Video: Behar wonders if Tim Johnson’s stroke was “man-made”; Update: DU shuts conspiracy threads
posted at 1:06 pm on December 14, 2006 by Allahpundit
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She’s got a hot lead on a prime suspect, too.
Watch Hasselbeck. This is pretty much what it’s like spending a night out with friends in New York when you’re conservative. Although the applause usually comes from the other people at the table, not a live studio audience.
Thanks to Ace for the tip.
Update: Joy Behar — too crazy for DU.
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When you’re considered a dunce, why go against stereotype?
JammieWearingFool on December 14, 2006 at 1:07 PM
Someone’s got to save her and I volunteer! I know, I know! But someone’s got to do it!
And how did Dari get there? She better be careful cause the BigMouth’s looking at her like she could be lunch!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on December 14, 2006 at 1:11 PM
I bet she “questions the timing” as well.
bernzright777 on December 14, 2006 at 1:11 PM
Huh. Looks like she’s got Jon Stewart’s audience.
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 1:11 PM
Exactly. You must live in NY too. It’s quite maddening at times.
Dash on December 14, 2006 at 1:12 PM
“I know what this party is capable of”. The utter stupidity of liberals like Behar is ridiculous.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 1:13 PM
Those people are sad. Just sad.
SouthernGent on December 14, 2006 at 1:14 PM
It has gotten so that I very rarely click on these videos AP. They are so sad that sometimes I am just not up for it…
(As she drags the dead horse out and beats it one more time) If these type of comments were made against the Dems there would be an ensuing firestorm yet, this moronic show feels just fine making them on a daily basis.
Babs on December 14, 2006 at 1:18 PM
Is Joy really that STUPID or id she drunk on Koolaid? Maybe there is a full moon? I’d put my money on all of the above.
When you read the Hot Air blog on Tim Johnson, all you read is voices of compassion and prayers for him and his family. I think comments like hers expose complete partisinship and lunacy of the democratic base.
Apparently they are as ungracious in victory as they are in defeat.
jman on December 14, 2006 at 1:19 PM
I don’t see how you New York Republicans do it.
Especially when “Republican” in NY means Mike Bloomberg.
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 1:19 PM
That’s right… we Republicans are the party of saline burned fetuses. We so enjoy killing innocent children.
Oh wait… that’s the Liberals…
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on December 14, 2006 at 1:20 PM
That’s what I was thinking Sniper…people from the party of murdered innocent babies are worried about what WE are “capable of”???
NRA4Freedom on December 14, 2006 at 1:22 PM
Even Tom DeLay has well wishes for Senator Johnson up on his blog.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on December 14, 2006 at 1:23 PM
But they’re not human until they can vote Democrat.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 1:24 PM
You can sit there with your mouth shut, and let everyone think you’re an idiot, or you can open your mouth and prove it.
Jaibones on December 14, 2006 at 1:25 PM
I’m sure there’s some lawyers who read this site… isn’t there any way we can start a class-action suit for defamation against Joy and The View in general? I’m a registered Republican, and she just defamed me. (What the heck, use the lefts’ own tools against them).
I’ve been offended, d**nit, and I have a constitutional right to not be offended.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 1:26 PM
Dari Alexander is a guest co-host? Isn’t/wasn’t she an infobabe on Fox News?
Darksean on December 14, 2006 at 1:26 PM
New York? You got nothin’ AP! Nothin! I’m in Vermont folks, beat that! Unless you’re going to claim to be from Amsterdam or something, ya’ll ain’t got nuttin’ on this!
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 1:26 PM
See but you dont understand. You can throw out inane comments like that all day long in that atmosphere and you’ll get a cheap applause. It’s very pavlovian.
I’m telling you, it doesnt even need to make sense, people will hoot and cheer. “Bush corn flakes goes to pickle ranch, stupid!” “HAHAH! WOOOO! HEE HEE!” I should put together a conservative Stephen Colbert Report. I could make comments like these with no problem having heard them so often. It would be pretty funny heh.
Dash on December 14, 2006 at 1:28 PM
Yeah, that was weird. I guess she’s still with Fox, just not FNC.. they’ve apparently moved her to WNYW Fox 5 in NY, FNC’s flagship. It took me a second, I was like “I recognize this girl”, but yeah, that’s really weird seeing her sitting there.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 1:28 PM
How did these people get a job?
danarchy on December 14, 2006 at 1:29 PM
How does this show continue? It blows my mind. Elisabeth must go home shaking her head every day. How could you put up with that nonsense? Man Made Stroke?
the Redhead is a manmade hemmorrhoid.
shooter on December 14, 2006 at 1:30 PM
Joy was of course referring to the recent report that came out showing just who it was in America that donated to charities.
In even more bad news for Ms Behar, there are reports coming out the the Blind Sheik is near death also.
LakeRuins on December 14, 2006 at 1:31 PM
It’s a tie RW, I’m only 40 miles from Boulder Colorado and CU…
yes, I’m armed.
shooter on December 14, 2006 at 1:32 PM
Oh. Too bad I won’t see her as much. I think a couple other Fox News types have done the same. I think Juliet and I think his name was Steve (the weekend morning guy) are back in Philly doing Fox mornings.
VERY nice to see Dari and Elisabeth together like that! Oh, and notice how you went from, left to right, heinous to gorgeous to gorgeous to heinous. Good symmetry.
Darksean on December 14, 2006 at 1:33 PM
That woman should be examined for bleeding of the brain . . . or perhaps total absence of the brain. What a moronic dolt.
rplat on December 14, 2006 at 1:34 PM
I’ll admit - Vermont is much worse than Maine, where I am. I have relatives in Burlington, and while I love them to death, they drive me nuts with the political stuff.
I live near Stephen King, whose idea of Christmas decorating is to put a giant peace sign, made with Christmas lights, on the front of his house. I’ll take a picture and post it on my blog sometime later this week. It’s oddly endearing, though.
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 1:35 PM
It’s Mike Jerrick, and after Dayside ended, I kept hearing that they were coming back with a show soon, and I’ve even seen Juliet on Martha’s “Livedesk” show… anyway, according to Jerrick’s wiki page, their show will be some new morning show in January, but from the sounds of it, it will be on Fox broadcast channel.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 1:36 PM
Dari Alexander on The View? Did someone do a body snatcher deal on her? Where’s the original? It’s a conspiracy. Next it’ll be Jane Skinner or Megyn Kendall.
raz0r on December 14, 2006 at 1:38 PM
I think they are trying to fill the void left when The Jerry Springer show left…kind of Springer light?
Alilshy on December 14, 2006 at 1:40 PM
But they’re not human until they can vote Democrat.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 1:24 PM
Bingo!
naliaka on December 14, 2006 at 1:45 PM
Man, everything Stephen King does is scary!
Wyrd on December 14, 2006 at 1:46 PM
It was Haliburton!
Here comes the Johnson Truthers!
Tim Burton on December 14, 2006 at 1:50 PM
Liz is the only thing watchable on that show. Not that I watch it anyway.
Give them credit for having at least one attractive, intelligent woman on there to deliver the voice of reason over the disturbing cacophany of the intellectual vacuum that otherwise exists.
Mibrilane on December 14, 2006 at 1:50 PM
Its very very sad. I was over the DU and some of those crazies speculated that maybe they needed to do something to a republican sentator with a democratic Governor to “even things up”
Really do they not understand with Bush as president it doesnt matter who controls the senate ? Bush can veto all their wacky spending.
Their legislation has always been DOA. Doesnt matter if Tim Johnson is there or not.
William Amos on December 14, 2006 at 1:51 PM
Karl Rove, you magnificent bastard. *rolling my eyes*
Yeesh.
Mallard T. Drake on December 14, 2006 at 1:52 PM
Any university is worse than New York. You get ostracized if you’re a white male conservative. It’s getting to the point where you can’t be a white female conservative, either.
Nethicus on December 14, 2006 at 1:56 PM
Sen. Johnson has nothing to worry about, the DU’ers say:
“I’m going to break out the Buddhist incense sticks from Thailand.”
“send out all the positive healing energy that we can”
“pray all you want, delusion is your option. Just don’t push it at me”
“I checked out the Freerepublic site and was actually shocked they weren’t dancing on the tables.”
And many of the comments are regarding the supposed ‘brain problems of the current White House occupants’. Quite a few others are surmising that ‘repugs’ are actually glad this happened.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 2:07 PM
Joy Behar is a member of the DU? Sure sounds like her over there.
Barntender on December 14, 2006 at 2:12 PM
Yeah, Republicans have all kinds of magical powers if you’re a liberal conspiracy monger. Cheney pulls a lever to control world markets, Bush is a high level warlock that can summon hurricanes that only kill black people, Karl Rove is a mighty telepath that can control people’s minds…
I’m glad we have Democrats or I wouldn’t know about the Bushie Stroke gun. He probably keeps it under his bed next to Ronald Reagan’s AIDS Cannon and his Wand of Addict Blacks to Crack.
Lehosh on December 14, 2006 at 2:14 PM
Ann Coulter continues to be the prophet of our times. Wasn’t the premise of her book “Godless” about the fact that liberals worship politics as their religion and everything else in their lives is ruled by this dictate. Notice that their is no event in the world that they do not first try to find the political advantage/disadvantage first.
LakeRuins on December 14, 2006 at 2:14 PM
…as if we need prompting.
James on December 14, 2006 at 2:18 PM
Tim Johnson must have stood in the way of Bush’s Hurricane Ray, and of course, that is why the blood vessels burst.
BelchSpeak on December 14, 2006 at 2:19 PM
I don’t think you guys got anything on me. I here in Seattle with Senator Patty (”It’s not a Christmas tree, it’s a holiday tree.”) Murray. We’re busy making movies about how patriotic we were during the Seattle WTO protests. And mark my words, we’re gonna’ have a bonfire in the middle of the airport runway and BURN those damn Sea-Tac Christmas trees.
CyberCipher on December 14, 2006 at 2:19 PM
Our hit squads work under the sun;
By needle or knife or by gun;
From assassins to weather,
It’s all leashed to our tether:
Yes, Republicans have ALL the fun.
ccwbass on December 14, 2006 at 2:24 PM
I feel your pain, brother. At least we don’t have to listen to
MarcyDarcy Burner for two years. She was straight out of the DU website.Mallard T. Drake on December 14, 2006 at 2:26 PM
And another thing, the reason that we care (so deeply) about what Joy Behar has to say about the George Bush conspiracy to “off” Senator Johnson and restore control of the U.S. Senate to the Republicans is because…
because…wait…AllahPundit could you tell me again why we care about what Joy says… oh yeah, that’s right, we couldn’t care less what Joy has to say about ANYTHING.
Whew! Finally came to my senses.
CyberCipher on December 14, 2006 at 2:26 PM
Classic projection
Purple Avenger on December 14, 2006 at 2:26 PM
The damned Diebold machines did it.
Shay on December 14, 2006 at 2:30 PM
I think Joy’s statement was homophobic! Ching chong, ching, ching, chong.
TexasRainmaker on December 14, 2006 at 2:37 PM
See, I blame Reagan. If he had just asked the Prince of Darkness for weapons that weren’t so unwieldy then Bush could hold a Hurricane Ray and an AIDS Cannon in each hand and we wouldn’t be having this problem. Then again it’s partly Bush’s fault for packing his schedule with hurricanes and killing gays. He can’t multitask like Reagan.
Lehosh on December 14, 2006 at 2:38 PM
You forgot the switch that control the oil pumps and the button that switches Diebold voting machines to automatically vote Republican.
SouthernGent on December 14, 2006 at 2:38 PM
You KNOW what “that party” is capable of? Yeah? Name some things. RECENT things.
IDIOT!!!
CrimsonFisted on December 14, 2006 at 2:39 PM
Maybe Joy thinks there was radioactive paint left over from the Dynasty plot against Jeff Colby. But you don’t have to watch Dynasty to have an attitude!
mymanpotsandpans on December 14, 2006 at 2:42 PM
RightWinged,
You are not alone — and boy, am I glad to see you! My husband and I, and our one other local conservative friend, refer to ourselves jokingly as the “Bennington Conservative Cabal.”
*Weeps that my state has now elected its favorite lunatic
SOCIALISTIndependent to the Senate*Stefka on December 14, 2006 at 2:46 PM
Better yet, what they are doing is a “hate crime”.
Rick on December 14, 2006 at 2:46 PM
What a double-standard. Rosie and the other windbags can spew all the hateful garbage their moronic audience can lap up, without repercussion. Is there an organization out there that exists to hold media idiots accountable (advertiser boycotts, letter campaigns, emails,)? How are their ratings up when they are alienating half the country on a daily basis? Arrghhhhhhhh
RW Wacko on December 14, 2006 at 2:47 PM
I just can’t believe that this show is still on. Who watches it. I cannot click on the clips anymore either. I was just curious as to what others were saying. I remember a few years back when Sen. Paul Coverdale of GA passed away & Dim gov. Barnes put in Zell Miller who was a Democrat even though the good people of GA voted for a Republican. We were told to suck it up. I hope Sen. Johnson recovers of course but if he decides to retire the Dims will have to suck it up too.
Slublog, looking forward to the Stephen King picture. I think that’s interesting.
catie.
Catie96706 on December 14, 2006 at 2:50 PM
I’m just waiting for the day Mama Sheehan replaces Elizabeth - that’s when the show will be worth watching.
Rick on December 14, 2006 at 2:53 PM
If you start from zero, it’s really all uphill from there.
Lehosh on December 14, 2006 at 2:56 PM
What was that last throwaway line she said? I couldn’t quite make it out.
Dari and Elizabeth. Yeah.
JohnW on December 14, 2006 at 2:59 PM
I plan to go out tonight and take pictures of local houses decorated for Christmas. Been waiting for it to snow for better pics, but that doesn’t seem to want to happen.
There’s one house in particular that simply must be seen to be believed. Tacky.
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 3:02 PM
Christopher Hitchens should have been there to give the audience the finger and say “Your audience, which will clap for apparently anything, is frivolous.” as he did on Bill Maher.
kmcguire on December 14, 2006 at 3:05 PM
Nice try CC, but you’re still in our rearview. We’ve got the highest taxes per capita in the nation, our former Governor, almost Democratic nominee for President in ‘08, and DNC Chairman, Howard Dean pushed “Civil Unions” through, when it wasn’t even on anyone else’s radar, we just moved the only elected (self-identified) socialist in Washington from the House to the Senate, this summer the Mayor of Burlington openly attempted to make Burlington a sanctuary city for illegals, oh, and of course - Judge Cashman. I could go on, but I think that will do for now.
Hey! Another Vermonter huh? You’re the only one I’ve ever run across here. Though I have to admit I’m not at all familiar with Bennington. Grew up in Colchester, so am mainly just a Burlington area/Chittenden County boy. But yeah, it’s pretty sad that I just basically keep my mouth shut most of the time because I’d rather not argue with virtually everyone simply because this place is full of nuts. Luckily I’ve got a huge extended family I’m close with, all of whom are either conservative or not political at all but very common sense minded.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 3:07 PM
Capable of? What a joke. This is the party that idolizes Stalinism.
spmat on December 14, 2006 at 3:08 PM
(sigh)
Now you can see what I have to go through living as a Republican and a Conservative in Massachusetts. I get a lot of looks when I tell people that. :)
kiakjones on December 14, 2006 at 3:13 PM
RightWinged, it’s pretty liberal down here in Philly too, but you guys defintely have us beat.
SAM 1X on December 14, 2006 at 3:16 PM
Yes, it is possible to cause a stroke.
1) Don’t take care of yourself.
2) Keep a diet rife with animal flesh and very low to no fruits and vegetables.
3) Take part in activities in which you repeatedly take heavy blows to your head.
4) Bang your head against a hard object, like a brick, cinder block, or steel wall over and over again.
5) Repeatedly allow people to use full out strangle holds or choke holds on you until you pass out.
6) Smoke cigarettes like a furnace, using your lungs and breathing passageways as a smoke stack.
7) Eat tons of salt, make your blood pressure rise to dangerous levels, ignore your high blood pressure.
8) If you have diabetes, don’t treat or control it. That will help you have any number of problems, including stroke.
9) Do not exercise, eat a terrible diet and eat like a pig, all to make yourself overweight, or obese, maintain a sedentary lifestyle will little to no activity. The main thing is, make yourself overweight to extremely obese and do nothing about it.
10) As an alternative, you can always inject air into your vein, or have someone do so for you.
11) Restrict the flow of blood to the brain via closing off the carotid artery, partially covered by strangle hold in technique number 4 above.
Those are just a few ways to induce a stroke.
One can also get them from accidents of some invasive medical examinations or procedures.
William
William2006 on December 14, 2006 at 3:16 PM
I lurked (and cheered) for a while on this site before new-commenter registration opened up the last time. My beloved husband reads, too, betimes.
I’ve had a mouth-shut policy for a long time, but I’m starting a new, more fun, “speaking truth to childishness” policy, these days, when the subject is important enough to me. I often get shouted down, because I am woefully outnumbered. Don’t care. Keep ‘em coming! Beloved Spouse gets shouted down less often because he’s much louder than I am. Wish I’d had video, a couple of weeks ago, of one of his … discussions … with a young woman of our acquaintance. I’d have posted it here, and you’d all have been proud!
Haven’t been to Burlington. Which I hope to remedy, one day. Meanwhile, you watch the north, I’ll watch the south!
Stefka on December 14, 2006 at 3:19 PM
Massachusetts, huh?
Governor Deval Patrick.
I’m thinking we’re going to see some political refugees from your state soon, escaping the taxes sure to come.
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 3:20 PM
I saw this and was shocked: Except for Elizabeth The View is the skid row of Liberalism…Behar is really a nutjob
Doctorted on December 14, 2006 at 3:24 PM
Don’t you mean “crappy”?
Blacklake on December 14, 2006 at 3:30 PM
Oh,
In answer to Joy Bihar’s question, I just realized another way to help induce a stroke. Make someone watch “The View” and listen to Rosie, Joy, Barbara, et al.
Ouch!
Utter cruelty!
Absolutely inhumane treatment; cruel and unusual punishment!
Why isn’t Human Rights Watch, or Amnesty International speaking up against this horrific phenomenon?
William
William2006 on December 14, 2006 at 3:35 PM
You’ve never been to Burlington!? Where do you shop? I didn’t think there was much outside of the county, other than maybe a little civilization in Barre/Montpelier.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 3:39 PM
Whats really sad about this statement???
The Docs have already said it was a PRE EXISTING condition…
And still the mud gets tossed….
sigh…
Romeo13 on December 14, 2006 at 3:40 PM
As long as Keith Olbermann is running around un-medicated, I’d say that Joy doesn’t have much to worry about.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on December 14, 2006 at 3:49 PM
Joy made some lame remark in an attempt to “dis” George Bush’s brain.
CyberCipher on December 14, 2006 at 3:54 PM
I shop locally, with a certain level of “pathetic” mixed in with some cool places, or I travel 40 miles or so in any given direction to a Land of Malls (Albany, Pittsfield, or Rutland). If I must.
Stefka on December 14, 2006 at 3:55 PM
I don’t even know what to say to garbage like this.
This is what liberalism is. When they lose elections, it’s because the other side cheated. When one of their politicians falls ill - when the balance of power might be at stake - it’s attempted murder.
Meanwhile, ironically, every conservative I’ve seen this morning has wished Johnson well and done so sincerely … while Democrats routinely wish death and disease on their opponents.
I just can’t take this crap any more. Really can’t.
Professor Blather on December 14, 2006 at 3:59 PM
Nethicus - How about a university in NY? I had the pleasure of attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Talk about an unfriendly atmosphere for conservatives.
I made it out alive though (and with my conservative values). Figured I hadn’t taken enough abuse yet and moved to Santa Monica, CA after college.
I’m starting to believe I’m a political masochist.
JadeNYU on December 14, 2006 at 4:04 PM
Joy Behar: Watch her morph into moonbat!
Black Adam on December 14, 2006 at 4:10 PM
*shudder*
Santa Monica? Well, it’s not that bad. You could have gone to UC Berkeley.
I think my skin grew thick growing up in San Francisco.
Remember when the SFPD used to *beat* protesters? Yeah, good times. Good times.
Nethicus on December 14, 2006 at 4:11 PM
Professor Blather,
One thing about your comment above, extracted:
is that what you said is actually true and factual.
Amazing, isn’t it?
William
William2006 on December 14, 2006 at 4:13 PM
“I know what the Republicans are capable of,” says Ms Behar.
She must be talking about the sweep of the past elections, the landslide confirmation of the Bolton appointment to the UN, the repeal of Roe v Wade, etc, etc.
We don’t want anyone getting sick by any means, but, accepting Ms Behar’s premise, if it were so simple to cause a stroke, wouldn’t there be lots of folks in line ahead of Sen. Johnson, for whom we pray a swift and complete recovery? (Think outside the US on this, okay? Come to think, this sinister ability worked real good on Ariel Sharon.)
Of course, the above is way too much analysis. This was simply Ms Behar’s obligatory, and lame, swipe at the right.
And sweet Dari Alexander… ever since the first time I saw her during O’Reilly, the song “Gary, Indiana,” from “The Music Man,” always pops into my head, with her name in place of the title. And now it will for you, too.
Cheers,
DuffBeer on December 14, 2006 at 4:15 PM
Oh, gotcha. Not that I’m a big “shopper”, I actually do most of mine online, but I just kind of assume that most VTers come to Burlington to shop… I guess that’s probably only true for folks in the northern half… that would be quite a drive I guess for you guys, and wouldn’t make much sense. It’s weird for me to wrap my mind around you being closer to Albany, but that’s obviously the case.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 4:19 PM
If there were something as “a manmade stroke” I would suggest that this liberal dunce be the first victim.
lynnv on December 14, 2006 at 4:19 PM
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