Posted on 09/05/2007 9:08:26 AM PDT by forty_years
Dear Ms. Whoopi Goldberg, don't tell me that torturing animals (dog-fighting) -- "hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground" -- is an integral part of Southerners' "cultural upbringing." I've lived in the Deep South for about 5 years, visited family there many times, and vacationed there more times than I can remember. My experiences? Good, decent people, and beautiful cities, countryside, and beaches. So how did this dog-fighting controversy get started?
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was busted red-handed running a chamber of horrors for canines. Not only was he fighting dogs, but torturing them too, presumably for his own "pleasure." From the Smoking Gun, including the federal indictment against Vick:
...After a March 2003 loss by a female pit bull, codefendant Purnell Peace, "after consulting with Vick," electrocuted the animal. In April, prosecutors allege, Vick, Peace, and Quanis Phillips, "executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions." These animals, the indictment claims, were killed "by various methods, including hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground."
From ESPN:
..."He's a pit bull fighter," the source said of Vick. "He's one of the ones that they call 'the big boys': that's who bets a large dollar. And they have the money to bet large money. As I'm talking about large money -- $30,000 to $40,000 -- even higher. He's one of the heavyweights."On April 25, authorities raided a house in Surry County, Va., owned by Vick and reportedly found -- among other things -- 66 dogs (most of which were pit bulls), a dog-fighting pit, bloodstained carpets and equipment commonly associated with dogfighting. ...
Here's Whoopi on Vick's crimes, from ABC's talk show The View:
"He's from the South, from the Deep South ... This is part of his cultural upbringing."
At least:
..."View" co-host Joy Behar took immediate issue with Goldberg."What part of the country is this? ... How about dog torturing and dog murdering?" she asked. ...
According to Whoopi, poor baby Vick can't help being a "heavyweight" of dog-fighting, regularly killing "under-performing" dogs by "hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground." It is part of his "cultural heritage." Would Whoopi excuse slavery in the Old South on the basis of "cultural heritage?" You know she wouldn't.
Whoopi is in fact perpetuating the now-widespread culture of victimization, whereby certain special identity groups try to get out of trouble, whereby the fabric of our American culture is being devastated. She is part of the problem whereby hillbilly/redneck stereotypes (e.g., the Simpsons' Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel) are warmly received in Hollywood, inner-city gangsta thugs are self-destructively hocked by BET, but we've yet to see a major movie about Islamist terrorism.
Should we think anything more of Whoopi? Speaking of the President in 2004, she:
...produced a few embarrassed grimaces with an unsubtle anatomical double-entendre enjoining voters to "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."
No, we cannot expect more from a person whose intelligence is limited to bathroom "humor" while arguing politics.
“But apparently Whoopi thinks it is OK to do things like that to a dog, because it is accepted in the “culture”.”
She’s disgusting. What she said is disgusting! At least she’s not like some of the other libs who say it’s “murder” to execute a dog but perfectly OK to kill unborn babies.
Whoopie isn’t noted for reasoned, rational, logical thought. She was hired because she’s a woman,( I think), liberal, colored, and can be controversial.
I think the one to blame for the reappearance of this knuckle dragging idiot is Barabara Walters....and it could be said she is utilizing Whoopi’s race and “culture” for entertainment and ratings purposes
But, but it’s their CULTURE, don’t you see?
Like keeping women in burkas, mutilating babies, killing missionaries, and sending Americans poisoned food.
It’s their CULTURE and wee have to send them a huge gub’mint grant for cultural preservation.
Whoopi Goldberg is a complete moron.
For her edification...Michael Vick did not grow up in some trailer park on a dirt road in the Mississippi Delta or the Ozark Mountains. He grew up in Newport News, Virginia, which is part of a metropolitan area of nearly TWO MILLION PEOPLE (including Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, and Chesapeake). It’s urban, heavily developed, and home to one of the biggest shipyards in the country. Newport News is in the South, Whoopster, but it ain’t the “deep South.” It’s probably a damnsight closer to the hellhole projects of your beloved New Yawk, or the worst neighborhoods of Atlanta, than it is to Alabama.
The problem isn’t the “deep South,” Whoopi, you dog-faced has-been. The problem is a deep-seated thug culture that people like YOU have helped to popularize among urban black youth. Michael Vick wanted to “keep it real,” and look where it got him.
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Is Brooklyn in the deep south? How about Phildelphia (where now coach, then NFL player was caught for the same thing)? Detroit?
This is happening all over the country (NORTH and South) in urban and rural areas. Whoopi is an idiot, as most have known for quite a while. I think the producers intend the View to be a comedy and to show just how dumb the left is.
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