Just Say Shit, Whoopie

There are days when I think that Whoopie Goldberg is one of the greatest female voices in the progressive movement. Then again, my view of who is and who isn't a progressive may be different from yours.

That being said, here's Whoopie AND Barbara Walters taking Glenn Beck to the wood shed and spanking the living tar out of him on The View.



I'm no sure what comment from Beck is better, his "I'm just a commentator" line or the fact that his defense of his lie is that he "knew this was coming". I mean, come on, the Micheal Steele defense - that all your dumb-ass moves are choreographed and have meaning? No one is stupid enough to believe that.

But let's look at this from an alternate angle. It's Beck's word against Walters and Goldberg. I would like to see what Steve Croft has to say about this. But do we really need that. Beck was VERY taken-aback that he was confronted with this. He thought that he could just say whatever he wanted and get away with it.

He was wrong.

Comedy Is Not For Amateurs

Very few people are proficient at completely dismissing Bill O'Reilly with a single word or phrase.

Whoopi Goldberg is one of those few



Whoopi's calm, cool, demeanor gets under O'Reilly's skin more than any verbal outrage can do.

Whoopi vs. Hasselbeck On Racism

Whoopi, who earlier in the broadcast had used the n-word repeatedly, sending the censors into overload, argued that the word is only as powerful as a society allows it to be and advocated for using the word to give it new meaning. Elisabeth, meanwhile, felt that she couldn't teach her children not to say the word if her black co-hosts and their children were using the word, arguing that, "we don't live in different worlds."

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What is it about race relations that Hasselbeck doesn't understand?

I'm not really a fan of Whoopi Goldberg, but she is more right than she knows when she tells Elizabeth that they are - in fact - living in two different worlds.

It appears that this consistant stream of tears that she conjures up whenever she is challenged are merely used to create the illusion that she is compassionate. It's nothing more than a defense mechanism.

To me, this seems to be nothing but an audition for her to get on Hannity and Colmes. She knows that discussing "racial issues" with Hannity will be much more to her advantage.