Larry King Would Love South Having to Pick Mormon or Black in 2012, Behar Predicts 'Mass Suicides'

By Tim Graham | October 01, 2011 | 11:11

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On Tuesday night's Joy Behar Show, Joy invited on Larry King to talk Michael Jackson...and a little politics. Larry endorsed Jon Huntsman as his favorite Republican candidate, and said "the one thing good about it if Romney or Huntsman got it is a Mormon against a black, what does the South do? What do they do? You`re in Alabama, oh, my gosh." Behar joked: "There would be mass suicides in Mississippi."

Behar also ran King through the usual awful-debate-crowds talking point, and King said Rick Perry was "very compassionate" on education and health care for illegal immigrants, which "they" (the conservative base) can't tolerate:

KING: Romney has his niche yet he had that Massachusetts problem with his health care. And the Governor Perry is -- you know, he wants to secede from the union.

BEHAR: He doesn`t believe in evolution or global warming, climate change.

KING: No, but on the other hand, he did some very compassionate things.

BEHAR: I know, which they can`t tolerate.

KING: They don`t know how to put up with it, like for example he believes that the child of an illegal alien should be given health care if in trouble.

BEHAR: And an education.

KING: And an education, too. Wow. A kid hit by a car, your father was escaped -- got his way into -- leave him there.

BEHAR: You saw that they booed -- or they applauded when they said a guy on a gurney who`s uninsured, what should you do with him, let him die? And they all say yeah!

KING: My favorite on personal basis of them is Jon Huntsman, who has -- he would have the best chance, in my opinion, of winning the election, but very little chance of getting the nomination because he`s too moderate and very progressive and very bright.

BEHAR: You like him because he`s almost like a Democrat maybe. You know?

KING: Well, you know, he was ambassador to China. My wife was betrothed to him.

BEHAR: She`s what?

KING: They were born like how far apart?

BEHAR: What do you mean betrothed, they were going to get married?

KING: No, they were children together.

BEHAR: I don`t think that`s what betrothed mean. You don`t mean that?

KING: I don`t know what I mean. I do know that they were children together--

BEHAR: Infants who are engaged to be married, is that what you`re telling me?

KING: When he was governor of Utah, she called him one day and asked to speak to Johnny.

BEHAR: Oh, he`s a Mormon.

KING: Yes.

BEHAR: And so is Romney, which brings me to that question, what about the Mormon factor?

KING: I don`t know.

BEHAR: Well, you know a Mormon, you sleep with a Mormon?

KING: Occasionally, when she lets me. One thing I know is they can`t run together.

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BEHAR: No.

KING: Romney and Huntsman. They can`t run together.

BEHAR: No, they can`t.

KING: It would be great -- the one thing good about it if Romney or Huntsman got it is a Mormon against a black, what does the South do? What do they do? You`re in Alabama, oh, my gosh.

BEHAR: There would be mass suicides in Mississippi.

KING: Suicide, what do we do?

A few seconds later, they returned to that allegedly hilarious point when Joy pushed the idea of a gay president:

BEHAR: A gay president maybe someday? President Harvey Fierstein. The Oval Office will be pink, it will be fabulous.

KING: Won`t it be great someday, a major independent candidate is gay, the Republican is Mormon and the Democrat is black.

BEHAR: And the first lady is a man.

KING: The first lady is a man and there`s mass suicides.

BEHAR: In Mississippi.

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Do either of these morons

Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 11:24am.

Do either of these morons realize that as a percentage of the population Alabama has over twice as many Black people in its state as the National Average or Mississippi has nearly three times the percentage of Blacks than the National Average?

Not only do they come off like stereotyping twits rather than serious political commentators, they also come across as woefully uninformed with regards to the demographic make up of the Southern States.

Or is Ms. Behar insinuating that Black voters, simply by virtue of living in a Southern State, are so racist that they would commit suicide en mass if they have to choose between a Black man and a Mormon?

Lest we forget...

Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:58pm.

Intellectual Joy Behar ponders "Isn't it a Little Racist to Call it Black Friday"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi49EXmYHT8

Sorry Joy, but when even Hoopie Goldburger turns out to be your intellectual superior it's time to call it quits and eat a jar of paste.

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I am a minority in the county

Submitted by Saint Zero on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 1:28pm.

I am a minority in the county I live in in Mississippi. I'm also certainly not black.

Hmm. Mississippi is my home.

Submitted by Maestroh on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 2:01pm.

Hmm. Mississippi is my home. But I've got a deal for Ms Behar. Let one of us move up into Brooklyn. Let Ms Behar move to Mississippi for a week.

And then we'll see who makes out better.

Besides, for all of the slings and arrows we endure from garbage like Behar (I'm guessing she was uncomfortable going after Christie's weight?), our state has produced the greatest NFL receiver of all-time, one of its most prolific rushers, the King of rock music, the guy who started the Muppets, Oprah, Jimmy Buffett, all those blues singers, the Queen of Country Music, Grisham, Tennessee Williams, the guy who started the GI Bill, Morgan Freeman (forget him), the first black country music superstar, and so much more.

And our population is about half that of New York City. We've done this because we don't give a crap what ignoramuses and God-haters like Joy Behar looking down her crooked nose think. I will GUARANTEE you - GUARANTEE - that I've showered with more black people than Behar even knows personally.

Where you from?

Submitted by Rukus on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 9:22pm.

I'm down in Ocean Springs, on the coast. I lived in AL most of my life and never saw much in the way of racism. Heck, we all got along just fine, same here in Mrs. Zippy. I think it's cause we love God down here and moonbat's like Bayhair don't, just my 2 cents.

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Do either of these morons Reply to The Pickel

Submitted by Archie1234 on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 10:57pm.

You wouldn't make a very good leftist, bed wetting pinko! You should not plan on having a career at the New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR or PBS. You write very well and you make sense. I'm not insinuating that I mean it. Reading your comment was refreshing and to the point. It also made me pause to say WOW, there is someone else that thinks like I do.

Thank you

hic

Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 11:25am.

I've heard two drunks at a bar have a more coherant conversation.

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LOL!

Submitted by Rukus on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 9:23pm.

Was one of them me? Snicker : )

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Larry King is Still Alive?

Submitted by IrateNate on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 11:33am.

We are indeed blessed as a nation to have such useless idiots as Behar and King conversing as if they are the only people on the planet whose feces has no discernible aroma. What is so sad is that there are so many who actually agree with these irrelevant dinosaurs.

One night I had the

Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 1:05pm.

One night I had the misfortune of being exposed to that dimwit's show on HLN. Earlier in the day Glenn Beck, you know a conservative and therefore an idiot, was having one of his usual discussions involving economics and how different groups were orchestrating together to do this or that, but what was the intellectual Joy Behar discussing you may ask? The death of Gary Coleman!

I found the stark contrast between the substance of Glenn Beck's show and the complete puffery of Behar's show to be the icing on the cake when it came to defining what a stupid, shallow, vacuous person she truly is.

I've never seen such a kreepy old krone so obsessed with sex.

Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:09pm.

How about you start the ball rolling on the suicide thing, Behar.

Afterwards, everyone can say you were a victim of gay bullying, so you can exit stage left as a martyr.

stealing one of motherbelt's favorite quotes

Submitted by mom_rox on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:18pm.

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Thanks Tim, for my LOL moment. That was like watching an Abbott and Costello routine, but I was laughing at them, not with them.

No problem, mom.....

Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:30pm.

and here's another chuckle for you:

KING: My favorite on personal basis of them is Jon Huntsman, who has -- he would have the best chance, in my opinion, of winning the election, but very little chance of getting the nomination because he`s too moderate and very progressive and very bright (because, you know, Republicans like their candidates extreme, reactionary, and stupid).

BEHAR: You like him because he`s almost like a Democrat maybe.

Joy Behar: the blind squirrel that occasionally finds a nut.

If they have to have an opposition candidate,[and that's not their default choice] they want the one who's most like a Democrat.

Why, I don't know. If Huntsman were the Republican candidate, King and his compadres would turn on him like rabid dogs in a New York minute. He wouldn't be "moderate, progressive and bright" for very long.

As John McCain found out and

Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:52pm.

As John McCain found out and then forgot...

in other words

Submitted by mom_rox on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:53pm.

the McCain treatment.

King almost got it. KING: My

Submitted by Reaver on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 2:09pm.

King almost got it.

No Larry, the reason why Hunstman has little chance of getting the nomination is that he is running in the republican primary. Maybe it’s not too late for him to switch parties and primary Obama. I’m sure these two would support him then. The black or the Mormon, decisions, decisions.

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

Every time I hear Huntsman

Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 3:56pm.

I have the exact same thought....why doesn't he primary Obama?

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West is your congressman?

Submitted by danbo on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 7:26am.

West is your congressman? Lucky.

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)

I think I've mentioned it before, but

Submitted by Dutch on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 7:47pm.

during the 2008 elections, a very liberal friend of mine, during the Republican primaries, said that John McCain was the only Republican he would consider voting for. I told him that was the precise reason I would not vote for McCain in the primary.

Huntsman is the one the

Submitted by danbo on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 7:24am.

Huntsman is the one the people; who don't like conservatives. Like.

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)

Aren't stereotypes fun! And funny!!!!

Submitted by krendler on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:21pm.

...as long as they're directed at conservatives, southerners, or whites.

It must be nice living in a

Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 12:54pm.

It must be nice living in a total echo chamber when everyone of the same opinion gets to decide who is smart, who is dumb, who is an angel, who is a demon, etc...

Anyone else curious to see Joy Behar taking a 3rd grade math test?

did you know

Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 1:19pm.

she used to be an junior high school english teacher?

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Why am I not surprised that

Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 3:29pm.

Why am I not surprised that she was once a teacher? If it wasn't for teaching and the entertainment industry what use would society have for dimwits like her?

I did hear or read that

Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 3:38pm.

I did hear or read that somewhere, I forget. Anyway the fact that Joyless was in fact a teacher at one time, goes a long way explaining why so many public school students are illiterate.

Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.

The South

Submitted by Curly on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 1:43pm.

They obviously have not been in the South or Mississippi. Their old stereotypes are as out of date as they are along with their inane opinions!!

Curly

I live in the South...please,

Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 4:44pm.

I live in the South...please, keep them away from here!

And how nice to know that racism doesn't exist in any form in other parts of the country. What a utopia it must be!

I'm gonna LMAO when the Hermanator wins the Georgia primary

Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 2:14pm.

:-)

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

Some Dems can't forget the 2000 Presidential Election

Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 2:49pm.

Larry King can't forget the Civil War.

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He must have PTSD from when

Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 4:46pm.

He must have PTSD from when he fought in it.

"KING: They don`t know how to

Submitted by Immortal Fish on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 4:45pm.

"KING: They don`t know how to put up with it, like for example he believes that the child of an illegal alien should be given health care if in trouble.

BEHAR: And an education."

I guess she didn't hear Santorum's counterpoint to Perry, otherwise she'd know that we're perfectly fine with illegal aliens being educated... IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

They don't know the south at all.

Submitted by Louchat on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 5:21pm.

These two people live in the most narrow, bigoted, clueless world.

Louchat

Here we have 2 New York

Submitted by reddog339 on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 5:49pm.

Here we have 2 New York elitist liberal, whiny Jews trying to get the Republican candidate that will lose to the top of the list- ala the press getting senile stooge loser McCain nominated last election. Their thoughts amount to a pile of dung.

Death Before Dishonor

Whiny Jews? That type of bigoted stereotyping should

Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 6:39pm.

bring more Jewish voters into the GOP ranks.

Jer

Joy Behar is not Jewish, FYI.

Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 7:43am.

Joy Behar is not Jewish, FYI. She was raised as a Roman Catholic in an Italian-American family. Not that it matters what her religion is to begin with, IMO.

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Hey Joyless

Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 9:26pm.

If there is going to be a mass suicide, I can only hope you lead the way. What a dumb biach she is. She needs to keep her poison spitting pie hole shut.

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