Whoopi Goldberg Blog:Sarah Palin Dangerous Woman
Whoopi Goldberg Blog:Sarah Palin Dangerous Woman – Whoopi Goldberg did some blogging and wrote a post called “Sarah Palin ‘Is a Very Dangerous Woman” to blast Palin.Whoopi Goldberg blog post is below:
I just have to talk about Sarah Palin’s speech a little bit. She gave a really amazing speech, very strong, very strident and it gave the Republicans everything they wanted to hear. They know that she’s a tough chick and she’s a babe and she’s a mom and all those other wonderful things we should be celebrating — the first time I think we’ve ever celebrated all of these things in a woman. Maybe Hillary Clinton wasn’t such a babe but she was defiantly strident and strong and people lost their minds and said how rough she was and how male she was, but I guess if you do it with a smile it makes it a little easier.
But here’s my point, I thought the speech in its body was energizing for Republicans, as I said, and sent them the message they wanted to hear, but what I heard was a lot of meanness and snideness and some inaccuracies and some dismissive talk to community organizers and other people’s adversities. She sort of mentioned the idea after Rudolph Giuliani did — and Rudolph Giuliani is a bonehead to start with, but that’s neither here nor there — but I thought once she began her discussion about community organizers and that they don’t have real responsibilities … I guess I can’t say I don’t know where she’s been living, because she’s been living in Alaska and maybe they don’t have community organizers there but they do in Chicago. Anyone who leaves their gig from school and goes to the people who most need help, that seems to me an admirable American way of thinking. It used to be in America that you helped people if you could, you organized them you made sure their rent was paid, made sure they had heat and all those other things and that helps to build character. If you want to become a politician you can at least say, “I understand how people live, I understand what happens when people lose everything and this is how we can work on it.”
I also found it really bizarre when Palin said there was only one person who has fought for your rights, dismissing Joe Biden’s work offhand. She then said some politicians have talked about their light adversities, and I thought, “What are you talking about? Are you talking about being a black man in America? That’s a light adversity? Or maybe the fact that Joe Biden lost his wife and baby daughter and nearly lost his two sons — that wasn’t adversity enough? Do you have to be left in a box in Vietnam to count for something?” If that’s the only kind of adversity that counts then she’d be right.
I also thought that this idea of America first coming from her was kind of strange because she was one of the people who wanted to secede from the United States. She was part of a campaign to secede Alaska from the United States of America. So I’m glad she’s back, putting America first. I also thought it was disingenuous for her to open with her record on the Bridge to Nowhere. When she was running for governor in 2006, she was all for the bridge and once she won she was against the bridge, this was also a woman who wanted books banned. I just find it extraordinary. She feels that her governorship qualifies her to be the VP. She has no foreign policy experience, she doesn’t have very much experience with anything but Alaska, and being governor, as we know, is not necessarily a carte blanche to being president. We just came through eight years with former Gov. Bush and that didn’t work so well.
So now we come to this other thing that I don’t understand: The idea that her daughter’s pregnancy is a family affair makes absolute sense to me because I think that it is a family matter. But I find it interesting that if this girl was Chelsea Clinton or black she probably wouldn’t have been treated the same way. When a black teenager gets pregnant she’s a welfare mother. When this teenager, when this nice white-lady-girl-teenager gets pregnant, it’s an Evangelical Christian choice. She’s unwed, and so how do we balance that? I guess the spin is the way to do it. We’re also sort of sitting around and listening to people talking about the anti-female aspect of this. I don’t think this has been anti-female at all. If anybody can talk to having anti-female bias at all, I would think it would be Hillary Clinton.
There was a feeling I had today that it’s no longer about who’s qualified — and I guess maybe it’s never been about who’s qualified – because, truly, nobody is qualified to be president until they’ve been president. Because it’s one thing to run a town or run a state that has some people in it, but it’s not a big city. It’s not like New York. Maybe there are great qualifications that you have for that, but in the United States of America, if you’re going to be president or vice president you’re supposed to be able to look at these things and say, “What’s best for the country?” Not, “What do I think my religious beliefs are?” Because you can only live with your own religious beliefs; you can’t ask other people to bend to them. So I find the spin a little tough to take. I find the spin tough to take having gone through this myself, with a young daughter who got pregnant. There is no privacy, there is no family issue here. This is about spin. And what I wanted her to say was, “This was not the way I hoped this would be. This is not what I wanted for my daughter, but this is the choice she has made.” But I guess if you say that this is the choice that she has made, you have to say that choice is important. Maybe it’s me, maybe I misinterpreted everything she said, but I don’t think so. Though we shall see. We shall see what John McCain has to say and what Sarah Palin has to say and, as time goes on, we’ll find out really where she’s coming from. I think it’s going to be a whole new kettle of fish.
Going back to Sarah Palin, Jon Stewart had an interesting line. He said, “Why is it if you live in a big city, you’re not considered an American? People don’t think that you work as hard or believe as much in your country as other people. Why is it only people in small towns that believe we are a great nation, that believe we can do amazing things? Is it only people in small towns that believe that?” And this idea of who’s a patriot and who’s not a patriot is really getting aggravating. I have to tell you, what is patriotism? It’s not fanaticism; it’s not supposed to be. The people, as I said earlier, who are community activists and go out and take care of the people in their community, what do you think the PTA is? It’s actively taking care of business. That’s what they do. And as I said before, I thought it was mean and low down, some of the things she said.
And as for Rudy Giuliani, this is the reason that people disliked him, because he looked down on people. Now we want to talk about elitist, this is an elitist. Yes, he believes smartly on choice but not if he was going to be president, I don’t think — like John McCain who believed in choice at one point and believed in a woman’s right to choose. Now that he’s become the Republican everyone wants him to be, he’s abandoned immigration. He’s abandoned choice. He has made himself palatable to the very people that he said he was a maverick against.
I was saddened by this woman because I think she has contempt for people who don’t believe as she believes and there’s no discussion and the smile doesn’t help. Because remember now, this is the lady who believes that everything that happens is ordained by God including, I guess, the Iraq war and President Bush’s stances on many things. She talk about a do-nothing Congress with a do-nothing president. And the idea that no taxes are going to be raised is a joke. How the hell are they going to pay for everything? How are they going to pay for the war if they don’t raise the taxes? She wants to drill drill drill in Alaska. How about sugar ethanol? How about that as an alternative? There are a lot of alternatives. You’ll vote your heart, you’ll vote your soul, you’ll vote what you believe. This girl is dangerous to me. This is a very dangerous woman, because I believe for her intents and purposes, she’s OK if everybody lives a certain way, that is to say, the way God ordained men and women to be. Well, already she’s breaking that because she’s the daddy. She’s going to run the country and the husband is going to take care of the kids. I just found the whole thing sad and very musty and very much like a Bund rally, but maybe that was just me.
That’s all we have for now on Whoopi Goldberg Blog:Sarah Palin Dangerous Woman.
jason | Sep 11, 2008 | Reply
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hunter | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
Whoopi who?
tony | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
She doesn’t make me nervous – she scares the sh** out of me. I honestly believe she is potentially the greatest threat to the US Constitution – ever. If you want to know what America’s version of the Taliban looks like, take a trip to Wasalla. It’s time for the Republican majority to take a hit for our country and vote their conscious and not their pocketbook.
Stephanie | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
I find the polls very hard to believe because of the fact that the women in my office who were originally very anti-Obama are now very pro-Obama just because they have the sense to realize that Palin may be female, but she is the anti-Hillary. As a white female myself, I am appalled if white females are falling for this crap. Anyone with an IQ over 10 has to realize that McCain did not choose Palin because she was the best candidate for VP, but because the was anatomically the best candidate for the job. Why would you vote for someone whose beliefs are fundamentally opposite your own and who wants to turn the clock back on women’s rights? Talk about sexist! I find Palin to be very sexist that she can assume that she knows best for all women and this attitude of hers is extremely offensive to me.
David | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
To Tony,
What the frick are you talking about ‘If you want to know what America’s version of the Taliban looks like, take a trip to Wasalla’. I live in Wasilla, note spelling. Why does she scare you all? Obama is the one who you all should be scared of. How blind are Obama supporters? Universal health care, blindly leave Iraq, invade Pakistan, cuddle Iran, reduce future military program advancement, reduce spending on missile defence, sounds like a terrorist attack waiting to happen, wants to kill babies, never had to make a hard decision in his life. Obama scares the crap out of me!!! What about all of the shaddy people he is associated with. The company you keep says a lot about your character. So what he can make speeches…what has he done? 140 days in the Senate…19months of campaigning. Not a one bill authored…but can write 2 memoirs. You notice Biden has been pretty quiet during all of this…also he has been in Congress 10 years longer that McCain.
So what she likes to hunt…she eats what she kills. I will admit that the religious stuff kinda worries me, but we do have to understand that many people live their life in the name of God and I am sure if Obama get elected God or Allah will be on his mind as well. Remember he was Muslim schooled. Not to say I have a problem with that but don’t be fooled if one day it come out that he really isn’t the Messiah.
Lola | Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
It doesn’t matter WHAT they find on Palin. I know I, as a woman and an American, REFUSE to vote for her.
PALIN IS UNAMERICAN – She wanted to help Alaska Secede from the U.S.!
Palin tells the Alaskan Independence Party — whose goal is a vote on seceding from the U.S.– to ‘keep up the good work.’
And according to the AIP’s Web site founder of the party, Joe Volger said, “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Here is Palin’s address of support at this Party’s 2008 Convention!
youtube.com/watch?v=bh7EtOCZvjI
I’m sorry. I don’t know about YOU but I will not vote for someone who is ashamed to be a U.S. Citizen. She is Anti-American! I do not know how John McCain a war veteran and a POW would even associate with someone like her!
Libertarian | Sep 27, 2008 | Reply
Palin is anti-American?! You gotta be kidding me… You’re afraid that Palin may ruin the Constitution?! Wow… You are a blind Obamapheliac indeed. Obama wants suppress our speech and is intimidating the media by threatening to sue if they air any Ads that are not championing him as a big hero. Let’s face it: Obama is Anti-American, snobby, and uses his “blackness” when convenient.
The following link is a pdf file of his attorney’s letter threatening to take away FCC licensure once in office. Now THAT should scare everyone.
Libertarian | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
BTW I love how you guys left off the link to Obama’s letter threatening taking away FCC licensure… It only proves that liberals hate free speech! Now you’re abridging my feedom to share valuable information with voters… SHAME ON YOU!
Military man | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
I have been watching Sarah Palin and she scares me. She is not in support of the constitution and freedom; she is in support of forcing people to her belief system.
She is willing to deceive. She is deceptive about the Bridge to No Where; during the debate she refused to answer many of the questions. She did not have details to back up what she said, just broad generalities.
I had been a McCain supporter, but he proved is not a maverick but bending to the will of the religious right and going with Palin.
The Taliban really screwed up Afghanistan. Let’s maintain separation of church and state over here.
J Smith | Oct 5, 2008 | Reply
Yes. It is possible to be anti-American while wearing a flag pin and spounting patriotic platitudes. Wanting to subvert the Constitution and slamming the folks who don’t agree with you by hurling insults and lies at them is not my definition of an American or, for that matter, a Christian, which Ms. Palin claims to be.
Take a good hard look at your running mate, Mr. McCain. She plans on being president and she is not going to let you get in her way. I’d watch my back if I were you. The woman is ambitious and ruthless. There is a reason they call her barracuda.
smokescreen | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
sarah palin is a very dangerous and scary woman. her attire and speech patterns are chosen to distract all of those around her away from her true nature. she is a human predator. she is a sociopath. 100%! for her to be in the position she is in at this time in american and world history is a terrible twist of fate. if the republicans get into office this term it is the end of the american dream. the world is watching in horror and humor as this woman gets more and more power.
tbg | Oct 18, 2008 | Reply
Congratulations Whoopi! I’m sure you thought you would sway many people with your attacks on Gov.
Palin. Where would poor Barack be without you and Oprah and the main stream media. I can’t believe you think it’s ethical that the N.Y. Times used the McCain’s 16 year daughter’s facebook connection to try to dig up dirt on her own mother,or that the Daily Kos would advertise the most disgusting t-shirts about Gov. Palin,or that the liberal blogs are attacking a regular citizen that just happened to ask a question the Obama campaign didn’t like,or that Sandra Bernhard said that Palin would get gang raped by blacks in Manhattan,there are too many hateful remarks to mention. I stay informed on the issues and read,watch and listen to many different media sources and I have never heard a conservative say anything like the vicious and hate filled comments that I have heard from the left. The way the majority of the co-hosts on the View treated John and Cindy McCain compared to the way they treated Barack and Michelle Obama was so mean spirited,unfair and unprofessional. The question Whoopi asked about slavery was shameful. I think she is smart enough to understand that our constitution is a living document which means that as our constitution reads today slavery has been abolished. I do wonder though if she realizes that it was the republican party that was the driving force to rid our country of slavery. Liberals are so hypocritical.
Navy mom | Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
Wow, it seems that the Palin supporters in this comment section are as nasty & viscous as she!
I have been a registered and active voter for almost 20 years now and I have been more frightened and disgusted in the past 8 years than I can ever remember.
I think I am more afraid of Palin that I am of W. She is a loon!
And, why is it that the best right-wing comment leavers can do is to call Obama a Muslim? Obviously, they still believe all Muslims are terrorists…and if they scream loud enough that is a Muslim, well, than I guess in some peoples minds he will become one.
You know, I keep hearing Palin is a Pentecostal snake handler…doesn’t that scare the crap out of you??? If we all scream it loud enough, will you listen and think it is true???
More importantly, I fear that McCain won’t make it through the presidency (I mean, he is 71 and has a history of malignant melanoma!) then we are left with her as Pres?! And they say Obama is inexperienced in Washington. WOW.
I am just in awe, as we have had to live through the past 8 years of the Bush fiasco, that people are still so snowed by the republican party (or still so afraid of being called a “liberal” – gasp) that they are willing to vote for this pair! Can we not learn???
God/Creator/Allah/Bhagavan/Buddha/and so on… help us all!
BTW, paragraphs are your friend
Frankie | Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
I like this country and the freedom we have. Obama has no experience other than organizing. He is a layer and we know what that means, he is a good speaker and has alot of ties with radical people. McCain, I don’t have to say a thing about him. The whole world knows him. He is going to live as long as his mother and she is 93 years young. Obama’s smoke and could die of lung cancer,and Biden almost died from something to do with his brain. That could very well come back. So, that means if Obama is elected and he dies from lung cancer and Biden dies because he has no brain, oh hell that means the house speaker,what’s her name. BITCH could become president.. No I like the McCain and Palin ticket
Susan | Oct 26, 2008 | Reply
Whoopi – I can tell you put great thought into what you wrote. I agree with all of your points. I hope someday soon we will be able to say President-elect Obama and really give those right wing Conservatives something to talk about. I’d like to remind them, “judge not lest you be judged.” Great blog, Whoopi.
Trice | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
Stephanie, I agree with you. And many of you on this blog. Go Whoopi!
I just caught some of the news. Someone just wrote to CNN about Palin. That someone was from the Mccain campaign. To some it up she is all about herself. I beleive the letter said that she doesn’t listen to anyone. This is coming from a Republican. And also there are Republicans who will be and who have voted for Obama instead of the McCain/palin tragedy.
She scares me to.
As someone reported on the news, the enemy is watching our news program.
I strongly feel that if the Republicans are elected we need to fear for our safety everyday. I also feel that Obama is a better speaker and probably a better negotiator.
I do not dislike President Bush, but I think he could have protected us better.
(The tragedy of the 9/11 and Hurrican Katrina, may they rest in peace, and my respect to the families)
We need a leader who will defend us. Not attack when they can’t have there way. I beleive Obama and Biden can defend us. Palin will destroy us. Her way or no way.
jill | Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
Whoopi Goldberg is a real bigot ,she protests thee moran church for ca.prop8 anti marriage.yet 7out of 10 blacks voted 4 it.Why doesn’t she protest black church?? bigot bigot
frances | Nov 13, 2008 | Reply
To the View, MSNBC, Foxnews, etc. Please set the record straight regarding the voting count results of Prop 8 (gays wanting to change the definition of the word, marrriage.) MSNBC, Roseanne Bar,etc. are reporting to the world that 70% of Blacks voted “Yes” (one man, one woman marriage). Some of us understand that more white voters voted Yes than any other race. Nevertheless, this is America. We should not get upset when others use their free choice to vote. No one is trying to stop same sex couples from having sex with one another. If you are going to report percentages, at least, get it right.
encoweree | Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
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Ruth | Oct 18, 2009 | Reply
I read alot of these letters and feel there are a lot of uneducated people voicing opinions that can’t use good ENGLISH that they should have learned back in grade school and they can VOTE on who RUNS the USA ??? WOW