Why Joy Behar’s ‘Tramps’ Apology Wasn’t Enough
The co-host of “The View” didn’t wait long to say she was sorry for labeling women who claimed they were sexually abused by Bill Clinton “tramps.” She made the comments yesterday and offered up a true blue “I’m sorry” today.
She didn’t even throw anyone under the bus in the process. That’s something a certain presidential candidate should consider the next time he’s cranking up an apology. And that could be any day now.
Only Behar’s apology wasn’t enough.
Why?
She didn’t have any company when she said it. Why didn’t her fellow “View” co-hosts apologize for their actions? Or, for that matter, their collective inaction?
Let’s back track. On Monday’s edition of “The View,” the show’s hosts dissected Sunday’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Given the show’s absurdly imbalanced tone, 99 percent of the conversation favored Clinton.
Nothing surprising there. What was shocking, though, was just how hopelessly ill-informed the show’s hosts were on the subject at hand: Bill Clinton’s history with women.
FAST FACT: Paula Jones dropped her lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998 after he agreed to pay her $850,000. She claimed the future president “touched her, tried to kiss her and dropped his pants and asked for oral sex.”
The hosts couldn’t imagine why conservatives blame Hillary Clinton for her husband’s sexual conduct. They don’t. They blame the former First Lady for lashing out at the women in question repeatedly over time.
This from the same women who vowed we should always believe women who claim they were sexually abused.
None of the show’s hosts, not even the alleged conservative, Jedediah Bila, brought up that argument. That’s not offensive. It just speaks to the collective intellect on display.
What happened next, though, was wildly offensive.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg began the segment in question by claiming the women who appeared with Trump at Sunday’s debate – Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Shelton – weren’t all victims.
“Several of those women slept with him knowing he was a married man … [Hillary Clinton] was the victim in this .. the person to whom dirty was done.”
Wrong.
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Co-host Sunny Hostin added some desperately needed facts to the chat. Hostin explained that the women in question all alleged they were either groped, harassed or raped by the former president. Shelton claims Hillary Clinton served as a defense attorney for the man accused of raping her, and that the future Secretary of State laughed about her case at one point.
Hostin went further, sympathizing with Hillary Clinton and suggesting the debate confrontation Trump started could have been used to discuss what happened in a constructive fashion.
To which Behar shot back with what Hillary Clinton could have said, “I’d like to apologize to those tramps who have slept with my husband.”
Anyone laughing at that crack?
The conversation continued from there in a similar ill-informed, quasi-coherent fashion. Yet no one on the panel stood up for the women Behar just smeared in such an ugly fashion.
Not even Bila raised any concerns about Behar’s comments. Then again, ideology shouldn’t matter when the subject is women who say they were sexually assaulted.
The audience didn’t even recoil in shock. Many laughed right alone.
Imagine what would happen if women who claimed to be sexually attacked by Trump were dubbed “tramps” by Bila … or anyone else? The show’s panel would erupt in fury. Heads might roll. The story would be kept alive by the media for days. Maybe weeks.
So why didn’t that happen Monday?
Behar was right to apologize. Was it from the heart? We can never know, but at least she made a complete statement on the issue.
We’re still waiting for her colleagues to do the same.
Gennifer Flowers is the one who willingly slept with him Whoopsie, not his victims. Those ladies were either happily married or just plain not looking his way. But to say that these women are tramps? You hags know better. Hillary knew of Bill’s serial cheating, she was doing her own.
None of these people have an honest cell in their bodies.
It is “we the people” against the media, Wall Street, DC Politicians (both R&D) and THEIR lobbyists. The hosts of the View are not pro women they are pro getting paid well. Have they ever brought up that Trump pays women 100 cents on the dollar and Hillary paid women 68 cents on the dollar.
I thought the purpose of The View was to bolster Democrat candidates and positions so … why is anyone surprised? Kinda surprised there was any apology.
It is just an expose’ of the sense of superior entitlement the left has. They believe they are the “good” people, so their faults, biases and crimes are excusable and since the right is “bad” they are subjected to zero tolerance. In short, they believe themselves to be the ruling class, a belief that is inconsistent with our national identidy as a republic.
Harpies gonna harp.
Whoopi Goldberg has already come out as pro-rape in her defense of Roman Polanski raping a 13 year old child.
This is Hollywood, where victimizing women and children is Standard Operating Procedure. No wonder they love Democrats so much.
They hate the victims of rape because they’re afraid the victim will be taking their job next month.
Unless you are talking Bill Cosby. Those women knew what they were doing, and they were willing to play the game, and even got money for playing.
Is Goldberg making a case for textile industry?
It’s us against a terribly biased and uninformed media.
Biased certainly. Uniformed? Not in the slightest. They know exactly what they are doing, they are covering up all kinds of stuff about their favorites. Covering up and ignoring reality, facts and the truth is not uninformed.