It was Joy Behar’s birthday Friday and the co-host of The View was celebrated by her fellow hosts with guest appearances and birthday wishes from Democrat politicians and liberal news anchors.
The panel also talked about the news of the day, the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with guest hosts MSNBC anchors Ari Melber and Chris Hayes sounding more like hosts of The View than actual journalists.
House Minority Leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi opened the show with gagworthy compliments for the liberal host:
“Everyday you educate, entertain and inspire millions of Americans...Us Democrats wish you a happy birthday and are working to give you a birthday present this November,” she smiled. Other well wishes came from HBO’s Bill Maher and Jon Stewart.
MSNBC hosts Ari Melber and Chris Hayes surprised Behar at the table after Pelosi’s message and Behar couldn’t hide her excitement. “So its like an all-left Birthday party! Is that what this is?” Huntsman joked that the pair were the “two men she lets into her bedroom, now.” Behar cracked, “Let’s not leave Wolf [Blitzer] out of this!”
Acknowledging she had anxiety, Behar told the liberal journalists to assure her that “we” are going to win in November. After joking that by talking today’s Senate proceedings were part of Behar’s “birthday gift” she joked back, “Why don’t you two just come home with me? And we could do this the rest of the night?”
Melber and Hayes used that joke to mock the “Devil’s triangle” inscription in Kavanaugh’s yearbook. “It’s just us having whiskey together, you know that,” Melber smirked. “Its like quarters,” Hayes chimed in. “Baloney!What does ‘ffff--’ mean? I know!” Behar sneered.
“I would say you’re being inappropriate but you’re actually just reading from the testimony of the Supreme Court nominee,” Melber cracked.
Talking about Kavanaugh’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Hayes sneered that he was “surprised he felt he needed to do that,” but then added that across the board, everyone found his testimony “truly disturbing.” Hayes added, “He needed to cover himself a little bit.”
Melber slammed Kavanaugh as behaving like a “three or four year old” throwing a “tanty” which he joked was the legal term for “temper tantrum.” He then slandered the nominee by proclaiming without any evidence, that Kavanaugh perjured himself by “misleading” the Senate:
I think it was so unnerving, that as the days went on, even though he’s someone who hasn’t apologized for the way he clearly misled, if not outright perjured himself and certainly hasn’t taken responsibility for much of what he did in his youth as described by other credible witnesses but he clearly wanted to take back the ‘tanty’
