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Behar: 'A lot' of Homeschooled Kids Are 'Demented'
Newsbusters ^ | Nov 19, 2008 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 11/20/2008 1:43:38 PM PST by DeLaine

"The View" co-host Joy Behar is well on her way to unhinged, if not already there.

Earlier today, NB's Justin McCarthy noted that Behar, in mentioning GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, said that "we all know that the woman is an airhead."

Michelle Malkin noted this evening that Behar also took an uncalled-for cheap shot at those who are involved in an important and growing alternative not only to the public schools, but also to traditional brick-and-mortar classroom education (video is at link):

Behar show(ed) .... her contempt for both homeschooled students and parents: “A lot of them are demented when they’re homeschooled.”

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If this is "dementia" by Behar's twisted standards, perhaps we need more of it.

An article Ms. Malkin linked by Richard Sousa of the Hoover Institution that originally appeared in the June 11, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle documents some of the successes achieved by homeschoolers:

Let’s hear it for the home team—they have done it again. In May, 13-year-old Evan O’Dorney of Danville, California, won the National Spelling Bee; Evan is homeschooled. Of those who made it to the finals in Washington, D.C., 12.5 percent were homeschooled; of the top seven finishers, three were homeschooled. Last year, 13.5 percent of those making it to the Bee finals were homeschooled.

Evan is not alone as a high-achieving homeschooled child. The 2003 and 2005 National Geographic Bee champions were homeschooled. In 2005, a 16-year-old homeschooled child won the U.S. Chess Championship, making him the youngest player to claim the title since 14-year-old Bobby Fischer won it in 1958. And they’re athletic to boot; the 2005 girls Gatorade high school soccer player of the year was homeschooled. Remember, homeschools enroll only a small percentage of America’s children.

..... The number of students who are home-schooled is a matter of some dispute, but it is clear that their numbers are increasing and that the performance of homeschooled children is outstanding.

..... Comparisons in achievement tests of homeschooled students with national averages for all students show that homeschooled children are well above the national average in every subject and at every grade level in the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and in Tests of Achievement and Proficiency.

By now, it's not exactly a secret that the election of Barack Obama has been "empowering" in a negative sense to some who supported him. Certain of those who on the November 4 the winning side threaten that "you're either with us or against us," which begs the question, "or what?" (George Bush never made this statement to the American people, but instead delivered it in September 2001 to nations harboring terrorists). Same-sex marriage advocates shake down businesses where any employees dared to even nominally financially support Proposition 8, and work to end the careers of anyone in the performing arts who did the same.

Behar's comment is perhaps inadvertently significant, in that it comes from someone who, as Malkin noted, used to be (O .... M .... G) a public-school teacher. Is Behar mouthing the sentiments of emboldened public-school establishment teachers and their unions? Knowing that there is little to fear in the way of repercussions from Washington, where the Big Labor-beholden Democrats run the show, is the effort to cut off the homeschooling movement at the knees going to grow more aggressive in the coming years? I'd bet that it will.


TOPICS: Education; Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: education; homeschool; joybehar; liberalism; partisanmediashills; theview
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To: DeLaine

Was this before or after the View rocket scientists wanted to end “Black Suffrage”

(No, I am not kidding.)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/11/18/whoopi-sherri-do-not-know-definitio-suffrage


21 posted on 11/20/2008 2:15:28 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware of Obama's Reichstag Fire; Don't permit him to seize emergency powers.)
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To: Mamzelle

Does Behar have any kids?

Did someone actually marry that self-hating, has-been? Yuk!


22 posted on 11/20/2008 2:16:14 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: Roman Con

>Clandestine...does that have something to do with joining the KKK?

Maybe you’re thinking Klandestine:
The Final Destination for the Klan.


23 posted on 11/20/2008 2:18:01 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: ZULU

She should demand a refund from the taxidermist who did her last face-lift.

Priceless LOL!


24 posted on 11/20/2008 2:18:53 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: DeLaine

Most of the home-school kids we have hired on the farm have been a joy to work with. For one thing, they know how to interact with people of all ages.


25 posted on 11/20/2008 2:19:19 PM PST by Cloverfarm (Children are a blessing ...)
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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; TigersEye

Joy Behar needs to shut up. She has nothing of value to say & I enjoy turning her off every chance I get. Shaking my head again.


26 posted on 11/20/2008 2:20:36 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
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To: DeLaine

What a disgusting witch.

27 posted on 11/20/2008 2:24:49 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: DeLaine
Behar's mouth is 10 times bigger than her brain.

Who care's what she thinks or espouses ... she's an idiot.

28 posted on 11/20/2008 2:27:59 PM PST by Daffynition ("Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.")
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To: null and void

ping ping ping ping ping


29 posted on 11/20/2008 2:28:21 PM PST by DeLaine (You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.)
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To: DeLaine

Do celebrities’ job desciptions require them to be demented?


30 posted on 11/20/2008 2:31:57 PM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: DeLaine
At the high school level I had a six of these so-called demented kids in two courses I taught (Greek and Computer Science).

Four went on to become National Merit Finalists and receive full scholarships.

One is majoring in Biomedical Sciences (she plans to enter medical school); another is double majoring in Economics and Computer Information Systems; a third is majoring in Computer Science; the last is majoring in Elementary Education (I know, what a waste).

All the kids are very well-adjusted, leaders in their respective academic and social communities. Behar is demented.

31 posted on 11/20/2008 2:36:06 PM PST by nonsporting
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To: DeLaine

I’d love to see stats on teachers who home school their kids because they know better.


32 posted on 11/20/2008 2:36:48 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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To: DeLaine

She’s Rosie O’Donnell on a diet..


33 posted on 11/20/2008 2:55:54 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: DeLaine
Joy Behar = maggot

She and the other women on that panel are offensive on so many levels.

34 posted on 11/20/2008 2:59:18 PM PST by xtinct (Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. Plato)
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To: Mamzelle

Joy Behar is ignorant and not the least bit funny! How anyone watches that show is beyond me.

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Josephina Victoria Occhiuto

She married Joe Behar, of Sephardic Jewish descent, in January 1965; they divorced in 1981. They have one daughter, Eve, 37.

Behar recently referred to the Bush administration as “liars and murderers”.

Catholic League president William A. Donohue remarked that Behar, who was raised a Roman Catholic, “is no stranger to Catholic bashing”, pointed to her statement “Don’t you remember when you went to Communion? ‘In vino veritas.’ The priests were all drunk, don’t you remember?”

Behar again raised eyebrows when she publicly opined that Democratic Senator Tim Johnson’s recent health problems were the result of a Republican Party conspiracy to retake control of the Senate. When conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked, “Why is everything coming from the liberal perspective a conspiracy?” Behar responded “I know what that Party is capable of.”

During the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case Behar in a conversation with Hasselbeck and McGowan labeled the innocent players as, “white boys sitting around with black girls, coming in and stripping. Alright, they didn’t rape them, but-”

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Joy Behar’s longtime boyfriend Steve Janowitz (shacked up with her Jewish “boyfriend” for nearly 25 years) Photo below

http://tinyurl.com/5pxltr


35 posted on 11/20/2008 3:01:09 PM PST by kcvl
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To: DeLaine
stooopid fat cow... whats her excuse???
36 posted on 11/20/2008 3:01:24 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: DeLaine
NB's Justin McCarthy noted that Behar, in mentioning GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, said that "we all know that the woman is an airhead."

Turnips have a higher IQ than Joy Behar. Look up "stupid" in the dictionary if you want to see a picture of Joy Behar.

37 posted on 11/20/2008 3:03:16 PM PST by an amused spectator (I am Joe, too - I'm talkin' to you, VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
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To: Roman Con
That's spelled "Klan-destined". Gotta watch those hommyn . . . hummi . . . homi . . . words that sound alike.

< /publik skool product >

(did you know that Cletus was a Pope?)

38 posted on 11/20/2008 3:12:46 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse - TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: DeLaine

Joy married college professor Joe Behar in 1965; the pair had a daughter, Eve, before divorcing in 1981. Behar now lives with longtime boyfriend Steve Janowitz in an Upper West Side apartment decorated by HGTV design guru Robert Verdi. (Her daughter lives in the same building.) She also owns a barn-style vacation house in Sagaponack, although she claims to hate the beach.

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Behar took a holiday from humor in her 20s when she married a professor, became a high school teacher and had a child. It wasn’t until after her firing from “Good Morning America” that Behar, then in her 30s, gave being funny another try. By this time, she was a divorced single mother.

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Hampton Style

http://tinyurl.com/5rwu3a

joy de vivre

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Her ‘’circuitous route to Sagaponack,’’ she said, really began in 1983 when, living in Forest Hills with her young daughter, she was fired from her job as an assistant to a producer on the ABC program ‘’Good Morning America.’’ A would-be-comic ‘’since the age of 2,’’ she heeded her therapist’s advice that ‘’without a straight job all obstacles disappear,’’ and went after a performing career ‘’full blast.’’

She shares her house in the Hamptons with her longtime boyfriend, Steve Janowitz, who teaches at a junior high school in the Bronx, and, she said, often writes the material she uses about him. (She added that she must get permission from her daughter, Eve, before mentioning her in the act).

Despite her public persona, she and Mr. Janowitz enjoy a relatively quiet life in the Hamptons. While she will occasionally appears at benefits — ‘’Are there parties I’m not invited to?’’ she asked, laughing — they are not part of the fabled social scene.

‘’I like being near the beach,’’ she said. ‘’Rather, I like knowing the beach is here and we even go occasionally after 6 when we can walk the dog. I love it out here. The air, the light. And there’s a lot to do — foreign films at the Sag Harbor movie, the wonderful restaurants and the antique shows. This weekend alone there are three shows.’’

http://tinyurl.com/5l7hyo


39 posted on 11/20/2008 3:20:43 PM PST by kcvl
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To: pandoraou812

Well if anyone knows demented...


40 posted on 11/20/2008 3:29:57 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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