‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Praises Fox News’ Bret Baier & Joe Rogan for Kamala Harris Interviews
On Tuesday’s (October 15) episode of The View, the cohosts wasted no time in taking Donald Trump to task over his latest campaign stop: an ostensible town hall in Pennsylvania during which he stopped answering questions from the crowd and instead played and danced to 40 minutes of music.
For Whoopi Goldberg, this was no laughing matter at all; “This should freak everybody out,” she said. “57 minutes of him playing music, not saying jack about anything to do with what’s going on. This freaked me out. He has freaked me out a lot, but this really freaked me out.”
Joy Behar thought there was a simple but obvious reason the event turned into a jam session featuring a random assortment of songs (from “Ave Maria” to “Nothing Compares 2 U” to “Time to Say Goodbye”). “So he opens the thing up to Q&A, so the audience can ask him questions. He doesn’t have the answers… Somebody said, ‘What are you going to do about affordable housing? He talks about drilling oil.”
Former Trump administration official Alyssa Farah Griffin was so confused by the footage of the event that she thought it was a “deep fake” at first and that it signaled a “decline” in his cognitive status. Then, Sara Haines warned that since no one stopped him from swaying to song after song instead of taking audience questions, “This is what a presidency looks like with him. There was not one grownup in the room.”
Griffin then pointed out that Trump’s refusal to answer questions is part of a growing trend with the Republican candidate, saying, “He refused to do another debate, he refused to do 60 Minutes, there was a report this morning, he backed out on a Squawk Box interview on CNBC.”
After a commercial break, the group returned to the subject — only this time, they offered up a contrast between Trump’s recent reluctance to be quizzed on policy and Kamala Harris’ decision to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier and possibly Joe Rogan, both of whom are arguably perceived as friendlier to Trump.
In response, Behar had a fiery response that even got her bleeped out by producers; “He won’t even take questions from his own supporters,” she said, “And she will go into enemy territory. That shows you she has more [bleep].”
Goldberg added, “Women are forced to go into places where people don’t always welcome them. She understands what that is.” She went on to thank the men in the live audience for being there and offered praise to Baier and Rogan, saying, “Thank you to Bret Baier to saying yes to Joe Rogen for saying yes. Thank you for that.”
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This is why network TV has ratings so low, they have a bunch of has-beens as hosts and then a ‘tv insider’ who writes stories to back up their lies. They lie as much as mainstream media. All garbage.
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The only thing that frightens me is that the View is still on. When are they going to cancel this useless show!!
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Mr Trump will do anything to avoid talking about the issues Even if it means to dance around like a Feeble silly old man Did he once ask about the condition of the people that passed out. No of course not. 40 minutes of wasted time for all involved.
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Really! You all drop to your knees for trump! Fools!
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For the ladies of the view, here you go because we know how obsessed you are with him
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typical, he is JO'ing off the crowd
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What's to be jealous of? Being old and having no friends? (Just people to use you as you use them.)
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Here's the real story. Two people needed medical attention because of the heat. That's why things stopped and once they were ok he played music to lighten the mood. He didn't refuse to answer questions. The view should be ashamed and the people writing this article should be ashamed for taking a medical emergency and politicizing it.
All this is is a total spin job.
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He did refuse to answer questions. Did you hear his Q&A resume???
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He stopped answering questions because he and the entire crowd were worried about the medical emergency. So he stopped taking questions and they had a jam session. It was a moment. It was deep and the crowd loved it.
Whoopiie and Joy are joyless nazi creepos. Not surprising they don't have the brain capacity needed to understand something deep.
They are both shallow idiots.
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For 40 minutes. And then just wondered off the stage. He absolutely did not want to, or could not answer any more questions. His brain clearly shut down on him. Who stands there for 40 minutes swaying when they are supposed to be doing a town hall. This wasn't a concert!
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🥴🥴🥴
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What do I think? I think Whoopie Goldberg is a vile baby murdering moloch worshipper. She hasnt been funny in decades.
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Whoopie has a super low IQ. And she has been a druggie for years. I would NEVER take the advice of Whoopie. In fact, I would probably listen to Whoopies advice and then do the exact opposite!!! I would say she is the worst but that title foes to Joy Behar, the ugliest bully on tv.
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Who in their right mind would tune in to listen to these old bags bi#$h and moan about everything. If there is a hell this is what you would be subjected to daily as an audience member. God forbid 😱
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but you listen to Trumps rambling like its genius talk
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