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Posted on 09/04/2007 2:28:14 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick's dogfighting in first day on 'The View'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
So much for the sedate alternative to Rosie O'Donnell on "The View." Whoopi Goldberg used her first day on the daytime chat show Tuesday to defend football star Michael Vick in his dogfighting case.
Goldberg said that "from where he comes from" in the South, dogfighting isn't that unusual.
"It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico," she said. "There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country."
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges last week, admitting that he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his Virginia property and helped kill six or eight pit bulls. Vick grew up in Newport News, Va.
Goldberg was selected by series creator Barbara Walters to replace O'Donnell, whose stormy tenure on the ABC program lasted less than a year.
In the Vick discussion, Goldberg served notice that she won't shy away from controversy.
Co-host Joy Behar looked horrified at Goldberg.
"How about dog torture and dog murdering?" Behar asked.
For many people, dogs are sport, Goldberg replied, and it appeared it took awhile for Vick to realize that he was up against serious charges.
"I just thought it was interesting, because it seemed like a light went off in his head when he realized this was something that the entire country didn't appreciate," she said.
Vick has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League and will be sentenced on the dogfighting charges in December. He apologized and asked for forgiveness upon entering his plea in federal court last week.
I can’t figure out who watches this pig roast. Four dumb tw@ts spouting their moronic views.....whats the attraction?
She's a leftist like Rosie. Difference is Whoopie can behave properly when she wants. Rosie is, as The Donald called her, an animal.
Very good. Nice one...
“I cant believe that a Bitch would not stand up for the Dogs.”....
Laughing my buttocks off!!
Indicitive? She doesn't even know what the word means.
Yeah, like grammar. Maybe she was looking for the world "endemic".
Maybe ABC and Whoopee thinks everybody has forgotten about:
Hey, its just cultural relativism, right? Nothing is really right or wrong in and of itself.
More crap from “THE VIEW”.
Following Whoppi’s logic, the KKK is just a service organization in certain parts of the country.
Of bourse she’ll defend Vick. Whoopee is a blind bigot who sees the procecution of Vick as a race thing instead of what it really is. A sadistically cruel person who thought nothing more of dogs than garbage.
Poopi believes she should have been the one doing the fighting. She does have the choppers of bulldog.
Poopi believes she should have been the one doing the fighting. She does have the choppers of a bulldog.
I grew up in Florida, moved to Kentucky, lived in West Virginia, and now 15 years in Georgia. I’ve never met anyone who was into dogfighting.
Thank you for the link ~ just sent them my “view” on their new host....
Excellent.
Danny Devito was om too. Called Bush an Idiot. Devito must know, after all he made a movie about Harvard so he must be pretty smart.
Whenever I look at Whoopi Goldberg, I have visions of a mound of pubic hair the size of Buckwheat’s hairstyle.
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