Whoopi Goldberg has taken a lot of flack for defending Mel Gibson after tapes were released of the actor spewing racist rants and demeaning his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
On Wednesday, Whoopi fought back with a rant of her own on “The View.”
“There has been a lot of hassle … in the media recently about moi because I had the audacity to say that I had some personal time with Mel that goes over years and years and said that I did not think of him as a racist,” Whoopi said.
“People lost their minds and said, ‘Oh, you are defending him!’ ” she continued. “I do believe had you actually watched the show — all of you nice bloggers out there and all the folks that sit around at home and try to figure out stuff to do — if you had actually watched the show, you would have heard us say, and you would have heard me specifically say, ‘I don’t condone this. I don’t think this is right. I don’t think this is smart. But here’s the piece of information I have that I don’t think this is right: My experience tells me this is not a racist. Being a black woman, you’d think you’d give me a little bit of leeway to have some feel if I was around a racist. But I understand you don’t get it. I understand that.’ “
“People called my office and went off on the young lady that works there. You’re going to call because you think that I’m doing something wrong. And you do the same thing to this young lady that you don’t even know that Mel Gibson supposedly did? Who are you?” she said, fake spitting. “You can kiss my behind, you cowardly piece of dog mess.”
Well, Whoopi, those folks sitting around at home are your viewers. You may not want to bite the hand that feeds you. And these tapes go far beyond racism. They are vile, abusive and demeaning.
Gibson is currently under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on domestic violence allegations.