Webloggin » Mitt Romney Loses A Staunch Supporter

A frequent subject of our Great Minds of the 21st Century segment is the always brilliant Joy Behar. She weighed in on her reason for opposing Mitt Romney for president.

Joy (addressing Elisabeth Hasselbeck): You were talking about Mitt Romney before—how you like him—let me ask you a question—he made a speech in front of the Ford Building the other day in Detroit—Ford Motors, you know that whole thing.

Ford—Henry Ford—the original Ford where that museum is made after him was a big, big—and I hate to bring up his name—Hitler supporter. In Hitler’s house in Germany, there’s a picture of Henry Ford. And a lot of World War II …

Elisabeth: That means he’s a supporter of Hitler or that Hitler is a supporter of Ford?

Joy: Both. It was a mutual admiration society between Henry Ford and Hitler. Look it up. Just Google Henry Ford.

Now my question is shouldn’t Mitt Romney, who wants to be president, know that information before he stands in front of that building and gives a speech? What do you think?

That shows a certain amount of ignorance and I wouldn’t vote for him because of that. His people should have checked that out. I know about Henry Ford. Why doesn’t Mitt Romney know about it? Because he didn’t expect someone like me to check it out and say it on television.

Oh that’s such a shame! I know the Romney people were counting on Joy and her like-minded lefty friends for their support!

Speaking of confused leftists, I wonder how Joy felt about John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy when they were running for president. I don’t know if either ever stood in front of a building named after someone who was admired by Hitler, although I do suspect either one if asked would have expressed admiration for Henry Ford and the company he founded. I do know that their father was a known Nazi sympathizer whose support for Hitler so embarrassed FDR that he recalled the former bootlegger from his position as ambassador to the Court of St. James (Great Britain).

Joy seems to be suggesting that any connection to Hitler, even one as remote as the one she suggests, is so disqualifying that candidates have an obligation to perform punctilious investigations to ferret out even bizarre supposed connections like this one. (Using this test, even Kevin Bacon is probably connected to Hitler, but then, he’s connected to everyone, right?) If that’s true, then shouldn’t being the spawn of a Hitler sympathizer be disqualifying?

What’s a closer connection–standing in front of a building named after the founder of a great American company, who may or may not have admired an evil dictator, or being the son of a man who suggested we live and let live where Hitler was concerned? What sort of pro-Nazi propaganda did the little tykes absorb around the dinner table? “Hitler’s not a bad guy. He represents the wave of the future. I don’t know why Churchill has his undies in a bundle. Pass the salt.”

What about driving a Ford? Joy, are the millions who choose to drive the cars made the company founded by an ostensible FOH (Friend of Hitler) also demonstrating their poor judgment and/or their endorsement of the whole Nazi program?

It’s hilarious to listen to imbeciles like this on television, but as entertained as I am, I do wonder how much influence empty-headed loudmouths like Joy have on the largely female audience at home. Perhaps it’s time to renew my call, first issued after Bill Clinton appeared to hawk his book on the Oprah’s show, to repeal the 19th amendment.

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