More evidence that the end of civil political discourse is imminent (if it hasn’t already arrived). Shame on her and all like her, whatever their political persuasions may be.
“I’d like to see his house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down,” said Behar, a co-host on ABC’s “The View” daytime talk show, in an interview with the website Mediaite. “Who’s he going to call, the Mormon fire patrol?”
Don’t misunderstand from whence I come. All sides of the political debate have people who behave badly and that kind of behavior should never be tolerated, especially if it is to advance a political ideology. Ms. Behar should be ashamed of herself in this instance. She is free to disagree with Romney and even be President Obama’s sycophant if she chooses. But she has crossed the line here when she “jokes” that she wants to see another’s property destroyed to make her point.
And what is up with her comment about a “Mormon fire patrol”? Where is the love, the inclusivity that she and her ilk regularly espouse? If Ms. Behar cannot make her point without resorting to using such extreme examples and implicit name-calling, she had better stop and examine the legitimacy of her viewpoint in the first place.