Whoopi Goldberg threatening to quit 'The View': source
By: Alexandra Steigrad (New York Post)
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February 2, 2022 12:04pm Updated February 2, 2022 4:46pm
Whoopi Goldberg is "livid" after she was suspended from "The View" over her claim that the Holocaust was "not about race" — and is telling co-workers she is going to quit the show, according to a source.
Goldberg, 66, feels "humiliated" at being disciplined by ABC execs after she followed their advice to apologize for the ill-conceived comments, a well-placed insider told The Post.
"She feels ABC executives mishandled this. She followed their playbook. She went on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' and then apologized again on 'The View' the next day," a source said.
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The source added that while Goldberg is taking the suspension hard and says she wants to leave the show, insiders believe she's likely just sounding off.
"Her ego has been hurt and she's telling people she's going to quit," the source said. "Suspension from 'The View' is like getting suspended from Bravo. The bar is very low."
Reps for Goldberg and ABC did not return requests for comment.
Goldberg raised eyebrows on "The View" Monday when she insisted that Nazis and Jews were both white. Higher-ups at the network urged Goldberg to make amends on "The Late Show" that evening but she repeated the statement while attempting to clarify her comments. The next day, she invited Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on the show to discuss her offensive remarks and to apologize again.
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But her words weren't enough for ABC top brass. Kim Godwin, ABC News president, announced her decision to suspend Goldberg for two weeks late Tuesday, telling staffers that such decisions "are never easy, but necessary."
"Words matter and we must be cognizant of the impact our words have," Godwin wrote in a memo to employees that dubbed Goldberg's initial comments "wrong and hurtful."
As news of the suspension rippled through the network, it angered not only Goldberg but also her co-hosts on the daytime talk show.
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"I love Whoopi Goldberg. I love 'The View,'" Ana Navarro told the Daily Beast on Tuesday evening. "This was an incredibly unfortunate incident. Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community. She is not an anti-Semite, period. I am sad. And I have nothing else to say."
Goldberg first argued that the Holocaust went beyond race during a discussion on "The View" about a Tennessee school district's decision to ban "Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about a Holocaust survivor.
"The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race," Goldberg said. "It's about man's inhumanity to man."
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Looks like she is unhappy with what the network is forcing her to do, doesn't sound too apologetic to me...
Good, I hope she does quit. Then maybe the network will hire somebody more intelligent and reasonable!
From the left?
There goes intelligent and reasonable.
Is there any there in the first place?
It didn’t seem like she apologized on Colbert. I thought her appearance made things worse.
It's one of those patented apology non-apologies the left is famous for...
She is still thinks "all whites look alike".
yeah that about the extent of her wisdom...