Posted on 11/21/2017 2:51:47 PM PST by drewh
In light of all the accusations of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault coming out now against liberals and Democrats, some on the left are hunkering down and sticking to their partisan politics moreso than ever. Longtime host of The View Joy Behar has been increasingly uncomfortable in the past few weeks, as the ABC panel has brought up the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, Louis C.K. and now Charlie Rose.
Her usual diversion has been to bring up the claims made against President Trump during the campaign. On Tuesday’s show, Behar chose to attack Kellyanne Conway instead, for touting that a vote for Roy Moore in Alabama would be a vote for tax cuts.
On Monday's Fox and Friends, Conway bashed the Democrat running for Senate in Alabama, saying Doug Jones would raise taxes and was weak on crime and illegal immigration. After co-host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she was endorsing Moore instead, she responded:
I’m telling you that we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through. And the media -- if the media were really concerned about all of these allegations, and if that's what this is truly about, and the Democrats -- Al Franken would be on the ash heap of bygone half funny comedians.
Behar took that comment to town on Tuesday’s The View.
“Kellyanne Conway has daughters. She should be ashamed of herself is all I’m saying,” Behar scolded to approval from fellow host Sunny Hostin.
A few minutes later, Hostin picked up on Behar’s scolding of Conway, adding more dramatically that she “sold her soul” to the Republican Party:
HOSTIN: I got to say with this Kellyanne Conway thing, when she's answering these questions, she does look like she threw up in her mouth a little bit. She was like -- we need the tax vote. So she has sold her soul.
BEHAR: Yes, she has.
HOSTIN: She has sold her soul for this.
WHOOPI: A lot of people have sold their soul for this but here's the question that we will pose to you before we go. If your daughter came and said to you, Dad, this is what happened to me, this is what this man did to me, or Mom, this is what happened to me, and this is what this man did to me, is that how you would treat her, say I don't care, we need the tax money? Is that what you would say to your children because that's the question that you have to look at yourself in the mirror and ask.
BEHAR: Yeah, Kellyanne.
Later on, Behar attacked Republicans as a whole for “dropping the ball” on sexual assault allegations.
“No, the party has become -- they have dropped the ball, the Republican party. I'm sorry,” Behar criticized.
“Everybody has,” guest host Ana Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg pushed back.
“No, not both,” Behar refused to concede that point.
But is Behar really in the position to be be wagging her finger at Conway and Republicans, when she has admitted to doing virtually the same behavior, arguably worse than Conway, in her defense of Bill Clinton?
In 2016, Behar stated very clearly what her position was on politicians being caught in sex scandals. She justified the accusations of assault and rape against Bill Clinton, because he was a Democrat. As NewsBusters noted at the time, Behar said on The View’s January 5, 2016 show:
“Republicans have voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Now, that to me, is more important than anything that Bill Clinton did or didn't do because it's what [Hillary's] going to vote for.”
This came after co-host Paula Faris reminded, “Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey. They say that he [Clinton] either exposed himself to them, raped them or groped them.” Behar conceded, “He is a dog. Let’s face it.” She later declared, “But I still will vote for Bill Clinton because he votes in my favor.”
That seems like a much more overt admission that politics reigns over principles than even Conway was making.
This isn't the first time Behar has admitted as such, either.
More recently, just last month in fact, Behar again boasted that she doesn’t mind voting for the “dogs” in her own party being caught in sex scandals. Her justification? While they may be just as guilty as Republicans, at least they aren’t “hypocrites”:
"...I thought about how I had voted for Bill Clinton, who obviously had a little something under the desk. I also voted for John Kennedy in my youth, who had millions of mistresses, or whatever they called them in those days. Teddy Kennedy, who had Chappaquiddick.”
“The difference between me and the people who vote for this guy is the Democrats are not the family of values,” Behar said. “They don't go around taking abortion rights away from people or gay rights being rescinded.”
“They're not hypocrites,” she continued. “They're just dogs. You see the difference?”
Not hypocrites? Forgive me, but isn’t Behar’s moral lecturing to Conway while defending Bill Clinton exactly what she is attacking Conway for?
While it’s true that Republicans used to be considered the “moral majority” party, in recent years it’s been the left who has hit the culture over the head with its moral posturing about what can/can’t be said, and what you can or cannot do. Democrats do more lecturing about real or perceived issues with guns, hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Muslim rhetoric, religion in schools, transgender rights and the like, to a far greater degree than Republicans speak out on social issues these days.
Co-host Sunny Hostin is also guilty of defending Hillary Clinton for going after the women who accused Bill of rape and assault. On September 30, 2016 Hostin passionately defended Hillary Clinton’s slandering of these women as akin to a woman “defending her man”:
HOSTIN: The thing is, guess what? Right? The bottom line is, you are going to be upset with the other woman as well because she broke -- you know, she broke girl code. I mean, Monica Lewinsky knew he was married. Gennifer Flowers knew he was married. I would be pissed, too.
Shortly afterwards she added,
HOSTIN: She reacted like any other woman would!
Later on she fought with host Jedediah Bila, again defending
She’s just ‘mock groping’ Robin’s junk.
But, Bud, Joy was defending a woman </satire>
she broke girl code...
The only code broken was whatever so called vow of fidelity they had toward each other.
The only person who is to blame is the one breaking their promise.
Joy is evil.
Behar is a world-class moron.
Classy pic.
A really classy broad... like Kathy Griffin.
Behar needs Rehab.
That anagram sho do fit
Liberal Loi-YAH Susan Estrich was trying to make a name for herself by writing a book and promoting it across the nation. It was about what she called acquaintance rape.
It was called Real Rape - How the legal system victimizes women who say no.
Estrich had been making the rounds and was doing radio and TV talk shows to demand a law to impose harsh penalties on date rape perps. Then in 1991 when Bubba went national, Estrich got the attention of Hillary who looked her up for a serious talkin' to after which Estrich quit promoting her book and suspended the push for acquaintance rape legislation.
Estrich became a DNC mouthpiece and Clinton supporter and years later she wrote a book promoting Hillary's political career. (She seldom refers to Bill Clinton or her rape book)
Behar is of Italian lineage.
Must be a case of cultural appropriation. ;-)
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