Joy Behar of "The View" made sure to "fact check" her latest claim before she said it out loud.
Apparently she is attempting to avoid the possibility that she might have to read another on-air legal note at the behest of ABC's legal department.
But that didn't stop her from putting her foot in her mouth.
In a recent episode, Behar launched into a wild attack against Joe Rogan. And she went right for the jugular; his soft-underbelly... that little-known weak spot in his scaly armor where her fiery dart -- once loosed -- might find it's mark; his belief in dragons.
Hi -- I'm Josh. And I, too, believe in dragons. You see, as an amateur fossil hunter for the last 30+ years, and a very non-amateur student of the Bible for the same length of time, I don't just believe in dragons; I KNOW they existed.
And it is not an oversimplification, in my mind, to say that the word "dinosaur" is simply a very new term (late 1800's) created to describe a relatively small subset of the wildly diverse creatures that Biblically, historically, and paleontologically would otherwise be referred to as DRAGONS.
But honestly, the intent of this article isn't to inform you of dragons, or persuade you that they exist.
Quite frankly, I simply want to point out the brilliant comedic mind of Joe Rogan in stark contrast to the dimwitted angry mind of Joy Behar and her cohorts on The View.
Here's the clip that started it all.
As much as I love the whole topic of dragons -- and trust me, I really do -- I have to point out the wonderful delight that Behar seems to take in pointing out that The View is fact-checked by ABC News, and that is why people like "The View".
If you share even a tiny percentage of my view of "The View", you probably can guess how hard it is to treat that absurdly out of touch statement with anything less than the complete disdain that it deserves.
And I'm not going to attempt to do anything but that very thing! (They just don't deserve anything more.) But apparently the constant influx of must-read legal notes has the ladies of The View thinking that somehow that precludes them from ever being "wrong".
And in that assumption... they are very, VERY wrong! Just because Behar "triple sourced" her information, as Fox News relates, is not enough to keep her from being as wrong as the day is long.
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg opened a segment on Thursday by discussing a recent poll showing many young Americans get their news from social media influencers who skew towards the political-right.
Co-host Sara Haines responded with a "PSA" urging viewers to be skeptical, particularly in this era of misinformation and AI, and that "when you see something that really pisses you off, you should triple-check that one."
"I think that's why people like our show," co-host Joy Behar replied. "Because they know that we are checked by ABC News."
"We're checked by everybody," Goldberg agreed.
"Yeah. If we're wrong, we have, you know, the legal note here," Behar added, referring to co-host Sunny Hostin's legal background.
Behar went on to lament that as a country, "we went from Walter Cronkite, basically, to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons. I checked it."
"Did you triple source that?" Haines asked.
"Yes I did," Behar responded. "And he also thinks that they -- dragons-like, I guess, dinosaur-y type of animals -- roamed the Earth when people did. So this is a type of really, really bad information that's going out there. But it's possible Donald Trump did roam the Earth when dinosaurs were here."
There is a part of me that desperately hopes the ABC legal department is overly zealous in their attempts to avoid litigation for slander.
Oh, how I would love to find ourselves the amused listeners to another legal note reading session tomorrow -- as Joy Behar clarifies that it is factually impossible that Joe Rogan roamed the Earth alongside dinosaurs, even if you assume the youngest possible age of the earth, and that she misspoke.
But this is where the story really gets good. Because Joe Rogan heard the clip. And he immediately altered his profile description on X.
That is top-shelf trolling there, my friends. That is how it's done.
Joe Rogan actually has discussed the possibility that dragons legitimately existed alongside humans at some point in the past. (You already know my take.)
During a particular segment on his podcast with Forrest Galante, a large portion of what Rogan believes is likely concerning the existence of dragons was discussed in the framework of history, biology, and naturalism according to a story in Newsweek about the Joy Behar dragon flap. (Pun greatly intended)
Joe Rogan has responded with a video of "evidence" after The View's Joy Behar accused him of believing that dragons once walked the earth.
The comedian and podcaster shared a video to X from YouTube entitled: "Evidence Dragons Were Real," uploaded by the Archive of Creation, a Christian group dedicated to "documenting intelligent design and special creation theory." He also changed his bio on X to "Dragon Believer" after Behar's jab.
She was referring to comments Rogan had made earlier this month saying: "You know what I'm really fascinated with, is things that existed, like only in myth, but that every culture has, like dragons."
"I had this guy, Forrest Galante, he's a wildlife biologist and he thinks that there's a real possibility that dragons were an actual thing and they lived alongside humans," he said on the November 12 episode of his The Joe Rogan Podcast.
He continued: "There's all these records and all these different cultures and you know, there's Chinese culture has dragons. Japanese culture has dragons. Ancient Europeans have dragons. Like dragon as a real, not a fire breathing thing, that seems to be bull****."
"Well they were probably like a crocodile that flies. There was probably like more a kind of really dangerous reptile that they called dragons. Like Komodo dragons," Rogan said.
The American Natural Museum of History says that naturalists and biologists across many cultures treated dragons "as part of the natural world."
"Chinese scholars have classified the dragon as one of the 369 animal species with scales. Long before the development of paleontology, people unearthed fossilized bones in Asia and Europe -- and believed they had found the remains of dragons from an earlier age," it read on the museum's website.
Here's the 23 minute documentary Rogan referenced -- which fitness guru Jillian Michaels said she watched!
And here is the very intriguing and entertaining 6:45 minute clip that Rogan referenced from his podcast episode with Forrest Galante, discussing all-things dragon related.
The dragons of yore may or may not have existed. (They did.) But either way, they are gone now.
Just like the ratings for The View, the brain cells I lost researching Joy Behar's crazy rant, and any doubt I may have harbored before now that we are watching the complete and final implosion of the mainstream media in all it's forms -- including daytime TV.
Though, I would venture to guess, a few of those fire breathing lizards might live on... to wreak havoc on mankind.
But of course, it may cost them a few more legal notes, if they do.