Barbara Walters Scolds Joy Behar for Saying GOP Candidates Are Unprepared Like Palin
Barbara Walters gave Joy Behar a well-deserved dressing down on ABC's The View Monday.
After the liberal comedian said Sarah Palin "was completely unprepared for the [vice presidential] job as are a lot of the candidates right now that we’re watching in some of those debates,” Walters responded by providing her co-host the legislative and executive experience of the remaining Republicans in the race (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
After introducing the subject of HBO’s “Game Change,” Walters said it depicted former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as “unprepared, uninformed, and uncooperative.”
Behar responded, “She was completely unprepared for the job as are a lot of the candidates right now that we’re watching in some of those debates.”
Joy then had some predictable give and take with Elisabeth Hasselbeck that led to the lone conservative on the panel saying that after this primary process, “We’re looking at candidates now who would be prepared.”
When she got her chance, Walters scolded, “Joy, you just said that the current candidates were unprepared.” She continued, “Rick Santorum was a Senator from Pennsylvania for twelve years, and a member of the House of Representatives for four years. He’s had experience. You may not agree with him, but he’s had experience.”
Surprisingly, Walters added, “Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts for four years. Newt Gingrich served 20 years in the House.”
Behar suddenly changed her tune joking, “Yeah, he’s over-prepared.”
“So you can’t say he’s underprepared,” responded Walters. “You may not like these candidates, but you cannot say that they are uninformed.”
Actually, she can, and like most of her liberal colleagues, she would have gotten away with it if someone wasn't there to correct her.
Brava, Barbara! Brava!
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The bland leading the blind.
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:29pm.
The bland leading the blind.
Obama
Submitted by driguana on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:31pm.
Good heavens, what experience did Obama have to become the president??? Why don't they answer that question? Why doesn't someone bring that question up again and vet it in light of the past three years???!!! They'll throw out the "he was a senator" bone or "he was a community organizer" bit or that he "taught constitutional law".....it was all smoke and mirrors and it really is time for the tables to be turned. The questioning needs to come up from the local levels so that a huge groundswell of concern is raised as we move into the next election. Time for people in this country to stand up to the truth.
Sorry Barbara
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:39pm.
Blind squirrel, stopped clock, lather, rinse, repeat. You gave up your credibility card about the same time you got your AARP card. Go away now.
Almost right
Submitted by deadeyedan on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:41pm.
Mz. Behar came close to veracity when she called Newt "overprepared".
Now if the remaining Republican primary electorate could just figure out that if they're going to look back far enough to find Newt's "baggage" (at least 90% contrivance) they ought to look that far back at his track record.
That's the only track record proven to be able to unglue us from our current morass.
LIBERALISM - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists
Small World
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:45pm.
In Behars' world a person is only qualified to be President if they are a Liberal Democrat.
BaBa Wawa
Submitted by Nosmo on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:47pm.
Put Baba Wawa,Bwany Fwank and Tom Bwokaw in the same room...just sayin
LOL
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:53pm.
My lips would cramp, and my tongue would be exhausted simply having introduced them as such! Thanks, laugh after a long day, best medicine.
A smart moment in an otherwise lifetime of stupid.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:57pm.
That's Baba Wawa's moment today.
hmmm
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 6:04pm.
I truly wonder how many View watchers are actual voters. Not just every 4 years. Perhaps they are the object lesson on why you should NOT vote unless you are informed?
Ronald Reagan
No Republican Candidate is prepared
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 6:30pm.
. . . to be stabbed in the back by their campaign staff.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
That was inspired.
Submitted by PeskyDane on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:27pm.
That was inspired.
Obama Job Experience?
Submitted by Rikki_Doxx on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 6:42pm.
My Border Collie has more experience in a job than Obama.
Joyless Bray-Hard
Submitted by Blue_Turf on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 6:58pm.
Q: What offspring do you get if you bred Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell?
A: Joyless Bray-Hard. A fat, loudmouth ass-face.
A fat, foul-mouthed,
Submitted by JeffC... on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:08pm.
A fat, foul-mouthed, misogynist lesbian?
Lets give credit where it's due...
Submitted by seen the light on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:12pm.
good for Barbara. It's rare, but she deserves credit.
I agree
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 8:53am.
But she could have really slammed Joyless on her "rebuttal" to hasselback when she said "She (Palin) thought North and South Korea were two different countries". Guess what Joyless, you smarmy mouthed bigot? THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES! And this twit is slamming Palin? Friggin MORON!
A stopped clock is right twice a day...
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:20pm.
...but I think even Bahb-wa knows the stupidity of some statements need to be taken to task. Of course, her fawning interviews of Obamas vis a vis scathing interviews of Bush speaks far more volumes.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
Behar
Submitted by mmilesll on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:24pm.
Fat and stupid is not a way to go thru life (Animal House). Add to that big mouth who never seems to get both feet out of it (Joy Behar). That says it all.
Oh, the pain!!!
Submitted by tomchris on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:28pm.
2 minutes and 33 seconds of Joy Behar and "The View." 2 minutes and 33 seconds that I will never get back. Someone should cull all the clips from Newsbusters regarding "The View," splice them together, and show them to suspected terrorist. They'll be begging for Water Boarding.
Beyond
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 8:21pm.
the obvious folks, with all the "Limbaugh is the voice of the Republican party and everyone on the Left are just comedian"s, brouhaha, I'd really like one of them to tell me where Behar falls? She's not a comedian on the View, she's opinion TV, and she wasn't a "'comedian" on her ill fated show on HLN (or whatever it was called), so what is she? Piers Morgan (although comedic) is not a comedian, Baba Wawa (though senile) is not a comedian, so I would really like the NUANCE explained to my poor dull self here. Maher and Stewart are not to be taken seriously but they are "comedians" who show up on political forum programming. Me oh my, I must be just too obtuse to get the whole who is and is not a political commentator. Or, maybe it is as simple as right and left? Hmm.
Tired of this. The
Submitted by PeskyDane on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:38pm.
Tired of this. The North-South Korea "confusion" was a slip of the tongue. Confusing Elizabeth II with Gordon Brown is a myth. There is a lot to criticize Goveror Palin over, but we somehow never really get to it because of all the lies about her.
if Sarah was unprepared, what was Obama?
Submitted by mooseburger on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 10:40pm.
her comment did not even go the full mile since the premise that Sarah was inexperienced was not true either.
looks more like Behar is the one who is totally unqualified to comment on things she has absolutely no understanding and knowledge about.
may be she should go back to grammer school so she can read the facts instead of droning up the lies.
JOY
Submitted by gailannr on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 11:34pm.
Alasker? Alasker? What the hell language is that? I don't think you are qualified to talk!
Joy Behar is a Pig
Submitted by Metsie62 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 12:50am.
This bloated pig should not even be on television...this imbecile was touting "Black Friday" as having racist undertones 5 years ago on the air and she was taken to task by Whoopi Goldberg about the correct origin of the word....I don't agree with Ms Goldberg or Ms Walters but I respect their opinion. This bloated pasta makin' porcine should be jettisoned since she is (a) dumb as backfat on a rhino and (b) NOT FUNNY
Barbara ....send this pig to the pen...a two bit network like HLN even got the picture
Bye Bye Pig!!!