Fox News’ Harris Faulkner Rips Into ‘Ignorant’ Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg has come under fire for comments she made on The View during a discussion about the Israel-Iran conflict, and one person specifically calling her out is Fox News host Harris Faulkner, who called her “ignorant.”
On the Thursday, June 19, episode of The Faulkner Focus, the journalist called Goldberg’s comments “asinine,” adding, “You know, we’re two Black individuals and we’ve done well, we’re successful, and there’s a lot of other folks like us around. This is not Jim Crow, this is not slavery, and to be making those kind of comparisons is despicable.”
Specifically, Faulkner was referring to Whoopi’s comparison of being Black in America to living in Iran. After cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, “I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran in 2025,” Goldberg replied, “Not if you’re Black.”
Faulkner added, “Just to make that comparison and not give the world credit on where we come from … it’s Juneteenth! It’s June 19. We know where we have been. That is not 2025.”
During Griffin and Goldberg’s debate, the former insisted, “The Iranian regime today is nothing compared to the United States.” Goldberg pointed out, “Every day we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are our kids gonna get shot because they’re running through somebody’s neighborhood?”
Griffin continued to push back, acknowledging how Iran is “not the same universe” as the U.S. because “they don’t have free and fair elections.” She also urged her cohost to “remember there are places much darker than this country and people who deserve rights.”
Other Fox News hosts also took aim at Goldberg, with Sean Hannity comparing her comments to a Saturday Night Live bit and saying he wants to “erase” her comments from his memory.
Meanwhile, Faulkner continued to go in on Goldberg while cohosting Outnumbered. “She is ignorant of the facts,” Faulkner insisted. “I want to try to be kid because my expectation for Whoopi Goldberg is lower. I liked her better when she was playing on, you know, an actress on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where her character was based off this planet in space with aliens. Now she has become one.”
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Harris is spot on. Incredible that Whoopi Cough would say that black people in This country have things as bad as women and gay people do in Iran !! Obviously Whoopi needs to get back on her meds. 🙄
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Whoopi should not be on any TV talk show. She is uninformed, unintelligent and unattractive. She brings nothing to the table
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She’s also unhinged and unstable.
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Unlike Whoopi and from a serious stand point. IF (big If) President Trump is able to negotiate a peace deal with Iran, the last thing he or us need is the UN to be in charge of nuclear site inspections !! It Needs to be US scientists period. If the UN is in charge Iran will go right back to business and quick. Iran must not be allowed a nuclear weapon !! The UN has shown very clearly they despise Israel and don’t have much love and respect for the U.S. either. To heck with them !! We need to monitor Iran if a peace deal can even be reached. I’m hopeful we’ll provide Israel the bunker buster bombs and let them wrap this thing up. Mean while someone please call the pharmacist for Whoopi she’s in serious need of help !!
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The View must be earning a nice profit for Disney:ABC. Otherwise it would have been canceled like CBS’s The Talk.
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Harris Faulkner is the ignorant one.
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Shows how ignorant You are.
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you are rage baiting people. Take a nap!
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