Whoopi Goldberg (stage name) was back on The Views Monday, a day earlier than her two-week suspension suggested. She was suspended after making anti-Semitic comments claiming the “Holocaust isn't about race” but rather just "white people doing it to white people" (which NewsBusters was the first to report). But according to her boastful returning message to viewers, they were going to continue to have the “tough conversations.”
“Well, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The View. And yes, I am back,” she boasted at the top of the show. Her return came a day early, having been suspended on a Tuesday but returning on a Monday.
Seemingly trying to squash rumors that she was angry after the original offending incident and thought Whoopi wouldn’t be able to recover, co-host Joy Behar immediately jumped in to announce that they all “missed” her.
Whoopi returned the sentiment, Whoopi praised the show and suggested that sometimes what they say isn’t said as “elegantly” as it could be:
GOLDBERG: I got to tell you, there's something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are The View, and this is what we do, and sometimes we don't do it as elegantly as we could, and sometimes –
BEHAR: You think?
GOLDBERG: -- Well yeah, you know. But it's five minutes to get in important information about topics.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah, yeah.
GOLDBERG: And that's what we try to do every day.
“And I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we're going to keep having tough conversations,” she declared. “And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do.”
The idea that The View has tough conversations is laughable. They all occupy the same liberal bubble and are openly hostile to anyone who doesn’t share it. That truth is evident by the fact that the show is struggling to find a real conservative woman to replace former co-host Meghan McCain.
And while Whoopi made an apology before her suspension (with help from the left-wing Anti-Defamation League), she didn’t address what she said upon her return. Although, she did make a bizarre comment about how what they say on the show isn’t “always pretty” and “it's not always as other people would like to hear.”
Whoopi also shared her appreciation to those who reached out to her:
GOLDBERG: And I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away. And I'm telling you, people reached out from places that made me go, “Wait, wait. What? Really? Okay.”
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And it was amazing, and I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful.
And as she wrapped up the introduction, Whoopi suggested the conversations they have on the show were “important to us as a nation, and to us more so as a human entity.”
Gag.
Whoopi’s early return to The View was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Ancestry and Lysol. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 14, 2022
11:01:37 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The View. And yes, I am back!
JOY BEHAR: And we missed you.
GOLDBERG: And I missed you all too. I got to tell you, there's something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are The View, and this is what we do, and sometimes we don't do it as elegantly as we could, and sometimes –
BEHAR: You think?
GOLDBERG: -- Well yeah, you know. But it's five minutes to get in important information about topics.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah, yeah.
GOLDBERG: And that's what we try to do every day. And I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away. And I'm telling you, people reached out from places that made me go, “Wait, wait. What? Really? Okay.”
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And it was amazing, and I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful. And I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we're going to keep having tough conversations.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do. And it's not always pretty as I said, and it's not always as other people would like to hear. But it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they're important. They're important to us as a nation, and to us more so as a human entity. So, Happy Valentine's Day, y'all.
SARA HAINES: Whoo!
GOLDBERG: And we goin’ to get started because that's what we do.
[Laughter]
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