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Joy Behar: Benghazi Mom’s RNC Speech ‘Completely Inappropriate’
NewsBusters.org ^ | July 20, 2016 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 07/20/2016 4:03:09 PM PDT by Kaslin

A mother speaking out about her son’s death is “inappropriate” for the RNC, according to The View’s Joy Behar. But will she say the same about the DNC’s speakers?

On Tuesday, The View ladies discussed the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. At one point, co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked the panel about an RNC speech delivered by Patricia Smith, “a mom who lost her son in Benghazi [and] still blames Hillary for her son's death.”

Fox News analyst Jedediah Bila began by defending Smith:

I think she feels that Hillary Clinton – you know, and she said this, wrote an e-mail to her daughter the night of the attack saying it was terrorism and then stood in front of the caskets and the rest of the world and blamed it on a YouTube video and feels deceived. And as someone looking at a mom who lost their child, if that were me, and I – and I – all I would be seeking would be answers and the truth.

In disagreement, co-host Behar called Smith’s speech “inappropriate” to have at the convention.

When President Barack Obama first ran in 2008, Behar ranted, “he didn't have a thousand mothers up there who lost their boys in Iraq and say it's George Bush's fault.”

That’s because Obama uses “class,” Behar said, unlike GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump who “will do anything to get you to sympathize and attack Hillary Clinton.”

“It's completely inappropriate,” she repeated. Video below.

The View on Benghazi Mom

Not surprisingly, none of the View ladies mentioned that several big-name mothers are scheduled to speak at the upcoming 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, including Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin’s mother), Lezley McSpadden (Michael Brown’s mother) and Gwen Carr (Eric Garner’s mother).

Bila called out Behar for being unfair.

“When they wanted to pass Obamacare, do you remember how many people we got to hear about how they lost their insurance and the sob stories?” Bila asked. “This is politics.” 

Goldberg argued back, “If it's politics, then what needed to come up after that was that the Republicans who ran that Benghazi hearing for 9,000 hours.” 

“11 hours,” Behar corrected. “She never faltered. She didn’t do it. What more do they want to hear.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; abc; abcstheview; behar; benghazi; joy; joybehar; leftwingloon; militaryfamilies; theleft; theview
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To: A CA Guy

No, she is correct. The speech should be given at the appropriate venue; the DNC, but they would have none of that truth-talk.


101 posted on 07/20/2016 10:05:13 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Kaslin

Who cares what that fat slob Behar has to say!


102 posted on 07/20/2016 10:07:49 PM PDT by Batman11 ( All Muslims are not terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslim!)
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To: Twinkie

BO’s fundraiser was in Nevada. Priorities.

We recently saw *13 Hours*— it ramped up my anger.

How anyone can be so cruel, so heartless as to criticize Pat Smith for expressing her agony is just beyond my capacity to understand.

They are not human.


103 posted on 07/20/2016 10:51:56 PM PDT by jazminerose (oective)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Joyless Behar..


104 posted on 07/21/2016 1:15:26 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Kaslin

I'm Cindy Sheehan and I don't approve of that speech either!!


105 posted on 07/21/2016 4:31:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: timestax

bttt


106 posted on 07/21/2016 11:55:45 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“Do you mean the litter your Tabby has already used?”

YES! And I have FOUR cats.


107 posted on 07/21/2016 4:17:58 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: choctaw man

If she’s made bail..


108 posted on 07/21/2016 5:19:46 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: proud American in Canada

A f*ga brutante..


109 posted on 07/21/2016 5:20:58 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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