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.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Someone of Joy Behar's limited intelligence would naturally view someone who had been homeschooled as a freak of nature or even...demented.
I believe it is well beyond her capacity to recognize a truly educated person. Just put a bone in her nose, wrap her in animal skins and hide her shoes and she'd look more the part.
So “demented” that every spelling bee champion for the past 10 years has either been a descendant of Indian immigrants (4) or a homeschooled Anglo kid (6). Not a single white kid from public schools has won the Bee since the 1990s.
Joy Behar epitomizes everything wrong with network TV shows today.
She is uniformed and bigoted yet enjoys a platform to blabber about anything that strikes her fancy.
What in the world does she know about home schoolers? NOTHING. NOT A THING. But, since she hates anything conservatively oriented, she automatically hates home schooling.
A complete Leftist Tool, unfunny, and unattractive (even amongst a group of unattractive people!)
Yeah, but 12.5% of all the competitors are homeschooled - I’m in shock, what happened? 7 years ago, it was an average of 25% homeschool, 25% private school, and 50% public school... quite an interesting distribution.
Joy Behar saying something very stupid is not news. It only means she’s still breathing.
I watched this video. I don’t like her much myself and feel weird finding myself in the position of having to defend her, but I did not hear her say that. I listened to the video several times at the 7 minute mark. She was referring to the fact that there may be many demented people out there that would want to hurt Obama’s children if given the opportunity and that was a good argument for them to be taught within the confines of the White House.
>> They hate the idea that parents could have the freedom to pull their kids out of the liberal indoctrination camps.
And I fully expect Obama to assist them in reducing it. What does everyone think the whole idea of Obama’s required “national service” is about, other than liberal indoctrination?
People believe it because she has said so many truly asinine things, and mean things. I didn’t even listen. I can’t stand her.
Well, at least she's only going to ruin the life of one child. Unfortunately, we'll probably be learning about a "tell all" book about what a horrible person "Joy" is in a few years. It'll sell about 36 copies.
I can't believe that this bitter old hag is billed as a "comedienne."
Mark
BOR certainly disarmed her and made fun of her, and even had the audience laughing at her on "The View."
Mark
Maybe we should take Behar’s criticism as a compliment. If she thinks homeschooled children are “demented”, we must be doing something right. ;-)
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