“Comedian” Joy Behan was made a bit irked during Friday’s edition of The View on ABC after she learned that people in Republican Florida had the nerve to make fun of liberal California. And the hypocrisy of her outrage was exacerbated by co-host Sara Haines scoffing and reminding Behar that they make fun of red states on the show.
As they dipped into questioning singer LeAnn Rimes if she’s ever been assaulted on stage a la Chris Rock and Will Smith at the Oscars, the artist recounted: “I have never been assaulted on stage, although … I was in Florida recently, and I got booed on stage for saying that I lived in California, which was actually the highlight of my career by the way.”
“What? Why would they do that? What is that,” Behar blurted out in honest confusion.
Rimes seemed to sense Behar’s percolating discontent with the story and tried to cut it off: “I was just talking about where I was from, and they just, like, they don’t happen to like Californians, but that was okay because we went back and talked about the fact that I was from Mississippi and we were all good.”
“So, they just go after an entire state,” Behar huffed in disgust.
Through the flurry of crosstalk, Haines can be heard reminding Behar, “Don’t we not laugh a little bit sometimes here about Texas and Florida?” “Well we’re specifically –” Behar began to argue before getting drowned out by Rimes defending the story saying, “it became funny.”
“You don’t attack a whole state,” Behar rhetorically put her foot down. But Haines and Rimes were intent on ending that line of discussion:
HAINES: I think that’s the point is politically you could say the equal is California or New York.
RIMES: Yes.
HAINES: Liberal states, yeah.
The hypocrisy is strong with Behar. She decries demonizing whole groups of people but a few months ago she was demonizing all Republicans as “the Taliban in America.” And the hypocrisy was present in Friday’s episode just moments prior.
During a conversation about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene being offended by a Jimmy Kimmel joke, Behar proclaimed that comedians like her shouldn’t care about offending people:
ANA NAVARRO: Who cares? Standup comics don’t care if you are offended.
BEHAR: Certainly not if a politician is offended. Too bad! Too bad!
If what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, too bad Joy! Deal with Floridians mocking and booing California.
Authored by Nicholas Fondacaro via News Busters
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