Whoopi Goldberg Can’t Handle the Truth

by AWR Hawkins

When Whoopi Goldberg appeared as a guest on Fox News’ Huckabee show on November 21st, except for being a bit more caustic than normal, she was her usual arrogant self. For example, after making it clear that she was unapologetic for storming off the set of The View on October 14th, when Bill O’Reilly dared use the words “terrorists” and Muslims in the sentence, she also added that she’s never said anything “on television about somebody or an issue that [she] wished [she] hadn’t…said.” (I find such positing untenable because Whoopi is known to state one thing as her bona fide position at 5 o’clock, then turn around and state the complete opposite as her position at 6.)

She’s done this with racism, and now she’s doing it with the distinction between fact and opinion.

For instance, when Whoopi told Governor Mike Huckabee she doesn’t regret anything she’s said, she was at least willing to admit she’s said things that were controversial. But she said she stood behind them because they were all representative of her “opinion.”

Goldberg’s defense of her statements, admittedly based on “opinion,” proved ironic at best, considering the FACT that she spent a considerable portion of the Huckabee interview attacking bloggers for “[saying] endless stuff” for which they “don’t have to fact check.” In other words, she attacked bloggers for making statements based on opinion.

Moreover, when Goldberg appeared on Fox News’s O’Reilly on November 23rd, she rejected facts O’Reilly presented to her. From the fact that the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; to the fact that “90 percent of the terrorists” in the world are Muslim to the fact that Jews are still a more persecuted people group than any other, Goldberg sidestepped all by regurgitating the same liberal talking points again and again. She finally dismissed O’Reilly’s points altogether by saying that she and he “disagreed.” (Ironically, in her appearance on Huckabee two days prior to O’Reilly, Goldberg said: “I think fact outweighs assumption. So if you have facts in your hands, then you can talk.” Yet when O’Reilly had facts “in [his] hand,” Goldberg rejected them because they weren’t congruent with her worldview.)

While everyone can appreciate Goldberg’s praise of facts over opinions, no one can ignore her habit of talking a big game then failing to show up when the rubber hits the road. She praised facts on Huckabee, perhaps knowing it was a setting where she wouldn’t be forced to answer for her inconsistencies, but suffered the full force of a counter attack on O’Reilly, where she was not allowed to be loose with her speech.

It seems Goldberg needs to heed the words of John Adams, second president of the United States, before giving others the “fact” talk again. Said Adams: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

In other words, whether you’re on Huckabee, O’Reilly, or The View, facts are facts (and facts prove Goldberg wrong).


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Posted Dec 1st 2010 at 7:59 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 247 Comments