Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg need to man up
One of the few unpleasant things columnists/pundits/political bloggers have to do in their daily lives is read and/or watch stories they would have rather gone their whole lives without noticing, because there are many such stories that come up which deserve an informed commentary that can’t be written unless said stories are perused and examined. Such is the case with having to endure ABC’s “The View” on occasion, and yesterday was no different. A drama unfolded Thursday morning when View co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg “stormed” off the set after getting angry at Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly over a discussion about whether or not the Ground Zero mosque plans should proceed. He remarked that Muslims killed innocents on 9-11, which launched both Behar and Goldberg into galactic orbit. Alana Goodman at NewsBusters has the relevant part of the transcript:
Whoopi Goldberg: What Polanski did was not “rape-rape”
Her comments, blathered Monday on The View, pretty much speak for themselves:
Whoopi Goldberg: We must show “reverence” for women who’ve aborted their babies
Another day, another example of rampant idiocy on the set of ABC’s The View.
More words of “wisdom” from Whoopi about who commits terrorist acts
The NY Daily News reports that the Mistress of Misinformation and Bill OβReilly sort of buried the hatchet yesterday from their now-infamous October spat over Muslim terrorism in which Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar stormed off the set: