Joy Behar: ‘I’m still ticked off about the 2000 election’

[IDemo]

On Friday night’s edition of “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer,” host Elliot Spitzer was joined by Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View.” Behar discussed her upcoming Current TV show and talked to Spitzer about what motivated her to join the fledgling network’s roster.

Spitzer asked Behar if she was registered as a Democrat or a Republican, to which she replied, “Oh, Democrat. One of the reasons I wanted to be on Current TV is because Al Gore owns the station,” she said.

Behar explained that she’s “still ticked off about the 2000 election. I’m still ticked off at the Supreme Court because that was not an election, it was a decision.”

Spitzer jokingly suggested “anger management.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/16/joy-behar-im-still-ticked-off-about-the-2000-election/

[warrior1]

1. Me too Joy.

Me too.

[Tennessee Gal]

2. I will never get over that.

Right there with ya, Joy.

[DCKit]

3. "Selection" Joy, not an "election".

Even with rampant election fraud, they still had to fall back on the Supremes to pull it off.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Yes, so am I.

[RC]

5. And not only that, but

the United States shifted foreign policy focus from Peace to WAR! More war, all the time and we are still at it.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Likewise

[madashelltoo]

7. I'm feelin' the same.

Ever since they got away with that, they have been stealing an election here and one there. Thieving bastards are gonna trip up because they always do.

[rhett o rick]

8. Yes we are angry, but what will we do about it?

Will the Democratic Party be prepared to prevent another election theft come November? Is there a planned reaction if the election is stolen? How many elections will we allow the Republicans to steal before the Democratic Party takes action. Gore and Kerry conceded because they didnt want insurrection. Well thanks for nothing. If the REpublicans steal the election in Nov and the DEmocratic Party doesnt sue their asses, there should be an insurrection. How long should we wait? How egregious shall we let it get. We need Federal action to insure fair elections. Our only hope is with a Democratic administration.

[stevenleser]

21. That is what the DOJ action in Fl is about

Voter purging is one of the most important methods of election theft the republicans use.

[rhett o rick]

22. What are they doing in WI? That was the test. nm

[hrmjustin]

9. stll ticked here too. n/t

[GarroHorus]

10. I'm still ticked off, too

I'm ticked off that the Gore team went into a gun fight thinking it was a slap fight.

I'm ticked off about the butterfly ballot.

I'm ticked off at Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush for the voter purge.

I'm ticked off at the entire Bush campaign team.

I'm ticked off at the Brookes Brothers riot.

But more than anything else, I'm ticked off that the only votes that counted for the presidency in 2000 were the votes of five ultra rightwing supreme court justices.

[lunatica]

11. I can relate

I consider it the foundation of the crap we're in today.

Al Gore would have us well into saving the planet and doing it by creating jobs right now. We would be in the second fastest economic growth in our history right now.

And it was the Supreme Court selection that was the demise of our Constitutional Democracy. I knew it then and nothing has changed my mind. Today's situation is directly connected to the day the Supreme Court killed the Constitution. Everything since has been a direct result and I knew it at the time. My heartbreak is that what I knew then was a fact.

[xxqqqzme]

12. It is why I

hoped Gore would run in '08. I do not believe this country will heal until that wrong is made right.

[mike dub]

17. I'm not a troll, but just askin'...

xxqqqzme, you said: "I do not believe this country will heal until that wrong is made right."

Just askin', How *will that wrong be made right? What will it take? I think President Obama being elected in 2008 counts for something. I may be wrong.

My wife and I lived in north Florida (in a county located between Katherine Harris' h.q. and the Duval County debacle) in 2000 and we knew it was highway-robbery in our midst. We have been trying to move on as well.

Just wondering what it will take.

Being upset about it burned me up until about 2007 and then I started to let it go, little by little...
But the stain of Bush v. Gore will never completely go away.

[TexasProgresive]

20. Well said and welcome, mike dub

Few of us will ever get over it. I still can't believe that GWB beat Ann Richards. That moved Texas so far to the right that I don't know if we will ever recover.

[ladjf]

13. That is an election none of us will ever forget. nt

[Peregrine Took]

14. I'll never get over it.

I can hardly even look at Al Gore as I feel so bad for him, for us and for the country.

[diane in sf]

15. Me too, it brought me to DU and woke me up in general.

[Octafish]

16. Me, too, Joy!

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[Jamaal510]

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-Jamaal

[Faygo Kid]

19. The turning point.

A different nation had it been President Gore. W. and his allies destroyed the economy and more. The difference between him and Reagan - who started us down this path - is that we could still recover from Reagan.

We will never recover from W's disastrous presidency.

[Overseas]

23. K&R. So am I.

[jwirr]

24. Definitely. But I am also still upset the gramps raygun won in 1980 and started this whole ball

rolling.