Joy Behar Asks McGinniss If He Has ‘Death Wish’ for Writing Book About Palins
While CNN gave two tough interviews to Palin-bashing author Joe McGinniss, HLN's Joy Behar joked around with him on her Wednesday show. She referenced his newest tome on Sarah Palin and her family, full of nasty gossip and rumors, and jokingly asked “What, do you have a death wish, Joe?” In the previous segment, Behar had made fun of Rush Limbaugh's past drug abuse in her interview with Levi Johnston. “Your mother was selling Oxycontin?” she asked Johnston. “What's she – what's up with that? Does she know Rush Limbaugh?” Not finished with her fun, the HLN host had a laugh over McGinniss' creepy move into the house next door to the Palins. “Could you see Russia from that house?” Behar joked. In the interview, McGinniss charged Palin as a “blatant racist and a “religious extremist,” but Behar challenged only the latter accusation, remarking that Palin was barely a churchgoer – according to Levi Johnston, whom she used to fact-check McGinniss' book in the previous interview. Behar did press McGinniss over his radical stories against Palin and her family – but while treating him as a respectable reporter, not the author of a book filled with gossip and rumors. She also gave credence to the fringe conspiracy theory peddled by the Daily Beast, that prominent Republican figures are “Dominionists” and are pushing to end the separation of church and state in America. When McGinniss accused Palin of belonging to such a sect, Behar asked “how is she any different from, say, Rick Perry?” The “Rogue” author absurdly claimed that the media gave Palin a pass in 2008, saying that “the mainstream media paid no attention to her background, nobody did any homework on her in 2008, running for vice president.” Behar made no attempt to challenge his assumption, instead attempting to explain it. “Well, the media likes sort of a star. She's kind of a star.” [Video below. Click here for audio.]
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