Joy[less] Behar want Orrin Hatch to 'go to jail' for not saying what she wants to hear

A proud display of her Constitution IQ = one

Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Freedom of speech is what makes the United States of America the best nation on earth. No other country has that freedom to the degree at which we do. We have the right to say anything we want, as long as we don't call for violence or create intentionally.

There are nine categories of speech that are not protected under the U.S. Constitution and scholars have somewhat differing views, but the categories are clear:

Obscenity.
Fighting words.
Defamation (including libel and slander)
Child pornography.
Perjury.
Blackmail.
Incitement to imminent lawless action.
True threats.

I don't believe many people would have a problem agreeing the above categories should be prohibited.

But freedom of speech also means that a person has the right to say nothing if he or she so chooses.

Joy Behar doesn't think, and she doesn't believe the First Amendment should apply to Orrin Hatch (R-UT). But mostly, she doesn't think.

The ABC News’ “The View” co-host said on Thursday that retiring Senator. Hatch “maybe” should be sent to prison for not speaking out against President Trump, proving she's a far-left idiot, but I repeat myself.

“I don’t know if you saw this clip of Orrin Hatch, the esteemed, so-called senator from Utah,” Behar said. “I used to like him because he was very friendly with Teddy Kennedy,” the late Massachusetts senator who allowed Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in his car after it plunged into the Chappaquiddick river. He was drunk at the time, left the scene for hours, but Behar thinks he was a great guy.

So Behar liked Hatch because he liked Ted Kennedy. Brilliant! Now she says that he's a "so-called" senator. How gracious of the so-called comedienne.

Behar also described a video clip – that ABC News significantly did not air during the segment – in which she claimed Hatch said he didn’t care if President Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen committed crimes together.

’I don’t care,’ he said, ‘the president’s doing a good job,” Behar said. “Where have we come when a senator from Utah is saying, 'I don’t care if he committed a crime?'”

But watch the video below and see how the CNN reporter tries to put words in Hatch's mouth. He never actually said what Behar wanted to hear.

This is exactly the type of "fake news" Behar is spouting--although to call anything on "The View" 'news' is ridiculous.

When the senator was asked about the president's links to Cohen, Hatch said, "All I can say is this: President Trump, before he became president, that's another world. Since he's become president, this economy has charged ahead. We're all better off, the country is better off."

When the reporter mentioned that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is a Trump appointee, Hatch replied: "I don't care. All I can say is, he's doing a good job as president." That isn't the same thing as saying he doesn't care if Trump did anything illegal.

"View" co-host Meghan McCain reminded Behar that Hatch is “almost gone” when Behar fired back, “Don’t they care about democracy anymore?”

Doesn't Behar care about the U.S. Constitution anymore?

McCain complimented Hatch’s “hilarious” Twitter account before the show went to a commercial break. Behar was still joyless. When the show returned from break she continued the conversation.

"He is going out of office. He has nothing to lose by speaking, against truth-to- power about Trump,” Behar said. “Why does he say, ‘Even if he commits a crime, it’s OK?’ Maybe he needs to go to jail, too.”

He never said that. Behar is either lying or she's an idiot--wait--both can be true at the same time.

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