One show, two different outrageous exhibitions of progressive ilk-ism.  Shameful…. (Telegraph) If further evidence were needed of the decline of American network television – aka the “mainstream media” or MSM – look no further than ABC The View’s dumbed down and crass coverage of the royal wedding. The Emmy-award winning show is watched by a large audience on weekday mornings, and its hosts on Friday included Oscar-winning actress Goldie Hawn. 
One of the The View’s co-hosts yesterday, Joy Behar, a controversial liberal “comedian” with her own show on CNN Headline News, thought it would be immensely funny to mock the 85-year old Queen as “a bumble bee with a drinking problem” simply because she was wearing a yellow dress to the wedding of her grandson Prince William. Here is what she said while watching footage of the Queen entering Westminster Abbey – the video can be viewed here:
“A bumble bee with a drinking problem! Holy moly. Who wears yellow? – I’ve never seen a queen wearing yellow. Happy? She looks like a taxi cab – keep that meter running Queenie.”
Behar’s hugely offensive comments, which inexplicably prompted roars of laughter from the audience, were in extremely poor taste, and cruel and mocking in nature towards a public figure who is greatly revered by the British people, and widely admired by most Americans. They represent another low for US network TV, and ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company, should issue an immediate apology to the Royal family as well as its own viewers for this crass display of monumental bad taste. This was nasty, gutter-level mocking of the Monarch of America’s closest friend and ally, and a bridge too far for a broadcaster that is supposedly dedicated to quality programming.  (read article)
And what would the Progressive View be without a race driven slant on things….. The View Hags Somehow Managed to Find Racism in the Royal Wedding: “Where Are the Black People?”… (Daily Mail) — Never mind who wore what, the View’s Sherri Shepherd had another more controversial question about the Royal Wedding today.
‘Where are the black people?’ the outspoken actress, 44, asked as the panellists critiqued Prince William and Kate Middleton’s ceremony.  The star said she had earlier searched through the footage of guests at Westminster Abbey.  ‘Audrey Jones our producer was looking for the black people in the wedding and we found our Rosa Parks moment, because we were like ‘where are the black people’?’ she said.
‘It was like where’s Waldo, where are the black people?’ she added.  ‘We found one little black child in the choir but where’s the black people at this wedding?’ she repeated.  ‘Wait a minute the Calvary guy, from New York,’ said Goldie Hawn, 65, who was a guest host for the day.   ‘Well the guests, there they are,’ said Sherri, pointing to an area in the Abbey reserved for foreign royals, Governor generals and high-level diplomats.
‘They are segregated but they are at the front so we have our Rosa Parks moment,’ she added referring to the African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks who refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give up her seat for a white passenger on December 1, 1955.  ‘I don’t know why they put all the black people over here but they are at the front of the wedding so I ain’t complaining, they got in the front,’ added Sherri.  (read more)