But of course she is.
Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web column, James Taranto wrote:
One other thing we expect is to start hearing about race again–not from the president himself so much as from his supporters, especially in the media. Here again, the message will be a negative one: not “Wouldn’t it be cool to have a black president?” but, “If you vote to fire the first black president, you’re racist.”
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As I wrote last night, “And…here’s Tavis Smiley of PBS first out of the gate with exactly that rhetoric:”
“I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic,” PBS host Tavis Smiley said on MSNBC.
Next up, Whoopi Goldberg, this morning:
“I’m getting tired to trying not to find things slightly racist. It is very difficult, on a daily basis, to see this stuff and not say, you know, this is what it is. I have been raised to think, ‘Well, maybe that’s not what they mean. Let me figure it out.’ But, being black, when you say, ‘Y’know, this is racist,’ 9,000 people say, ‘Oh, you’re just playing the race card.’ Well, you know, I’m playing the damn card now.”
Goldberg also had the best attack on Trump himself later on:
“You know how Donald always says, ‘People are laughing at us, thinking we don’t have it’? Here’s one of the reasons they’re laughing at us, Donald. When you show such insane disrespect to the president of your country, other countries think we’re idiots.”
And given that she believes that the moon landings championed by JFK were faked*, it’s safe to say that Whoopi takes her idiocy seriously.
* Not to mention replacing the co-host of a show that spent the mid-naughts championing this insane disrespect to the president of her country.
Related: “Donald Trump, Neo-Confederate?”
And via the comments, a flashback from 2004, which caught Whoopi showing her own insane disrespect to the president of her country.
Update: Related thoughts from Ace.
Update: “More than once during his press conference this morning, Trump declared openly that the press protects Obama and no one else. Of course, he’s absolutely right, the American people know it, and the media might want to stop digging,” John Nolte writes at Big Hollywood. “Does Hollywood and the MSM really think they can bully a guy who just made the President of the United States blink?”
Really, Whoopi? Really?
Yes, this is a wonderful example of a selective, self-serving memory. “Don’t you dare irresponsibly attack our President — unless he is a person I disagree with.” I often think we are doomed as a country because people like Whoopi Goldberg can go around spewing this garbage and not be called on the carpet for it. They fear no scolding for such rank hypocrisy. Au contraire, they are still highly respected.
Ed,
Looks like it’s time to speed up the process of “racist” joining “facist” as the lefts label for those they do not like and whose points they cannot refute. That or we merely point out that a claim of “racism” without clear supporting evidence is itself racist.
Graves Law: In any online discussion of politics where the left cannot refute the points being made by their opponents the probability of said leftists declaring their opponents to be “racists” or racially motivated approaches unity.
Corollary to Graves Law: Once a participant in an online discussion of politics throws out a charge of “racism” or racial motivation the debate is over the the side having made the accusation has lost.
Think of it as battlefield preparation for Campaign 2012.
What do you mean, “now”, Whoopi? You been hella playin’ the race card for years…
Whoopi plays the idiot card.
Not that there’s anything new in that.
Somewhere there should be a special bureau whose job it would be to track and publish in searchable format the extreme accusations the leftists make against Republicans and conservatives, the Bush administration being but the latest example. Then when an eminence such a Whoopi! Goldberg delivers a stern rebuke for lack of respect, over the top rhetoric, or condoning violence, there would be a publication or web posting of all the instances of similar rhetoric when the tables were turned. Heck, do it for both sides.
Then, unless Colin Powell was right and we have lost all shame, maybe some of the hypocritical shouting would subside and we could debate issues.
It is difficult for people like Ms. Goldberg, who primarily self-identify as members of a group rather than as an individuals, to separate or even slightly distance themselves from that group identity. For people like Ms. Goldberg, who have made their reputation as a “spokesperson” or “voice” for a particular group, it’s not going to happen. Ms. Goldberg will never bite the hand that feeds, even though that’s the hand that identifies her as a “black comedian” rather than a comedian. (Although it is her own fault that she’s not that funny.) She’s comfortable hiding behind the stereotypes, she looooves them, they validate her. Fortunately, she’s also a walking advertisement for the cognitive dissonance and rhetorical incoherence that results from racial and other irrelevant group identification.
When Whoopi does it, it’s not insane insane disrespect.
Q: Which card in a “Whoopi Deck” is the “race card”?
A: Need you ask? ALL of the cards in a Whoopi Deck are race cards.
“When you show such insane disrespect to the president of your country, other countries think we’re idiots.”
No, actually they’ll probably just think we’re left-wing Democrats.
Did`nt Whoppi Goldberg once use the “F” word in reference to President Reagan?
The 2012 Presidential campaign is going to be wholly negative. Obama has accomplished so little during his tenure in office that there are many valid complaints to make against him, especially considering all the promises he made while running for office. Conversely, since he has so few accomplishments to his credit, he has little to say but “my predecessor was awful and my opponent is even worse.” Obama’s black supporters will present every issue as a race issue because to a race hustler race is the only issue.
Who thinks that Whoopi Goldberg is relevant? I mean really. She jumped the shark when she offered up her ridiculous defense of Roman Polanski: “It wasn’t rape-rape.” Having proven she’s an idiot, her racist remarks don’t surprise intelligent people.
“When you show such insane disrespect to the president of your country, other countries think we’re idiots.””
Well, pre-election , sure, but it only took them a few months once he was sworn in for them to realize that the guy THEY all went nuts for when he was campaigning had slipped off right after the swearing-in and had been replaced by this guy who was sometimes surly, sometimes affable, usually reserved and patronizing and utterly without charm, who gives away parts of the store and then dares his base to complain, a guy who blames “oppressors” for the fact that he couldn’t lead a one-man parade . . .
No, they know now who’s the idiot.
Haven’t seen that insane piece of – well, you fill in the blank – since Star Trek. Intentionally. BTW, why is she single – such a catch she’d make some donkey…
Race to most non-Progs means a track and field event or election.
I’d like to see billboards across America this year say, “Barack, we gave you a try. You’re fired!”
There will be plenty of racism in this campaign, but it will all come from the left, as they falsely play the race card anytime Obama is criticised. It is only the left in this country that has not gone beyond race, since it is they who continue to view everything related to Obama through a racial lens. The rest of the country evaluates Obama on his character, and his actions and policies.
African Americans have actually fallen for a segment of white America’s crap that’s called “The Race Card.” How dare a white American suggest that I’m playing a so called Race Card when they have played the a race card for 400 years!!! The moment that this segment PERCEIVES that African Americans are possibly benefitting from their race, then it becomes a race card, but as long as this segment of white Americans benefit, all is well. African Americans did not impose themselves on white America (if we are going to be honest, but certain segments of white America despises honesty and fact-based answers), but in fact, White America imposed on African Americans for 400 years. Only since the 1960′s did the law begin to acknowledge the crime perpetrated against African Americans and sought to remedy those crimes, but again, certain segments of white America cannot stomach the thought of these people slightly benefitting. It is criminal and shameful
“How dare a white American suggest that I’m playing a so called Race Card when they have played the a race card for 400 years!!!”
If Whoopi says “I’m playing the damn [race] card now,” I’m willing to take her at her word.
“How dare a white American suggest that I’m playing a so called Race Card when they have played the a race card for 400 years!!!”
. . .
Whites must all look the same age to you – somewhere around 450 years old.
Sometimes it SEEMS like it’s been 450 years so far, with no end in sight, but, truthfully, most of us aren’t anywhere near that old yet. In fact, almost all of the people who are still around from that long ago are dead, so there’s not even any point in asking them what the hell they were thinking back then.
Want to tell me how AA and bussing and minority-targeted mortgage support are still good, needed things in our society? Go right ahead – yeah, it’s race-based, but it’s not racist – race can be a topic of discussion – there’s no “card” involved.
But, want to tell me about how my desire that my country’s current Federal Government administration stop writing checks when we’re bouncing last week’s checks proves – prima facie – that I am racist, that I am a racist, and that my voice and view may – indeed, should – be set aside and ignored because I am only worthless racist scum? That’s what we mean by “playing the race card.”
There goes Whoopi again. When no other argument is available to her such as forensic examination on the original birth certificate Whoopi goes to “race card” epithet debate which is what a loser uses.
A COPY cannot receive forensic examination.
ONLY an original can receive forensic examination for authenticity.
BUT this “the view” show IS for entertainment — it’s not about FACTS.
Way to go Whoopi – you prove yourself to be a loyal racist.
They are always gonna play the card. Its hard for them. the first black president is HORRIBLE and has been a disaster. Obama ebodies the worst in politics and has brought the worst out. But this has nothing to do with race. NEVER DID. Sure there are some who may be racist. but if you want them, then you must include all of thoes who voted and support obama because he is black. His policies stink. his ability to control or solve problems is a bad joke. His incompotence is astounding. the only reason he has not been impeached yet or anyone supports him is because of his color. an “old white amn” for pres would have never been able to do the crap obama did and get away with it. You have thoes who are afraid that the first black will go down in history as one of the worst and another wont be elected. But the ones in power and in media knw thats not the case. They call people racist not for disagreeing with a blackman, but for disagreeing with the liberal left progressive party and their plans. This has nothing to do with color and in fact they are so hard up for “evidence” of racism that they are having to resort to stating critisizm of obama is “CODE” for racism or we have racist subconcious. actually its brilliant. why ? because it requires NO proof and cannot be defended against. its especially effective when the protest signs used on bush were the same if not worse than the ones for obama. ‘sure the signs are the same, but you have subconcous racism so that makes you worse’. Im over the whole racist crap. im almost taking it as a badge of honor, because i know when they run out of arguments thats the first thing they go to. I know that racism to these people only means that you dont believe that certain groups deserve special treatment, that all men are created equal. be proud of being called ‘racist’ by the left. it means you are still free!