Whoopi on Space Station Toilet Problem: 'Stick Your Butt Out the Window!'

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Whoopi Goldberg apparently did not study hard enough for her role in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." On the May 29 edition of "The View," the ladies discussed the international space station’s broken toilet. Concerned about the cost of the repair, Whoopi offered a much cheaper solution: "Stick your butt out the window!"

GOLDBERG: But I just want y’all to see this NASA. You know, the next time you’re sending folks up because you know they’re going to spend a fortune now to send somebody up with a toilet. That was the part I forgot to tell you. They’re sending a toilet up, but, you know, somebody has to be on to go in there.

HASSELBECK: They just need somebody with a really good arm to just fling this saucer right at them.

GOLDBERG: It’s a million dollars. Stick your butt out the window!

Whoopi did not take into account that opening a window in space would kill all on board. No one on the panel noted that minor problem.

This is not the first time "The View" co-hosts demonstrated their lack of intelligence. Sherri Shepherd admitted she "never thought about" if the Earth is flat, and thought Jesus predated the Greeks. Joy Behar blamed earthquakes on global warming. And "View" alum Rosie O’Donnell screamed it is "physically impossible" for fire to melt steel. Despite this, Joy Behar still boasts that they are "well researched."

Why should this matter? Daily the women of "The View" are given a national forum to spout their opinions. Barbara Walters admitted many get their news from "The View." If much of the show’s audience relies on them for information, it is reasonable for them to know very basic facts.

Earlier in the program, the discussion led to Susan Sarandon’s announcement that she will leave the United States if John McCain is elected president. Whoopi Goldberg did concede she believes America is a generally a good country, but when Elisabeth Hasselbeck added "you can have a say in your government here," Whoopi felt otherwise after seeing the leftist movie "Recount."

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: The truth of the matter is as crazy as it is here, as crazy as it has been in my opinion here, I’ve been in other countries where you can’t do a lot of stuff, where you can’t move around. It got a little hairy here for a little bit, but it’s still America and people still remember that.

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: You can have a say in your government here.

GOLDBERG: Well, you can have a say in your government, but if you watch "Recount"-

JOY BEHAR: You don’t have a say.

GOLDBERG: You’re not so sure.


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I Don't Get It

Barbara Walters still allows this embarrassment to clog up the airwaves thinking it's the greatest thing since women got the right to vote.  And intelligent people still go on this show no matter how stupid the hosts get.  I guess people were right years ago when they said that tv would dumb people down.

She's confusing her role on

She's confusing her role on The Spew with outer-space bowel movements.

Im pretty Whoopie knows that

Im pretty Whoopie knows that you can't hang your but out a window, but what is funny the others just accepted it. 

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

that's because they knew

that's because they knew she was joking.

To take her seriously here is very foolish, and I'm quite disapointed in a Newsbusters piece trying to make it look like she doesn't know that to "Open a window" in space would cause decompresion and death.

It's a stupid joke

Look, the view is complete lib feminist trash, but Goldberg is a "comedian" on a women's show and can be expected to reel off a few stupid "jokes".  That's to be expected.  But to take that and use it as a jumping off point for this article? Really?  Did people laugh when she said it, or did they remain silent as if to thoughtfully contemplate the scenario?If they laughed, I'd have interpretreted that as a joke and skipped writing the first half of this story and led with the Sarandon part as the lead.

Blogonator

I think your right about it being a stupid joke. This humor seems consistent with her. Sorry Justin, but this was something we should just chock up to a lame stupid joke.

Of course it was a

Of course it was a joke...Justin's losing his mind from watching this show too much. 

needs a break

Someone help Justin get away from the Harpy Patrol, please. The poor guy is starting to unravel, and with great justification. I'd rather listen to back-to-back I Love Lucy episodes than watch a minute of this stuff.

Take it easy on Justin,

Take it easy on Justin, balboa and wizardjr, we all make mistakes every so often, you two are being a little unfair.

Unfair? I think Justin's

Unfair? I think Justin's tough enough to take a little chiding.

Really, Justin? Seriously?

Really, Justin? Seriously?

I don't think Whoopie was

I don't think Whoopie was being real serious, but if she was, I would like her to consider spending a few weeks in an overgrown lunchbox with no potty. Bet she'd think a million bucks was a steal about half way through her "tour of dookey".

"Whatever Michelle Says Is The Message." –
Senator Barack Obama October 1, 2007, Chicago HQ

"Earlier in the program,

"Earlier in the program, the discussion led to Susan Sarandon’s
announcement that she will leave the United States if John McCain is
elected president."

I can't think of a better reason to vote for McCain now. WOT and SCOTUS pale in importance when compared with the necessity to get rid of Susan. And maybe she'll take tim robbins too? One can hope.

Edit: I just thought of something. Wasn't this POS sarandon and her wife robbins among those threatening to leave the country if Bush was elected, then if he was Reelected? Do these liberals EVER stop lying?

 

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

RESTLESS......hasn't this

dip$hit Sarandon said this like 5,000 times before?  If so in so is elected I'll leave, or if what's his name is elected I'll leave......LEAVE ALREADY!!! GEEEZZZ. Take that worthless has been with you too.

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

Begrunt

Every time she pops this BS out, all I can say is "promises, promises...".

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

RESTLESS..............

I'd love to put the whole bunch....Sarandon, Baldwin, et al....on a slow garbage barge to Hong Kong..........LOL. 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

don't hold your breath

I'm still waiting for Baldwin to exit.

 

Can we send The View to space?

That's a great idea, Whoopi! In fact why don't you have a show from outer space? Maybe one of you can demonstrarte this brilliant idea and prove all us skeptics wrong. What do you say?

In space, no one can hear

In space, no one can hear them scream!  Thank God.

I'll excuse her comment as a

I'll excuse her comment as a mediocre joke, as long as it's not an indication that she is one of those Luddites who thinks that they could get away putting a Porta-Potty up there. A lot of liberals are concerned with government over-spending, only if it regards NASA or the military. They're fine with the waste and fraud in all the social programs.

RE: Susan Sarandon

Why do these Hollywood types always have to bash the US in the foreign press?  She could have said her silliness in the NYT or The View or or Air America or any program on MSNBC.

"If McCain gets in, it's going to be very, very dangerous," she says.

"It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people. If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/24/bfsusan124.xml

Forget Italy or Canada...

...how about Somalia? You and hubby would fit right in.

Friendly Reminder

Alec Baldwin said in 2004 that if Bush was reelected he was moving to Canada. Still waiting...

 

P.S. Don't tell Whoopi but the space toilet actually costs $19 mil dollars. It's a little more complex than the ones they sell at Home Depot.

I think she was just trying

I think she was just trying to be funny.  I wouldn't read into it like she was proposing a non-sensical solution to interstellar plumbing.

That's what I read from it

That's what I read from it too.

Although my favorite still has to be Rosie O'Donnell's response to Jane Fonda's half-brained plan to use only one sheet of toilet paper to save the environment:

"Have you seen my ass?" (makes a hand motion indicating the size of...well...you know)