Barbara Walters calls out John Boehner as having "an emotional problem"

[wndycty]

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I hate that the best YouTube of this is tied to TownHall, but it is worth it.

[Pirate Smile]

1. I saw that today. Hilarious.

:D

[notesdev]

2. Word has it

that it's because he's a drunkard. Explains the redness in his face all the time.

[valerief]

4. I think most GOPers have to stay drunk to support the policies they do. nt

[Kennah]

36. GOP exemplifies the phrase "Spending like a drunken sailor"

[notesdev]

48. Sailors deserve more respect

The phrase is now officially "spending like a drunken legislator".

Example: "When the ship in port for a few days all the sailors go into town and spend like drunken legislators."

[Kennah]

52. I tearfully apologize to the sailors

It's the Admiralty spending the enlisted sailors money, and the sailors have to buy liquor made in China.

[notesdev]

60. Sorry not permitted

Sailors under 21, you can die for your country but you can't have a drink!

[AlbertCat]

17. it's because he's a drunkard

A bigger drunk than Dubya!

[glinda]

18. Alcoholics flock together for support to justify their behavior. Just look at Bachman, Palin and

a few others like Emmer who ran for MN. Gov., the list goes on and on.

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[underpants]

44. Word has it my ass... he is a drunk

he has made himself emotionally unstable.

[Can of Whoop-ass]

46. C'mon Merka...

Wahhhhhhh... Call a Wah mbulance, give the Rockefellers the US Treasury, Bill Gates, Social Security and the Saudi Royal Family the GDP or they starve!

[reggie the dog]

yet people who blow reefer like me are supposedly unfit

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for 65% of jobs in the usa including making burgers at mcdonalds

[reggie the dog]

63. yet people who blow reefer like me are supposedly unfit

for 65% of jobs in the usa including making burgers at mcdonalds

[valerief]

3. Weeper of the House. I LOVE it! Did he ever cry for the 99ers? For

the people with no medical insurance who turned up at freeclinics events? For the people with burning tap water due to fracking? For anyone but the top 1%?

[chelsea0011]

28. "weeper of the house" ......joke of the year

Did Joy coin that or has it beeen used before becaue I hadn't heard it?

[valerief]

30. I think she coined it. I never heard it before. nt

[customerserviceguy]

42. I heard it here

the day after the election, and I used it myself that day.

This is somewhat ironic, coming from a woman whose stock in trade is getting interviewees to cry for the camera.

[femrap]

49. I think he and Glen Beck

taking acting classes from the same teacher....they've learned to cry. But it's really starting to wear thin.

So I'll go with 'mentally unstable.'

[karmkay]

65. Who's

the yappy blond who's defending him? (I don't watch The View. Maybe I should start?)

[femrap]

70. Elizabeth something or other.....

she's the reason I DON'T watch The View. She is a right wing talking point. Joy Behar, I love. But I just can't watch it....too much muting of the WRTP.

[butterfly77]

75. Her name is..

Elizabitch...

[Andy823]

5. I agree.

I honestly think he has some serious problems, and he uses alcohol to cope with them. When he has to give interviews, stand up in congress and be serious, etc. he has be sober enough not to slur "all" his words, or make a fool of himself so he cuts back. This is what causes the emotional outbreaks. This man should never be third in line to be president, never in a million years!

[Hard2believe]

76. I notice all these references

to alcoholics and the crying fits by this guy. Please, an empathy for those suffering from alcoholism. A disease I would not wish on my worst enemy.

Too many of you are speaking as if you know something about the disease. If you do,shame on you for comparing the illness of

these people to the waterworks of this guy.

The View had one very pertinent point when Hasselbeck(sic) opened her big mouth again and jabbered her defense of this man by

talking about jobs when Joy stated that he was the one trying to prevent what he crying over. Of course a break came.

[frazzled]

6. It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To

(You would cry, too, if it happened to you.)

[glinda]

19. hahahahaaaaaaaaa!

[valerief]

31. We'll have to start calling him Lesley. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

7. No, Boener's just a sensitive new age guy (see vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuJi8gO-sc

[Boudica the Lyoness]

8. Something is wrong with Boehner..he's really mental.

So much for the American dream. People can work for years to achieve their version of the American dream, only to get sick, lose their job and then sell their home/car to pay medical bills. Oh, but soon we'll be paying almost $2,000 a month for healthcare insurance...then everyone will have healthcare. :sarcasm:

Wow..Barbara Walters is 81! I know she's had her face worked on, BUT look at her body, no visible sign of osteoporosis and she's so on the ball still.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Mr. Tan Man, bring us a dream

I heard this from Boehner supporters outside John Boehner's office: (to the tune of Mr. Sandman)

Mr. Tan Man, bring me a dream
One with no taxes and just for one team
Get rid of Biden, or people from Dover
Just give us dumbshits we can f**k over

Tan Man, we're so alone
Our place is foreclosed, we have no home
Please turn on your vote machine
Mr. Tan Man bring me a dream

[glinda]

20. That is pretty good!

[Auggie]

10. As if Boehner wasn't ripe enough for satire...

[Cleita]

11. I guess that's an old fashioned way of saying that

he's mentally ill. But it seems to me that much of the Republican caucus should be in mental institutions and not running a country.

[furgee]

12. Prozac anyone

[LittleGirl]

13. Man UP Boehner!

It's disgusting that this man is third in line for the Presidency! My gawd, what a girlie man. Even his wife showed disgust at him during that interview. It's no wonder the world just watches our political process and shakes their head. We're shamed by this man.

[reggie the dog]

64. he should just do a joint instead of drinking

then come in with a grin and say "i worked my way up and now that i am on top i have basically done all i can to ensure that other kids in a situation like mine wont be able to work their way up"... that would take a load off of his chest anyways.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Maybe he needs to chug on over to namby-pamby land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA

[butterfly77]

27. Don't get me started...

this is one of my favorite commercials along with this:rofl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGKB5bc9DU

[bluedeminredstate]

15. He doesn't just get a little teary...

He really loses it! He has trouble keeping himself from a shoulder-shaking, all out crying jag. He isn't just getting emotional, he's on the verge of losing his composure. I'm glad Barbara called him out. It's very strange that he does this a lot. I'd rather watch an endless loop of GW Bush's teary moments than spend 30 seconds watching Boehner embarass himself like he does so often. The fact that he's unable to keep himself from breaking down when he gets near the topic of his hard, hard upbringing (walking to school in the snow, uphill, both ways with no shoes) or his accomplishments points to the fact that either he's unstable or he's a sloppy drunk.


:cry:

[glinda]

21. Both. Bad combination if you ask me.

[AlbertCat]

22. either he's unstable or he's a sloppy drunk.

These are not mutually exclusive.

And there's Elizabeth chirping up "The tax cuts will create jobs".

We've had 10 years of them and look where we are. Two more years and they'll start working, right?

When is the whole GOP gonna get over its emotional problem and realize that ITS IDEAS DON'T WORK... for the average American. Works like a dream for the already wealthy.... except it's undermining them too.

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[catgirl]

24. Or unstable AND drunk

And completely clueless- claiming he's emotional thinking about the american dream for these kids, when in fact, his
very own policies keep these kids down.

[SemperEadem]

16. he doesn't compromise. I wonder how that's working out in his marriage?

Mrs. boner: "John, darling, I need some money to go to the store and get little johnny some milk for his cereal in the morning".
Boner: "Hell no!!!!!! Let him go without cereal. What does he think this is? That's my booze money. I earned it!! Let him go earn it!!!"

Freakin' Sniveler of the House

[indimuse]

23. The *Weeper of the House*..nuff said! nt

[Plucketeer]

25. I love how Hassledunce

has to try to flash the "Small Business" argument once again. One has to have a Small Brain to buy into that bullshit. :puke:

[bluedeminredstate]

29. Talk about emotional!!!

Elisabeth gets so worked up when anyone criticizes a repug. Today, she automatically went into the tired old GOP talking points - ones she heard this morning on Fox and Friends - and accused Joy of saying Boehner was a bad guy. What Joy said was that he only starts crying when he talks about himself. Elisabeth immediately got shrill and shouty and started talking over the rest of the panel which she does quite a lot. Barbara gave her a shut-the-fu*k-up look when she kept up her rapid-fire, strident defense of Boehner.

I guess Elisabeth has never seen a video of herself acting like an over-emotional shrew, which she does whenever politics enters the discussion. She drives me insane because she is so intellectually dishonest and all she does is repeat the shit you can hear on Hannity, Beck, Greta, O'Reilly and Rush. She just is so obnoxious and defensive when she parrots these lies.

It's kind of fun watching her practically have an aneurysm when anyone says anything remotely unfavorable about Sarah Palin, She's like a pitbull - attack, attack, attack. Sometimes the rest of the panel will all just stop talking and she just keeps yipping until she wears herself out.

:crazy:

[catgirl]

34. Don't insult pitbulls

The only comparison is- they're loyal, and that's it. Hassellfreak is a brainwashed psycho parrot.

[chemenger]

67. Hey CatGirl ... WTF ... You tell BDinRS not to insult pitbulls

and then you insult brainwashed psycho parrots. That's just not right.

:wtf:

[Plucketeer]

77. Yeah!

Now my three parrots are upset! LOL!, unlike Hassledunce - they'll get over it. :rofl:

[molly77]

38. "Sometimes the rest of the panel will all just stop talking"

They have no choice. The View was great when Rosie O'Donnell was on. After they kicked her off..it was awful.Just awful. Amazing how one person could carry an entire show.

[NoQuarter]

82. Please.

One has to have and intellect to be intellectually dishonest.

EH is simply a dictation machine on playback.

[Caretha]

50. Did you see

the look Barbara gave her? It was like..."child, I don't have time for this".

[DesertRat]

26. Right on, Barbara!

I agree with her, I think he does have an emotional problem.

[sulphurdunn]

32. Who's the bigger weeper,

the Boner or the Beckster? I think it's a tough call, but I'll go with Beckster.

[AlbertCat]

59. the Boner or the Beckster?

I think the Boner is REALLY weeping because he can't control it.

Beck is acting.... badly.

[pam4water]

33. How was the guy who said Democracy had ruined the country by crying? Maybe Boehner knows down inside

that he is the one destroying the country,

[cstanleytech]

35. Gotta wonder though if he is rubbing something like Vicks onto his

fingertips or some other place in order to cry like that, would explain where Beck learned the trick.

[Kennah]

37. Go Whoopi! Go Whoopi! Go Whoopi!

Crying into a break. Loved it!

[Bombero1956]

39. I said it before

What the fuck is he crying about? We have more to cry about than he does. We suck it up and go to work, raise our kids, pay our bills and deal with life in general. Boehner needs to chug off to namby pamby land and quit his blubbering.

[zbdent]

40. leave it to Republicans to turn a man crying from

"unfit for a President" in 1972 into "Hey, here's a great guy!"

Kinda like how all the statements by lefties about our vanishing liberties being ignored WERE IGNORED until some conservative homophobe gets media attention for freaking out over "touching my junk" and SUDDENLY it's okay to question the government's overreach in security measures (mainly because a Democrat was in the White House at the time the measure was put in place).

(run-on sentence, I know ... I know.)

[sulphurdunn]

74. Actually, it's a compound sentence

lacking a subject pronoun and an omitted comma after the word "junk".

Or, It's a complex sentence with a comma omission after the word "junk".

Or maybe, If you capitalize "unfit" put a comma after "guy", small cap "kinda" and put a comma before "and", you might have a pretty good compound-complex sentence. But I'd get a second opinion from an English teacher to be sure. :)

[Hulk]

41. Blubbering fool...

If the clown only realized how stupid he looks when he starts blubbering. Jesus...get teary eyed....sniffle a few times; but contorting your face to look like you just loaded your diaper and everyone in the front row saw shit running down your leg.....please give me a break.

Weaper of the House. Clown...idiot....hypocritical buffoon. What a f*cked up nation we live in today. Sarah Palin is a hero to how many million Americans again?? Good God!

[sirthomas66]

43. He is kind of nuts.

[DFW]

45. As Ogden Nash might have put it:

Has the House no one saner
Than House Weeper John Boehner?

[LynneSin]

47. Look at Hasslebeck's hostel body language

Arms crossed and leaning back means she's not very happy right now.

[DeSwiss]

51. "Why? Making sure that, ulp, erk, gthc.... American kids, hump, gkpt.....

get a chance at the America dream like I, grp, snffm fppp, did....."

- K&R (gulp)

"The mendacity of American capitalism is once again so clearly visible that most adults, with or without a “higher” education, can see it. That the “lower classes” blame the “higher classes” for it is not surprising, since they see that mendacity seems to be one powerful ingredient of “higher” education.

It’s not a new condition but one that is historically habituated. Most of the people who came here from Europe were pushed into it by destitution. They came determined to “make a better living.” For them, capitalism was “freedom” and “liberty”—the freedom to steal land from the “Indians”, the “liberty” to tolerate the importation and slavery of Africans for decades, followed by more decades of racial discrimination. They accepted unjust competition and the build-up of huge personal fortunes as “inevitable”. With the exception of the Civil War and the labor rebellions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they did not struggle to change things. They just moved West—until the West ran out.

When they were told by their overlords that they must fight wars because “communism” and “socialism” would “take over”, they did not have the mental tools necessary to unmask the deceit and evaluate the overall situation more accurately. Besides, they were afraid because they knew the “isms” were complicated, and they were ignorant—and helpless.

Even today a large proportion of the population still believes in social and political injustice. They still are mainly interested in their own well-being and are misled by their unflagging hope that they can “improve” their condition, most often meaning “make more money.”

The system of capitalism feeds on these attitudes and fights against anything that refutes them. A measure of how insecure capitalism is, how vulnerable and frightened of falling on its face, is the degree to which media and surveillance must be used to constantly brainwash and frighten “the public” and prop up this rickety structure.

It’s a top-heavy house of cards, and can’t help itself because it has separated itself from balance, criticism, originality and change. ~ http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_origin_of_americas_intellectual_vacuum_20101115/#366695">By gerard

[The Wizard]

58. I anxiously await the day

when Boner vomits on his shoes in public.

[Better Believe It]

55. He and Glenn Beck should have a cry-in!

[Poll_Blind]

56. OMG I'm glad I watched this. It looks like he's fucking falling apart, not just crying.

That's fucking freaky. I'm all for people showing their emotions and stuff- but this kind of total collapse isn't so much crying as something...dude, I dunno...something else.

PB

[golddigger]

57. She asked his wife if he cries like this at home,

His wife said, every night when he can't get it up.

[movingviolation]

61. That token blonde conservative woman bugs me to no end.

OT-I find it funny how she thinks the * tax cuts create jobs. Where the hell are the jobs then? They've had those tax cuts for what, something like nine years now? Demand creates jobs, poor and middle class with extra money create demand, because we frickin' spend it. I got nothing more to spend or save, it all goes to necessities.

Also if the oil companies weren't gouging us I'd have more to spend on useless Chinese plastic crap. Can't we make our own useless plastic crap? AMERICAN made useless plastic crap for AMERICAN jobs NOW dammit!

I'll stop now, I wouldn't wanna make Boner cry.
:evilgrin:

[cartach]

62. Boehner/Beck

Someone should get Boehner and Beck together on a talk show and introduce some topic that would be bound to get them emotional. Lead in with a question about the American Dream to Boehner and that would be guaranteed to get him started. I would almost guarantee that Beck would then start to get all choked up and then the fun would start. It would be hilarious to watch them as they progressed from weeping and wailing and sobbing together to being out of breath and incoherent.Similar to when two people start chuckling about a joke or some funny incident and wind up laughing and hooting and hollering out of control. I posted something like this on HuffPo and someone suggested it would go good on SNL.

[polly7]

66. I had to read the comments to learn this is real and not a spoof.

I've seen plenty of men cry, but none whose faces actually melted like that. Did he have a stroke at one time? The one side of his face and speech seem a little off. That was difficult to watch.

[findrskeep]

68. I've been saying for awhile now that,

that man is a DRUNK. You can just look at him and tell he's a heavy drinker. His eyes are always bloodshot, his face is always red and he just reminds me of an alcoholic in his mannerisms and speech.

[gauguin57]

69. I agree with Joy. Don't blubber over your own economic struggle & pull out rug on middle class

I have no problem with a man crying in public, occasionally. When Dan Rather cried after 9/11 on Letterman, I said, "You go, boy!" When Edmund Muskie misted up in defense of his wife, I said, "What's the big deal?" As much as I can't stand Dubya, I didn't mind him getting emotional when he hugged his father after his inaugural. That's just human.

But Boehner cries to the point of seeming unstable. And I agree with The View ladies: If Pelosi had blubbered like this, she'd have been called a weak woman.

[jdadd]

71. Crockodile tears......

This is an old time fundamentalist preacher trick, He's just trying to show that he really cares.....He needs a little vapo rub to pull this off.

[pink-o]

80. Ala Jimmy Swaggert, you mean!

Boner is the best drunk crier this side of the pulpit, for sure!

[Fire1]

72. I agree, Babs! n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

73. There's nothing worse than a crying drunk. n/t

[Roy Rolling]

78. Leave Britney Alone!

How dare anyone out there make fun of Boehner or Britney. Leave Boehner Alone!! :nopity: . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

[boycottfaux]

79. Hasselback, really?

Interesting that Hasselback didn't mention how many jobs
Boehner personally created as a beneficiary of the Bush tax
cuts for the rich?

48% of Congresspeople are millionaires.  How many jobs have
they each created since the inception of the Bush tax cuts?

Anyone know?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

81. I distinctly remember Pat Schroeder getting crucified in the 80s for crying

Where are all of those strong, manly types in the media now? Or does Boehner get a pass from the mocking outside of the View?

[Mopar151]

83. A wise and crazy lady told me once

"A whining man is like a drunk woman - they have no dignity left at all!"