The View's Whoopi Goldberg Compares Today's Politics to Talk That Got People 'Lynched' in the '60s
The View's Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday compared today's political environment to that of when she was a child, talk that led to people get "lynched." Discussing Last week's Arizona shooting, she warned, "When I was growing up, people talking and saying things, whipping folks up, caused a lot of people to get lynched."
Continuing this theme, she added, "Now, had those people not done all that, would it have happened any way? It may have. I don't know. But I do know that sometimes we, as a society, have to sort of be aware of what we are doing."
(Of course, Goldberg's historical analogy falls apart when you consider the fact that she was born in 1955 and grew up in the '60s, a time when lynchings were at a historical low.) The normally conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck even inquired if Sarah Palin's career might be over as a result of the cross hairs ad her political action committee released in 2010.
Talking to former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, a possible 2012 candidate, she seriously wondered "Do you think, given the perception out there based on the cross hairs format that she put out, do you think that her political career might be over?"
Co-host Barbara Walters speculated as to whether, because of the cross hairs graphic, Palin deserves to be "a target of this antagonism."
Continuing to search for responsibility beyond Jared Loughner, the shooter, Walters theorized to Pawlenty: "Do you feel this is just a crazy person or do you feel that politics to some degree and the media has to be blamed?"
A transcript of the January 11 segment, which aired 11:10am EST, follows:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: When I was growing up, people talking and saying things, whipping folks up, caused a lot of people to get lynched. Now, had those people not done all that, would it have happened any way? It may have. I don't know. But I do know that sometimes we, as a society, have to sort of be aware of what we are doing.
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BARBARA WALTERS: But, let's talk about what happened. Do you- Do you feel this is just a crazy person or do you feel that politics to some degree and the media has to be blamed?
TIM PAWLENTY: Well, one of the things I talk about in the book is how you respond to crisis. And one of the first steps is make sure, Barbara, you got good information and you make good decisions based on good information. As we sit here on The View, today, there is no evidence that this deranged individual acted because of some particular set of comments or experience with the media or politician. That being said, our country, all of us, each of us, individually and collectively, can benefit from a more thoughtful and civil debate.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Sure. Absolutely.
WALTERS: Do you think that Sarah Palin, because of the ad that she took or because of some things that she has talked about, do you think she deserves to, herself, be a target of this antagonism?
PAWLENTY: As to Governor Palin?
WALTERS: Yes.
PAWLENTY: I think she's a remarkable leader. I think she served her state well and she's an important voice for my party. But there is no evidence to indicate that she or anyone else was the cause of this. We have a mentally unstable, deranged individual. We know that sometimes they do senseless and irrational things. And to condemn or to judge based on those facts as we know them today is unfair.
HASSELBECK: Do you think, given the perception out there based on the cross hairs format that she put out, do you think that her political career might be over?
PAWLENTY: No. No, I don't. Again, you can debate tactics and style and all of that. But, again, there is no evidence to suggest she or anyone else is at fault other than you have somebody who had these mental health challenges.
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Whoops throws the race card.
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:28pm.
Well played, Whoopster. Entirely predictable, but Daddy O will give you a gold star anyway.
And golly gee, who knew Palin "invented" the political target? The woman is a genius, I tell ya!
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Palin also invented the word "campaign"
Submitted by JakeMo on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 7:33pm.
Palin "invented" the political target
Of course. Palin also adopted the word "campaign" from military history.
I guess we are to believe Palin is so stupid she can't tie her shoes, yet she spends late nights scouring through Latin texts looking for violent imagery she can adopt for use in her 'campaign of hate' against the left.
/s
Now, had those people not
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:38pm.
Now, had those people not done all that, would it have happened any way? It may have. I don't know.
The liberals' favorite line...we don't know...so let's just talk out our arses.
Whoopi, and every other
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:46pm.
Whoopi, and every other Liberal:
1) Tell the truth.
2) Provide evidence for your accusations.
She was referring to the
Submitted by kg on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:52pm.
She was referring to the left. She just left that part out.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
That's it. Let's just have a freakin' real civil war then.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:49pm.
I can't take much more of this, and I don't believe I'm alone.
AND W.T.H. IS PAWLENTY DOING ON THE VIEW???
hawking a book, or in other words,
Submitted by mom_rox on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 7:01pm.
going cross-country on a book tour to meet with state party leaders to test the waters for support for a presidential campaign. (Oh, look at that - New Hampshire is how close to NYC?)
Yup, but he doesn't need to also test the sewers
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:02pm.
.
Does Palin deserve to be a target a antagonism?
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:52pm.
Pawlenty's answer should have been a resounding "NO!" As for Elizabeth...I voted her off that "View" island of ignorance a long time ago.
But Whoopi, was it really
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 7:06pm.
But Whoopi, was it really "lynching" lynching?
Excellent!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 7:33pm.
I wish I'd thought of that.
Whoppi's age
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 7:28pm.
Just perhaps the Whoopster has been lying about her age. Maybe she was born in 1935. Cosmetic surgery and Botox can do wonders, I give you Joan Rivers as evidence of how undetectable it is?
She has been aching to get
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 8:06pm.
She has been aching to get the word "lynching" out there for a long time. She has never been able to find quite the perfect context to use that word, so she decided she would just pull something out of her a$$ and see if it flew. After all, her audience is full of idiots so what the heck.
Yes, we can all stipulate
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 8:10pm.
Yes, we can all stipulate that she is a genius.
1960's long hot summers
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 8:17pm.
When Whoopie (and I) were growing up stuff like this was happening in many large cities every summer.
I am sure the msm will accept
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 8:31pm.
I am sure the msm will accept responsiblity for this.
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So what is up with this Whoopi?
Dear Whoopi, Please don't
Submitted by Jerry on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:12pm.
Dear Whoopi,
Please don't bring Robert Byrd (D) into this.
Sincerely,
The KKK
Really??? A woman who
Submitted by Jerry on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:28pm.
Really??? A woman who walked off the stage because Bill O'Reilly dared to link Muslims to killing, is so mindlessly linking political talk to lynchings? Really?
Just how many lynchings did you see? Did you witness black churches burning with Bill Clinton too?
Why are we wasting so much time defending good people from slanderous vitriol??? The killer was a loony, loner, leftist, commie, as is usually the case.
Funny how that discussion was
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:17am.
Funny how that discussion was held on a day when one of the most hateful speakers on television, Joy Behar, wasn't there. Of course she'll claim because she's joking it's o.k. for her to say whatever she wants.
What a bunch of hacks.
According to Woopee...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 1:30am.
...if my daughters say they want to "hang out" with their black friends, I should get really nervous.
I remember the old days when people understood the difference between "figurative" and "literal" speech.
Another blatent example of
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:21am.
Another blatent example of someone obviously impaired by mental illness/ Schizophrenia walking among the innocent/ unsuspecting American people.......
Whoopi gets her entire wardrobe from Good - Will. Not at their outlet store, right out of the big bin in the far corner of her local Walmart's parking lot.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Ain't America grand? In any
Submitted by Jerry on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:07am.
Ain't America grand? In any other culture, Whoopi would be wandering the streets pushing a shopping cart and drinking her supper from a brown paper bag. Here she's one of the "millionaires and billionaires" and instead of collecting garbage, she's distributing it.
Whoopi grew up in
Submitted by fxmaven on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:13am.
Whoopi grew up in Manhattan...anybody recall a lot of lynchings in Manhattan in the early sixties?? did I miss em?
Because I value the First Amendment so...
Submitted by falcon on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 10:14am.
...I can see no reason for Congress or the FCC to shut this woman up just because her political and personal views are so reprehensible.
The First Amendment, however, doesn't apply to me. I can abridge her right to speech all I want, just by giving her a fat lip. (Gee, is that "uncivil?")
But I'll defend to the death her right to say stupid things and prove herself to be a nihilistic moron.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Whoopi's Buddies
Submitted by RealVet on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 12:52pm.
Rahm Emmanuel - "Never let a serious crisis go to waste".
Geraldo Rivera - "It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her".
Cindy Sheehan - "America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for..."
Wanda Sykes - "...Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?"
Ted Rall - "Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared".
Mike Malloy - "I have a good news to report; Glen Beck appears closer to suicide - I'm hoping that he does it on camera..."
New York city councilman Charles Barron - "I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health".
James Cameron - ""I believe in ecoterrorism."
Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air. - "F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead."
Bill Maher - "I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn't be dying needlessly tomorrow....I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact."
Alec Baldwin - “I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together, . . . would go down to Washington and we would stone [Republican U.S. Representative] Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! . . . Shut up! No, shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families.”
Keith Halloran, a Democratic candidate for state representative in New Hampshire, after former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash - “Just wish Sarah and Levy were on board,” Halloran wrote, apparently taking aim at the former Alaska Gov. and her daughter’s ex-fiancée, Levi Johnston.
St. Petersburg Democratic Club - "..And then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq 'We have our good days and our bad days.' We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say 'This is one of our bad days' and pull the trigger."
New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi - describing fellow Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer as "the man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it."