Whoopi Goldberg Shows Class

Such dignity! Such elegance!

Maybe you’ve heard about this, or maybe not. Two days before the televised debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, on ABC’s The View, Whoopi Goldberg (real name: Caryn Elaine Johnson), the former comedienne and actress who has hosted the show since 2007, showed the world (or at least that smidgen of the world’s population that watches The View) just what a classy individual she is.

[Full Disclosure: There was a time when I actually thought Whoopi Goldberg was kind of cute. Hey, I once thought Kathy Griffin was kind of cute, too. And I was ga-ga over Janeane Garofalo (before she got all inked-up and revealed herself to be politically, like the others, a complete idiot). What’s left of my libido, and my sense of what makes a woman attractive (although the whole matter is now largely academic) is now far more heavily influenced by intelligence and politics than when I was young. We live and learn. I even have to disagree with what I was once told, personally, by one of my heroes, G. Gordon Liddy: “Never let politics get in the way of getting a piece…” .]

Apparently, for some time now, part of Goldberg’s schtick has been to refer to Trump without actually uttering his name; she even publicly vowed to not speak his name, referring to him as “that man” and even as “you-know-who.”

She did break that vow when she appeared on The View on Friday, May 31. Although she usually takes Fridays off (despite being paid some $8 million per year, working five days a week would be just too grueling!), that was the day the verdict was announced in what was billed as Trump’s “hush money trial.”

Trump was found Guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying records to conceal a payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an intimate liaison with Trump; Trump denies the intimacy took place, but admits to paying Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement prior to the 2016 election (and the entire trial was predicated on her willful violation of that agreement). In any event, Ms. Johnson — I mean Ms. Goldberg — couldn’t resist publicly gloating over the verdict and being able to refer to Trump as “a convicted felon.”

But on the Tuesday before the debate she broke her vow again. She claims she was “tricked” into saying Trump’s name by another of The View’s panelists, Joy Behar.

Behar (born Josephine Occhiuto; the name Behar is from an ex-husband) is another former comedienne (I have failed to uncover any examples of her ever having been actually funny, although you can watch her here, trying - and failing - to be Joan Rivers) whose photo should surely appear in the encyclopedia or dictionary to illustrate the terms harridan, harpy, shrew, ogress, virago and termagant; personally, I think she’s the perfect illustration for the crabalocker fishwife mentioned (at about 1:44) by John Lennon in “I Am the Walrus.”

By the way [as Joe Biden is so very fond of saying; how many times did he invoke that phrase during the debate? If I’d taken a drink every time he did so, I wouldn’t be hung over now, I’d be deceased from acute alcohol poisoning!], you can watch Joy Behar hosting The View the day after the debate (it was a Friday, so Whoopi was off) and see her and her cohorts “in mourning” [schadenfreude warning!] over their champion’s stumbling and bumbling performance, even as they persist in perpetuating the canard that “all Trump does is lie.” The geniuses go so far as to propose Pete Buttigieg [I have some other names for that individual, but I’m trying to maintain some dignity and class here] as the one to whom Biden should “pass the baton.”

But, back to my original premise, Whoopi Goldberg’s reaction to having uttered Donald Trump’s name: it was to turn her head and spit, as if that action were required to break the negative spell she had invoked by saying the name. Her great sense of dignity, elegance and class was on full display. And the audience, of course, cheered wildly, as if vicariously also spitting at the mention of that hated name.

P.S. I’ve written about Whoopi Goldberg before, and I think it bears revisiting. The essay I have in mind is titled “Whoopi Goldberg Inspires a Teachable Moment,” and it was published a little over 2 years ago, first on American Thinker and then here.

I recommend re-reading it (or, for far too many of my subscribers who don’t actually read any of what I publish here, reading it for the first time!) because it uses a numbingly stupid remark by Whoopi Goldberg to address the Democrats’ claim (which they were trumpeting even then, and have since ramped up) that they are fighting against “threats to our Democracy.” It is a reminder that, as George Washington and Ben Franklin, among others, have noted, democracy is, literally, mob rule, and enables the tyranny of 51 per cent over the other 49 per cent. It explains why the U.S. is not a democracy, but a representative constitutional republic; it explains why we have an Electoral College (which Leftists would like to eliminate in the name of “Democracy”and “fairness”) and how the Electoral system actually serves to “level the playing field” (something the Left always claims to be advocating).

And let me humbly [or not-so-humbly] suggest that it’s not too late to read and digest that 2 yr. old essay, nor is it too late to Like, Comment on and even Share it, just as I still [having not yet quite given up on this newsletter] hope will be done with this one.

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