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The View’s Sherri Shepherd Calls Chris Brown A ‘Role Model’ For Abuse Victims

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During a segment on The View Tuesday, the panelists discussed the disturbing series of tweets from female fans of R&B star Chris Brown saying they would have gladly let him beat them. Sherri Shepherd opined that people were being too hard on the entertainer, saying that he was “reformed,” and going so far as to say he could even be seen as a “role model.”

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“There may be a child in a situation of going through abuse that Chris Brown has gone through. His mother was abused right in front of his very eyes six years before this happened to Rihanna. He used to wet his pants from the fear,” Shepherd exclaimed. “He was a victim! He became an offender. He did what the courts told him to do. He went to 52 weeks a year of domestic prevention counseling.”

Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was a little taken aback by Shepherd’s leniency towards Brown.

“I think it’s interesting to be so loose on Chris Brown,” Hasselbeck scrutinized.

“You think we’re being loose on Chris Brown?!” Shepherd wailed.

“If it was your daughter, I don’t think you’d be saying it,” Hasselbeck countered.

Brown has continued to face criticism after beating his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in February 2009.

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  • Anonymous

    STFU Sherri Shepherd.

     http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/24/rihanna-photos-brutal-beating-chris-brown-attack-police-attack/#.TzqhaLRKTXg

  • Gloves Doc Donahue

    No. You hit a woman, you beat a woman, the hell with you. Go away.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    That’s akin to me saying Sheri Shepherd is a role model for Atheists.  

    She’s one of those dummies who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5EXJZBXDPAEQW62RIAZRGIZAKE Rick

     

    More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.

  • Anonymous

    If Sherri Shepherd was pregnant with Chris Brown this wouldn’t be a problem as she would of aborted him and her other kids years ago. Ain’t that right, Sherri?

  • Anonymous

    Are you kidding – if not:

    Sherri Shephard (a religious Zealot) defending an abuser is proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder??. What a moronic statement- thus illustrating all the research on what type of people have low IQ’s

    But the sad Irony is that people who spout this jibberish are too stupid to have any idea how stupid they are.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5EXJZBXDPAEQW62RIAZRGIZAKE Rick

    Sherri Shepard “a religious Zealot.”  Sounds like a statement from someone with a mental disorder.

  • Anonymous

    who is this fat bimbo??

  • Anonymous

    She believes the world was created 6000 years ago. “Nothing predates Jesus” or “Jesus came before the Romans and the Greeks” – shall I go on proving what an idiot you are.

  • Jane

    She is delusional.     End of story.   

  • Anonymous

    She really is an idiot!

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Newt Gingrich.  Oh, I thought you were asking who doesn’t have a shot at the GOP nomination.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    What??

  • Anonymous

    OJ simpson is a role model for murder victim families.  He was the victim of a murder, as his ex-wife was brutally slayed – and unfortunately, the real killer was never found.  Fortunately, OJ Simpson did the right thing by single-handedly putting her murderer in jail, by robbing people at gunpoint.

    God bless you OJ Simpson.  Heisman winner, NFL Hall of Famer, vigilante.  May all young black men look up to you!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    A man that hits women, isn’t a man… With regards to the idiot tweets, it’s obvious they have never faced abuse.  If they did, they would chance their tune immediately. 

  • Anonymous

    He’s a role model for victims like Obama is to management of the economy.  What’s really funny is these people don’t even see how ironic they are.

  • Anonymous

    nah. i was asking who this big mouthed, fat bu t t, liberal who loves abusive men is.

  • Anonymous

     Thank you for just saying all fundamentalists the majority of which are conservatives are stupid.

  • Anonymous

    She never misses an opportunity to make a complete ass out of herself.

    I bet she thinks Tony Bennett is a role model for suggesting  as Houston’s body still lay on the Hilton Hotel floor that drugs should be legalized.

    “”Let’s legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam,” said Bennett, who
    battled drug addiction in the late 70s. “No one’s hiding or sneaking
    around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.”

  • Ch Ob

    You don’t “mistakenly” punch someone to a pulp.
    Thank you Sheri, for giving me the green light to beat my future wife to a pulp in a fit of passion. Maybe she’ll love me even more with that.

    I hate this logic, I don’t know what to call it, the “If I go through something traumatic in life and repeat it, then I should be quickly forgiven” defense. You get raped, then you become a rapist, then pardoned. Bad environment –> become a thief –> forgive them for robbing Fort Knox.

    Every human being is responsible for the decisions they make in life period. If I mess up, it is MY FAULT. Do not blame any circumstance but me. You will be forgiven if you aren’t such an arrogant prick about it. You know, like breaking GMA studio windows.

  • Anonymous

     She sounds like a liberal. Nothing predated Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    He didn’t say that.  He implied Rick was an idiot.  I, on the other hand, happen to agree with the statement you just made.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Oh, I thought you were referring to Chris Christie.

  • Anonymous

     You hit a woman, you beat a woman and then the Grammys reward you.

  • Anonymous

     I thought he was referring to Sharpton and Mike Moore.

  • Anonymous

    That is precisely what I am saying.

  • Anonymous

     That’s because JCP is a big liberal bigot.

  • News Of The World

    For once I agree with Elizabeth Hasselbeck.  Chris Brown is trash.

  • Anonymous

    nah. just wondering who this crazy a s s is who defends abusive males. who is she and what ghetto did she come from?

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    “Nothing predated Obama. ”

    And that’s exactly how conservatives view this country.  They act is if Bush didn’t start two costly wars, enact two tax cuts that benefited the wealthy, enacted NCLB, and Medicare Part D – ALL of which have greatly contributed to the downfall of our economy and our nation.   Thanks Bush!

  • Ben

    Two things.

    First,Sherri didn’t “call” Brown a role model,she was commenting on Brown’s own quote…now that’s very,very different,James…seriously.

    Second,I don’t remember the last time I agreed with Hasselbeck,so..there’s that.I definitely agree with her on this.I would kick his little ass all over town if it was my daughter,or any woman I know for that matter.The fact that he used to be a victim doesn’t justify anything…pretty much everyone who’s fucked up has a checkered past.But we don’t all end up beating girls.

    My two cents…f*ck Chris Brown.

  • Anonymous

    If you were just slightly smarter we could teach you to “fetch”

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Oh, I thought he was referring to Ted26.

    Game over, son.

  • Anonymous

     dball, embrace your bigotry, half-wit.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I have no idea where she came from as I’ve never watched an episode of the View.  The only one on that show worth listening to is Ms. Walters, and that’s even stretching it.

  • Anonymous

     Exactly. He did just push her around. He beat the crap out of her.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I was reading some site the day after the grammies that gathered twitter posts and Facebook feeds from women and girls saying things like “I’d let Chris Brown beat me any day”.  

  • Anonymous

    I can understand her wanting to “find” the good in a person. But really being beaten by someone who supposedly loves you,be it a parent or sibling or lover,is something you never forget.Chris also will always have it in him to do it again. Hope they don’t marry and have a child. By the way not just men have this problem,woman can beat up and hurt men also.

  • Anonymous

     JCp- Bush didn’t drive unemployment up to 10%, didn’t add over $4.5 trillion to the debt in just 3 years, didn’t run 4 annual deficits of over $1 trillion  didn’t have more people lose their houses in the history of the US, or  have more people living on food stamps and living in poverty.

    Heck, he didn’t cause the 1st. credit downgrade in US history- your master Obama did that!

  • Anonymous

     I think little JCP lost it.

    I love watching   libs melt down.

  • Anonymous

    Oh my! She really gets her show material from tweets!!!

  • Anonymous

     The only one on that show worth listening to is Ms. Walters”

    LMAO

    Now that is so funny. She said today that schools should not let kids give out Valentine cards because some kids might not get any. Typical lib garbage talk.

    We shouldn’t have any sports because someone has to lose.

    We shouldn’t have grades in school because someone might get a lower grade than someone else. We shouldn’t pay money to people  because some might earn more than others.

    Haha

  • Anonymous

    Sad,silly little girls who have never been beaten and begging someone who supposedly loves them to stop smashing their face in. Then again some people think it’s foreplay.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I dated a girl in college (for conservatives here, that’s a place you go after high school to continue your education) and she used to hit, punch, and throw very large and heavy objects at me when we’d get into a fight.  She came from a small town and apparently it was commonplace for couples to act in this manner.    The only thing I could do is defend myself by pinning her down or against the wall, but of course, to them, that equates to hitting them, which they run and tell everybody you did.   It was a no win situation.   Great sex, though.  The crazy ones are always good in bed.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    By the way, anyone want to take a bet on how long before Ted26 gets banned for trolling?

  • Ben

    You should change the headline on this post.
    It’s not only misleading and completely wrong,it’s kind of a sleazy way to get hits.
    That’s not what Sherri said,at all.
    Btw James,it’s not the first time I see you “interpret” what someone said the wrong way and then put your “interpretation” on your headline….pretty lame if you ask me.

  • Anonymous

    i have never watched it either. but i’ve heard enough about it to make my skin crawl.

  • http://steviethek.wordpress.com steviethek

    Re: Sherri Shepherd on “the View” – I think it’s wonderful how the producers of this show have hired the mentally challenged and given them a voice. It’s so inclusive.

  • Anonymous

    equality, baby. that’s what they espouse. no one better than the next. no one making more money than the rest unless, of course, they give most of it away to the clueless and the lazy.

  • Anonymous

    Special Ed is also a reformed wife beater and dog shooter.

    Only liberal beaters are forgiven.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    The woman on The View are virtually brainless; there is no explanation for plain stupidity nor any reason to parse her comments.

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  • Anonymous

    For Best R&B album while they play your most popular song, which is rap.

    I hate Chris Brown.  He bites everyone else’s style and has none of his own.  

  • Tan

    I really wish the View would just fire Sherri. She’s an embarrassment. She always takes away from the conversation and makes everything about her own ignorance. Remember when she sat there and said she was ‘too busy’ raising her son to know whether the earth was round or flat? She’s so stupid she shouldn’t have any job let alone such a high profile one where she’s actually paid to opine.

    Not only is she stupid but she will prattle on for eons about how she doesn’t know anything about the topic, preventing Elizabeth and Joy from debating it out. AND she’s pretty loathsome, having had at least four abortions herself yet being anti-choice for everyone else in her own situation. Sorry Sherri you stupid stupid woman, but most women aren’t as irresponsible as you and don’t use abortion as birth control. Your stupidity should not prevent the choice of others.

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite where is the story of Boehner asking the tea party to be less extreme… or less Chris brownish.. lmao

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/MFV6ZMH4L7NF6UU4CBGBDODFSM Powerscourt

    Sherri is nothing but a tool for the black, always was – she never has one independant thought.  And she’s wailing at Elizabeth because she dared attack her cowardly Rap hero.  Sherri was never busy raising her child because when she got the View she shipped her kid out of state to be taken care of by relatives, she actually said it was a sacrifice she had to make.  The fact that Wah-Wah still has her on the show, shows that Wah-Wah has definitely sold out to the left.  I have no respect for Wah-Wah anymore since she picked Camilla Rotweiller as the most fasinating person of the year a few years ago!.  Babs is nothing but a senile, old leftie just like Tony Bennet.  Their views are stuid and make no sense.

    And Sherri, you are a stupid pig.

  • Anonymous

    Methinks Fox & Friends has found a new co-host… This lady has the required stupidity down pat.

  • Tan

    She’s NOT a liberal. She admits she doesn’t understand politics but usually takes the knee jerk conservative position I.e. the position people take that don’t fully understand the issue and it’s long term effects. She’s a rabid social conservative too; and is anti-choice for everyone but herself. She’s an evangelical creationist that thinks the world is 6000 years old, and she brings her son up so that he is corrupted by her ignorance and religious zealotry.

    Yeah, that sounds super-liberal to me. Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    what in the world are you talking about?

  • Anonymous

    I wondered too why the Grammys showed a performance by Chris Brown.  OTOH maybe he sincerely apologized and is hopefully getting treatment for anger management. I do wonder what his moral code is or if there is he dealing with one.  I hope the yearly domestic prevention counseling truly helped him.  Wondering how Rihanna felt , being that she was performing on the music award show herself.   How was that for her.

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    First of all, I must say I am all for second chances and forgiveness.

    But I was still taken aback a tad bit by Sherri’s rather passionate defense.

    I wonder what conclusions we can infer when you combine this with Whoopi defending Roman Polanski back in 2009 — “It wasn’t rape-rape.”

    At the risk of being unfairly labeled as a racist, is it any wonder that many defense attorneys want black jurors for trial?

  • Anonymous

    Jeffrey Dahmer is a role model for people who count calories

  • Anonymous

    Good one!

  • Anonymous

    black women are a real dichotomy. On one hand they are typically the backbone and familial presence in the black community. On the other they let black men use and abuse them with impunity.

  • deewicket

     Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…. Yeah, you’re a racist.

  • deewicket

     Calling yourself liberal, now are ya?

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    Sorry you took it as racism. Perhaps I should have phrased it differently.

    Even though I am a Whoopi fan, I do get a bit annoyed when she makes excuses for Roman Polanski, Mel Gibson and Michael Jackson to name a few.
    “15 Questionable Things That Whoopi Defended”
    http://jezebel.com/5588119/15-other-things-whoopi-goldberg-has-defended

    But I am even more annoyed at the ignorance of Sherri who didn’t seem to know whether the earth was flat and that the earth is only 6000 years old.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbizzLzcpnM

    As for jury selection, it is a pretty widely held belief that generally speaking those of German extraction are considered pro prosecution and those of African American ancestry are pro defense. If you think that is racist, sorry – I can’t help you.

  • david r

    She reminds me of the relatives of the slain burglar out for revenge.  

  • Anonymous

    JCP’s “girl” that he dated was named Barney.  No wonder why he, I mean she, assaulted JCP.  Perhaps Barney has recovered from Barney’s violent habits now that Barney is leaving the Senate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roy-Adeleye/100001620790895 Roy Adeleye

    Sheri PREACHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! GET EM! those women around her are just as ignorant as those jobless idiots attacking Breezy on twitter for something that don’t even concern them. 

    Rihanna didn’t ask to represent abused women! she wasn’t abused, she got in a fight with her boyfriend which happens everyday in every part of the world=> don’t make it your business, Rihanna has handled it the way she wants to=> you people mind your own business.

    There is no flip side to this situation. Critics are hopeless themselves! all they do is find a fault but never the good in anything.

    He is an artist and he focuses on his work! he isn’t gonna be stigmatised be one single mistake for the rest of his life?….  taking back his life is a role model character every child should learn from.  what public responsibility do you want? he admitted his fault and did his time! what more do you want? u want him to be an advocate for abuse women? of abusers? NO HE WONT AND HE SHOULDN’T!

    if they starr at the sun or the moon too long they will find a fault

    What arrogance? they came after him on twitter where he was minding his business=> that will irritate any one when ignorant fools add you on twitter only to antagonise you.

    Yes, he flipped! that is normal, very normal indeed! everyone is expected to flip when bullies don’t stop disturbing you.

    they insult him, they falsely accuse him, they try to undermine his efforts and tint his image. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ANYONE TO DO!

    Even now, he has tried to ignore all the taunting from the press and haters => they are waiting to hold him to another thing.

    I agree with Sheri about he predisposition to violence due to his family background however, I believe that he was under some influence that night of the incident. 

    Rihanna knows this is not his nature but everyone around her a fools who offer blind and ill informed advices. Chris has his demons just as Rihanna has hers since she was also predisposed to violence. 

    In fact 90% of young kids predisposed to violence in an early age also end up being abusive or violent. this is not a permanent problem! its one that can end permanently with the right people.

    As for the ignorant hypocrites causing trouble on twitter, they just need some education in their simple lives

    Rihanna is fine, Chris is fine and music is fine=> haters are hopeless

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roy-Adeleye/100001620790895 Roy Adeleye

    dont make it more than what it is=> ignoramuse

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G5KTLAJ7ACBOD22TB3LAW5S6OM Skylar

    Please know that I mean no disrespect with my comments below. I know that sometimes tone are hard to decipher via text. That being said, I do disagree with you on some points:

    Black people have legitimate concerns when it comes to the American judicial system. We are no fans of it because it is most definitely the fan of us. We are not necessarily more “pro-defense” than White jurors either. There are various racial dynamics that make up our society and it’s justice system. For instance, an all-White jury is more likely to convict a defendant of color than one that is mixed. That’s just a fact. That’s also why some states actually have lawas barring juries made up of entirely of people from only one ethnic group. Now on to Sherri’s comment…

    She was right to defend Chris Brown, and she wasn’t even so passionate about it. But the man does deserve a second chance. I also find it a bit hypocritical for you to say “I’m all for second chances,” yet you take issue when someone affords one to Chris Brown. Forgiveness is often easier said than done, as you seem to be demonstrating.

  • Centrist79

    I am sure when she is able to watch a replay of her comment she is going to claim insanity. That was idiotic.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/565TCXMB2XP263LC6JONTU4N6A Kim

    My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
    It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.

  • kanagaraj k

    I think what she wanted to say is that Chris Brown could be a role model
    of what NOT to be if you’re in a troublesome and tumultuous
    relationship. If you find yourself in that type of relationship, get the
    hell out of it! There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Sherri Shepherd Calls Chris Brown “A Role Model” on The View Feb 14 Full Video

    http://su.pr/96p6K0

  • Tan

    Wow. Someone’s slowwww.

    ‘wondering who this….liberal…is’

    Can’t you just go back and read what you wrote instead of tiring people with your stupidity? Your comments here are 100% dense. I want to have a good argument when I come to this site! Please go away.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KRU2XBW2DA24T3GPNPUD34QQ4 dougster

    Chris Brown isn’t sorry. Which means to all us “haters,” Chris Brown is an asshole. Chris Brown is an asshole, with or without his Grammy.

  • Anonymous

    Chris Brown is Trash and should be treated as such!  Plus, his music sucks bigtime and he looks like he would make someone a good bitch in prison.  Chris Brown, your trash and should have your whimpy ass kicked for beating women.  Only cowards to that!

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

     Awwwwwwww!!
    Chrissy is a “victim”
    So is Charles Manson and Chris Brown deserves to be his roommate.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Chris Brown is no victim…He’s a predator.
    He is OJ Simpson waiting to happen

  • Anonymous

    take your meds, buddy. your blood pressure must be through the roof. oh, and get a job, too, so you have other things to do beside read bullshit articles on mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    Potvin sucks.

  • Diane Griego

    The only reason why most celebs apologize and do what the courts force them to do is to keep the dough rolling in. If they did not comply and flat out rebelled against rehabilitation their career would be over. And not because Hollyweird and the music industry gives a rats ass about immorality but because at this time in society it is still politically incorrect although just as same sex marriage abusing another individual may one day be acceptable.

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