Sherri Shepherd and Joy Behar agree: Whoopi Goldberg’s "do I have to worry about becoming a slave" question to John McCain was "good." Whoopi, for her part, does not think the question was "tough." On the October 20 edition of "The View," in calling for Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to appear, the discussion evolved into a recap of McCain’s recent appearance.
Whoopi Goldberg denied that they were tough on Senator McCain, but the rest of the panel disagreed. Sherri Shepherd praised Whoopi’s question of a return to slavery after McCain called for a stricter interpretation of the Constitution on behalf of his judicial appointments. Sherri Shepherd, who has demonstrated ignorance on history and geography, seemed to forget that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution forbids slavery, not a product of an activist court. Joy Behar agreed "it was good." [audio clip available here]
Earlier in the segment, upon discussing Sarah Palin’s recent"Saturday Night Live" appearance, Joy Behar blasted the Alaska governor for not appearing on "Meet the Press" or "The View." Behar suggested that Sarah Palin just reads the teleprompter and not appearing on "The View" where she would "actually have to put a sentence together." Joy Behar missed that Palin has been off script in interviews with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. One may counter "that’s just a softball interview." Perhaps, but no softer than a Matt Lauer interview with Barack Obama.
Alongside her criticisms of Sarah Palin’s no show, Behar admitted to not holding Barack Obama accountable for his absence from "The View." Senator Obama did appear on "The View" in the spring, but has thus far declined to appear since winning the nomination. Elisabeth Hasselbeck scolded Behar’s double standard crying "do not give Barack Obama a pass in terms of coming on this show and give Sarah Palin an ultimatum in terms of coming on here."
The transcript follows.
JOY BEHAR: She tripped all over herself to be on "Saturday Night Live," made her trip to New York. Meanwhile she should be on "Meet the Press." She avoids that like the plague. [applause] But to do a little prompter reading "oh yeah, I’ll do that."
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Or come on "The View."
BEHAR: Or come on "The View" and talk where you actually have to put a sentence together.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: If we’re talking about folks coming on "The View," Barack, hello! Okay. Barack and Sarah-
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Not since he’s been the nominee. He has not come here.
BEHAR: He’s talked and he has no reason to come here.
GOLDBERG: I just, I just thought since we were doing- well, yeah. actually they all have a good reason to come here. There are lots of people who watch this show. I know people like to say "well it doesn’t mean anything." People do actually get a lot of information from us and it would not be a bad thing for Barack to come on and allow us to ask a couple of questions and to have some fun with him as we did, as we did with John McCain. Now John McCain wasn’t as happy about it his second try. He wasn’t as happy about it- no, no, no. I’m sorry, what?
HASSELBECK: He came on but it was, it was a tough day for him there because-
GOLDBERG: Not cause of us. We weren’t- we weren’t tough on him. We had as much fun with him as we had the first time with him.
BARBARA WALTERS: We were tough on him.
HASSELBECK: We were tough on him that day.
GOLDBERG: Really, we were tough on him?
WALTERS: Yes we were.
BEHAR: So what?
GOLDBERG: How, how?
HASSELBECK: It’s fine. I’m not saying it’s tough.
BEHAR: If he can’t deal with me, how is he going to deal with Vladimir Putin?
[applause]
HASSELBECK: But he did. He did. Here’s the difference. Here’s the difference.
GOLDBERG: You were tough on him?
BEHAR: I asked him a very- I asked him a very straight question. But I- and he answered it. That was it.
SHEPHERD: And you asked him a straight question too about the amendments, Whoopi, you know when you said- when he said "we got to go back to the original Constitution," you said "well does that mean we’re going to be slaves again?" I thought that was very-
BEHAR: It was good.
GOLDBERG: I don’t think that was tough.
HASSELBECK: Barack Obama has yet to come and do the same.
WALTERS: If you watch the whole program, I, I think-
BEHAR: I was there.
[laughter]
WALTERS: Let me just tell you because I don’t just do the program every day.
GOLDBERG: Right.
WALTERS: It is very different when you sit on the desk and when you are home and you watch it.
GOLDBERG: Well, I know Barbara. I’m trying to be light.
WALTERS: There is a different feeling about it.
BEHAR: So what, what were you trying to say? I’m not following.
WALTERS: Well, what I was trying to say is that I think that he came on the program perhaps thinking that it was going to be kind of light and fun and so on. And we asked him very tough questions including saying to his face, which one does not normally do, "you’re a liar." And I do thi-
BEHAR: Well, no, that the ads were lies is what I said. Not you’re a liar. I said the ads were lies.
HASSELBECK: And he was able to tell us that he was not.
WALTERS: All I’m saying-
SHEPHERD: He thought he was going to be doing Joy’s Comedy Corner.
[laughter]
WALTERS: I don’t think that this is something we should not do. We are intelligent women and we asked questions. However-
HASSELBECK: But he came.
WALTERS: He came and I give him credit for that and I hope he will come on again and as you say, you know, if you don’t take the heat, you can’t be president.
BEHAR: That’s right. Same with Obama.
WALTERS: That does not mean that we were not tough.
GOLDBERG: That’s why I was bringing that up.
BEHAR: It’s different to say that Obama should come on the show, so that he should take some tough questions and Palin should- Palin is more important because we have not heard the woman speak spontaneously since Katie Couric’s interview. We don’t know if the woman can-
HASSELBECK: She’s been going all over America talking spontaneously.
BEHAR: No she reads a prompter.
HASSELBECK: Don’t tell- don’t give- do not give Barack Obama a pass in terms of coming on this show and give Sarah Palin an ultimatum in terms of coming on here.
[applause]
BEHAR: It’s not my point. I’m not giving him a pass.





SHERRI SHEPHERD: Or come on "The View."














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Obama and MSM playing the...
October 20, 2008 - 15:59 ET by killbill2...Race card is going to do nothing but foment further racial division in this country. It's seriously beginning to piss me off!
Sincerely,
Obviously racist McCain supporter
kb2... You aren't alone,
October 20, 2008 - 17:33 ET by bigtimerkb2...
You aren't alone, I have about had my fill of this being crammed down our throats daily by the msm for about a year now...they are the very people attempting to create problems, when there wasn't one to begin with a very few exceptions in this country these days.
ENOUGH ALREADY!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Elizabeth!!!
October 20, 2008 - 16:02 ET by LionKingJust once...ELIZABETH...bring a copy of the Constitution to the show and illustrate to the audience just how stupid these liberals actually are!!!
Ignorance on the View
October 20, 2008 - 16:13 ET by semolina_filcherJoy Blowhard and this Shepherd person, the ignorance of the Constitution is way, way too obvious. Who do they think the average American person who tune in to the (ugly) View is? Slavery has been abolished and is a permanent amendment to the USC. It plains shows you the idiocy of Goldberg, Blowhard, Wawa and Shepherd Law Firm. Frankly Elizabeth, I don't give a damn about those hags but I do you. C'mon home to Fox News where you belong.
Uninformed Ignorant & Angry
October 20, 2008 - 16:22 ET by RpeggioThat should be the subtitle for The View. Just so dumb and a waste of anyone's time that watches that show. It'd be like me and 4 of my friends having a round table talk show discussing Molecular Physics.
It's not worth commenting on the content (or lack thereof) that comes out of that outrageously lame tv show, so don't let their stupidity get under your skin. I have faith that most of America agrees with me.
Whoopi...did you really
October 20, 2008 - 16:26 ET by motherbeltWhoopi...did you really expect John McCain to admit on national television that yes, as soon as he takes office, he plans to issue an executive order commanding all the National Guard units to round up all the blacks?
Ane he plans on placing you all in internment camps until they can de-mechanize all the farms in America and then he'll send you all out to work in the fields again.
To say these women are idiots is a masterpiece of understatement!!
NB has finally succeeded in
October 20, 2008 - 16:49 ET by Chris NormanNB has finally succeeded in drowning me in a sea of left wing idiocy. I'm burned out on this witches coven and I surrender. I've run out of negative characterizations and insults. At least for me, there's nothing more to say about these morons on The View.
McNotObama '08
You and me Chris!
October 20, 2008 - 17:23 ET by IamTinmanI just can't bring myself to rant about this pathetic group of harridans.
IAT, Yep. These
October 20, 2008 - 17:30 ET by Chris NormanIAT,
Yep. These harpies are so crazy and over the edge in their crazy assertions, there's no point in arguing the facts. So, all there's left to do is call them the names of what they are and one can only do that so many times. For me, I retire all of their numbers and lower them into the Moron Hall of Shame and leave it to others to carry on.
McNotObama '08
The women of The View
October 20, 2008 - 16:50 ET by chambodiaThe women of The View absolutely fascinate me. Mind you, I have not watched their show (I work instead), but it's so strange to read the words that come out of their mouths on a regular basis, especially Joy.
She's saying it's "different" to ask Obama tough questions, but it's more important to ask Palin because she doesn't speak spontaneously Right. Cause Joe the Plumber showed us exactly how great Obama is at that.
Iowahawk also has a great video of the symbiotic relationship between Obama and his teleprompter. I don't have the link handy, but it's on youtube.
conservative icons
Here is the link. It's
October 20, 2008 - 17:05 ET by motherbeltHere is the link.
It's hilarious.
Until someone sets the historical record straight..
October 20, 2008 - 16:52 ET by GrymRepublicans, and by association Conservatives will continue to be pegged as the "Racist party that supported Slavery"..
More facts can be found at - Unveiled: Democrats' Racist Past by - Frances Rice
Anytime a liberal like Whoopi starts to talk about "Slavery" or "Racism" these facts should be hammered home. I prefer to call someone like that as I see em'. A race-baiter and a bigot. "Do I have to worry about becoming a slave" is a disingenuous remark intended to cloud the issue and do nothing to promote civic discourse on the subject.
This constant barrage of labeling those that disagree or are critical of Democrats, or Obama as racist or using inuendo to suggest it is wearing thin and loosing it's effectiveness. Keep crying wolf and soon no one will heed the real cries and come to help.
Send to Elizabeth
October 20, 2008 - 20:06 ET by Secret ConservativeSomebody should send this post to Elizabeth Hasselback. The reason the libs on "The View" get away with so much of this nonsense is because there is nobody representing the conservative point of view who has the knowledge to counter their ridiculous arguments. I was disappointed in McCain when he was on and let Goldberg rant on about "going back to being a slave" and not even having the presence of mind to ask her when she WAS a slave - not to mention the Constitutional argument. I got the impression that McCain just wanted to go away that day.
The Hen House!
October 20, 2008 - 16:57 ET by JeanieI hate that phrase, but it's very fitting here.
I never was a fan of The View, but I read, and it's disgusting.
Joy is a rabble rouser. Her job is to try and rile up the audience. Whoopie, and Barbara are the voices of reason(yeah right) Sherri...well she's just the adorable moron, and Elizabeth is the punching bag.
I've never heard such hateful, and stupid crap. They ogle over Obama, when his real qualification would be the Stock, in a neighborhood production of Jack and the Bean Stalk. Yet go at McCain, and the Mrs., like a pack of dogs on a fresh kill.
If these women lend any credence, to this election, then I feel for those, who take their cues from these broads. However, should Obama be elected, I would love to see some audience members throw tomatos, to thank these idiots, for encouraging their votes.
Tough?
October 20, 2008 - 17:06 ET by MES41067I would say they were ignorant more than they were tough with McCain.
Oh the horror
October 20, 2008 - 17:07 ET by UnsaneMy dear mother, who has, along with my father, imbued me with much critical thinking skills, encouraged my literacy, and has nurtured (and in some cases by necessity, beaten) common sense into me...WATCHES THIS SHOW!!!
We were discussing the election, among other things, this morning, and then The View came on and she ran off to watch it. But what can I do? She just loves that tabloid hag Barbara Walters. (Of course, I had to ask if Elisabeth Hasselbeck was weaing a skirt before I ran off, to which she complained "she always does!!!")
One day you would think that the son could return the favor to the parents and lead them down the path to a better, brighter world...
Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief. Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.
Whoopi
October 20, 2008 - 17:33 ET by Hanoverfistsomeone said it on hear befor,but you are already a slave to Liberalism.Inslavement of the mind that cannot think independently. Sad,very very sad.
Palin
October 20, 2008 - 18:10 ET by Gabrielle ELast time I checked Palin wasn't reading from a teleprompter when she wiped the floor with Biden during the debate. Maybe Joy's getting her facts from SNL.
Whoopi's question of McCain
October 20, 2008 - 18:39 ET by fitzfongWhoopi's question of McCain wasn't a tough question. It was a stupid question. In fact, it was a completely dishonest question. McCain should have educated this moron by explaining the difference between a constitutional ammendment (ending slavery) and a bogus Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade). The premise of her question was completely erroneous and, as such, required the mother of all smackdowns. Unfortunately, McCain was not properly equipped to respond in kind.
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Know the facts Whoopsie....
October 20, 2008 - 18:43 ET by semolina_filcherMemo to the Hags and Harpies on the (Ugly) View:
Fact: though I tend not to associate conservatism with the Republican party, it is that party of Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King that freed the slaves and pushed the Civil Rights movement in the forefront as a national social issue.
Fact: I can honestly associate liberalism, social welfarism and government dependence with the Democratic Party. This is the party that "enslaves" minorities to their "cause" because of how they (the DP) perceive government as the sole agency that cures all ills of the masses. Minorities are therefore "tied" to the Democratic Party in its quest to win elections at all costs and give out "favors" in the process.
Fact: President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Albert Gore's father opposed the Civil Rights movement. Algore's father, then a Senator, voted against the Civil Rights Act when it came up for voting in the Senate. Even the darling of the Democrats, the royally treated Kennedy clan and its patriarch, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, were adamantly opposed to the burgeioining Civil Right movements in the 1930s.
Fact: The Democrats, with their "promise-anything, say-anything approach to get elected strategy" manages to stranglehold the minority votes. Truer than true even to this day. Case in point, the high percentage of blacks pulling for the Kenyan-Indonesian as POTUS. Clearly as race is a major factor, not the lack of experience and questionable citizenship dogging the Messiah.
Wake up to the facts, Whoopie. If I'm not mistaken, you have so much to thank for the Democratic party, as you were admittedly a welfare recipient growing up.
With respect to her opinions and her spelling abilities, she need not worry about being reclaimed as a "slave" should America elects McCain-Palin. She just needs to be thankful there is a tolerant America. Not the divisive, class warfaremongering people you support like Obama bin Biden.
"Whoopie: A product of the welfare society impersonating a celebrity".
Just curious
October 20, 2008 - 18:52 ET by ChaitealoverI can't watch this mess of a program, and I usually ignore the threads about it, but I find myself wondering if any of these hags ever correct their misstatements? EVER? Even about non-political matters?
Could one of you that forces yourself to watch it let me know. I'm betting they don't correct themselves any more than the network newscast talking heads do.
Chai
“The beauty of our system isn’t that we have the right to vote. No, the nice thing is that people who are too dumb or lazy or uninformed to bother casting a ballot aren’t compelled to vote.” —Burt Prelutsky
No I don't watch the View
October 20, 2008 - 19:42 ET by semolina_filcherI don't watch these fools make a$$es of themselves. I care not about their opinions on anything. I just have to comment on their ignorance, that's all. And expose their lies and biases...
Morons seem to gather in
October 20, 2008 - 19:00 ET by Clear thinkerMorons seem to gather in groups!
MLK had some very good advice to people. The one I like the most is... "to judge a man by the content of his character not the color of his skin." Funny how Conservatives take this one to heart, and liberals seem to ignore.
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Woopie's Stupid Slavery Comment
October 20, 2008 - 19:11 ET by ApellesThis has bugged me since I first saw it, especially since McCain just gave in to the dumb idea. The Constitution did not establish slavery, either here or anywhere else, since it already existed everywhere (including Africa) for millenia before the Constitution (and, in fact, still exists today in places). Yes, it was later ammended to abolish slavery, but if slavery did not already exist when it was originally written, the document wouldn't have created it. A strict interpretation of it today wouldn't recreate it now, either.
One thing that always bothered me about McCain is his inability to forcefully argue against stupid ideas that appear sensible on the surface. That's why he was 1 and 2 in the debates.
Truth is, Obama should have been easily defeated... and although I like McCain in some ways, you have to wonder. Guiliani wouldn't have been my pick in the primaries, but something tells me he'd have beaten Obama pretty handily. (What's Obama done compared to Guliani?)
Guiliani would have toasted
October 20, 2008 - 20:05 ET by dark_dsGuiliani would have toasted That One ..... It would have been beautiful ....I know alot of Conservatives dont like him but he would have torn Obama apart ... Obama would have just been a series of ummms ......
Toast
October 20, 2008 - 21:20 ET by ApellesYeah, like I said, I wouldn't have voted for Rudy in the primaries (didn't) but I respect the man and he knows what he knows and knows why he knows it. That sounds like it doesn't mean anything, but what it means is he is very quick on his feet in a discussion. He would have schooled Obama before he Barack could have gotten out his second set of "Uhs."
Hey Whoopi, how about
October 20, 2008 - 19:47 ET by GregEHey Whoopi, how about asking if original interpretation of the Constitution also means no income tax?
Oh no no no, she'd NEVER go there.
Hmm, is this show a comedy or a tragedy?
October 20, 2008 - 19:58 ET by mom_roxGOLDBERG: "... People do actually get a lot of information from us ..."
...
WALTERS: "... We are intelligent women ..."
regarding Barack Obama's tax plan - I never received a job from a poor person.
Intelligent
October 20, 2008 - 20:13 ET by patriotmomThats a liberal for you - she thinks that if she tells us that they are intelligent enough times - we will take it for a fact.
Well at least THEY think
October 20, 2008 - 20:14 ET by GregEWell at least THEY think they're relevant. Gotta start somewhere.
"BEHAR: If he can’t deal
October 20, 2008 - 20:08 ET by MightyMouth"BEHAR: If he can’t deal with me, how is he going to deal with Vladimir Putin?"
I've got news for you "Joy", If it's between you and Putin in a dark alley, I'd choose Putin every time. Nothing less than a stake in the heart is going to take you out!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Stupid B!tches
October 20, 2008 - 20:54 ET by ChasvsThese are the sluts of daytime tv.
If this is where Americans are getting their information on who to vote for we are so screwed.
Obama you suck Bro.
Behar Scratch Fever
October 20, 2008 - 21:00 ET by Lame CherryIt is so sweet to see Whoopie, that other sweet thang and Joy Behar with Babs go into Behar scratch fever.
4 women who never will be who Sarah Palin is ragging on her.
Every morning Babs gets up and knows she whored herself literally to numerous people in sex to get her job........Sarah Palin never did or would.
Every morning the sweet thang knows she will never be Sarah Palin...........Sarah Palin prays for people like her.
Every morning Whoopie knows what a home wrecker she was and all her little secrets that Lawrence Sinclair knows about her........Sarah Palin has no secrets.
Every morning Joy Behar squishes her old boobs into a top begging Rush or Sean to notice her.......Sarah Palin dresses like a Lady and those gentleman fall all over her intellect.
That is what winning looks like Gov. Palin.
agtG
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Whoopi a Slave?
October 20, 2008 - 21:18 ET by THBarbTHBarb
Whoopi "going back" to being a slave? I had no idea she was that old.
Hell, I'd pay her NOT to be
October 21, 2008 - 14:46 ET by Tim the EnchanterHell, I'd pay her NOT to be my slave! Couldn't take seeing that mug every day.
Thanks for including the
October 20, 2008 - 21:22 ET by Rush FanThanks for including the transcript. I listened to the audio clip, but I had difficulty making out what Elisabeth Hasselbeck said as Behar and the others kept interrupting and talking over her. So much for fair and balance.
Joy Behar supposedly is a comedienne, but she doesn't appear to be very funny. Some friends of mine told me that Joy Behar was a former Miss America runner-up and a Sports Illustrated covergirl. I wonder if they were pulling my leg.
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"Or come on "The View" and
October 20, 2008 - 22:03 ET by Kevpot"Or come on "The View" and talk where you actually have to put a sentence together."
I laughed so hard my face hurt. Seriously, Joy, you are the dumbest one of the entire cast of idiots. What I wouldnt give to see Ann Coulter on The View. Now, THAT would be a show...
The View suffers from an epidemic of unwarranted self regard.
THE STUPID VIEW
October 20, 2008 - 22:30 ET by JanettaJust one important question.......Why does anyone waste their time watching the View? An ignorant show with four airhead and uninformed liberals and Elisabeth as the rose among the thorns. I quit watching that show 2 years ago.
Butt Ugly
October 20, 2008 - 23:03 ET by thericoDwayne P. Theriot
I don't think Whoopie has to worry about becoming a slave, not just because it's illegal but who would pay good money for that worthless butt ugly wind bag. If they added up the IQ's of the hosts of the view [not including Hasselbeck] it might equal three.
SHEPHERD
October 21, 2008 - 01:03 ET by Jman449Could be stopped in her tracks if someone asks her whether Earth is round or flat. That could be a months-long research project for her, I mean she does have kids and everything.
This show may have assembled the ugliest panel in the history of TV since Keith Olbermann began hosting his own show. "The View" should come with some kind of parental advisory, especially on the days Hasselbeck isn't there. Scares children.
The View . . .
October 21, 2008 - 02:33 ET by DoktorFranken. . . It's not really a ''View'' so much as it's a ''Spew''. One can only explain what is said on this waste of airtime as the combined heavings of a group of utter-less cows with the intelligence of tapeworm.
Sorry if I may have insulted cows or tapeworms. That's just the way I roll.
"The Spew"
October 21, 2008 - 11:28 ET by LionKingOther names:
Who's the real victim?
October 21, 2008 - 11:13 ET by Tom DesrosierI wrote about this on my blog after it happened. Americans should ask themsleves: who was the one, most deserving of the moniker, "victim". Whoppi, with her American dream intact, or McCain - a tortured captive in Vietnam.
Whoppi - why were you lecturing McCain about human depravity and cruelty; as if you alone understand?
Tom
http://www.dare2believe.com
No, she doesn't understand
October 21, 2008 - 14:48 ET by Tim the EnchanterNo, she doesn't understand human depravity and cruelty, but I bet her aborted children (may God rest their souls) do.