View’s Behar: Carson Gaffe Proves Trump Runs ‘Cult of Mentally Crazy People’

[See NewsBusters for more.] The women of The View on Wednesday angrily denounced Ben Carson for an awkward moment during congressional testimony. The Housing and Urban Development Secretary on Tuesday didn’t know what the acronym REO stood for (real estate owned) and made a joke about Oreos. This prompted co-host Joy Behar to blow up: “He's also under the influence of Donald Svengali who already created this cult of mentally crazy people! I mean, everybody who believes Donald Trump I believe has to look a little closer.” Behar dismissed the former neurosurgeon turned politician: “He wanted to be a celebrity.” Co-host Sunny Hostin scolded, “He's not the nice Ben I know.” Behar derided, “Doesn't it clarify the position between being smart in school, smart like he is and having emotional intelligence?”