On Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Behind the Table podcast (The View’s podcast), Joy Behar recounted to host Brian Teta about her liberal activism during the Vietnam War. Inspired by last weekend’s so-called “No Kings” protests, Behar hyped how she used to rant to her students back when she was a teacher and encouraged them to draft dodge. She also whined about one girl who “snitched” and got her fired.
Behar kicked off the show by decrying how Republicans were dismissing the protests as “a big nothing,” according to her. To counter that, she tried to suggest five to 10 times the number of estimated attendees actually supported the protests:
Well, you know what's so interesting about it? Already they're saying that it was a big nothing on the right. They continuously are saying things like that. If it was a big nothing they would keep their mouths shut. The fact that they're opening their mouths shows you that it's threatening to them to see all those people. And remember they say 7 million. So for everyone that was there, figure another 5 are home who sympathize with them, or 10 maybe who didn't go. So that's a lot of people and they know it.
Even in Behar’s best-case scenario, the protests had the support of 70 million people. That still fell well short of President Trump’s 77.3 million voters in the 2024 presidential election.
Despite purportedly being a comedian, Behar pooh-poohed Trump’s AI-generated video of him dropping poop on the protesters (Click “expanded”):
BEHAR: And by the way, this business of him with this - this meme where he's flying around and pooping on Americans, on American people he thinks it's funny. That just shows you how threatened he is by this.
TETA: The two things that bother you more than anything else are both Donald Trump and scatological humor. [Laughter]
BEHAR: And he's both!
TETA: The combo of that is really hard for you. You do not enjoy a poop joke.
BEHAR: I don't. I'm not big on that.
When touting the so-called "No Kings" protests on The View's Behind the Table podcast, Joy Behar recalls how she was fired from teaching at a high school for ranting to the student against the Vietnam War and encouraging draft dodging. She whines that a girl "snitched" on her:… pic.twitter.com/DDGqo3qWHt
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What Behar considers a good joke was fairly disturbing. In 2023, far-left extremist Jane Fonda told The View that the best solution to pro-lifers was to “murder” them. Behar defended Fonda’s comment as just a joke.
The podcast conversation eventually shifted to discussing what Behar used to do in her youth to protest for her causes. “I marched to Washington many times. I spoke out as much as I could, as well as teaching at the time,” she said.
Behar went on to recall how she would indoctrinate students and encourage them to dodge the draft by moving to Canada. She then recounted how a female student “snitched” on her and her military father got her fired:
BEHAR:. I think partly I got fired a couple of times because of the Vietnam War. I used to always speak about it. I told the kids, ‘Don't go. Go to Canada.’
TETA: When you were a teacher?
BEHAR: When I was teaching in a high school on Long Island.
TETA: They didn't like that.
BEHAR: No, they did not. They the word got out because one of the kids in the class, her father was in the military and she snitched.
“Because it was a completely outrageous war that had nothing to do with us! It was one of their follies, they're militarizing follies,” Behar declared.
So, Behar was stoking hatred and inciting people back then too. She hadn’t changed much.
The transcript was below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s Behind the Table
October 21, 2025BRIAN TETA: Let's start by talking because you didn't get a chance to talk about it yesterday. What about – What do you make of all these No Kings protests over the weekend? You were very excited about them theoretically, and then they happened. What was your feeling?
JOY BEHAR: Well, you know what's so interesting about it? Already they're saying that it was a big nothing on the right. They continuously are saying things like that. If it was a big nothing they would keep their mouths shut. The fact that they're opening their mouths shows you that it's threatening to them to see all those people.
And remember they say 7 million. So for everyone that was there, figure another 5 are home who sympathize with them, or 10 maybe who didn't go. So that's a lot of people and they know it.
And by the way, this business of him with this - this meme where he's flying around and pooping on Americans, on American people he thinks it's funny. That just shows you how threatened he is by this.
TETA: The two things that bother you more than anything else are both Donald Trump and scatological humor. [Laughter]
BEHAR: And he's both!
TETA: The combo of that is really hard for you. You do not enjoy a poop joke.
BEHAR: I don't. I'm not big on that.
TETA: No, I know, I know. Whoopi enjoys a poop joke generally.
BEHAR: She does. She likes that, but this is his idea of humor and – and - and Johnson defends this?! I mean, I've never seen anything like this. It's an embarrassment all around the world! He is.
TETA: On Friday's show you made a point to take a look at the famous photo from 1967, the Vietnam War protests where a 17 year old confronted National Guardsmen holding a flower.
BEHAR: That’s right.
TETA: Why was that important to you?
BEHAR: Well, because it was symbolic of the way people – They were flower children. It was all about the Haight-Ashbury section. It was all about defend – and not going to war, being peaceful, being peaceniks, and here they are with their guns and their militarization! And this little girl shows a flower which is symbolic of peace and tranquility.
TETA: Did you protest in the Vietnam era at all?
BEHAR: A lot.
TETA: Yeah, what did you do? What kind of stuff?
BEHAR: I marched to Washington many times. I spoke out as much as I could, as well as teaching at the time. I think partly I got fired a couple of times because of the Vietnam War. I used to always speak about it. I told the kids, ‘Don't go. Go to Canada.’
TETA: When you were a teacher?
BEHAR: When I was teaching in a high school on Long Island.
TETA: They didn't like that.
BEHAR: No, they did not. They the word got out because one of the kids in the class, her father was in the military and she snitched. I said, ‘You don't need to go, go to Canada.’
Because it was a completely outrageous war that had nothing to do with us! It was one of their follies, they're militarizing follies. Whatever.
TETA: When you were teaching during the Revolution, did you feel differently or –
[Laughter]
BEHAR: During the revolution I felt like it was justified. We had to get away from the king. That's why I will march now to get away from the king.
TETA: You're taking back what you remember from then and telling people about it now.
BEHHAR: And shall we go over the Civil War when I was dating Lincoln?
[Laughter]
TETA: Thank God you were. Thank God you were.
BEHAR: You know, we used to do this to Barbara. We used to say to Barbara Walters, we say, ‘well, how was it when you were dating Lincoln,’ and now it's me. This is what happens when you get older.
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