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Joy Behar: 'Where Are the Lefties Besides On Current TV?'

By Noel Sheppard | June 20, 2012 | 11:06

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Joy Behar asked a question Tuesday evening guaranteed to make conservatives across the fruited plain laugh uncontrollably.

Substitute-hosting for Eliot Spitzer on Al Gore's television network nobody knows exists let alone watches, the comedienne hysterically asked author Thomas Frank, "Where are the lefties besides on Current TV?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

THOMAS FRANK, AUTHOR: The other thing is, the argument that you made about regulation working, you know, that's a really good argument. It would work, it would work if we had another side in politics in America that was out there making that argument. The reason all of these conservative, this sort of conservative rebellion works is because you don't have, basically you don't have anyone making the opposite point. You don't have a movement on the left anymore.

JOY BEHAR, HOST: Why is that? Why? Where are the lefties besides on Current TV?

FRANK: [Laughs] Yeah, that’s right. Well, it's you and me, right?

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So I guess labor unions - despite Frank's later point that they've diminished in strength in recent decades - don't count. Nor does the Occupy movement.

As for media, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a liberal on television or in print.

But yet people on the left are always carping and whining that they have "no movement" and no vehicles to disseminate their views.

In reality, the problem is that they don't have a monopoly on this anymore, and the fact that the Right does have such platforms now has them in a constant state of panic as does the diminishing number of citizens allowing themselves to be brainwashed by their constant misinformation campaign.

Alas, freedom of speech and the press have become totally inconvenient for liberals now that conservatives have taken a slice of the pie.

All together now: awwwwww!

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— Noel Sheppard (@NoelSheppard) June 9, 2012

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Where are the Lefties?....

Submitted by watcher42 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:18am.

Well Joy(less) they are infesting our schools, are found chasing the ambulances, are walking the picket line protesting the fact they must actually work, are cued up at the welfare lines, Hell, they are all over the place!

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Well they are getting paid by the Obumbles campaign

Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:41am.

To protest and heckle Mitt Romney!

Liberals: No Morals, No Standards, NO Problem!
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dishonest or just plain stupid?

Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:31am.

this idiot is living proof that being a lefty requires neither brains nor integrity.

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dishonest or just plain stupid?

Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:32am.

this idiot is living proof that being a lefty requires neither brains nor integrity.

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It won't happen in my

Submitted by Kubrickfilmfan73 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:50am.

It won't happen in my lifetime, of course, but the older I get the more I find myself wondering if the day will come when television will go the way of the dodo. I also find myself thinking that day can't come soon enough.

"Compared to some of the giants of history who've received this prize . . . my accomplishments are slight."--Barack Obama, on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
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Awwww Joy found herself.......

Submitted by BEGRUNT on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:51am.

in the "Land of misfit toys", known as Current TV!

"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"

Cicero

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Kuso, why must we choose?

Submitted by MikeB on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:52am.

Kuso, why must we choose? Joyless Blowhard is both dishonest and just plain stupid. Weapons grade stupid. She is proof that possessing a Master's Degree (albeit in English) does not mean that you are capable of honesty, integrity, or critical thinking.
Ms. Blowhard, in answer to your question as to the loci of leftists, try MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, Occupy movement, DailyKos, HuffingtonPost, DemocratUnderground, LeftUnderground, NYT, the Democrat Party, the Green Party, Journalism schools, Normal schools, the US State Department, and on and on and on.
Lady, if you can't find lefties in this country, then you couldn't find your fat backside with both hands and a compass.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan
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You took the

Submitted by nolefan2 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 5:03pm.

words right out of my mouth and saved me a lot of typing. Your last sentence is priceless! It could only be better if you were able to say it right to her face. Bravo!

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Where AREN'T the lefties on

Submitted by texastommy on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:59am.

Where AREN'T the lefties on TV, you moron?

"Occasionally, and randomly, problems and solutions collide. The probability of collisions decreases geometrically as the size of the committee created to force these collisions increases."
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Crapping on police cars???

Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:00pm.

Oh, she was asking a "rhetorical" question.

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Very original. Sally Jesse Behar.

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:09pm.

LOL.

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Solitary confinement?

Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:23pm.

I gather she doesn't get out much in between her padded-cell, incommunicado abode and the TV studios.

Poor deluded dear --- we do have to understand that she hasn't been the same ever since that rogue butterfly viciously kicked her in the head and caused her single synapse to roll out of her left (of course!) ear and onto the floor after which it ran away screaming, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"

 

"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects... 

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What a place to be!!

Submitted by KornKing on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 1:24pm.

Substituting for someone that nobody watches

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