“Bored” Whoopi Goldberg Almost Walks Off View Set Over Tiger Woods Discussion

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by Steve Krakauer | 5:45 pm, December 3rd, 2009

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The View hosts began the show this morning discussing the Tiger Woods story, and although Whoopi Goldberg introduced the segment, she spent the majority of the discussion looking noticeably bored while staying silent.

Until Barbara Walters asked her what she thought, and things started going downhill.

After all the other hosts weighed in, Walters asked for Goldberg’s opinion. “I am bored out of my gourd,” she said, to cheers from the crowd. “I brought it up because we all decided that’s something we wanted to talk about.”

She downplayed the story – how each aspect of the story doesn’t affect whether there’s “food on my table.” Walters countered: “Well that’s true of every subject we discuss today. We might as well go home!”

Goldberg, perhaps half-jokingly, said, “alright,” got up from her seat and started walking toward backstage. The audience seemed to take it seriously.

“This is for me one of those subjects where people demanding that you live up to their expectations is outrageous,” she said, as she took her seat again.

The comments, and near walk-off (whether it was a joke or not), doesn’t take away from the fact that Goldberg was clearly and visibly bored with the discussion. A tipster says this is something that is happening more and more at The View, where Goldberg takes herself completely out of conversations. In a recent interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, she was asked if her role at The View is boring her. “There are things that we have to talk about, like reality shows, that’s not something that I really care about,” she said, although she wouldn’t say she was bored (unlike today).

Could Rosie O’Donnell‘s replacement be heading for the same fate, with an exit after only a couple years?

Here’s the exchange from this morning:

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ImNotBlue

I could not agree with Whoopi more. The whole Tiger story bores me to tears.
LNSmithee

Yeah. If only Tiger had fed a 13-year-old girl Quaaludes and sodomized her, Whoopi could get into the conversation.
ImNotBlue

Touché Smithee! An interesting point, to be sure.

The only element of this story that I find interesting , is the police involvement… or lack thereof. Imagine for a moment if instead of Tiger driving into a tree, and receiving “mysterious” lacerations that are inconsistent with the car accident, and rumored to be a result of getting beat-up by his wife… imagine if it was Tiger’s wife who hit the tree. All of a sudden, now we have a fleeing woman who was beat-up by her husband. You better believe the police would be involved then. However, today we have hosts more or less laughing it off, “He got beat-up by his wife,” instead of taking it seriously… which they most certainly would do if the roles were reversed.

THAT I find interesting… but beyond that, not a even a little bit.
TfT

I’m sick of the Tiger story too. Just a few days ago, this board actually posted something about climategate….that thread had nearly 70 posts, clearly a topic of interest for visitors to this board. Now we have Tiger, Palin, and crashers and threads that have 3 or 4 posts or 10 on a good thread.

It would be nice to see some articles about Al Gore canceling his big speech at Copenhagen, clearly a news worthy event. And it would bring others to the site to read and comment.
Cecelia

Oh, I’d wager that Whoopie could have worked up some interest had this story been about Bill O’Reilly.

Liberals always give validity to such prurient interest when one of their pariahs is the attraction, by arguing that it is the hypocrisy factor that’s significant in the story.

Well, Woods has spent some time and effort putting forth a public image that doesn’t exactly gibe with this event. He’s done the publicity photos with the wife and kids, one particularly wholesome shot has the family dog licking his face. He’s marketed a squeaky clean image for the corporate products he endorses for huge sums.

Surely Whoopie, as host of an infotainment show, can work up a modicum of interest in a dirty laundry outing that does NOT involve someone hated by the Left.

Despite her best efforts lately, she’s proven in the past that she’s capable of blithely wallowing in the dirt when there’s political hay to be made.
Cecelia

BTW– it’s interesting that Whoopie would feign walking out after Barbara Walters gave her the bad news that none The View’s daily blather was about putting food on Whoopie’s table.

I would have thought that pushing the stories that capture the audience’s interest DOES put food on Whoopie’s table…