Posts Tagged ‘Joy Behar’
High schooler who came out at assembly: Parents, tell your LGBT kids they’re OK
Friday, 01 February 2013 11:22
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On Thursday’s edition of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything!”, host Joy Behar welcomed Jacob Rudolph, the gay New Jersey teen who came out to a school assembly in his acceptance speech for an acting award. She was also joined by Jonathan Rudolph, Jacob’s father, who filmed and posted a video of the speech, which has since gone viral on YouTube.

Early in the segment, Behar asked a beaming Jonathan Rudolph when his son had come out to him. (Read more…)

“Within the last year,” he replied. “My wife knew a little earlier.”

Jacob revealed that his mother had asked him before he told her about his orientation.

“I had been sort of hinting around the subject matter,” he said ruefully, “and she kind of picked up on it.”

“Were you relieved that she asked you the question?” asked Behar.

“Yeah,” Jacob said. “It was very difficult to say. I think the first parent is definitely the hardest.” But then again, he said, telling his father wasn’t easy, either. Jonathan Rudolph had been an open supporter of LGBT rights with many gay and lesbian friends and family members.

“You feel as a teen struggling with your identity that your parents have these expectations for you,” Jacob said, “that they want the white picket fence dream for you, that they want you to have a wife and kids and a family.”

It’s invaluable to LGBT teens, though, he said, that their parents let them know that they are accepted.

“I think that having a reassurance from your parents, them saying ‘I just want to let you know that no matter what you are in life, I’m going to support you and I’m going to love you forever,’” he said.

Watch the video, embedded via Current TV, below:

 
Ann Coulter ‘horrified’ she ever dated liberals
Wednesday, 03 October 2012 08:28
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On Tuesday’s edition of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything,” guest Ann Coulter said that she is “horrified” that she ever dated liberal men, but that it was “a long time ago.”

Coulter was appearing on Behar’s show to promote her new book about U.S. race relations, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama when the conversation turned to her past relationships. (Read more…)

“Let’s talk about your personal life,” said Behar, before informing Coulter that sources have told her that Coulter has dated “more than one liberal” in the past.

“Now, are you embarrassed about that?” she asked Coulter.

“I’m horrified, but it was a long time ago,” replied the longtime provocateur. However, she said, in most every instance wherein the press has linked her to anyone romantically, the reports have missed the mark.

“So, did you ever actually date a man?” asked Behar.

“Never the ones that you read about on ‘Page Six,’” Coulter said, referring to the New York Post‘s infamous gossip column.

Behar mentioned that her next guest would be anti-vaccination activist Jenny McCarthy, who is posing in Playboy magazine this month.

“Ann, would you ever pose for Playboy?” she asked.

“No,” Coulter replied.

“I think you could, you’re very attractive,” said Behar. “You could do it. It would soften you up a little.”

“They asked me once,” said Coulter. “They asked me to once and I said I would never do it. I am a Republican, Joy.”

Behar scoffed, “Oh, I know plenty of Republicans who…well, I can’t go there.”

Watch the video, embedded via Current TV, below:

 
Jeneane Garofalo: ‘We are not a post-racial society’
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:03
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In a discussion with Joy Behar and blogger Craig Crawford on Tuesday night, comedian Jeneane Garofalo let fly with some unvarnished criticism of the current state of race relations in this country. Behar is currently doing “One Week Only (Until the Fall),” a week of programming ahead of the debut of her Current TV talk show in September.

The discussion revolved around conservatives’ incivility to President Obama, including Friday’s heckling by Daily Caller writer Neil Munro in the White House Rose Garden. Garofalo echoed what many have said about the incident, that the president’s race is a factor in shows of disrespect by those on the right. (Read more…)

“I don’t understand why so many people are reticent to discuss race in this country,” she said, “We are not a post-racial society. We are not post-misogyny, either.”

Watch the clip, embedded via Current TV, below: