Joy Behar, newly returned yenta of “The View,” just called Hulk Hogan a “wuss.”
If she was referring to his precious professional wrestling career, when he strutted around the ring in spandex and feather boas to Rick Derringer’s “Real American,” I’d agree with her.
Hell, I was always more of an Iron Sheik fan.
But she wasn’t dissing his wrestling prowess, his cheesy portrayal of Thunderlips in “Rocky III” or even the character Terry Bollea played for the wildly popular Vince McMahon circus.
No, Behar says he’s a wuss because he cried after the jury awarded him a whopping $115 million (since swelled to $140.1 million) in his fight against Gawker, which posted a video of him having sex with this then-best friend’s wife. It was a video made without his consent or knowledge and the stunning verdict was the culmination of a sensational made-for-Twitter trial in which, among other embarrassing disclosures, he admitted under oath that the size of his manhood was smaller than previously reported.
Surely, such an admission was a suplex to the heart for a man who achieved fame and fortune as a human peacock.
“He burst into tears. What a wuss,” she cracked during the long-past-its-prime show’s Hot Topics segment.
“Oh, c’mon, for money he started crying,” she continued in her shrill voice, which makes you think you suddenly sat on the remote and jacked the volume to 20.
It was a stunning statement that showed the “comedian” to be both unfunny and incredibly sexist.
Because when it came to sisterhood, the lame-cracking Behar had a sympathetic, fawning take.
Because Hogan was doing the deed, that makes him somehow less deserving of privacy?
During a recent segment discussing Erin Andrews winning a $55 million verdict against Marriott and her creepy stalker Michael David Barrett, Behar almost fell over the table to stress that the sports reporter was ambushed and wasn’t engaging in sexual relations.
”She was just walking around naked in her hotel room. She wasn’t having sex, she didn’t set up the camera …”
Because Hogan was doing the deed, that makes him somehow less deserving of privacy? Isn’t that what the disciples of the Book of Kardashian would call “slut shaming”?
In that same segment, Behar mocked Hogan, saying that no one wanted to see Hulkamania run wild in the sack anyway.
Behar’s defense of Andrews goes back to 2010, when Bennett had been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for taping her naked and leaking the video. On her now-canceled HLN show, Behar expressed disdain for people who said Andrews invited the attention because she was pretty.
“They always blame women … That’s what they’re doing to her. It’s outrageous,” she said.
So what did she do when the victim had a penis (and a bandanna)? She called him a wuss.
The hypocrisy is more stunning than the Montreal Screwjob.
According to Behar, only women deserve to feel violated.
Where was the outrage from her co-hosts or the usual suspects who made an Olympic sport of hurling pitchforks?
