Osama Bin Laden Hunter Stops By The View, Baffles Whoopi Goldberg And Joy Behar

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by Steve Krakauer | 3:45 pm, June 28th, 2010

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The construction worker who was arrested for trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan is now doing a publicity tour that took him to The View this morning, because this is America and in America, insane things like this just happen.

Here’s a look at what Gary Brooks Faulkner had to say to the ladies of The View.

Now let’s just say upfront, if Mr. Faulkner thinks he knows where bin Laden is hiding (he does think this, and Dexter Filkins says he might have been close) and he wants to go and try to hunt him down, more power to him. That said, he hasn’t made a very convincing case so far that America’s hopes of capturing the al-Qaeda leader hinge on this guy. Whoopi Goldberg introduced the guest, and then addressed him directly: “You’re a construction worker, you don’t have any satellites, so what the hell?”

“I’m looking in the caves!” said Faulkner. This was a joke actually. Instead, his serious answer was the following: “This is a thing that has to come from the spirit. You have to have a spirit of non-fear. You have to have a spirit of determination and you have to set out to do something.”

He will capture bin Laden with spirit. He also has something else up his sleeve (well, close to his sleeve). Like bin Laden, he is on dialysis, which means he and the terrorist “share an equal camaraderie.”

This didn’t convince Joy Behar. “What does that have to do with capturing him?” Behar later pressed him on the fact that if he knows where bin Laden is right now, why is he, you know, on The View. “While you’re on TV he may be moving to another cave,” she said. ~~“It’s possible,”~~ said Faulkner. Update: I listened again, it was actually “impossible.”

His PR tour took him to CBS’ The Early Show this morning and tonight to The Late Show with David Letterman. All these opportunities have come since publicist Glenn Selig began representing him. (Follow the trail on Twitter!) Selig also represents Rod Blagojevich.

America, ladies and gentlemen.

Here he is on The View. Good luck Osama hunter!

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paulmdoro

I think most Americans can rally behind a guy who made it his mission in life to bring Osama bin Laden to justice (one way or another). Why cheapen and tarnish that by almost immediately hiring a PR guy and promptly going on a talk-show tour?
Level Headed American

Faulkner/Palin 2012
tiredofbs

paulmdoro said:
paulmdoro says:
June 28, 2010 at 3:51 pm paulmdoro(Quote)

I think most Americans can rally behind a guy who made it his mission in life to bring Osama bin Laden to justice (one way or another). Why cheapen and tarnish that by almost immediately hiring a PR guy and promptly going on a talk-show tour?

I agree 100%
lazzzlo

paulmdoro said:…
IWhy cheapen and tarnish that by almost immediately hiring a PR guy and promptly going on a talk-show tour?

His heart is in the right place; his logic is elsewhere. He chose to chase Bin Ladin and he chose to chat with Joy Behar.
timzank

lazzzlo said:
His heart is in the right place; his logic is elsewhere. He chose to chase Bin Ladin and he chose to chat with Joy Behar.

I’d rather be in a cave with Bin Laden than a suite at the Four Seasons with Joy Behar.
lazzzlo

This site does mock people and I do believe “encourages” snarky remarks. Sometimes, this is the product.
lazzzlo

I’m amazed and stunned, why would 1 individual go hunting and “pretty much ” get away with it before he had to get stopped?

Kinda like the guy that swam to the rescue of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.

Our little button downed world doesn’t always have a grasp how other people deal with life.
lazzzlo

Are they crazy or do they really believe they can help?
timzank

He’s no crazier than Joy Behar.
Ination

He might be a little crazier – just a little.
SteveMG

Well, like all of us I admire his courage and desire to “do something.”

But the “something” has to make sense, has to be logical. He really doesn’t come across here (on in the interview on CNN) as having a plan to accomplish his goal. It would be like one of us going to the airport and taking a flight to Peshawar to get Zawahiri and Bin Laden. We don’t speak the language, we know none of the customs, we have no plan. We’re just winging it. What chance do we really have?

The sentiment is laudable but the follow through is lacking (and what would have happened if he had been captured by AQ or the Taliban? Then we’d have to risk our own people rescuing him).
notsofast

He is “Cave Boy, the cousin of Balloon Boy.
Sean68

Pound for pound, the dumbest tv show on Earth.
cracker proud

Love Whoopie. She is just about the only democrat I would listen to on a TV show but Joy is the rat in democrat and I quit watching the show because of her. What a loser!!!
loganrosi

Yesterday and today Joy Behar wasn’t on The View and I didn’t hear them mention why she’s missing. Just curious since they always talk about why a co-host is missing.
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@paulmdoro He’s got to finance the next trip, somehow.
axel360

As long as he doesnt get in the way of our soldiers, he should be free to explore any cave he wants
richardkirk85

This site does mock people and I do believe “encourages” snarky remarks. Sometimes, this is the product.
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