David Forsmark: Behar Displays Own Stupidity During Failed Palin Joke

"The Problem of Pain" wasn't about watching Behar try to have an adult conversation
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NewsReal Blog contributor David Forsmark asks a mostly rhetorical question:

Is there anyone on TV as clueless as Joy Behar? Okay, but aren’t those people cute or charming or funny… or something?

Joy “Black Friday” Behar keeps braying that Sarah Palin is an idiot. Of course, it may be hard for Behar to really tell from her limited perspective. If Palin were merely 10 times as smart as Joy Behar, she wouldn’t be testing out of any classes.

Here is the latest example Behar spotlighting her colossal ignorance while trying to make a Sarah-is-SO-stupid joke:

WALTERS: So we asked [Sarah Palin] the question that got her in trouble when Katie Couric said, what do you read … She said “I read a lot of C.S. Lewis when I want some divine inspiration.”

BEHAR [laughing]: Aren’t those children’s books? C.S. Lewis?

Har de har har. Wow that Sarah Palin is silly! She can only handle children’s books.

And if weren’t a huge movie opening this weekend, Behar probably wouldn’t have come that close to a proper frame of reference….

Very patiently Barbara explained:

WALTERS: He was arguably the most influential Christian writer of the day. He is considered an intellectual giant…

Well no wonder, Joy Behar hadn’t heard of him…

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- JP

David Forsmark: Frum Freaks Over Imagined Palin Raaaacism

Amazing how Parker, Frum et al resort to leftist clichés and methods
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David Forsmark catches PDS-afflicted Vichy Republican David Frum in the act of race baiting as the pretend conservative works from his dog eared page of leftist talking points:

So, in a little 59 word post portentously entitled, “Bigger Problems with Sarah Palin’s new book,” David Frum finds racism—yes, racism—in the following statement:

PALIN FROM “AMERICA BY HEART”: “But from what I’ve read, family life at the time of the founding was a lot like family life for Americans today: full of challenges, sure, but also full of simple pleasures.”

I’ll give you boilerplate, banality, throwaway, heartfelt cornpone… but racism? Really? Give up the Frum Forum, David, and get a column on HuffPo. You would have more readers and most importantly, you would be right at home with other PDS sufferers.

FRUM: For the 1 in 6 Americans who were held as slaves in 1790 – often unable to marry legally, and always liable to be sold and separated from spouses or children – family life was quite a lot different at the time of the founding than it is today.

A would-be president should remember that part of the American story too.

Even Frum Forum readers—who are still looking for a right of center reading experience—were put out by this, asking if we had to mention slavery every time we bring up the founders.

“ I don’t say so at all,” Frum protested, “I don’t call for national self-flagellation or self-disparagement.”

Then he proceeded to demand exactly that—or at least for Sarah Palin—for about 600 more words...

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- JP