Behar, M.D.: Rush, Beck and Bush Conservatism a Product of Being Ex-Addicts; Says Palin is 'Dumb'

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Once again, the nightly train wreck known as CNN Headline News "The Joy Behar Show" took another jab at conservatism, particularly Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Only this time, Behar threw in a couple of old standbys for whom lefties are fixated upon assaulting - former President George W. Bush and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Behar, on her Oct. 17 CNN HLN program, suggested to radio show talk host and former child-star actor Danny Bonaduce there was a trend - that people who have had struggles with chemical addictions are now outspoken, particularly those on the right that Behar disagrees with.

"Do you see a trend? Rush Limbaugh, Oxycontin. Glenn Beck, alcoholic, Danny Bonaduce, alcoholic ... and George Bush, ex-alcoholic," Behar said.

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And Behar elaborated on her diagnosis - that the reason these guys are so outspoken is they need a substitute for their addictions.

"But don't you think that when you're an alcoholic or a drug addict and then you quit, you really still have that addictive personality," she continued. "You have to put it someplace else."

"And Glenn Beck's addiction might be getting more publicity," Behar lamented. "More and more publicity."

Behar's panel that evening consisted of liberal bomb-thrower Judy Gold, a former writer and producer of the long-defunct "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," Sarah Bernard, a contributing editor for New York magazine and Bonaduce.

Gold was perplexed as to why Republicans could possibly "align themselves" with the likes of Beck and Limbaugh.

"Why don't the Republicans - why do they align themselves with people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh," Gold said. "These zealots - they don't say anything."

That's where Behar somehow contorted a response, by suggesting former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was "dumb."

"Because they know they have a base," Behar replied. "Just like Sarah Palin, they know she's dumb, but she has a tremendous base in the Republican Party."

Bernard added that if the White House were playing their cards right, they wouldn't be going head-to-head with Fox News - as veteran Fox News personality Brit Hume suggested earlier this week. Instead, they should handle Fox News like they handled Palin during the 2008 campaign, she suggested.

"I was going to bring that but I think that is exactly the right analogy," Bernard said. "They handled [Palin] so well because they didn't attack her as much as they could because they knew it was just going to add fuel to the fire. If they keep attacking him and pointing this out over and over, if the communications director keeps doing that, he's just going to gain and they're going to lose."


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She forgot Obama, ex-cokehead/pothead

She forgot Obama, ex-cokehead/pothead

Obama

Obama "ex-cokehead/pothead"

Or so we're told. He can't even give up cigs.

Most conservatives have had some kind of real life experience.

Leftards never gave up teenage politics, which essentially consists of building up straw men then knocking them down. As this CNN bit amply demonstrates.

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Behar Replace Beck

Isn't the opening at CNN that Behar filed due to Beck's leaving?

And Bill Clinton... oh

And Bill Clinton... oh that's right, he forgot to inhale

And

just how many Kennedy s are admitted addicts?

One could make the case that Billy C was a sex addict, he sure seemed to have all the symptoms.

It would be nice if someone that admitted knowing this babbling brook of stupidity would out her for having an addiction. 

 

 

 

Didn't He Write That...

Because of the expense of his cocaine habit, he slept in the streets for a time (according to his book)?

I believe the actual writer, Billy Ayers, made that up

Billy is quite the exaggerator.

Behar / fatty foods

Behar / fatty foods

Ah yes, the left hates the

Ah yes, the left hates the politics of personal destruction, except when they themselves use it, constantly.

 As far as Beck's ex-alcoholism, its not like he has tryed to hide it.  He talks about it all the time.  If it started to "get more publicity" I bet he would be happy do interviews on the subject. 

useful idiot

Ms Behar's intelligence and knowledge of politics and health issues are impressive. I wonder if she could help us with foreign policy and thereby save our troops in Afghanistan.

Look in the mirror

Look in the mirror Joy, look in the mirror. People who attack people on a personal level who disagree with them are just projecting thier own fears and prejudice. It would be funny if it did not also point out a clinical disorder. The emotional trumps the intellect in most of us but we use the intellect to moderate the emotional. We cry or tear up in movies not because of intellect but because the emotional is in direct control, we have suspended our disbelief. When we do the same thing outside with out the intellect moderating our reactions and actions we have crossed over from the real world to the ones occupied by many disfunctional people who populate our mental health instituions.

The democrats always use the emotional argument because they know how powerful this is. It is when they cross the line and attack others then they are projecting thier own emotional state. It could be that Joy is having or had personal issues of her own, I do not know, but the constant drum beat of personal attacks rather than just attacking the argument is childish at best and evidence of a clinical disorder at worst. Which is it Joy? I am hoping it is just childish for your sake.

? Obama campaign knew they didn't have to lift a finger...

The Obama campaign didn't 'attack' anyone directly because they knew their slaves at CNN, MSNBC, et. al would do it FOR them without them even having to ask.  They coordinated anyway though.  All the media spin from liberal networks was orchestrated directly from the Obama camp with their little fax machine.  If Obama said 'smear palin', that was all they had to do.  The media would then go hog-wild, as they did, and still are doing to this day.

Matthews: 'It's my job to make Obama look good'

Brain Transplant

Behar could get a brain transplant and then call herself an ex-idiot. Will this be covered under Obama care?

no Jerry

She would be denied based on Qary  credits and "potential productivity" assessment.

JOY, is there a

JOY, is there a Connection...  When I was ACTIVELY an ADDICT,  I Believed just like YOU do...

Dear Joy: As a practicing

Dear Joy:

As a practicing health care professional, I wonder if you would really care to elaborate how you reached that incorrect and ignorant diagnosis?  I would also like to know where you received your professional training and where you are licensed?  If you are not, perhaps you would enjoy a conversation with New York State authorities for practicing a mental health profession without a license?

She is no different than Janeane Garofalo.  They both dig into pop psychiatry without a nanogram of comprehension or knowledge of the matter.  A Psych 101 course they might have taken hardly qualifies them to do anything other than the housekeeping or food service industries, to paraphrase one of my favorite movie quotes.

Disagreement must be a sign of pychosis

When your only way to reply to an opponent is to assume he must be psychotic for disagreeing with you, you betray your own neurosis -- i.e., your inability to accept opposition.

Wrong.  Thank you for

Wrong.  Thank you for playing, and please accept a consolation prize of four years of a presidency marked by incompetence, amateurism and denial.

Another one of Eric Holder's political boiler room bloggers decided to chime in using a different identity.

OK

New here?

Brain Dead Behar

"Do you see a trend? Rush Limbaugh, Oxycontin. Glenn Beck, alcoholic, Danny Bonaduce, alcoholic ... and George Bush, ex-alcoholic," Behar said.

 

And what about Behar's own addiction to stupidity?

Joy, projection again

Joy, recommend you go read the link below before you open your yap:

http://www.wnd.com/i...

you will find that an actual psychiatrist, not someone who plays one on TV, says that liberalism is a mental illness. 

So, when do you check in to your clinic? 

"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."


G. W. F. Hegel

Krauthammer, one of my

Krauthammer, one of my professional colleagues in the same subspecialty, would most likely agree.  

Joy Behar's

been addicted to chasing brick walls, head first, since she could first stand upright.  A lovely, intelligent woman.

...

And I thought it was just parked cars she was chasing.

OBAMA = One Big Ass Mistake, America!

What is this, an MTV

What is this, an MTV reality slumber party for adolescents?

Here's an idea Joy, how about some guests that won't work for food?

Thank you Newsbusters

I want to thank those that watch this show, and then report to us the venom that spews forth from her uninformed mouth.  To watch her in any way, fills me with the need to vomit, and inflict pain on the nearest person.

Thanks to those that take one for the team!

"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity.  But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning

God Lord.

Does anybody actually watch this stupid woman?  All of a sudden she's an expert?  As a recovery person myself, I can tell you when you've seen the light it's an asset NOT a liability.  My guess is Joy has no problem with her fellow entertainers being pedophiles. 

Hey, she left out Obama and his 'cracked' past and his continuing lying about his smoking.  Interesting. 

Get the hook.  I couldn't sit and watch her nonsense with a gun held to my temple.  Is she after Rachel Madcow's job or something? 

Gloria

There was something posted the other day that she only had about 188,000 viewers. I don't see how she has any advertisers.  

Recovering addicts are not made fun of if they are libs. If she made a comment like those about my son and I was near her I'd bitch slap her.

Semper suprene nitens

OBAMACARE: If it ain't good enough for my Congressman then it ain't good enough for me.  

 

Her advertisers are probably

Her advertisers are probably mental health institutions, because that is the only people that could possibly sit through an entire hour of this nonsense.

Rick, her ratings are dead

Rick, her ratings are dead last in HLN. She'll be dropping her numbers even faster and soon. Do we know ANYONE on the planet who says, "Hurry, I've gotta get home so I can watch the Joy Behar Show"?

I think not.

http://www.mediabist...

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Misery Behar

Why don't she change her first name from "Joy" to "Misery", or "Despair, Grief, Sorrow or Woe"?

Because someone who is so miserable, miserable looking, and celebrates in others misery just shouldn't have a name like "Joy". It's an "OxyMoron".

I see, so a conservative is

I see, so a conservative is someone who has beaten his/her habit and is on the straight and narrow with a clear head, but a liberal/democrap is someone who is still an addict drinking his/her koolaid making mindless statements to the echo chamber.

Others who have publicly admitted

I wonder how Ms. Behar will fit these names in her "intellectual" screed?  All are publicly known to have quit drinking/using, so there's no "outing" of people here:

Roger Ebert- recovering alcoholic (about the same amount of time as Beck)

 Anthony Hopkins- recovering alcoholic (over fifteen years, I think)

Jim Irsay- prescription drug addiction- went to rehab (owner of the Indianapolis Colts)

Behar really is an idiot! 

Behar is the reason the word

Behar is the reason the word "Bimbo" was invented.

"Thd E List Show" starring Joy Behar

" Next up we will hear from MaryAnn of Gilligans Isle with her views on HealthCare and Carrot Top analyzes the Stock Market"

 

 

OH JOY

 

 

 

 

 

"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe the people with their own money." – Alexis de Tocqueville

Maybe Joy should submit to

Maybe Joy should submit to periodic voluntary drug tests and then call for all reporters, pundits, and politicians to do the same.

However, with the likes of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Rick Sanchez, and others with less than steller histories as representative models for the left, I'm sure liberals wouldn't want to open up that can of worms. 

 metaphorsbwithu

Behar

Joy lived with some guy forEVER and then was going to marry him, then didn't--do we need Dr Ablow here? What's the point? As for Sarah Palin being dumb, I am fully willing to take Joy's word for it since she, Behar,  was also a governor and vp candidate. Oh, wait a sec...

To people like Behar, the

To people like Behar, the bar for conservatives must be set much higher than for liberals. Because Behar and her pals choose to play fast and loose with traditional values, they assume they can't be held accountable. This is the very basis of how the left thinks America should operate.

Besides, this is just another example of Behar having nothing to offer her audience but creating drama. It seems she's totally oblivious to the fact that she's insulting a good part of the population of America. Hey Joy! You're stuck on stupid.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke

World's Dumbest

With Judy Gold and Danny Bonaduce there, they could have had an episode of "The Smoking Gun's World's Dumbest CNN Showhosts."

You beat me to it.  I

You beat me to it.  I always wonder if the "celebrity commentators" on that series (Gold, Bonaduce, Tonya Harding, et al) even realize that it is THEY who are the common thread that makes the World's Dumbest franchise. Too funny.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Yawn.  Broken record.

Yawn.  Broken record.

If you take this to it's

If you take this to it's natural conclusion then you would have to say this... Behar: Current alcoholic.

Joy look in the mirror

"Just like Sarah Palin, they know she's dumb, but she has a tremendous base in the Republican Party."

Joy ,if you want to see someone that is truly dumb then look in the mirror.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have".


Thomas Jefferson

Let me get this straight. 

Let me get this straight.  Joy Behar......Joy, um, Behar, said Sarah Palin is dumb.

Well uh...uh....well yea hmmm, uh...

It's just because Joy can't

It's just because Joy can't handle big words like "intelligent".

Besides, Joy watched that SNL sketch over and over, and EVERY TIME Sarah Palin got dumber... 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

A lefty Hollywood type is

A lefty Hollywood type is addicted to drugs or other substances, and it's a "tragedy", a "personal struggle"...conservatives do it and it merely makes them stupid.

Behar is also the person who decided all saints' visions were the product of mental disorders.  She is a big, walking bag of misery.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

Behar is addicted to the

Behar is addicted to the sound of her own prattle.  It's a self-perpetuating addiction. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

I think she's talking about

I think she's talking about King Baby syndrome.

Here's a lecture on it.

 

Joyless Buthead did manage

Joyless Buthead did manage to get a Masters in English Education from SUNY-Stony Brook.  I suppose in her mind that qualifies her to be an expert on so many things such as drug addiction, economics, political science, psychology, etc.  Considering her shrewishness, I have to wonder if she isn't chemically imbalanced.  It's either that, or she's just a (rhymes with) witch. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Yes, and have you noticed

Joy seems to have her own "Porkulus" 12 step program going for herself?  Watch those pork chops Joy!

Shameful as it is, I have

Shameful as it is, I have to admit, one of my favourite quotes comes from Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham.  "The World is Designed for those who are not self aware" and I swear, Joy must deaf to her own voice and conscious.  Does she ever listen to herself?  Is the level of debate libs  have?  Her referring to anybody as dumb is like a cow calling anything smart.  I mean, she makes Rosie look like Einstein.  Ok, maybe not Einstein, but at least Moe of the 3 Stooges.  I can't believe that woman makes more money than I. 

"Greens are people who never worried about a grocery bill". Freeman Dyson

Joy Behar is the stupidest woman on tv.

Nothing else needs to be said.

           Handle

           Handle Fox like they did Palin. I guess they plan to deride, lie, and throw hate messages to the other liberals. It won't matter, the liberals will be voted out in numbers, the likes of which no one has ever seen, before. It's the only way the people can reclaim their country. The corruption must end before we can fix their mess. Then, we can start the investigations into the underhanded dealings with corruption.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

If Conservatives are considered

recovering addicts does that mean Liberals are active addicts?  Only someone still in the thrall of some mindbending substance could believe the tripe idiots like Joy spew.

Holy Cow

FOX IS BIASED?

Joy Behar has a SHOW on CNN??

Again.  WTF?

 

 

Recovery

Obviously Joy Blowhard knows nothing about recovery. Did Ann Richards fit the pigeon hole you've put Glen, Rush, and Danny in Joy?