And we thought that no one could fill Rosie O’Donnell’s EEE shoes. Whoopi Goldberg debuted on The View yesterday as Rosie’s replacement, and moved gracefully into the moderator’s chair by defending noted quarterback and dog torturer Michael Vick. (TMZ’s link to the video is down, but WWTDD is showing it here.) According to Whoopi, Vick deserves a free pass on running an illegal dog-fighting operation because Vick is from “the Deep South,” and therefore dog-fighting is “part of his cultural upbringing.” Hell, he probably didn’t even know there was anything wrong with it. Then she went for the O’Donnell “ching chong, ching chong” trifecta by comparing Vick’s behavior to the Chinese eating cats and said, “people would not like it if we ate kitty.” I’m certain there’s a Whoopi Goldberg lesbian joke in there, but somewhere in the world people might be eating while they read this. Whoopi received a serious smackdown from PETA president Ingrid Newkirk for her remarks, and delivered a groveling apology on Day Two of her View tenure.
Actually, Vick is from the city of Newport News, Virginia, which isn’t exactly the land of web-toed, banjo-playing hillbillies and their constant dog-fighting. And the fact that he staged the fights at night, in a remote building with blacked out windows, suggests that he knew this wasn’t a hobby that would endear him to his fans. For once, PETA was right. But if Whoopi goes out and poses nude for one of those stupid PETA publicity-whoring campaigns, I swear I’m going to open a casino where adorable lop-eared bunnies are forced to fight to the death, and the losers are butchered and cooked Benihana style right at your table. Never too late to add a new tradition to my cultural upbringing.
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Not to get into another issue, but isn’t slavery also part of the “Deep South” tradition as well? Was Whoopi actually engaging in wordplay and just got carried away?
Damn. Perhaps Posh should have been invited onto The View. At least she’d be offensive in a less complex manner.
That whole “cultural tradition” argument sucks ass, I don’t care whether you’re talking about dog-fighting, slavery, or clitoridectomies. And that PETA spokes-harpy was dead right that dog-fighting isn’t restricted to the South; that’s just Whoopi’s New York-o-centrism talking.
Actually, I’m kind of glad Whoopi got this gig. It would take Posh a whole week to be offensive in this many different ways.
I heard two outraged young moms and the checkout girl at the local Winn Dixie here in Tampa talking about this one. Whoopi must have forgotten that more than half the country live in the South. Several times she simply referred to Vick being from “The South”, not just the Deep South, and made comments like “that’s how they think down there”.
This one may actually have legs. Insulting Chinese people is one thing, insulting more than half your target audience is another, not that Rosie’s bigotry was any less reprehensible, but Whoopi is basically insinuating that half the country is barbaric, ignorant, looks the other way on law-breaking and animal torture, not just cruelty. Then she threw in an Asian slur saying they all eat dogs and cats.
Rosie kept most of her insults against conservatives, Donald Trump and Republicans. Whoopi may have alienated enough people to really cause consequences this time. I’m sure she lost some viewers.
The idea that New Yorkers are _less_ violent, ignorant or barbaric than Southerners is ridiculous on its face, anyway.
I hate to state the obvious, but the fact is she wouldn’t have defended the action if Vick was white. All I’m saying…