Joy Behar: Glenn Beck ‘was an alcoholic and a drug addict,’ ’so it sort of follows he’s crazy now’

By John Byrne
Monday, September 28th, 2009 -- 8:12 am
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joy behar Joy Behar: Glenn Beck was an alcoholic and a drug addict, so it sort of follows hes crazy nowThe boisterous comedienne and co-host of The View, Joy Behar, didn't mince words on this weekend's Reliable Source with The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz.

Asked about popular Fox News host Glenn Beck, Behar cut straight to the point, bemoaning both the media and Beck himself.

"He's frequently ridiculous and doesn't make any sense as far as I'm concerned," Behar remarked. "He calls himself a rodeo clown, and he's a clown. He's on the cover of Time Magazine. I mean the media plays just right into his hands.

"He was an alcoholic and a drug addict at one time and so, it sort of follows that he'd be crazy now," Behar continued. "Not that all alcoholics are crazy. But it's sort of, it's interesting to me that when they give up drinking, they replace it with another addiction. In this case, it's just carrying on and acting out and talking constantly, and riling up the crowd. He's addicted to all that publicity I think. It took the place of drinking.

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She added: "He's sort of somebody who yells fire in a crowded theater but I believe in free speech and as long as there are no weapons involved, that's fine."

Beck was recently featured on the cover of Time Magazine, and has incited outrage from liberals over his over-the-top monologues.

This video is from CNN's Reliable Sources, broadcast Sept. 27, 2009.

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  • Annie
    Glenn Beck is a patriot. More than any of you liberals will ever be. You're all just afraid of him because he's waking people up in this country and it's starting to show. If he wasn't a threat, do you think Joy Behar would even waste her time talking about him? Think about it. DEMOCRATS OUT IN 2010!!!
  • jlewd
    Annie, you fucking moron. Beck is about as much a patriot as you are a thinking human being. So of course a fucking twit like you who is incapable of thinking for herself would think this crackhead alcoholic white supremacist was of any value to America. Which is why you and assholes like you are out of power.

    Go back to the trailer court and take care of your swampkids instead of wasting your afternoons drinking 40s, smoking cigs, and playing scratchits with the loser likes of assholes like Old Shitlantic. Your kids are already stupid fucking morons -- please don't condemn them to an entirely southern lifestyle by abandoning them any further.
  • Annie
    jlewd - Your lack of education is evident by the language you use - typical though of liberals. Like I said before - Glenn Beck is a patriot for no other reason than he pisses people like you off. And I'll add one more thing, the fact that you're so irritated with my post shows how frightened you are of us "morons". Enjoy your democratic majority - it ain't gonna last.
  • Andrea
    leave it to a liberal to resort to name calling. good argument. just about as intelligent sounding as joys.
  • Notika
    jlewd must be black. Everything is about white supremacy. Typical. Get an education and learn how to speak properly. Or go back to your African county and leave ours.
  • deacon101
    Go back to your native land, I believe the Indians were here first.
  • wietog
    OK people. Let's not assume race or education levels or parenting skills or citizenship.

    Also - it doesn't seem to matter WHO is in power. When the Republicans were, spending was out of control. Now that the Democrats are...same thing. Big money makes the decisions, and we are still at war.

    Free speech is valid, but respectful speech gets you respect.
  • Notika, please go away and let the Real Americans enjoy our country.
  • robertVA
    Annie......... you must be a simple minded Republican conservative, incapable of thinking for yourself as already noted. Anyone who places all "liberals" in one category and calls them useless is in my view, pretty arrogant, simple minded and right out ........ ignorant. You and people like you are completely incapable of recognizing and admitting when someone on the other "team" does something worth of praise. No one is perfect; no "team" is perfect.. and when I say "team" I mean Rebpublicans and Democrats. Why can't you just forget party lines once elected and support the men and women who are trying to do good for the benefit of our nation, rather than attempting to tear down and tear apart. It is really quite annoying. Your Republicans are not all perfect; nor are the Dems. They are human.
  • jlewd
    Annie, I'm sure I have more education than that fifth-grade "diploma" you proudly display on the wall of your trailer, so kindly go fuck your ignorant self. I choose this diction precisely for assholes like you. It is the same shit you fucktards poison the public airwaves with via Glenn Drekk and Rash Limbpalls.

    What's hilarious is that a fucking moron like you doesn't understand the meaning of the word "patriot" and misuses the term to describe a crack-addled, racist, hate-monger one step away from wearing his white, pointy hood and cloak on the soundstage -- something you already do at home while watching this brainwreck piece of shit stumble through his sophomoric skits, all the while thinking you're witnessing true genius in action.

    I'm not frightened of trailer trash like you. You, however, should be frightened. You talk a lot of nonsense about revolution, Annie: when did you hear that from the left during Bushler? You didn't. But all the sudden, you ignorant, brownshirted fucktards seem to think the concept is not only acceptable discussion, but freely encourage it, along with the assassination of a duly elected president.

    My advice: keep resetting your IP address, hatemonger. People are paying attention to the divisive, violent hate speech you and your icons spew. And dipshit Beck will get his day -- he'll enable it himself. No doubt he'll get caught with a dead hooker, a kilo of blow, and rodeo clown all in the same Best Western somewhere in the mouthbreathing south where he's loved and adulated.

    Either way, you ain't changing shit, idiot -- you'd do better to change your swampkids' diapers and stop smoking meth.

    PS -- I suppose you have a better option to a democratic majority (so fucking stupid you don't even see the irony in your own letter case use) -- and that would be, what, Annie? Armed insurrection? Mobs of teabagging trailer trash storming the Bastille?

    Like I said: start changing your IP routinely, and don't forget to mask your router. You talk a lot of shit about "revolution." Be careful what you hope for, Tokyo Rose.
  • alnino
    I'd like to fight you.
  • venicementor
    Unbelievable! What a hateful person you are - jlewd. I guess your moniker says it all, lewd and crude.
  • jlewd
    You're a genius, venicementor. Nothing gets by a "thinking" individual like you, does it?
  • auburngal13
    First of all, your choice of language is utterly juvenille. The last time I heard that much crude language was in the hallway of a high school. Can you really not validate your argument without the use of name calling and cussing? Because it really makes it look like you have had no real education.
    Second of all, HOW DARE YOU bring the south into this arument? Who are YOU to say things about group of people who you obviously have had no actual contact with or stereotype a part of the country that you have obviously never been to?
    I have been reading many of your comments and it seems to me that YOU are the hypocrite.
    Why is it that the democrats are always conservatives and any one else who disagrees with them, to be "more open minded" and "accepting of other views" when the democrats cannot do it themselves.
    It sickens me that people like you, who obviously have never had a proper history lesson and disregard many of the true principles our great country was founded upon, call the United States of America home.
    No, I did not vote for President Obama but I do not want President Obama to fail, I do not want our country to fail, but I certainly want you and your misguided attempts to insult and bully people towards your beliefs to fail.




  • Annie, people like you give America a bad name. If you and the Right could understand how Actual America really works, we can all get together and start fixing it. We've spent the last 8 years under the thumbs of a handful of genuine Nazis who's only goal was to rape and pillage our country in the 8 year time limit they'd received. Now we ALL have to fix it. If you want President Obama to fail then you want America to fail. Not "Real America," a worthless catchphrase invented by Right Wingnuts, but Actual America, the place where we all live together, the envy of the rest of the world. When people protested against President Bush, they were called "unpatriotic" and genuinely threatened with jail. You now want a sitting President to "fail," and during wartime, too! That is legitimate treason. If Dick Cheney was still running this country, you'd be under surveillance right now. God Bless America. God Bless Our President. Annie, when you're ready to be an American again, we'll all welcome you back with open arms. Also, if Glenn Beck didn't rape and murder a young girl in 1990 then why won't he deny it!!
  • silentnomore
    You are the moron. You talk about other people thinking for themselves, but you can't honestly say you are thinking for yourself. You are buying in to all the bullshit and lies the government is telling you. We WILL take this country back in 2010.
  • jlewd
    Duh-rrr. You ain't taking shit back, you ignorant fuck. You lost for a reason. The reason is that you're all a bunch of hillbilly hypcrites too stupid to realize the rubish stupidity of your mouthbreathing ways. Your party is history. Your leaders are assholes. Your constituency is the dumbest, fattest, inbreedingest, most uneducated lot our country has to offer. You are the lowest of the low. Most of you fucking morons can't even sign your own names and have to sign documents for the revenooers with an "x".

    Those Warner Brothers cartoons showing hillbillies in the South? That's no exaggeration. That's you, dumbass. That's the Republican base.

    So how is it you assholes are going to take this country back in 2010? I know how Glenn Beck thinks you're going to take it back. And I know how a bunch of uncreative, unpopular fucks like you think you can, but thank god, there's still a majority of rational humans in America to deter Hitlerian dipshits from overturning the will of the majority.

    So dream on, little hillbilly. Tomorrow's another day without a job, without an education, without teeth, and without healthcare. But too bad for you, fucknuts: they're still be a black man in the White House.
  • hillarywarner
    jlewd.........are you joking? who do you think you are?? you are the only one using profane language, bad grammar, and making hilarious statements. honestly, people like you make me laugh but when you start to get so extremely profane, you just need to shut up, take your lexapro, and stay away from "uneducated hillbillies" otherwise your grey hair will just grow faster.

    and stop saying that stuff about hillbillies in the south. it can hardly be called and argument...its just laughable. i am 100% southern and until i moved to the north racism wasnt even an issue in my life. the color of the president means nothing to me OR glenn. however, im sure his color is soooo important to you. this being the case, i can see YOUR true colors. YOU are the racist. im sorry. i honestly am. life must be so hard when it is governed by the color of our skin.
  • jlewd
    You're a fucking retard, that much is obvious. And the south has made you only that much stupider. You saw more racism in the north than you did in a region that had to be dragged into war to end its practice of slavery? A region that to date still practices Jim Crow and is proud of its "white culture"? You are not only a fucking idiot -- you're a liar as well.

    As for Beck's color, fucktard: he's the one who won't explain what he meant by "white culture." You're clearly incapable of any action that doesn't involve huffing paint, so I suggest you go fuck your retarded son instead. As for bad grammar, what would you know about "grammar," jackass? You used about eight periods for ellipsis (three, dumbass, and sometimes four) and can't even be bothered with using caps to begin your sentences. Bra-vo, southerner. Keep misspelling your protest signs, fucktard. The south has taught you well.

    And don't tell me to shut up, bitch. You can not only shut up, but fuck off. As for life being governed by the color of my skin: who would know better about governing by skin color than a racist southerner? You assume I'm, what fuckmonkey? Black? You really are living down to the lowest common denominator.

    Plus, "Glenn?" You're on a first-name basis with this racist fuck? Clearly, since you can't seem to use our president's name but you use the Grand Wizard's first name without a problem.

    Keep drinking the kool-aid, fuckwad.
  • joesplace1116
    I am guessing the rage comes from you not ever making it in life...under-appreciated and middle-aged..You go around thinking you know more than anyone else but have yet to show it in any application. You have yet to have an argument in way shape or form. you however continue to be the internet tough guy...it is quite amusing. You have just shown how incompetent and insecure as a person you really are. Actually I can see some democratic views, but with idiots like you on their side, they are sure to fail.
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