Posted on 01/21/2015 1:25:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The ABC daytime talk show host comes back feisty from a two-week hiatus and dominates the first portion of “Hot Topics”
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg wasted no time firing back Tuesday at Seth Rogen and director Michael Moore for their comments about film “American Sniper,” which surpassed $105 million in a record-breaking MLK-weekend box office.
Rogen had tweeted that the Oscar-nominated film reminded him of a scene in “Inglourious Basterds.” Moore, meanwhile, tweeted that his father taught him “snipers are cowards.”
“We stood behind you Seth with your movie, and we said you had the right to make the movie you wanted to make. Give them the same respect, because we stood behind them. Michael Moore, you know better,” said Goldberg, who returned to the ABC daytime talk show from a two-week hiatus while she nursed a bulging disc in her back.
“My brother came through the ’60s,” she said. “If you’ve ever been to war, you can call people all kinds of names. Until the bombs are exploding around you, and people are dying around you, you need to be a little more sensitive, dudes. I get that you’re creative types, but so are they. So back up, or not?”
Co-host Nicolle Wallace chimed in.
“These guys die so people like Michael Moore and Seth Rogen can say this stuff. So, the next time they trash a movie about America’s heroes they should add a little thank you,” Wallace said. “They compared these guys to Nazis … It’s offensive. It’s reprehensible, and I think the military should boycott Seth Rogen‘s crappy movie.”(continued)
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Holy moly, there must be something in the water today. First Friedman, now Woopie. (Ok, this was really first, but I read them in reverse order.)
She is right, of course.
Still won't discount that a personal family issue has Whoopie (we're all gonna die) with a few scraps of sense...
My mother’s first husband was killed by a sniper in Germany during the lasts two weeks of the war. My mother never said anything vicious about snipers - ever. But she was a mature woman who knew the nature of war. She greatly mourns her lost husband to this day.
And lots of other husbands and fathers were killed ... by grunt infantrymen, by gunners, by pilots, by bombardiers, by torpedomen ...
My mother never said anything vicious about snipers - ever.
She demonstrated sanity. I'm not at all clear on why anyone would hate snipers, but not hate grunts, gunners, pilots, etc. It just makes no sense.
You make an excellent point. I do have some admiration for snipers because of their brilliant skills. In Medieval times they were called “men of keen sight.”
Simo Hayhak (Finnish WWII sniper) killed over 500 Russians in 3 months with a Mosin-Nagant... iron sights... no scope.
Definitely not a coward and proof of that was the pic where part of his face is missing... (he lived).
Michael Moore is a feral hog.
Somebody has had their finger in the wind. That’s all I can think.
Moore claims snipers are cowards? What a load of crap.
“Moore, meanwhile, tweeted that his father taught him “snipers are cowards.”
Your father? Satan?
Surprising, but welcome.
Good for her.
She's a little like Bill Maher... kind of a loose cannon, and you never can quite predict what side of an issue she'll end up on.
Out of the mouths of babes and all.
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