{"id":2081,"date":"2012-10-20T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2012-10-20T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T23:26:29","slug":"my-view-no-joy-in-watching-behar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/10\/my-view-no-joy-in-watching-behar.html","title":{"rendered":"My View: No Joy In Watching Behar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2084\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/248\/2012\/10\/Joy-Behar-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2084\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/248\/2012\/10\/Joy-Behar-w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joy Behar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She is often rude, crude and classless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Really, there is very little joy when it comes to Joy Behar.<\/div>\n<div>One of the personalities on &#8216;The View&#8217; Behar is one of those mean and angry liberals who makes you mad at the television.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I know, I know,<var><\/var> &#8220;mean liberals&#8221; today sounds oxymoronic but Behar really takes the cake &#8230; and then proceeds to shove it all in our collective faces.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And gets handsomely paid for it to boot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When Behar wades into political waters, in particular, she shows just how cold and crass she can be as when she tweeted about President Obama refusing to meet with Israel&#8217;s leader when both were recently in New York.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cObama is being bashed for doing the View instead of meeting world leaders. Maybe he\u2019d rather talk to me than Netanyahu. Ever think of that?\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wasn&#8217;t about you Joy, did you EVER think about that?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If &#8216;Joyless&#8217; doesn&#8217;t have anything productive to add to the debate she should keep her mouth shut.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But that&#8217;s never stopped Behar, nor will anything, it seems &#8230; not even losing her\u00a0CNN Headline News program.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking of cold and callous, almost president Al &#8216;The Elevation Is To Blame For Obama&#8217;s Poor Debate Performance&#8217; Gore, rescued Behar and gave her a show on his &#8216;Current&#8217; channel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;Say Anything&#8217; is its apropos title for a host who will do just that. No biggie though, as Current has far fewer viewers than even CNN.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It does give me some &#8216;Joy&#8217; to report that.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is often rude, crude and classless. Really, there is very little joy when it comes to Joy Behar. One of the personalities on &#8216;The View&#8217; Behar is one of those mean and angry liberals who makes you mad at the television. I know, I know, &#8220;mean liberals&#8221; today sounds oxymoronic but Behar really takes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,4,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-opinion","category-politics","category-talk","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My View: No Joy In Watching Behar - Changing Channels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/10\/my-view-no-joy-in-watching-behar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My View: No Joy In Watching Behar - Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She is often rude, crude and classless. 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