Who won the bin Laden debate?

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  • Victor - 13 years ago

    Michael Moore is an idiot of the first degree. Nothing is worth defending to him, but, the steak on his plate. If the big bad rich people,(of which I definatly am not), are so bad, give up your money Mike. You're a hypocrate. Jump to a cause if there is something in it for himself. Congratulations, Mr. Moore, you have been the most consistant Jerk in the history of Progressives. By the way, you don't look like you've missed a lot of meals yourself Mike, so give it up.

  • Julie Niediek - 13 years ago

    I loved Guy's comment about Michael Moore being a beached whale. Being in the over 70 crowd you all are going to understand that I am a Conservative, love Elizabeth Hasselbeck; think Joy Behar is mean, mean, mean, and really am praying daily for a change in our Socialistic society. I have watched the View since the beginning; have defended the show to all who have a negative opinion; as this is one of the few shows (thanks to Barbara) that allows the expression of both Conservative and Liberal Viewpoints.

  • Google's Crew - 13 years ago

    We lost site of our principals as a nation of laws, by not trying these people in a court of law, that is the only and main point. "He that would sacrifice any freedoms for a false sense of security, shall have nor deserve neither" (Ben Franklin)

  • Joanna Lee - 13 years ago

    Michael Moore was not saying he did not want to execute Osama Bin Laden. He was saying that we should not conduct American policy hypocritically to the American ethic we so preachily expel on anyone who will listen. This destroys our national reputation to Al Queda AND the rest of the world!

  • Mark - 13 years ago

    Lets pretend that MM really cares whether OBL was shot or brought back for trial. He just takes the contrary opinion to every action America takes to keep himself in the spotlight. If we had brought him back for trial, he would have made a documentary about the goverment's wasteful spending of millions on greedy lawyers while somebody somewhere is an unemployed illegal immigrant single mom with no healthcare. MM complains about the rich getting richer on the backs of the poor. Hypocrit. He's been getting rich that way for years.

  • Anon - 13 years ago

    A lot of the comments here have nothing to do with the poll question. It was who won the debate. Hasselbeck's justification is illogical. First because like it or not the verdict was correct based on the trial. Second, you are basically advocating people to take justice into their own hands. And when people take justice into their own hands, the innocent end up being victims also.

  • Bill - 13 years ago

    LMAO @ Anthony Naughton

    Damn you are exactly what is wrong with this country.

    There is no better example of Liberalism is a mental disorder than you.

  • terry billingsley - 13 years ago

    fun xango- most folks would think your just giving us a little B.S. sad thing is I think you really believe your tripe.

  • Dat - 13 years ago

    Michael Moore is such a hypocrite. He is supportive of abortions(murdering innocent fetuses) but he is not ok in killing OBL. What a freak you are M.M.

  • fun xango - 13 years ago

    As always,Elizabeth is totally misinformed, why can't the producers of that show understand that the reason of the poor ratings they've been having is because of her, she is so repulsive, conflicting and ignorant, but ultimately she isn't at fault to continue on that show, it is the network that wants to fuel the highly political right wing on this so polarized and divided nation of ours! Cheers to Michael that stood his grounds about the issue of putting on trial OBL. Unfortunately, what the government did not want to inform the nation is that it was out of their hands to hand OBL to the courts and trial him , since all of it was pre-arranged by the Obama administration in order to capture the attention on the polls, all the top officials know that Osama Bin Laden was dead long time before anybody from any agency could see him alive, for once can anyone in this government tell the truth?

  • Rick - 13 years ago

    I'm surprised Hasselback promotes herself as a wholesome Christian, but couldn't comprehend that a complete left-wing liberal like Moore was showing compassion and for once promoting God's will.
    True punishment to bin-Laden would have been having him rot in a small cell for the rest of his life, or wait for the death penalty as he rots in a cell. Being treated like a common criminal. Being shot in the head and dying instantly isn't much of a punishment, and it DOES send the wrong message to our opponents...we are supposed to be above their barbarianism...obviously, we're not. The government expects us to fall in line, but they do what they want, when they want.

  • M - 13 years ago

    To Anthony Naughton

    To your list of talking points, you forgot nany, nany boo boo and fur is murder

  • Fred - 13 years ago

    What did Bin Laden ever do to anyone?

  • Mark - 13 years ago

    Anthony Naughton you are the idiot. The NRA stands for freedom and the right to bear arms, ANY arm, no limits of quantity or type of gun, period. If someone wants to use an AR for hunting they should be able to, or if they want to use it for self defense they should be able to. A free society is an armed society, love it or get out. We are all tired of your types and the times are changing back to what our forefathers so brilliantly understood and wrote laws to protect. You can count on that!

  • Dorothy Kennedy - 13 years ago

    I saw the episode of the view that you refer to here. I would have liked to have heard Moore's views on this subject but mostly could on ly hear Elizabeth pontificating in a loud, rude, rapid voice which allowed no interruptions, although Moore did give it the ole college try but had to give up. We KNOW what Elizabeth's view, are, she tells us at very opportunity, so it would be nice to have heard what Moore had to say. I usually watch the View and have for years but sometimes, after one of Elizabeth's MONOLOGUES, I have to quit watching for awhile.

  • John - 13 years ago

    I will be more than happy to contribute to the one way ticket to anywhere fund for Michael Moore... Let's see how his views and mouth go over in other countries!! Seriously, I will give real money!!

  • Adelaide McGill - 13 years ago

    I have a lot of respect for Michael Moore. Liz is grating; though sometimes she makes intelligent decisions - but then Rick Perry has made two good decisions that astounded me. What perplexes me is this: Would Bin Laden appear to be more of a martyr if we tried him and hung him or if the Seals killed him? I was astonished to hear Joy and Barbara and maybe the Whoop say that they didn't want him tried not only because of the money but because he would have become a martyr. Does it take a lot of attention, i.e. a lengthy trial and a "legal" execution, or one swift bullet to make a martyr? In this case, dead is dead.

  • David - 13 years ago

    I get so tired of the just move get out of the country thing....hell put your head under a rock and everything goes away like magic(lol)

  • eggman - 13 years ago

    i voted that elizabeth won but only because michael could not get a word in edgewise.. y invite a guest on to a talk show and not let him talk?? elizabeth is a way fine super hottie but shes a cracpkot extremist whos views are just as extreme as the terrorist she claims to despise.. she is myopic, biased, closed minded and soooo sooo beautiful!!! i hate her!! but i loooove her!!!

  • Gary - 13 years ago

    Why comment on Elizabeth Hasselbeck, if She doesn't like it here MOVE!!

  • Anthony Naughton - 13 years ago

    To all you republican and tea party freakfests that think Hasselbeck is a god for her idiotic views, you don't know squat about how the real world works, so it is time to put down the paste you are all eating, put away the crayons, and take the short bus home to your mommy and daddy where they can dribble you head on the floor some more.

    Moore is right when he says we don't kill for the sake of killing; that we, as Americans, hold ourselves to a higher standard when it comes to torture, civil rights, genocide, etc... When we start down the road of doing as our tormentors do, we become no better than they are, and that is not the American way of doing things. Did Bin Laden deserve to die? Yes, he did. But only after a jury trial in NYC where he would have been found guilty, and then executed for the world to see at the site where he took so many innocent lives who were only going about their normal day 10 years ago. I know, where would you find 12 terrorists who believe in killing the American dream in this country to be his jury?

    --Try Corporate America, who has shipped jobs overseas to make a killing, but at the expense of the hard-working American worker who has now lost his house, his possessions, and is struggling to get back on his feet while the CEO's get multi-million dollar golden parachutes when they leave the company.

    --Try the presidents of the banks that were bailed out before they collapsed, sending our country further down the rabbit hole of debt while they make record profits at the backs of the working poor, the lower-middle class and the middle class with mortgages on homes that were predatory at best and unconsciably immoral at worst.

    --Try the insurance industry that doesn't want people to have health care in this country without having to take out a second bad mortgage on a home for the insurance to pay for it first. Which is why doctors and nurses are in such high demand, because the insurance company rapes them with malpractice insurance premiums to the point they stop working as doctors and go into medical consulting to reduce the risk of exposure to a lawsuit.

    --Try the NRA, who keeps advocating M-4's, Colt AR-15's and AK-47's should always be sold under the guise of using them for hunting, when in reality, those weapons are are meant to kill the most dangerous animal of all, man. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see a deer shoot back.

    --Try the companies that are trying to build over green spaces to further expand their balance sheets and profit margins while at the same time attempting to disprove global warming and lobbying the greedy idiots in Congress to deregulate all the environmental protections designed to keep the planet alive for our kids and grandchildren.

    --Try the religious right who think they are above the laws that govern this nation, where abortion is considered murder to them while it is legal under the Constitution, but murdering the doctors and nurses that perform abortions is morally acceptable to them while premeditated murder is a capital crime all over the world.

    --Try the Republican jackasses who made the President have to take a bad deal on the debt relief, making sure the ultra-rich get to keep their money (instead of paying more in taxes and closing the loopholes that allow the rich to get away with paying far less than their fair share as it is) while putting the burden of the debt balance on the hard-working and over-taxed working poor, lower-middle class and middle class by getting rid of social security and medicaid and forcing that money to come from their already stretched thin pockets. You know it is screwed up when Warren Buffet, the 5th richest man in the world, tells Congress to tax him and those like him more and they ignore him.

    Who needs Al Queda or the Taliban to come terrorize our country when we have people here doing a bang up job of screwing us and terrorizing us for their own corrupt agenda?

  • Charlotte Dobbins - 13 years ago

    Michael Moore is dilusional at best.I love Mrs. Hasselback because she doesn't back down when it comes to her beliefs.If you don't like the sound of her voice you always have the option of turning the channel.Well said Elizabeth!

  • NSG - 13 years ago

    I wasn't totally sure about it before but I am definitely more of a crackpot than I thought. The more I listen to nutbags like michael moore and bill maher (You should check out Ron Paul too... Old and crazy) the more I seem to agree with them than I do with what politicians themselves say. One big difference I notice is how many politicians speak in specifics. Very little attention paid to numbers, stats, history, or research. Most stuff I listen to sounds like Bill Belichick saying "One game at a time.... We all need to do better." I disagree with her but Liz Hasselbeck has an opinion.... most elected officials find any way to avoid an opinion..... people like maher and moore have counter majority opinions. So they get labeled as far left nutballs when Rush Limbaugh is denying evolution, global warming, homosexuality, and affirmative action.

  • Jessie - 13 years ago

    Michael Moore is an idiot. A big fat one at that. Has he ever done anything ? NO He should do us all a favor and leave this country. I have no sympathy whatsoever for BinLaden he got exactly what he deserved. THAT is the only good thing Hussein O Bama has done. Time to get rid of all the socialist. And that Mr.Moore would be you!

  • USA - 13 years ago

    What Michael Moore is saying is that we are a better country and are better people than the terrorists. We don't torture. We don't kill civilians. We aren't terrorists. And we don't kill criminals without their day in court. I loathe the idea of having that piece of shit enjoy his life in any way while sitting in a jail cell while his multi-year trial goes on, but it's the American way. That being said - he deserved to die.

  • David - 13 years ago

    And hey when it happened i was as happy as the next guy that he was dead...

  • David - 13 years ago

    Moore was right,you may not like it hell i dont know you may have not been raised right....America has lost its way...we have lost what made us great and the decay is eating us from the inside out:-((

  • Shelley - 13 years ago

    While I usually agree with Michael Moore, I don't on this issue. I'm glad we killed that SOB, I only wish we could have tortured him first (kidding!). As for Elizabeth Hasselbeck, she's a right wing freak and I also cannot STAND the sound of her voice! What is it with these women, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, all of their voices drive me crazy, not to mention their crazy ass views. I used to love the view, but won't watch it anymore because of her.

  • Michael Cropper - 13 years ago

    Bin Laden boasted about his actions and killings. So why waste more money on a trial, and the way he died was great. What are we doing asking for more terrorism by giving them any sort of chance with a technicallity in our judicial system. Make them understand there is a price to pay for their violence . The Michael Moore,s of the world need to read history to realize what made the USA the country that everyone seems to want to live in. Get back to basics: work hard, be honest, and love your country.

  • Guy - 13 years ago

    Moore is the best example of a land-whale, Somebody needs to harpoon him and end our misery

  • Steve Gandy - 13 years ago

    It is very interesting that Michael Moore brought up that we are still spending millions on a fake war but he is ok with spending millions for a trial and possible execution of Osama bin laden.
    That doesn't make any sense.

  • No Namer - 13 years ago

    Moore is a capitalist in socialist clothing (how much has he made with his films? How much has he kept?) and Hasselbeck is slightly more than annoying, but she's true to her beliefs which aren't always mine but I appreciate her honesty and "stick-to-it-iveness". There is no winner when it comes to debates other than who stands by their view more. One view is not less valid than another.

  • Linda Pugh - 13 years ago

    I did not watch the Hasselbeck and Moore debate because I absolutely cannot stand even the sound of Hasselbeck's voice. I do not share her views and quite frankly I would watch the View more and even be a loyal follower if she was not on The View. To me she is like fingernails on a chalk board.

  • McFyre1 - 13 years ago

    Why comment on Moore, if he doesn't like it here MOVE, he IS a self-absorbed asshole!

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