<p>&#8220;The View&#8221; cohost <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-behar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> claimed that she could never have a beer with former President George W. Bush because she worried that she might actually like him — and she argued that might prevent her from being able to be as critical of him as she should.</p>
<p>Behar raised the issue as she and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; discussed the post-election meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and the hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; — and Scarborough&#8217;s vociferous defense of that meeting.</p>
<p>While Behar admitted that dialogue was important, she complained that in Trump&#8217;s case, being willing to sit down and talk with him could have the effect of &#8220;normalizing&#8221; him.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the problem that people are having with it is that there’s a certain feeling that they’re normalizing him, and he’s not normal. He’s not. He’s a very unusual case. He’s a TV talk show host, whatever it was that show he did,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Behar then pivoted to bring up her point about Bush, saying, &#8220;By the way, I have a personal thing about this because when George W. Bush was in the White House, I knew that if I had a beer with the guy, I would like him. I knew it. And so I didn’t want to have a beer with him. I had things to say about George W. Bush that were critical of him. If I had sat down with the guy, I would feel maybe I can’t anymore. That’s my problem with &#8216;Morning Joe.'&#8221;</p>
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<p>Behar&#8217;s concerns aside, a beer with Bush would have been highly unlikely solely because the former president, after coming to the realization that he was drinking too much, had quit drinking entirely in 1986.</p>
<p>And for his part, Scarborough once again defended his trip to Mar-a-Lago during Thursday morning&#8217;s broadcast.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Scarborough screams at his ungrateful audience (all four of them) for not appreciating his willingness to talk to Herr Trump. <a href="https://t.co/UcIr111StM">pic.twitter.com/UcIr111StM</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;I always have Republicans say, ‘Oh, they’re telling you exactly what to say.’ No! Nobody’s once told me what to say here,&#8221; Scarborough said. &#8220;Well actually, one person did one time. One leader did one time. I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, if you think you can do such a damn good job, why don’t you come here and do the show four hours a day? I’m fine quitting. But I’m gonna do my show. I’ll do my show the way I want to do my show!'&#8221;</p>

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