Whoopi to Glenn Beck: “You’re a lying sack of dog mess”
posted at 1:50 pm on May 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
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It’s no idle insult, as you’ll see: She’s got videotape to support her case. Consider this a palate cleanser if you like, but not since Jon Stewart chewed out Jim Cramer have I seen a guest look more uncomfortable — or give more ground — than Beck does here. The passage about whether “commentators” have the same responsibility to check their facts as “journalists” is especially cringeworthy. It’s a trainwreck, but like any trainwreck, it’s impossible to look away. Enjoy.
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Let me try to understand. A former Comedianne who refered to a sitting President while talking in vulgar terms about her private parts in a public banquet and an elderly woman who admitted to an affair last year are berating a radio and television host about something involved seats on a train? Why didn’t they just do a regular interview with him? Was it beyond their pay grade? He was nice to Whoopi when she was on his Headline News show.
kingsjester on May 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
you really don’t get it, do you? What do you think is most important to Beck? His media career or being a conservative? Same with Rush.
Grow Fins on May 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
How many times did I just watch him turn to Barbara, look her in the eye and apologize?
Stupid of him to fudge the story (a stupid story to even tell..by anyone that was there..lol)
I don’t care. I love Glenn Beck. I wish he would have asked Whoopie which views she disagreed with him on.
bridgetown on May 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Hahaha… Never saw that. Look, she’s free to be elitist, but that doesn’t mean I have to respect her. In some ways I was more upset with her because at least Whoopi was being very forward whereas “I don’t know the difference between a reporter and a commenter” Walters was being somewhat passive in her attacks. Grow some, Barbara.
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
I can’t watch but couldn’t they both be correct? Mr. Beck was indeed told this by Amtrak folks but the ladies had no idea. Is that the only case of of his “lying”?
Cindy Munford on May 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Beck also claimed Whoopi was drinking a Snapple Peach Tea, but it was actually a Diet Snapple Peach Tea. LIAR!!!
Jim Treacher on May 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Aren’t Beck and KO on your TV? Or do you only like people on your radio but NOT the TV?
AnninCA on May 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Perhaps your friend Grow Neurons can step in and explain why the two are mutually exclusive.
Jim Treacher on May 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Okay. I still don’t see what the big deal is. Maybe you can’t officially reserve seats on Amtrak, but for such an occasion as this they did anyway. I wish I could watch the video that Barbara has of it.
Emily M. on May 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Impeach Glenn Now.
dot com
slash org
Abby Adams on May 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Why does anyone in their right mind go on this show? If it weren’t in here on these videos I would never see a moment of that waste of time. Those women are sickening.
UnEasyRider on May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Obviously, but he turned it into a bashing show. He can’t complain that they now have repaid the favor.
And they have a bigger audience.
Payback sucks.
AnninCA on May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
*gasp*
People on TV and Radio want to make money!!! Better tax them all at a 90% rate…
Good thing KO has his Ivy League Degree to fall back on…
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
From the clip I watch in the quotes thread from last night, Glenn Beck is only a conservative on fiscal matters, and maybe political corruption. But he is a libertarian on all other matters, even for small government when it comes to national defense. I don’t think he would pass Ronald Reagan’s litmus test.
Loxodonta on May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Grow Fins on May 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
You really don’t get it do you…they do radio for fun, and make money…but they couldn’t sell anything if they didn’t have any credibility….they are conservative, and that is more important.
Why did he go on the show?…because it exposes to people who see Fox like a cross to a vampire.
Conservative Voice on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Why, in the name of all that’s holy, do conservatives bother with those witches??? I mean, seriously… they’ve got their panties all in a bunch about who spoke to whom first on the Amtrack train for pete’s sake. Like it matters.
They’re like a snarky bunch of high school girls, with no more intellect or emotional depth than that. It’s just good sense to treat them that way. (Although, I have to admit.. {blush}… if I was Beck, I’d spend the rest of the week going “neener, neener, neener” at them just for the mad joy of ruffling their feathers and watching them act like the fools they are.)
Murf76 on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Daniel Hannan on Hannity’s American Last Night Ringing the Warning Bell. The British Are Coming.
Dr Evil on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Beck’s a popular, populist entertainer.
Oh. Did you know there’s real problems in the world today?
CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK my am track seat CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK
If you don’t like it, turn it off.
Krykee.
locomotivebreath1901 on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Um, yeah, this isn’t really a big deal. I don’t, however, understand why our guys keep going on these shows.
CP on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Speaking of how horrible it is to lie, didn’t Babs sign paychecks for a year, as well as give a daily platform to a woman who repeatedly stated that fire cannot melt steel?
myrenovations on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Sparing myself the vomit-inducing sound of Whoopi and Joy’s voices (translation: didn’t watch video) I’ll only say this is what Beck gets by going on The View . What’s wrong with saying “no thanks” to an invitation to sit in a table with the female Predator monster, the angry Yenta and Prune Barb? Beyond me.
RepubChica on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Oh, Lox, so said… I don’t know if I could either… Still friends? :)
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
O’Reilly made him go on.
moonsbreath on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Well done.
myrenovations on May 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM
You should know.
thomasaur on May 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Maybe since BW USED to be a Reporter (and is now a commentator), she should have looked into that…
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I’m so sorry, but I’ve heard few things more ridiculous than this. Do I believe pundits are out to get money more than they are to win converts or present their political message? Sure, often.
But only someone with no concept of conservative, liberal, American entertainment, media, politics or anything else remotely connected to Rush or Glen could possibly believe that someone would choose Right political opinions in order to make money.
Unless of course they want to be the Right person who suddenly sees the light and bashes Republicans.
To put it in perspective, Ann Coulter who’s had five or more best sellers was rejected by publishers repeatedly in trying to get her first book publish. But Miss McCain, a 24-year-old recently out of college with little but her father’s name and her disdain of almost everything Republican, already has an offer on a book deal.
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Strike palm to forehead. said = sad.
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. Since she have been lying all these years about her true name she should no longer be allowed to express her opinions.
AaronGuzman on May 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I could have told you he would get worked over. You cannot give and inch to those harpies. They will keep talking and saying anything they think will draw blood. Nothing relevent, intelligent, important or even honest is necessary, only causing damage. The person who handled them the best was Ann Coulter. Once again the strongest conservative out there.
peacenprosperity on May 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Jim Treacher on May 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
funny
AnninCA on May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
hmmm, not sure whose audience is bigger, pretty sure its Becks.
Conservative Voice on May 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
I can’t watch the video either. I too am puzzled why Glenn choose to be on The View. Yesterday one of his callers said that O’Reilly does well on that show and Glenn replied (paraphrasing), “O’Reilly loves that kind of verbal combat.” My guess is that Walters and Goldberg were more upset at being portrayed as elitists than any “lie” Glenn told about them. To waste an entire segment on this trivia is ridiculous.
ClericalGal on May 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
What is more important is which one of these people are a “creationist?”
/sarc
moonsbreath on May 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Whoopi’s real name is Predator…check out the startling family resemblance.
RepubChica on May 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
THAT CLIP never gets to Beck’s chance to say what he had to say about ‘RESERVATIONS’–SOMETHING HAPPENED on that train dealing with saving seats, and rather than allow Beck to say whatever, The View two women are already riled into a tissy fit. Whoopi seems to misrepresent who got there first, since Barbara is talking about Glenn there when she arrived looking for seats.
Why go onto The View unless you want to deal with the tramp vamps? Mormons don’t have penance, but Beck must feel the need to be exploited, just as he exploits, tit for tat.
maverick muse on May 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
First, in the context of a blog post, what the hell is a “palate cleanser”?
Secondly, a pox on all their houses. The creatures (other than lovely Elizabeth) who squat on those studio chairs on the View are vile, moronic wenches. But Glenn Beck is the most pompous, insincere a@#h&^e on talk radio or TV going. He is simply unwatchable. In the course of trying to demonstrate what elitists Walters and Goldberg are, the idiot reveals himself as an elitist. Who, other than an elitist, would whine about how he didn’t get a reserved seat on Amtrak but “they did.”
dhawbake on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
RepubChica on May 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
the missing link?
Conservative Voice on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Who cares what that scum bag, been nowhere, done nothing loud mouth woman thinks or has to say?
rplat on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Glenn knows he’s busted and Whoopie does a fair job here of calling him out on it.
Advantage, Whoopie.
The Ugly American on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Unless Obama has something to say about it of course. I mean she does make a lot of money. It should be shared with the rest of us.
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Well, where’s the rest of the story…
The minutes before and after the snip they presented from Glenn Becks radio show.
Could it be that someone asked him, hey, where were you the other day.
VIP’s are having trouble finding seats. Could it be that they asked someone who works on the train, hey, can you find us a seat. The worker radios, hey, any open seats? Other worker says, yeah, I got a couple here, I’ll ‘reserve’ them.
So, Beck misspoke about part of it, which hmmm, happens to everyone. And then gave the story from his point of view.
Keith_Indy on May 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
If only Caryn Elaine Johnson would go after politicians with the same zeal that she goes after a TV show host, she might actually be worth watching.
Until then, she’s nothing but an ugly bloviating skank who shaves her eyebrows.
UltimateBob on May 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Par for the course. Our exposure to The View is limited to what gets posted @ HotAir. Stupid is as stupid does.
maverick muse on May 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM
McLovin being an asshole? I am shocked. NOT
bill30097 on May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Yeah, the day Obama goes after Hollywood will be the day we all roll over in our mass-burial grave…
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM
A lot of the posters on the board are making excuses for Beck just as many democrats are making for Peloser about her lies. Beck must have been out of his mind to walk into this ambush. They were going to nail him to the wall one way or the other. By exaggerating the initial encounter with them in such a negative way, he made it too easy. I like Beck and really don’t have any respect for the View’s “dynamic duo” at all. Face it, Beck got his butt handed to him by a halfwit and a has-been. Not smart.
volsense on May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM
He lied.
He said Walters called him over when she didn’t.
He admits lying.
strangelet on May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Clearly one of those ‘intellectuals’ the GOP got rid of…
*gag*
BigWyo on May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Actually, this one is in the UK.
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
As far as the View goes: I worked on a chicken ranch for 1/2 day as freshman in high school, I haven’t been in a hen house since.
thomasaur on May 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Supposed to be just a fun little video or story that lets us escape from the inanity of the daily insanity.
Abby Adams on May 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
So … the big lie was just that he went over to Walters instead of her calling him over? That’s it?
And for Whoopi to assume that because an Amtrak person said that the seats were reserved somehow implies that the bitties, themselves, asked that they be reserved is kind of stupid – as is par for the course for Whoopi. There was no question in my mind, hearing Beck tell the story, that the Amtrak people were going out of their way to accomodate the ol’ bitties, without any prompting from them.
Making anything out of this is pathetic and silly.
progressoverpeace on May 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
1.) Beck should have stood up and left the show.
2.) Beck now take their challenge, and research the girls on The View’s truth telling over the year – then bust them on it.
jake-the-goose on May 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Which is more important to you? Randomly banging on the keyboard in hopes that some words will form, or actually thinking about what you’re typing and thereby making it even more incoherent?
MadisonConservative on May 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Notice, all, she gets all sweaty talking about Boarding-gate, but is mum about Pelosi-gate.
Upstater85 on May 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Yet the View harpies never call Obama or any other liberals out when they do lie even about important stuff. Can we say hypocrisy!
Beck rules! Why conservatives go on the View and subject themselves to that harping, I’ll never understand.
sarahpalinfan99 on May 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
I’m actually pleased with Pelosi.
Through her idiotic attempt to deny her lying, she has vastly strengthened the case for a bipartisan truth commission.
Obama, like Noonan, wanted to keep on walking.
Not gonna happen now.
;)
strangelet on May 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
If republicans just NOT go on the show, the ratings will flop, and we can get rid of these hags.
Beck, watch how O’Reilly does it. He at least put Baba Wawa to shame for having her head down during the interview with McCain.
Beck has no idea what he is doing or saying.
jencab on May 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Just look at Beck as his wannabe version of a Howard Stern or a Dennis Miller or David Letterman. No sense in getting hysterical over his histrionics, or The View’s. It’s just showbiz entertainment, contemporary vaudeville.
maverick muse on May 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
You’re nuts if you think these two are related. Peolosi’s lie has to do with this country’s national security.
I don’t believe posters here are giving him an excuse. It’s just not that big of a deal and on top of it, he did apologize. Although those two banshee’s were too busy talking over him.
moonsbreath on May 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Wow….that’s even better……
Maybe she could move to Canada and hook up with Drywall and they can form the ‘Lets Bitch About Another County Because We’re So Smart and It Makes Us Feel Better Cooperative’.
BigWyo on May 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
After accepting the invitation to appear on the show, knowing full well how it was going to be, walking off would have made him look like the kind of wuss that even other wusses don’t want to be associated with.
myrenovations on May 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Obviously Glenn Beck should step down as the Speaker of the House….oh wait, HE IS AN ENTERTAINER!!!!!!!
portlandon on May 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
You don’t seem at all to understand what that will accomplish.
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
You just made my day with those nuggets of wisdom! LOL!
sarahpalinfan99 on May 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Well there’s one vote of confidence.
Hey Nancy!!, we found one!
portlandon on May 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Enlighten meh.
strangelet on May 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Won’t.click.on.The View.clip.
Ever.
Oink on May 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Okay, as far as I can tell (without watching the vid) is that Beck lied (or just didn’t remember correctly…Lord knows, it’s happened to me before) about Barbara calling him over on Amtrak.
As for whether seats were reserved or not, who knows?
Bottom line, WHO CARES?
Emily M. on May 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
While I find Esthier to be ever so competent, you are asking the impossible.
myrenovations on May 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
So remember,as the View has said,journalists need to fact check!!!!!!!!
And remember,Liberals definition of ‘commentator’ is the
same as journalist!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on May 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Says it all. Thanks.
AnninCA on May 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Said the Marianas Trench.
Jim Treacher on May 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Then I just did the impossible.
ynot4tony2 on May 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
A disaster, no question. How anyone goes on that hagtrap without opposition research is amazing. He could’ve said: “Babawa, didn’t you unzip Fidel Castro on your program and lionize him as a great lover of freedom? Great journalism” And to Ms. “Goldberg”: Whoopie, you cried about your skyrocketing celebutaxes AFTER Obama was elected. Aren’t you a big dredful hypocrite, and hey, do you ever wash that snagtrap on your head?” And Joyless: Joy, when Ann Coulter asked you if you’d like to be aborted because you support abortion, you looked like Obama when his teleprompter went on the fritz. So, abortion for you?”
Glenn, you missed a golden opportunity.
Western_Civ on May 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Why does anyone go on The Spew and feed the delusions of the already delusional skanks on the show?
Branch Rickey on May 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Dang. I actually laughed out loud on that one. I love insults that are a little creative, no matter who they’re addressed to (no offense intended, strange).
I don’t think my spelling out will work half as much as you just paying attention to what’s going on over here. It’s gradual now, but look back on all of this in a few months, and it’ll be very clear. There’s a reason so few are backing her up.
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Oh, goodness…..Beck isn’t a major player. He obviously cooked this up to get mistreated. He’ll get 10 shows outta this, maybe more.
AnninCA on May 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Uh, ok. Who CARES what these whores have to say? The only one with a braincell is Elisabeth and she needs to leave before she gets infected by the stupidity that is all over that show.
What a bunch of horsesh*t. Liberal whores don’t pay your bills, folks!
HornetSting on May 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM
+100. Good one, saur.
HornetSting on May 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Asking a lib to look back? They can’t do it. That’s why the keep hanging on to all the same failed socialist policies for ever and ever. They will imagine that Republican policies of the past failed, but those are usually the policies of socialist-lite Republicans…like Bush. Even though, before 2006 Democrats came in, unemployment ran 4.5-5% for the longest time in HISTORY. One of the things libs’ll forget.
kirkill on May 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Emily M. on May 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM
No. The “lie” is that Barbara Walters asked him to come over to talk, and that actually he asked them to come over to talk.
Now when he did this on his show, he also added a Babwa Walters snide tone to his description of her calling him over. Which does make his telling of it rather embellished.
But it’s just STUPID, and nothing to get worked up over.
The real thing that ticked Whoopi off is that they had met with Beck before, and he seemed like a nice fellow. But then he goes off on his show and makes fun of them.
But the joke is that Whoopi and Joy and Barbara all think that they are really something special. If I were Billy Mumy in a Twilight Zone episode, I would disappear them pronto.
connertown on May 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Thats it?
At first I thought there was going to be some real “gotcha” moments….but come on. A commentator who is know for doing vocal characters and comedy, doing…comedic characterizations! STOP THE PRESSES.
The “lie” was about who came up to who first and having seat reservations?? Such slander…such character assassination!
How about BabaWawa implying that Beck never checks any facts before reporting them?
Seriously…who might have thought that such righteous indignation would be spawned be something so trivial.
Do they hold themselves up to the same standard on some of the crap they robotically bob their heads in agreement to? How about Moabamas lies…not to them..but to the entire country in order to further his ideological goals?…oh, thats right..when he was on their show they got the vapors over his sexiness, but slandered McCain when he was on…..I wonder if they checked their facts before reporting?
Pathetic.
PMS? I would think they are past the hill for that. I’ll have to check my facts though.
Itchee Dryback on May 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Beck spent a slew of time yesterday (radio) talking about going on The View. I switched over to sports talk.
Were he to talk about this for 10 shows, he would be dead to me.
Then again, I feel no loyalty to the guy. Maybe other people would suffer through it.
myrenovations on May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Does that really make sense to you? I’m having a hard time comprehending that it does.
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Big effin surprise. meh.
HornetSting on May 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Of course unless it’s to trash Bush, then they can’t seem to moveon. (sorry for the bad joke, everyone)
Esthier on May 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Did they ever get to the views that Whoopi doesn’t like so much, or did they just spend their time defending Baba Wawa against the indignity of Beck’s impersonation (like they never do schtuff like that on The View).
Seems to me this was a coordinated, premeditated ambush to paint him as a liar before he got onto Obama’s socialist leaning, the ACORN whistleblowers, the unsustainability of the Obama-nible Showman’s massive spending plans, etc.
L.N. Smithee on May 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM
He should of gone on the View in black face make up.
2Tru2Tru on May 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Yep. That’s it. The terrible, terrible lie that Baba Wawa called Beck over instead of Beck saying that he went over to her. Oooooh.
And Baba Wawa trying to claim that Beck didn’t check his facts on “the reservations” is just, plain idiotic. All Beck said was that the Amtrak employee said that the seats were reserved for the ol’ bitties, not that they had reserved them. Anyone who rides Amtrak on a regular basis knows that they will do things for people they like, without any prompting.
progressoverpeace on May 20, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Must suck to have a TV that doesn’t have an off button. Oh wait,
Branch Rickey on May 20, 2009 at 3:05 PM
LOL!!!!!!!
Branch Rickey on May 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Beck has a ‘comedy’ tour coming up, he needs to make these stupid appearances to promote it. What a waste of time.
cannonball on May 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM
The View? Why bother? Who watches this program? Folks in the nursing homes who can’t reach the remote?
Vera71 on May 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Come on Allah, and you said you were going to not be able to keep up with the blogging this week while Ed was out? This was a useless post and is completely irrelevant. So Beck exaggerated a bit and was called on it. To compare this to the Cramer/Stewart moment is ridiculous.
Granted Beck should be a bit more prepared for these type of gotchas and should watch what he says, but as far as this being news worthy…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
davek70 on May 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
The best part of that video was that Joy was shut out of the conversation.
yogi41 on May 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I won’t watch video of the View, but I can’t wait to see Biden on the show and get his grilling….
d1carter on May 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
A serious discussion with a woman named “Whoopie”?
faraway on May 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Glenn Beck lied. Children and puppies died.
I believe the death penalty is in order here.
hillbillyjim on May 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM
it’s not about reserved seats or ivestigative reporting, it’s about taking Beck down a few pegs because he’s gaining in popularity. The way Whoopi and Barbara were waving him off indicates he walked in to a trap.
booter on May 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM
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