Her view is not leaning far-right anytime soon.
Joy Behar has no sympathy for Lauren Boebert, and it showed during Friday’s episode of “The View.”
The 81-year-old liberal-leaning comedian took a shot at the second-term Republican lawmaker representing Colorado’s Third District during the talk show’s “Hot Topic” segment — and poked fun at her “Beetlejuice” scandal amid her highly publicized divorce from Jayson Boebert.
“She’s the one to reach across the aisle, if you want my opinion,” Behar quipped, adding that Boebert is now “divorced from him and reality now.”
Last month, the 36-year-old congresswoman attended a performance of “Beetlejuice: The Musical” at Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver. She was caught on security footage reaching down for her date’s crotch shortly after blowing a cloud of vaporized smoke into the air.
Her date — Democrat and Aspen bar owner Quinn Gallagher, 46 — responded to her advances and appeared to fondle her breast. The congresswoman then aggressively grabbed his hand to keep it there.
Boebert and Gallagher were booted from the theater before the end of the show. Initially, the Colorado Republican denied any wrongdoing, but later blamed her inappropriate behavior on her ongoing divorce.
Per the Colorado Sun, Boebert finalized her divorce from now ex-husband on Thursday. The exes share four children.
Despite the scandal, Republican panelist Ana Navarro, 51, showed some compassion for the lawmaker.
“I was with my ex for 15 years, and I never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but, I related to Lauren Boebert here. Somebody please bring me two aspirin, I’m going to lay down,” Navarro said on “The View” Friday.
“I think, once it’s finally over and signed with, you have that sense of closure, but you also have other emotions,” she continued. “It’s bittersweet, there’s nostalgia, there’s 15, 17 years of lived experiences, there’s children, there’s so much that you had together. And I think you do have these feelings. Once the legal aspect is over, those things kind of come out.”
Sunny Hostin chimed in, also offering some words of compassion for Boebert.
“I think that she’s not someone I believe in politically, but 18 years of marriage is a really long time. That’s a life built together and a lot of chapters,” Hostin said. “I don’t want to celebrate the demise of anyone’s marriage, and, if he’s grabbing her butt, which is what he was doing, after their divorce, more power to them.”
Behar, however, got the last word.
“Well, I heard that ‘Beetlejuice’ is going on the road,” she sneered. “So there’s plenty to do.”
