Barbara Walters Defends Rick Santorum’s Views on Feminism, Joy Behar Calls Him a ‘Coward’
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Tiffany Gabbay
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During the last week, GOP candidate Rick Santorum has been making the media rounds, defending his views on modern feminism. While many have come down hard on the former Pennsylvania senator, Santorum may have found support in the most unlikely of places: The View.
Or, at least one of the show’s hosts, Barbara Walters.
During Monday’s episode of the morning talk program, Walters said:
I very rarely take a political position because I work for ABC News, these are people I talk to, and so on. So there are things about Rick Santorum that I do not agree with. But I do feel that there was a time – and, you know, I’ve worked all my life. Not when I was four and five, but after that – that there was a time when feminists made the woman who stayed home and had children feel inferior. I think we are finally changing so that we realize younger ones, you can make a choice. So I don’t think that what he said is so terribly off the point. He probably will be surprised that I am on that side and I know [Joy] disagrees with me.
For her part, however, co-host Joy Behar was not as gracious. Mediaite brings us the video clip:
(h/t: Mediaite)
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Comments (170)
BobtheMoron
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:37pmProjecting your own preferences again. You are what you eat, Dick.
Report Post »StevoMiami
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:36pmThere is nothing brave about preaching to the choir like Behar does, spitting her anti right venom to a completely Libral audience. She is the Cow. I mean Coward . Rick stands up for what he believes regardless of his audience, thats actually brave. Hey Joy.. how did that cnn show go for you? Face it, ur a dime a dozen.. and thats a compliment. I often think of you in bed…. it helps prolong love making. Can I say that on the blaze? I think its ok?
Report Post »Jwmajic
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:52pmWouldn’t that CAUSE E.D.?
Report Post »Maji
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:22amThey still let the “Behog”out in public?
Report Post »MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:36pmPolitical Prayer:
Report Post »“It is January 20th, 2013.
Rick Santorum is being sworn in as the new President of the United States.
I give thanks to you Almighty God, for your blessings! Thank you, Lord.”
I see it. I believe it. I feel it.
StevoMiami
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:43pmAMEN HALLELUJAH BROTHER! its him vs 2 outright Progressives and one wolf in sheeps clothing!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:45pmI thought that was see, believe, claim.
Report Post »Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:56pmNo, sorry. It’s called, “Ma-gi-cal Think-ing”. :-)
Report Post »MS Patriot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:02pmIf you want to turn this God forsaken country around and save the Republic that is exactly what you better here come the inauguration.
Any other person being sworn in will mean the end of the Republic as we know it.
Ronald Reagan a non progressive, non establishment, real American warned us that Freedom was only one generation away from falling into the hands of the enemy. If we do not stop it now, it will be too late in four more years to stop the progressive socialist from dismantling our Republic and our Constitution.
This election is about saving our country, the only candidate that will be able to beat King Hussein and do this is Rick Santorum.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:35pm@MS Patriot. I admire your enthusiasm, but freedom for me doesn’t include the Patriot Act. If Santorum would just listen to people disgusted about this, he’d be someone I could get behind. The 4th amendment wasn’t his to vote away. He’s so anti-libertarian, that he doesn‘t seem to realize this really isn’t (or at least shouldn’t be) a libertarian only issue.
Report Post »Mom_of_5
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:12pmI’m praying with you. :)
Report Post »CloudNine
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:36pmBehar=afterbirth…you make the connection!
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:35pmWho cares what Walters and Blowhard think or say!!
Report Post »MarcusFL
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:16pmYou must mean Butthair.
Report Post »getourcountryback
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:33pmWell Joy Behar is not a coward; she is just a cow…..
Report Post »rs9
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:38pmI just love Joy Bewhore
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:30pmI have to work, i have no choice, i have to work, but if you stay home with your kids its because your husband makes enough money to support you and kids on his salary alone or you have a home based bussiness, and i concider you pretty lucky in this case because i would rather be at home, but cant. JB is a hypocrite, what does she do for a living??? shes on t.v. and does not have to work too hard. yeah its easy for her to say what she says, she has not really had to work hard her whole life.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:46pmThe key words in Santorum’s statement are “there was a time when …”
Joy is such a hypocrite. If the same words came out of Obama’s mouth instead of Santorum she would be hailing them as words from a saint. It must be nice to be paid to sit on your fat behind and spew toxic bigoted opinions every day. (On second thought … I’d want to hang myself if I were as toxic as she.)
Report Post »TeaPartyForRomney
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:30pmThe View is a joke. But…
Now that Santorum is becoming frontrunner, now his history is finally being vetted. Here are some of the things he needs to account for:
1. Employer mandate health care.
2. 6 times raising minimum wage and 5 times raising debt ceiling.
3. Dozens of big government bills voted for.
4. Support for Sotomayor on to the circuit court.
5. Tipping off Ensign on his affair coming out.
6. Earmark king…
7. Against term limits…
8. Insider trading…
9. Worked for a lobby group for energy company.
10. Endorsing Arlen Specter.
11. Excessive spending
12. Stopping Bush’s defunding/privatization of Amtrak.
13. Negative campaigning and then complaining about Gingrich and Romney
He answered a few of these over the weekend ( http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/feb/santorum_sotomayor_amtrak.html ) but now he needs to answer the rest and all the other things that will come out before the next race, this is the only way he can win, if he gets these out of the way.
Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Cain (though his ‘vetting’ was probably false accusations) had to do this, now he has to. This is the importance of vetting all of our candidates.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:36pmInteresting comment, coming from an Obama supporter…..Or are you a Romney supporter? Same thing I guess…..
Report Post »TeaPartyForRomney
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:03pmNo, this coming from a Tea Partier that wants all of our candidates vetted. We don’t want our candidate whoever it is to have information that comes out in November. We need everything on the table, this is why the long prolonged process is good for any candidate. Santorum has never been vetted and now he will be, this is an important step, no matter the candidate. A lot was found out about Gingrich, Romney, Perry, Bachmann, and now it is Santorum’s turn. Frontrunner status always clean out our candidates’ closets. We have to destroy Obama in November, sending a message to those in DC and the DNC.
PS: Santorum has always been my second choice, since Cain left, so I am sincere about vetting all of our candidates.
Report Post »LibertyGoddess
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:09pmExcellent post. It always amazes me how stick in the mud people become about candidates and they don’t even vet their own candidate! “I’m a Catholic, he’s a Catholic, he has my vote.“ ”I’m a repentant Christian, he’s a repentant Christian”…Blah, Blah, Blah…the very things that are NOT necessary for being president!
Report Post »MS Patriot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:15pmI only need to know one thing. The Evangelicals in Texas have placed their support behind a Catholic from Pennsylvania. Either they reached out to him, or he reached out to them, either way it doesn’t matter. What matters is the Christian Right is placing it’s support behind the candidate they will mobilize to vote for.
Report Post »Most believe the moderate independents make or break an election, the truth is when you have moderates like Romney and McCain running as pseudo conservatives the Christian Right stays home. They will not get out and vote for a candidate they don’t believe represents their beliefs.
The Republicans will vote for a conservative before they will vote for King Hussein. The independents are truly tired of King Hussein and his attacks on the Constitution and our freedoms.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how to turn our country around. Drill for oil, tax imports, get rid of the EPA, manufacture at home, close the border and figure out a plan to get rid of the illegals that don’t deserve to be here and keep the ones that would have been allowed to come anyway. Put up the border and then drop the criminals back over in Mexico and tell them if you want what we have, get rid of the drug cartels. Oh, one more thing. Supply those criminals with guns and ammunition to fight the cartels. I enjoy my freedom, I will fight for my children to have the same freedoms.
justangry
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:24pmYou conveniently left out Rick’s biggest fault, but Romney is also fine with it, so we’re just supposed to dismiss it? I guess that I’m not going to convince anyone here that politicians who support the legislation that destroyed our civil liberties should be our top priority. Here, I’m thinking it would be an instant disqualifier to vote for someone to swear to uphold the constitution when they have no intention of doing so.
Report Post »MarcusFL
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:17pmTroll
Report Post »Skan
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 8:06amObama needs to answer a lot of questions the “media” didn’t have the guts to ask him in 2008. If you’re digging for the truth, use a shovel that isn’t biased.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:28pmNo thanks – can’t watch it……thanks Barbara but you’re a little behind the times. The stuff about finally changing and saying women have a choice was started many years back. Of course I’m a Conservative and follow that. Takes more “courage” to speak up and defend Conservative views in this day and age….there was a time it wasn’t like that. But, hopefully I think the horrible femi-Nazi stuff is dying as these women from the 60′s age and new ones coming up — and rejecting it.
Report Post »proud2bmom
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:57pmI think that is because a lot of today’s moms were raised under feminism. We were the “latchkey kids” who raised ourselves while mom was bringing home the bacon and cooking it, too. We want better for our kids. Of course there are dreams I want to pursue and as much as I love my children, staying home with them can be very lonely and thankless. However, I only get one chance to raise them. One chance to develop their character. One chance to give them a secure foundation to become happy, productive godly adults.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:23pmFrankly my dear, I don’t give a damm!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:34pmAhhh Joy B&#^(&, no man will date or talk 2 her , that is in there right mind.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:22pmfamily values progressive
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:43pmNo such thing…..For a progressive, the partei is all….Ja mein heir?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:54pmJoyless Behar is a bio tch … infinity!
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:20pmDoes anybody really care what Joy Behar says about anything?
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:34pmNo. I throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear the cackle of this malicious beech. Santorum is correct about women in direct combat. Israel tried it once, and found that it actually caused more problems than it solved. In combat, the men tended to be more concerned about the safety of their female counterparts and took more hits because of it.
Report Post »I would not want to be fighting to the death, and also be concerned about the gal I know (and possible am dating) in the next foxhole over….splitting one’s concentration in that situation gets a guy killed!
Collbuzz
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:19pmCouldn’t care less about that cow bahar. What a bombastic shrew. She is the true definition of a bigot.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:18pmJoy’s name is a misnomer.
Report Post »dukeofpaducah
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:14pmbehar is a joke. obama in drag
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:21pmBeehar is demented. I refuse to watch the video. WawaBarbie needs to retire.
OMG in 2012
Report Post »Wilbur Longshank
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:23pmfirst off Rick wan’t talking about womens emotions , he was refering to men. so joyboys point is moot.
Report Post »dumb a$$es.
mils
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:28pmthe blaze goes from quoting “huffpo” on sheep to :“the view” on politics…
We are wondering if Beck and the Blaze have us fooled. At our house we thought they were relatively conservative…but you are proving us wrong every day now…a well rounded view of life is welcomed..but…The Blaze has turned into “fluff”…and nonsense pieces, pure nonsense.
Report Post »You are ignoring so many many many important things going on in this world we live in….just walking right past them…this is sad to say the least. There is no longer discussion on the postings, just quipy one liners…
SERUM
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:32pmI’m sorry…if your going to be on tv and with the Hollywood scene, wouldn’t you at least consider an eyelift or some sunglasses… Her face looks as though it’s trying swallow her eyes.
Report Post »Somebody has had to have mentioned this her… horrible, just horrible.
SERUM
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:39pmOf course I’m talking about No- Joy…
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:12pmBlaze I don’t watch these loons & I’m NOT gonna click on the video .
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:34pmAgree!
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:03pmI agree with Rick. The family is under attack – and has been for years.
It is a woman’s choice whether to work outside the home or not.
The choice to stay home and raise a family is belittled by progressives.
Most Christian religions recognize that the mother is by design the nurturer of the family.
This is not a commandment, in my eyes, just a strong suggestion.
Many women are forced to work outside the home due to illness, divorce, or desire. They are not to be shunned.
However, we must recognize that the most important role a woman can play is the raising and nurturing of children, and we need to congratulate those who make that choice.
Womanhood should be celebrated!! None of us would be here if it were not for our mothers.
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:12pmGreat post! I completely agree. Its like the old saying goes… you can be something to everyone or everything to someone.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:36pmMy thoughts exactly
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:56pmAmen…..
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:52amBROTHER_ED, Love your comment. Unfortunately women in the work place has disrupted the family unit. Allot of women are away from their children and the kids are with day-care workers, sitters etc. Many children have become latch key kids. Allot of families are broken in todays society. With the economy as it is and the need for both father and mother working it’s often the children that suffer. So if a woman is fortunate enough to stay home with her children she should be recognized equally to the working moms. I wish all mothers had that luxuary and maybe our kids today would see things in a different perspective. Maybe they would not be as spoiled as they have become. Parents tend to overcompensate if they have feelings of guilt for the time missed with their kids. Call me old fashioned but I look at the kids today and I worry whether they have the family values needed to become good parents and citizens. Not all kids of course but a frightening percentage. It just seems the more people earn the more they become addicted to lifestyles that they really can’t afford and end up overwhelmed in debt. My dad paid for everything in cash and would only purchase things made in this country. He worked seven days a week . My mom never had a paying job her job was in our home taking care of her kids, the house, and my dad. She was there for us and I am thankful for that to this day. I learned how to cook, clean, and do laundry. We were taught respect . That seems missing allot today
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:59pmI have allowed Behar on my radio show; as I have other idiots like global warming freaks and the like. What is wonderful about that is I ask them questions that expose their ignorance and the audience learns of their stupidity first hand. Some libs don’t come back on but some apparently love the punishment. As for Walters, well; maybe she’s seeing some light in her older years. No idea.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:24pmWhat radio show is that?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:27pmI’m in Colorado Springs in the morning; streaming at http://www.1530kcmn.com
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:40pmRemind me to have that on the radio the next time I’m down there….it’s only a couple of hours drive from where I live, and used to live down there while assigned to Cheyenne Mtn (when it was an active facility).
Report Post »Dutchracer
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:44pmI live in Rush Colorado, about 47 miles east of the Springs and TRONINTHEMORNING is a great show! TRONINTHEMORNING time and time again gets these crazy libs to show their true colors. It’s Fantastic and entertaining! I guess the old saying holds true… give them enough rope and they will always…. well you know.
Report Post »Keep it up and thanks for all you do:)
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:51pmThanks for the kind words, DUTCH! My guitarist in my band is presently working in ‘the mountain’ and loves it! And C…..Do tune in; I don’t only put the mirror up to libs but the good guys come on too, like LEVIN, MALKIN, INGRAHAM and others. I like to chat with these folks on a one-on-one so my little town can get to know them better. Maybe a stray lib will find a new ideological home. It happens. {:
Vote GOP!!!!
Report Post »MS Patriot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:25pmMaybe someone should ask Joy about the treatment of women by the Muslims. Poor Rick only stated the truth about how men would react to women in the battle field. Here’s a scenario for you: male and female soldier gets captured by the Muslim Brotherhood. The female soldier is stripped naked and placed on the floor in front of the male soldier. The male soldier is told to answer their question or they will rape the female soldier right before his very eyes. The enemy will always play to our greatest weakness in our culture. In our culture we are taught to protect women, in the Muslim culture the women would have dishonored her family by being a soldier in the first place and her father would have cut her head off. All of these feminist are ignorant, naive elitist who know nothing of the real world. They only want to sit high on their thrones in hopes they can rule over the rest of us. Why do they do a talk show anyway? Because they want to tell us what to believe, because they think we are too ignorant to make our own decisions.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:58pmDiskneeland
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:58pmQuite frankly I don’t care what BaBa WaWa and Joy Behar and Dipsy Whoopie have to say about anything.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:22pmHahaha! LOL
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:57pmI can‘t believe we’re letting the media distract us from the economy… especially with all the downgrades today!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:55pmReally? I call Behar a fat cow with a loud mouth.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:11pmPLEASE,Do not insult cows ,After all they are tasty animals,And the thought of dining on Behar.Oh God now I got to get out of my mind.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:54pmSkank and petrified skank…the photo says it all.
Report Post »Who cares what either of them has to say?
lookatthehine
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TruthSpeaker
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:49pma coward ? Exactly where/when/was he a coward? behar-har keeps showing who she i, s pathetic and doomed to eternity in flames.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:01pmJoy Behar wouldn’t understand gracious if someone smacked her face with it.
Report Post »sealwifenyc
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:39pmShe’s Jewish. Jesus, you can disagree with someone and not doom them to hell. Talking like that tells more about your character than hers.
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