabeth!!

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill
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Pardon Me

Submitted by Jerry Mack on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:33am.

Please excuse my outrightness. But I do believe that anyone that watches this show on even a semiregular bases is dumber than a pickle.

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As a pickle...

Submitted by falcon on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:04am.

...I am outraged you would say such a thing.

You do a great disservice to pickles everywhere.

:-)

Gherkins, on the other hand...

“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.

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I wish Donald would have put

Submitted by Okieflyover on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:34am.

I wish Donald would have put his effort into saying Obama was a socialist rather than this birther stuff

That is what I want to see debated.

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Finally Elisabeth stands up!

Submitted by brutony1 on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 3:33am.

Shes been taking their sh*t for years, esp Joyless Blowhards! Sometimes she seems like the female Morning Schmoe,,I wonder what happened after the View was over?

When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me

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Nicely scored, Elisabeth,

Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 6:04am.

now ask the follow-on: The BC is important, but what about Obysmal's other identity issue, i.e., his repeated use of a fraudulent SSN? For the rest of us, that's identity theft--a felony.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

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Love it

Submitted by Bob K on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 7:45am.

Especially when that has been Woopi says "Forget Hillary Clinton’s camp." Liberals don't like to be reminded that it was one of their own that started the whole birth certificate discussion in the first place.

Bob K
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Say what?

Submitted by ladeflippinda on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 8:00am.

Isn't this the same Hasselbeck who said Republicans have no chance in 2012?

Ladflippinda Republicans added to the debt too.
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Goldberg thinks there's a Dept. Of Presidential Vetting...

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 8:15am.

"All those people doing all that work..."

The fact that Obama is president proves that not only is there no Dept. of Vetting, but not even one designated official vetter.

Of course, we DO have a huge Federal Dept. of Protecting Obama, which includes all of MSM.

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The DOV

Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 8:24am.

The Dept. of Presidential Vetting is only activated when a Republican or Conservative sticks their little mole head up in the media Whack-a-Mole game.

. . Socialist = Modern Liberal = Parasitoid
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Ahh... Yes...

Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 8:26am.

...The infamous FDPO. May I submit that the department be renamed to something like the "Federal Dept. of Protecting Obama's STATUS"... You know... the FD-POS...

"There... Are... Four... Lights!"

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Priceless

Submitted by Jake6 on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 8:21am.

Behar looks like she swallowed a squirrel.

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Oh, that poor squirrel...

Submitted by falcon on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:04am.

n/t

“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.

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No chewing necessary.

Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:29am.

No chewing necessary.

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Obama an intelligent guy

Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:15am.

Obama an intelligent guy because he went to Harvard and Columbia? I beg to differ, until he releases his school records he is the DUMBEST guy out there. I am sure he is an Affirmative Action student with a C average grade. And he probably got that grade because his libturd teachers did not want to hurt his self esteem.

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." President Ronald Reagan
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Now you know......

Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:50am.

Now you know why Steadman, I mean, AG Eric Holder ordered the city of Dayton to accept 58% as a passing score on fireman and policeman exams. Maobama's grades were probably in the mid-70% range and grading "on the curve" would make him an "A" student!

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That's a helluva curve.

Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:20pm.

That's a helluva curve.

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Does anyone have a definitive answer?

Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 10:27am.

All I ask IS, do these "certificates of live birth" show the nationality, religion and Mommy and Daddy on them?

Born here, totally probably, Muslim at birth, even more likely.

That is what I think he has spent many bucks to hide.

If you make poverty easy, you will have more of it. Benjamin Franklin
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Muslim at birth - most likely

Submitted by dreamsincolor on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 12:25am.

As was his father, given the religion, it stands to reason; if the father is, the boy is. Let us not mention that his father was, at the time of Jr's birth - a British subject. I too wonder if the BC indicates religion. Personally, I'm leaning toward it being a BC issued upon his adoption by Lolo, giving his name as Soetero.

Think of this: IF this is an actual conspiracy... How many laws were broken by people in positions of leadership and authority? The list would be long indeed. I can't imagine the number, Reid, Pelosi and Biden are the tip. That doesn't include the states that certified him to be on the ballot.

If this is a real thing, watergate will look like a spec of fly dung on the ocean.

So, I am sitting in the comfort of my fluffy chair reading all I can, about everything there is, politics, politicians, unions, protests, wars, no-fly-zones, 14 trillion (caps?) dollar debt, wars in three countries, chocolate milk banning and I just can not bring myself to believe that that many people would allow the Presidency to be usurped. Let me be clear here: I HATE the left but I don't believe that many people could be complicit about something and not spill like a two year old with a full can of soda..

So, in my mind it HAS to be something else, it IS something, otherwise...

And yes, Herman (ABC) has my vote (as does Allen West if he were to run.)
Both of them: REAL black American MEN and I would be proud to call either of them: brother.

character not color - ya know?

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GWB was an open book -

Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:55am.

his grades/classes/were looked at inside out-BHO-did he go to school-where are his papers-grades.

Fast & Furious along with Solyndra are example of who BHO is BHO Policies have caused Failed Economy- Liberals = Wealth Re-distribution

 

 

 

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You know, I doubt OBozo even WENT to college!

Submitted by brutony1 on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:52pm.

We wouldnt know that for sure,,guess what? I dont think hes that smart,,hes NOT a smart guy-hes a smarty pants, to be sure, but not intelligent,,hes a classic case of why Affirmative Action DOESNT work!

When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me

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