Joy Behar & Guests On Willow Palin's Gay Slurs & Her Mother's Terrible Parenting Skills

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(The full uncensored FaceBook exchange: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=524823&mesg_id=525907)

BEHAR: You know, those kooky Palin girls are in the news once again. Thank goodness for my show. Last night, Bristol Palin advanced to the finals of "Dancing with the Stars" basically because the tea party is voting like crazy. In fact, they just elected Willow Palin, Secretary General of the U.N. And willow herself is making headlines by throwing around homophobic slurs on Facebook.

Here now to discuss this and, oh, so much more are comedian Judy Gold, Dick Cavett, legendary talk show host and author of "Talk Show" and Erika Vetrini, senior editor of "In Touch Weekly." Welcome to my show. Hey, Dick, it`s a pleasure to have you here.

DICK CAVETT, TALK SHOW HOST: Well, you too. By the way, I should warn you that anything I say might seem a little prejudice because my blog about Sarah Palin was entitled, "The Wild Word Smith of Wasilla.

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: OK. So, we know where you`re going.

CAVETT: The line most people remembered from it for some reason was she seems to have no first language.

BEHAR: Exactly.

JUDY GOLD, COMEDIAN: That`s so true.

BEHAR: Like George Bush.

GOLD: Some as a second language.

BEHAR: So, Sarah was interviewed by Barbara Walters, and it was leaked it`s going to be on -- I don`t when. I thin next week. But it was leaked that Sarah Palin actually said and then we`ll get to Willow in a minute. Sarah Palin actually said to Barbara that if she was up against Obama in 2012, she would win. She actually thinks that. Could she win?

GOLD: No! She can`t win. Are we that stupid?

ERIKA VETRINI, SENIOR EDITOR, "IN TOUCH WEEKLY": we are leaving.

GOLD: Hello.

BEHAR: Now, here`s the story with Willow Palin. On Sunday night, a kid named Trey who went to school with the Palin kids -- are they all named Trick, Trey --

CAVETT: They ran out of names.

BEHAR: OK. This kid Trey, who`s not related, wrote on Facebook, quote, "Sarah Palin`s Alaska" is failing so hard right now which prompted Willow to reply, "ha, ha, you`re so gay." She didn`t spell it right, though. I don`t know who you are but I`ve seen pictures of you, you are disgusting. My sister had a kid and is still hot. OK. Where do you think this Willow picked up this language?

CAVETT: How do you misspell gay?

(CROSSTALK)

VETRINI: This is my point, and I think I`m expecting it. It`s really fresh in my mid. I have a 2-year-old daughter. As a parent, isn`t it your responsibility -- I don`t believe their camp is saying that she doesn`t use this language. This is new. I don`t believe that. She`s 16 years old. This is the way she speaks. And when you hear that your child is speaking this way, it`s your responsibility as a parent to inform her that`s not the proper way to talk.

I even think about the people that we meet on the streets that talk this way, and that I`d have to have a conversation with my daughter and say, that`s not appropriate.

GOLD: Right. Right.

VETRINI: And that really -- that says something I think about Sarah Palin`s parenting skills.

BEHAR: Another part of this, she used -- I`m not going to say the word because it`s offensive. It`s the "F" word about gays. Everybody knows what that is. I don`t need to say it. I mean, it`s really --it`s beneath content.

GOLD: Can you even imagine, even the Bush twins, the Obama girls, Chelsea Clinton ever using language like that?

VETRINI: Absolutely not.

CAVETT: You have to feel sorry in a way for her parents because the money they blew on finishing school for her.

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: Now, Bristol got into the act on Facebook --

GOLD: Bristol who, you now

BEHAR: Bristol who just -- is on --

GOLD: Can I just say they stole the election and now they`re stealing "Dancing with the Stars"? It really -- I can`t even -- you know Brandy was so much better than her.

BEHAR: I know, but she has all these tea parties voting for her because of her mother. But anyway, she responded to Trey by saying, you`re a typical (EXPLETIVE DELETED) talker. Talking (EXPLETIVE DELETED) because you have nothing else going for you. What is with -- I mean, shouldn`t she know better, Erika? She plays the victim just like her mother. The whole family are all victims, you know?

VETRINI: How do they get -- they`ve been around for a while now. They`ve had to have press training. How do they not know that Facebook is an open forum that we`re all going to (INAUDIBLE). How did they not know that? And what bothers me more is that it wasn`t even live. What they said and they quoted. She had time to think about her message and write it. That says something.

BEHAR: She did apologize. She said, Willow and I shouldn`t have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize. On a nicer note, thank you for supporting the great competition.

GOLD: That`s not an apology. That is not an apology.

BEHAR: Who do you think got to her, mother`s banker?

GOLD: You know what, Sarah Palin makes me look like a good mother and that`s really bad, OK?

(LAUGHTER)

BEHAR: So, is that an apology, Dick, do you think?

CAVETT: I would say it`s an apology in the idiot sense.

(LAUGHTER)

CAVETT: To put it politely.

BEHAR: Well, you know, I have a feeling that the more we trash this family, the more popular they get.

GOLD: Right.

BEHAR: I really -- I`m so ambivalent about it because they do make you angry, these people, and yet, you know, they`ll move right into the White House. It`s scary.

VETRINI: No, we`re leaving. My husband said to me, he`s like, we`re moving out of the country.

BEHAR: No, no, don`t say that. Alec Baldwin that we`ll talk about in a minute, he said he would do that, and he couldn`t.

CAVETT: What history look back on these times with her as one of the great admirations of the history of the country?

VETRINI: Oh, absolutely.

CAVETT: The enthusiasm for a know nothing who might have been president.

GOLD: And if she becomes president, she certainly will not be the education president. I`ll tell you that.

[mwb970]

1. If Palin became president...

I think we would see a noticeable rise in the emigration we always claim we are about to do. That could be the last straw for many who simply decide, "I don't want to live here any more" and take off for Europe, or Costa Rica, or just go ABA (Anywhere But America).

Or would we just put up with it, the way we put up with every other horrific, un-American thing republicans do to us?

[AtheistCrusader]

4. If she becomes president, no place on the planet is safe.

Nowhere.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. If Palin becomes President-

She will be America's LAST president. The country will not survive her "leadership".

[cilla4progress]

2. Joy Behar - another one of my heroes!

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. FINISHING SCHOOL, where Willow learned to say Faggot instead of Queer ?

Dear Willow

We appreciate your hillbilly redneck roots, and that "family fucking in the highschool hockey locker room" this was cute too.
We do fear, however, that you may be scaring the Log Cabin Republicans out of your sweet-mama's voting block--- so we would like you to "take one for the team" and go on a date with Mary Cheney to help prove your open-mindedness.

Fabulous.

Then we love you.

[johnnypneumatic]

5. Behar got it right

they are "homophobic" slurs, not "gay" slurs

[wookie72]

7. I had good parents

and I remember saying (and doing) a lot of stupid shit. I can't recall ever using that word, but I told a few gay jokes. You know what? I hate Palin as much as anyone else, not least because she parades her kids, but she can't police them 24/7. And don't give me that "apple doesn't fall that far from the tree" nonsense. I learned most of my profanity ands slurs from my PEERS, not my parents. I mean, christ, if the censors went after katy perry for making a similar comment the title of a song people here would be up in arms.

In other words, give her a f**king break. and tell her maybe not to go on Facebook.

[TEXASYANKEE]

8. I might forgive her the foul language,

but the bad English is something else. Hey Willow, it's "you're" you little village idiot.

[wookie72]

9. Yes, my grandmother would not have approved.

She would cringe at the use of irregardless.

But this is the equivalent of writing things on your binder, just for all to see. that's why I hate FaceBook, and I'm sure as hell glad they didn't have it when I was a kid.