The View\u2019s Joy Behar said she had \u201cso much in common\u201d with Tucker Carlson this week, which gives new meaning and new imagery to the phrase \u201cwhen pigs fly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behar made the surprise announcement on Wednesday\u2019s taping of \u201cThe View\u201d as she referenced exposed text messages made by Carlson during Fox News\u2019 lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n
During the segment, Behar cherry-picked samples from Carlson\u2019s private messages, since made public, which suggested a strong personal disliking of former president Donald Trump. The first message she read came from a text sent on January 4th, 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018There isn\u2019t really an upside to Trump. There\u2019s no upside, we\u2019re very, very close to being able to ignore him. I truly can\u2019t wait, I actually \u2018hate him passionately.\u2019 Now you\u2019d think those are my words, those are not my words. Those are Tucker Carlson\u2019s words! Yes, okay? That\u2019s Tucker \u2026 I didn\u2019t realize I had so much in common with Tucker,\u201d Behar said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTruthfully,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t even hate Trump passionately. I hate him dispassionately.\u201d<\/p>\n
As it happens, the text messages were public just as Carlson aired some of the most dramatic footage seen on cable news in years. A few weeks ago, he was given access to over 40,000 hours of security footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the events of January 6th, and in a few days\u2019 time has done a nice job spoiling the narrative crafted by Democrats and the media over the past two years.<\/p>\n
And if we\u2019re being honest, if Joy Behar were a real person with real human emotions, she\u2019d realize she has a lot in common with Carlson. The two undoubtedly value their family, friends, their careers, and have other aspirations in life. At times they go about it much differently \u2013 Behar being afflicted with TDS doesn\u2019t help \u2013 but at the end of the day they share a lot of things in common.<\/p>\n
That might be a charitable view of Behar, and perhaps a more accurate portrayal of the two is that the only thing they have in common is being on television, as the Daily Caller\u00a0tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n As it relates to Carlon\u2019s bombshell reporting, the machine doesn\u2019t like it at all. Just as Behar attempted to throw him under the bus for not liking a president on a personal level, both Democrat and Republican leaders also gave statements in reaction to the footage being released each night.<\/p>\n \u201cTo say January 6 was not violent is a lie, a lie pure and simple.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a prime-time cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor. He continued by pleading with Fox to essentially bar Carlson from continuing his coverage.<\/p>\n Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was no better. \u201cClearly the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly described what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cIt was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that\u2019s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n In response, Tucker Carlson rightly called out their panic over the exposure of unseen video that runs counter to the narrative presented to Americans.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing is hysteria,\u201d he said on his program.\u00a0 \u201cThose videos touch a nerve because they\u2019re a threat to the lies that Chuck Schumer has been telling for the last 26 months.\u201d<\/p>\n Tucker Carlson Responds To Senator Chuck Schumer Calling For Fox News To Censor His Show<\/p>\n "Those videos touch a nerve because they're a threat to the lies that Chuck Schumer has been telling for the last 26 months, and not just Chuck Schumer." pic.twitter.com\/ME9NZY1v8H<\/a><\/p>\n — The Columbia Bugle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ColumbiaBugle) March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n