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Should we wonder if Joy Behar & Obama went over the questions planned to be asked a few days ahead of time? So that our "Gracious Orator" wouldn't be caught off guard pausing,stuttering&needing a cue card when Barbara and Elizabeth asked him a hard&unexpected question? Didn't all that Charm&Presidential laughing seem rather fake & rehearsed? Can you imagine Obama appearing on Meet The Press and Face The Nation with no idea what the host will ask him? Fish Out Of Water Syndrome?

Barack Obama told The View co-host Joy Behar that it was her job, and by inference that of her fellow liberals in the media, to be his "attack dog" to defend his presidency and counter the influence of conservatives in the media.Behar, who also hosts her own primetime current events talk show on CNN's HLN channel, complained to Obama in an interview taped on Wednesday for broadcast today on ABC that he has lost control of the narrative of his presidency (via MediaBistro):Behar: "You've really done a lot, I think. You've signed 200 plus laws since you're in office, financial...

This week President Barack Obama will make an appearance on the ABC daytime talk show The View. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said of the upcoming presidential performance, "Given the difficulty of reaching people in this hyperactive media environment, we look for opportunities to reach people in environments that are not traditional forums for political newsmakers. That's why we have been willing to have the president on Leno, Letterman and ESPN." In other words, it's easier for Mr. Obama to keep pushing his failed policies and unaffordable ideas to people who get their "news" from Hollywood celebrities.

“Her unabashed liberal opinions often lead to some heated debates with her ‘View’ co-hosts, especially with the politically conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Where did this liberal streak come from?” “It comes from umm, from being smart”

It's patently obvious HLN host Joy Behar has a disdain for the conservative point of view. But is it because she is ideologically liberal, or perhaps does she just think it is "cooler" to be liberal? On CBS's "Sunday Morning," CBS correspondent and sometime fill-in "Evening News" anchor Russ Mitchell interviewed the HLN host of "The Joy Behar Show." He asked her about views and where this view came from. "Her unabashed liberal opinions often lead to some heated debates with her ‘View' co-hosts ... especially with the politically conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck," Mitchell said. "Where did this liberal streak come...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar is well on her way to unhinged, if not already there. Earlier today, NB's Justin McCarthy noted that Behar, in mentioning GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, said that "we all know that the woman is an airhead." Michelle Malkin noted this evening that Behar also took an uncalled-for cheap shot at those who are involved in an important and growing alternative not only to the public schools, but also to traditional brick-and-mortar classroom education (video is at link): Behar show(ed) .... her contempt for both homeschooled students and parents: “A lot of them are...

This video of The View is being passed around. It begins with a talk about Obama. Then Behar, Hasselbeck, Goldberg, and Walters talk about how his daughters should be educated. Skip to the 7:00 mark to hear their discussion on homeschooling. Joy Behar calls homeschooled kids "demented". Elisabeth Hasselbeck defends homeschooling.

He may be out of office, but Cheney Derangement Syndrome lives on. This time, and just like other times in the past, "The View" co-host and host of her own HLN show, Joy Behar used the BP oil spill to attack the Bush administration, specifically former Vice President Dick Cheney by suggesting he was really behind the oil spill. Her source - it was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and aid to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson. ...more (w/video)...

“I don’t know. He feels like he has to be nice to the Republicans -- why? You know, Bush was the decider and that was good enough. Let him be the decider.”

Joy Behar: "George Bush is the one who said that God told him to go into Iraq. The same as that terrorists say that Allah tells them. And what's the difference between them and Bush I'd like to know."

Once upon a time, charging political opponents with Nazism was-off limits. Even if you could make an intellectual case for a Nazi (or National Socialism) comparison, it was chalked up as fear-mongering, hyperbole, etc. No longer, at least not when it comes to the likes of Joy Behar and her ilk. They can safely cry Nazism based on what they've seen in the movies and back it up with vague generalities, and it's fair. On her April 26 broadcast, HLN's Joy Behar suggested the new Arizona immigration law that would allow local law enforcement to arrest immigrants unable to produce...

It's a simple law of economics, right? If there's a demand for a certain service or good, that business has a strong shot at thriving. Since the now-defunct Air America shut down for the last time earlier this year, the casual observer must conclude that no one wanted to hear left-wing diatribes over the broadcast airwaves. But that's not the case according to a panel on HLN's April 5 "The Joy Behar Show." This meeting of the minds, consisting of Behar, GQ's Ana Marie Cox and liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes, accused conservative talker Rush Limbaugh of playing victim...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar isn't known for being the most graceful person, but for whatever reason she has managed to land her own cable news show and is now a sought after personality for shows like NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno." In a March 30 appearance on "The Tonight Show", Leno asked Behar about her feud with Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck. Beck recently suggested there is an "I Hate Glenn Beck" club and that Behar was a member. Behar denied she hated Beck. ‘Oh yeah, Glenn Beck - I can't take a man who...

Video: Joy Behar whines "This kind of hate speech must stop" and "Most of the hate speech is directed at liberals"! Ann Coulter responds: "Joy Behar could go to any known campus including Bob Jones and Hillsdale etc and be treated just fine and will not need a bodyguard. Any noted conservative or republican would need a bodyguard." Ann......you go girl!

Has Joy Behar run out of things to talk about? Is the HLN host and "The View" co-host allowing producers to select her topics? On HLN's March 10 "The Joy Behar Show," Behar suggested it might be time for conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to go after making certain remarks involving embattled New York Gov. David Paterson and former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y. "This whole Massa controversy gave him an excuse to make a racial slur against New York Governor David Paterson," Behar said. "Not that Rush needs an excuse to make a racial slur." ...more (w/video)...

Alice Roosevelt famously said, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." With Roosevelt long gone, you can do the next best thing - get booked on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show." On the March 1 broadcast of her program, host Joy Behar featured a panel to discuss the tea party movement on its one-year anniversary. But rather than including tea party backers or even impartial observers, Behar talked only with people diametrically opposed to the tea parties and the views their mainstream followers hold, including the openly socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, liberal...

According to Joy Behar, monogamous marriages are a "life sentence." Porn star Ron Jeremy, Craig Gross, founder of the anti-porn ministry xxxchurch.com, and psychiatrist Reef Karim appeared on Behar's Feb. 24 CNN Headline News program to discuss porn and sex addiction. Behar compared monogamy to a "life sentence" after Jeremy noted that it's "a blessing" if a man is "sexually addicted to his wife" after "five or six years of marriage." "If you're just sleeping with your wife, that doesn't sound like an addiction, that sounds like a life sentence," Behar quipped. And despite Jeremy's claim about the "blessing" of...

On Wednesday night, ugly harridans Joy Behar and Kathy Griffin got together to discuss myriad issues of importance to the American people, including an ode to Octomom's "crazy vagina." Seriously, this is what passes for intelligent comment these days at CNN. Wonder why their ratings are in the toilet. But one particular low moment stood out ... To read more, click here.

What do you get when you give an ignorant liberal her own show and invite ignorant liberal guests to discuss things about which they are ignorant … and intersperse barbs at conservatives who they think are ignorant? You get the Joy Behar Show. Jack Kelly at Jewish World Review explains the scenario quite eloquently: Eve Ensler, writer of the “Vagina Monologues,” snickered with Joy Behar on Ms. Behar’s talk show Monday about how stupid Sarah Palin is for not regarding earthquakes and tsunamis as proof of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. “I just think the idea that she doesn’t believe in...

It was a metaphysical certitude the classic battle between Fox News's Roger Ailes and liberal publisher Arianna Huffington on Sunday's "This Week" would send many in the mainstream media over the top, and comedian Joy Behar didn't disappoint. As "View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg gave the audience the background of the matter Monday -- "Fox News president Roger Ailes pointed out that on the Huffington Post he's been called quote a malignant tumor with a face like a fist" -- Behar interrupted, "It's not true." Moments later, the opinionated comedian demonstrated her astounding lack of knowledge saying, "According to what I've...