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Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick's dogfighting in first day on 'The View'
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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.


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1 posted on 09/04/2007 2:28:15 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

what a load of crap!! he knew it was serious... that’s why he lied and is STILL LYING!!


2 posted on 09/04/2007 2:30:36 PM PDT by cjohnson1 (http://www.uncoveror.com/castro.htm)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
She managed to insult PETA and Puerto Ricans on her first day.

That's starting to look like the jinxed seat on the board of this brain trust.

3 posted on 09/04/2007 2:30:48 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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Good for Whoopie. Shake up those fools on the view Whoopie. Those people are a little to uppity for my tastes.


4 posted on 09/04/2007 2:32:35 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Terminate the Duke 88)
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"Vick has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League and will be sentenced on the dogfighting charges in December."

And the Honorable Henry Hudson will slap his sorry ass in jail, where he belongs.
5 posted on 09/04/2007 2:32:35 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Personally, I don’t give a whoop (pun intended). Four brain-dead bimbos trying to be relevant. Speaks volumes for the future of our civilization, don’t it?


6 posted on 09/04/2007 2:32:49 PM PDT by ssaftler (Which Al is more deadly: Al Gore or Al Qaeda?)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

“Dogs of a feather, lie together. Dogs who lie down with pigs, come up with sows.”


7 posted on 09/04/2007 2:33:08 PM PDT by zerosix
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

” indicative “
?


8 posted on 09/04/2007 2:33:19 PM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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BS from Whoopi.


9 posted on 09/04/2007 2:33:44 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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Dear Whoopi...chickens wind up on the table anyway...and we don’t eat dogs in this country. Seriously, I knew this defense would ultimately come forth...”It’s just a cultural thing”, well, Whoopi, how much money does Michael Vick need to be paid to leave that disgusting part of “culture” behind?


10 posted on 09/04/2007 2:33:50 PM PDT by vigilence
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

So what about those in the South who still act out against blacks?

Will she defend those people becuase it’s “where they came from and in the South, it isn’t that unusual?”


11 posted on 09/04/2007 2:34:37 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (This country feels the same when Congress is in session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer.)
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To: cjohnson1

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
End of discussion. I don’t see why people can’t understand that.


12 posted on 09/04/2007 2:35:12 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

“dogs are sport”

What is the sport called where you dunk a live animal into a tub of water and then eletrocute it? I must have missed that one on ESPN


13 posted on 09/04/2007 2:35:51 PM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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“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. “

That’s why they hide it, Whoopi. Many people, my you know what.


14 posted on 09/04/2007 2:36:04 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Whoopi “Cushion” Goldberg
(flatulence, in fact, is how she got her name).


15 posted on 09/04/2007 2:36:19 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly; MinorityRepublican; RexBeach; pissant
"It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico," she said. "There are certain things that are indicative..."

I'll say! And this brings up an important point: Why the Hell is Puerto Rico allowed any kind of semi-citizenship status with our country?

If this were put to a referendum vote among Americans, we would overwhelmingly require Puerto Rico's complete 'independence' plus a lot of repatriation.

16 posted on 09/04/2007 2:36:25 PM PDT by ProCivitas (Duncan Hunter = Pro-Family + Fair Trade = Pro-America)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Reacting to wife-burning in colonial India, General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre. Beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”


17 posted on 09/04/2007 2:36:51 PM PDT by Lexington Green (There ain't no news in the news no more.)
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I just went to their website and left them a little note regarding how I feel about Whoopi’s comments... we shoudl all do the same:
http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/ask


18 posted on 09/04/2007 2:37:21 PM PDT by cjohnson1 (http://www.uncoveror.com/castro.htm)
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She’s as bad as Rosie. Just different agendas.


19 posted on 09/04/2007 2:37:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

I can’t believe that a Bitch would not stand up for the Dogs.


20 posted on 09/04/2007 2:37:42 PM PDT by The_Republican (Dumb it Down and then Tart it Up!)
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To: freekitty

I can’t figure out who watches this pig roast. Four dumb tw@ts spouting their moronic views.....whats the attraction?


21 posted on 09/04/2007 2:38:54 PM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
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."


I've lived in the South since '64
Atlanta, New Orleans, Gainesville, East Tenn.,
and I have 8 generations of family from West Virginia.

Dog fighting is not normal, accepted, or moral
I don't know who she is talking to, but it ain't no one here
22 posted on 09/04/2007 2:41:25 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Sacajaweau
She’s as bad as Rosie. Just different agendas.

She's a leftist like Rosie. Difference is Whoopie can behave properly when she wants. Rosie is, as The Donald called her, an animal.

23 posted on 09/04/2007 2:41:40 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Terminate the Duke 88)
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To: Lexington Green

Very good. Nice one...


24 posted on 09/04/2007 2:42:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: The_Republican

“I can’t believe that a Bitch would not stand up for the Dogs.”....
Laughing my buttocks off!!


25 posted on 09/04/2007 2:44:35 PM PDT by cjohnson1 (http://www.uncoveror.com/castro.htm)
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"It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico," she said. "There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country."

Indicitive? She doesn't even know what the word means.

26 posted on 09/04/2007 2:45:13 PM PDT by Godebert
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"There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country."

Yeah, like grammar. Maybe she was looking for the world "endemic".

27 posted on 09/04/2007 2:47:06 PM PDT by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
I hadn't heard The View replaced one skank with another, but it isn't surprising.

Maybe ABC and Whoopee thinks everybody has forgotten about:


28 posted on 09/04/2007 2:47:21 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
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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.


29 posted on 09/04/2007 2:50:31 PM PDT by Allison_Wonderland
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

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.


30 posted on 09/04/2007 2:51:04 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Before the government can give you a dollar it must first take it from another American)
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Poopi believes she should have been the one doing the fighting. She does have the choppers of bulldog.


31 posted on 09/04/2007 2:51:16 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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Poopi believes she should have been the one doing the fighting. She does have the choppers of a bulldog.


32 posted on 09/04/2007 2:51:26 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: HangnJudge

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.


33 posted on 09/04/2007 2:52:03 PM PDT by Sender (There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams)
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To: cjohnson1

Thank you for the link ~ just sent them my “view” on their new host....


34 posted on 09/04/2007 2:53:26 PM PDT by Peace4EarthNow (Come to know Jesus as your Savior, so YOU TOO can be saved!!)
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To: Lexington Green

Excellent.


35 posted on 09/04/2007 2:54:53 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Sender
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.

Even in East Tenn., Cock fighting is illegal and "degenerate", and chickens are food. No one in these parts eats dogs ( well maybe the Vietnamese )
36 posted on 09/04/2007 2:56:38 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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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.


37 posted on 09/04/2007 3:07:40 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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Whenever I look at Whoopi Goldberg, I have visions of a mound of pubic hair the size of Buckwheat’s hairstyle.


38 posted on 09/04/2007 3:09:56 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to weep.)
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I don’t care for Whoopi but that being said much ado over dogs from the people that are pro-abortion.
39 posted on 09/04/2007 3:13:03 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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Look who she's replacing! She's obviously filling The View's crazy lady position.
40 posted on 09/04/2007 3:13:08 PM PDT by Zeon Cowboy (Pardon Ramos and Compean NOW! // Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
Image hosted by Photobucket.com what a NASTY thing she is...

she should be MADE to watch a few hours of it and then see if she still thinks it's sport.

41 posted on 09/04/2007 3:14:21 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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Kids...anybody else think Babs Walters gave the Whoopster a high five on this one? Hmmmmmm? In the MSM the Vick story (like the departure of old whatshername...Rosie who?) are so last week. And here we (and the NYDailyNews) are making The View all 'fresh' again (and talked about...and hopefully for the pockets of Walters and ABC 'viewed.') My thoughts, Barbara told her to 'be' outrageous...outlandish...just out there. And The View would be timely again. If we ignore them...they will go away...

And I used to watch this crap...but I am over it (and I am the demographic they 'want.')

42 posted on 09/04/2007 3:19:37 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean THEY aren't out to get you...)
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To: ProCivitas

To answer your question, it’s because PR’s one of our territories. Just like Guam or American Samoa.

To remark on your comment, why the heck would we do that? I don’t see any reason I would vote to allow Puerto Rico independence. And why in the world would anyone want to pay reparations? We’ve improved their infrastructure, and they certainly don’t owe the U.S. “proper” anything.


43 posted on 09/04/2007 3:22:12 PM PDT by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: HangnJudge

i grew up in Western Virginia, have family in NC, GA, FL, and SC - no one knows from dog fighting. what does Whoopi know about the South? looks like a slam against Southerners to me........


44 posted on 09/04/2007 3:23:17 PM PDT by avital2
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To: Fred911

People who live in dream worlds.


45 posted on 09/04/2007 3:24:01 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus

Note: By U.S. proper, I mean the actual 50 states comprising the union. The way I wrote that seems kind of confusing.


46 posted on 09/04/2007 3:29:10 PM PDT by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

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."

Yeah...Like murdering 'The Brothers in the ghetto'  and absentee fatherhood, because of it.


47 posted on 09/04/2007 3:30:15 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: cjohnson1
Image hosted by Photobucket.com thank you...
48 posted on 09/04/2007 3:33:17 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; ...
Okay, okay... we knew Whoopi would go far off the beaten path. Now we know how she believes those southern Blacks are okie dookie on dogfighting and those Puerto Rico folk are okay with cockfighting.

But... I wonder...

What she thinks white Jews feel... about Schwartzfighting?

49 posted on 09/04/2007 3:34:40 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: avital2
What does Whoopi know about the South? looks like a slam against Southerners to me........

Agree, it's OK, just us Degenerate, Hillbilly, Coalmining, Moonshiners,
killing off a few dogs for kicks.

P...ssed me off to here this
50 posted on 09/04/2007 3:37:46 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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