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Whoopi Goldberg Can’t Get Over ‘How Much Herman Cain Looks Like His Wife’

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On The View Monday, the panelists discussed Gloria Cain‘s impassioned defense of her husband over his multiple alleged cases of sexual harassment and her statement that “he totally respects women.” “Can I just point out how much Herman Cain looks like his wife?” Goldberg quipped to uproarious laughter from the audience. “That’s all I could say, I thought she looked just like him! That’s why the kids all look just like them!”

Sherri Shepherd opined that when you ‘stick by your man’ that’s what you would say. “What is she supposed to say? He’s filthy, she should sue him for everything he’s got!?” Shepard exclaimed. “If she was planning on leaving him, that’s what she would say.”

“I’m not saying he did these allegations, but people who do those kind of things do act different when they’re home with their wives,” argued Joy Behar. “That’s not a big shocker. how he acts in office is not the same way he acts at home.”

“Even if he was guilty of this, she maybe could have had no idea,” said co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

“I guess he wouldn’t try any of that with her because she would knock him out,” Goldberg exclaimed.

The conversation drifted over to a New York Times op-ed defending dirty jokes in the office. NYU professor Katie Roiphe had argued that “perhaps we should be worrying about different forms of hostility in our workplace.”

“The thing is, if we’re making that okay in the workplace, if we make an exception, if it was not as bad, it’s still bad. We know that — then does that trickle down into what’s acceptable in school?” Hasselbeck questioned.

“Here’s the thing, if you start saying these dirty jokes are okay for me, and these dirty jokes are not okay for me, then you can’t say someone else’s feeling of sexual harassment is invalid because if there’s a man or a woman who is uncomfortable with dirty jokes and doesn’t like to have them around them, either we can’t do them and shouldn’t do them, or we should,” explained Goldberg.

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  • Michelle

    Cause we all know that black people all look alike, right Whoopi!?

  • Anonymous

    Imagine the outrage had a white person said this, particularly if a white conservative said this about a black liberal.

    If Rush Limbaugh said that Michelle Obama looked like Barack, people – some of whom write for Mediaite – would be calling for his removal from the air.

  • Anonymous

    Wow. The high level discussions on The View are reminiscent of the days of the Algonquin Round Table when Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker and the rest talked about how FDR and Eleanor were awfully close relatives … before they married.

    Whoopi is a disgrace to womanhood .. in fact, a disgrace to all the women in the ‘hood.

  • Anonymous

    Whoopi Goldberg Can’t Get Over ‘How Much Herman Cain Looks Like His Wife’
    …and Americans can’t get over how much goldberg – and ALL lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremists – look like a horse’s ass.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Is Whoopi implying that Herb Cain is sexually harassing other women because his wife looks too much like him… a man??

  • Anonymous

    You mean to suggest that Limbaugh has been nothing less than complimentary about Michelle Obama, as the First Lady?

    Alas, Limbaugh has not been that restrained…

  • Say what now …

    “Here’s the thing if you are saying these dirty jokes are okay for me, and these dirty jokes are not okay for me, then you can’t say someone else’s feeling of sexual harassment is invalid because if there’s a man or a woman who is uncomfortable with dirty jokes and doesn’t like to have them around them, either we can’t do them and shouldn’t do them, or we should,” explained Goldberg.

    I’m pretty sure that Whoopi has no idea what she is saying .

  • Anonymous

    ? wow……what a stretch. Such a racist you are! Whoopi never said such.

    btw…Whoopi is black. She would have to believe that she looks like Cain, following your failed logic

  • Anonymous

    ‘in fact, a disgrace to all the women in the ‘hood.’

    Well done ‘Little Caesar.’ You sneaked that one under the radar didn’t you.

    Well done ‘Little Gangster!’

  • Anonymous

    Actually there have been studies showing that couples married for a long period of time start to resemble each other.

  • Anonymous

    nice try………..but you fail…..

    Looking at the context Whoopi said it, it is not racist. Furthermore, Whoopi is black= She would have to believe that she looks like Cain, following your failed logic.

    n

  • Anonymous

    Are you a black woman?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CHU2T4PKPJ57D5NJPKPYEXVWIY Frank Rizzo

    Can I just point out how much Whoopi Goldberg looks like a steaming pile of horse manure? And is about as intelligent and funny?

  • Real Nice

    So Whoopi looks like a  “Rotating G Spot Rabbit Vibrator ” ?

  • Anonymous

    Your accusations of racism cause real accusations to be dismissed.

    Kinda like the Duke rape accuser and all the damage she did to real rape victims.

  • Aidenlambert

    That would be what us big people call the context, Nimrod.  It IS okay in this context for this person to say this. It would be different if another person said it, giving it a different context. It might be okay and it might not be okay.  Difference is so difficult to comprehend, isn’t it?

  • Pablo

    Nah. She looks like Mike Tyson.

  • Anonymous

    I love your hypocrisy! how about you address Michelle’s race card above. 

    I like how you can not  see how racist Michelle is for twisting Whoopi’s words. 

  • Pablo

    Racist!

  • Anonymous

    “should have gone to specsavers”

  • Pablo

    Where in the comment you’re responding to do you see evidence of the conclusion you’re drawing?

    Or, do you mean to say that Barack Obama hates his wife?

  • Pablo

    Does skin color equal context in your world?

  • Pablo

    Would that matter?

  • Holistic

    Like Whoopi is pointing out:  All blacks look the same to other people, I guess!

  • Jason

    Yet the audience of all white, all liberal, all obese white women cackled mindlessly at the “joke”.

    Either they laughed because they thought “Hey, this ugly black woman is saying what we have thought for years, so it’s ok to laugh now”.. or they give those cows a box of krispy Kreme donuts every time they laugh at one of their unfunny jokes.

    Anyways, it’s the view. Who gives a shit besides mediaite?

  • Anonymous

    What would Govedonahue know about “women in the hood”

  • Anonymous

    You can say it all you want if that’s how you feel. I’m just letting you know the effect you’re having.

  • Jason

    You’re a racist.

  • Michelle

    Whoopi is black!!?  Who knew!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You have failed, in this specific case, to identify the significant details of the story.  By replacing the term “wife” with “black people” you have not only muddied the issue but charged an African American with racism incorrectly.  

  • Anonymous

    And how the F did you come to the conclusion that the crowd was “all white, liberal and obese”?

    Also, never try to be a psychic, you would fail terribly

  • Pablo

    You have to be a black woman to know about women in the hood? Are all black women in the hood? Are all the women in the hood black?

  • Jason

    I’d say he’s restraining himself every time he doesn’t say she looks like chewbacca. Come on, you know she does. It’s ok to laugh at black people. They’re not sitting in their houses, walking on eggshells in order not to offend “whitey”.

  • Anonymous

    Yet, you cant logically debate my comments. Michelle is a racist and I have said why.

  • Anonymous

    is that all you can say?

  • Anonymous

    “Are all black women in the hood? Are all the women in the hood black?”
    Well, you would know that is what Gloves was insinuating if you were not such a hypocrite

  • Anonymous

    Your sarcasm is futile…..you still remain a racist

  • Anonymous

    ‘Whitey…’ Jason

    Well done Jason…

    Such aplomb and no restraint or boorish concerns on your part. Who says Republicans are sensitively concerned about racial issues. 

    It is quite clearly not something to be observed or attempted by your boorish self in any shape or form. 

    A credit to 21st Century Republicanism that’s stuck in the Middle Ages.

    …Congratulations!

  • Anonymous

    What? Do you sit down thinking blacks like me like to refer to white people as “whitey”?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Michelle-in-Utah, is your last name Hoover? Because you’re terribly vacuous. The entire point of making that comment is to express surprise at how similar the two look. In other words, the exact opposite of the inane remark you are making.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I was thinking Nat King Cole, but OK.

  • Anonymous

    I have read that couples in long term marriages begin to favor each other, but that seems normal if you share the house, the same food, the same bed and the same bodily fluids periodically. LOL

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    “Can I just point out how much Whoopi Goldberg looks like Herman Cain, his wife and my cousin Touré?”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It is often said that a couple begin to look like one another after years of marriage. I can’t imagine why any sane individual would have said what Michelle-in-Utah said. It it the least likely conclusion of a number of possible conclusions.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No, I don’t think so.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I don’t think so, but interesting.

  • Michelle

    Rude, you can keep calling me a racist, but that won’t make it true. 

  • Anonymous

    She’s a disgrace to women period.

  • Anonymous

    Hey. Don’t mess with The Nat. One of the best ever.

    Used to go see his brother Freddie Cole and went to a Natalie concert where she sang with her father (on a big screen).

    The Coles had and have talent. Whoopi …you can have.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a dink with a chip on his shoulder ? No need to answer.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Can I point out how much Whoopi looks like Buckwheat and Obama looks like Cheetah?

  • Anonymous

    typical, every black person has the proverbial “chip on the shoulder” to you.

  • Anonymous

    Ya?, well you look like an ORANGUTAN Whoopea.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    If I might hazard a guess…

    Michele belongs to a clan of amateur intellectuals empowered and informed by technology innovation.  Though empowered by unprecedented access to information and the ease of publicizing opinion she has never labored hard enough to leverage the opportunity in ways that matter.  Worst of all, the right has built an entire system to promote sloppy intellectual amateurism through a network of right wing bogs… err blogs… through which the unskilled are promoted and reaffirmed despite their demonstrated inability to adhere to even basic standards of thought.  So here she is, certain but wrong, affirmed and protected by others also invested in a scam run by the right wing digital mob.  

    On the plus side, our descendants will find this initial mass of public data to be a goldmine for historical understanding.  

  • Michelle

    Actually, I think it’s your liberalism and not your skin color that would lead us to conclude you have a chip on your shoulder. 

  • http://steviethek.wordpress.com steviethek

    that’s right! they’re NOT all white.

  • Anonymous

    lol and how do I have a chip on my shoulder? 

    You were the first to cry racism in this article’s comment section. Also, what do you really know about my “liberalism”? I would like to know…..

  • http://steviethek.wordpress.com steviethek

    In the liberal orthodoxy, any criticism is allowed because Cain is a conservative who happens to be black. His existence challenges all of the stereotypes and excuses made over the last 40 years, particularly more recently.

  • Anonymous

    like Palin and Bachmann?

  • Anonymous

    “On the plus side, our descendants will find this initial mass of public data to be a goldmine for historical understanding.”

    Unfortunately, Michele’s descendants would probably carry the torch for racism and anti-intellectualism as evidenced by the generations of southern backwater racists

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    In the long term, her brand of hatred fails. It’s certainly not a smooth ride, but Dr. King saw something that I have faith is there.

  • Anonymous

    Watching the View is a total waste of time.

  • Anonymous

    “It is often said that a couple begin to look like one another …”Better warn BFD.

  • Michelle

    Rude, anyone that reads your comments can see you have a huge chip on your shoulder.  Was that supposed to be a secret?

  • Michelle

    No Palin and Bachmann are great role models for woman.  But using your logic, you shouldn’t get an opinion on it, since you aren’t a woman.

  • Anonymous

    Can you explain how I have the chip on my shoulder? What/who do I have a grudge towards?

  • Jason

    You’re a racist.

  • Anonymous

    ‘…No Palin and Bachmann are great role models for woman?’

    …For woman?!?

    Okay.

  • Anonymous

    Fail. 
    1) Palin and Bachmann are not role models to anyone. Palin is an anti-intellectual and a failed governor. Bachmann spouts  lies (Obama’s trip to india and Vaccine side-effects)

    2) I was talking about a specific type of women- “women in the hood”, in which I doubt that gloves knows about

  • Jason

    You’re joking, right?

  • Jason

    Why are you so racist?

  • Jason

    Hoover? We gave your mother that nickname back in ’98, but it had nothing to do with her opinions or intelligence…. If you get my drift.. Do ya’? Do ya’? Do ya’?

  • Anonymous

    Xpat48 representing Republican racism that surreptitiously seeps out…
    …Well, not so much surreptitiously as pours abundantly.

    You are to be congratulated…

    …Good work Xpat Moron. Good work indeed.

  • Jason

    I have never set down with a black person and had them call me that to my face… I have overheard them talking to each other when they either think nobody is listening or don’t give a shit. It aint pretty, Jack.  

  • Michelle

    Rude, you come across as extremely angry and bitter in your posts.  Only you can answer why. 

  • Michelle

    Sorry, you aren’t a woman so you don’t get an opinion.  My opinion holds more weight since I am a woman.  Just playing by your rules. 

  • AliveStillKickin

    I am not a woman nor a black nor in the hood….but I DO know that having a job instead of abusing the welfare system knocks most chips off one’s shoulder.
    It’s called respect.

  • Anonymous

    ????????????????

    did I not explain that I was talking about a specific type of women? lol

  • Anonymous

    lol……..extremely bitter and angry? 

    No way, I am just hardcore when it comes to calling your BS. Come on, here is a smiley face :0

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OTNG3XOBO7MNX6ZCHGOQHCS3CM YGeronimoG

    NONE of those on the VIEW have ever worked in a big factory either. That same behavior is even FROWNED on there, but only a UNION can do anything, cuz most companies will tell you, that is NOT on their agenda. Cain is riding the waves of DENIAL and trying to make the ACCUSERS look WORSE than him. Well, folks, you can nevere change a LEOPARDS SPOTS. I am wondering NOW, howcome these 4 or 5 ACCUSERS don’t meet him on a DEBATE STAGE just like they do for the guys running against CAIN? I am surprised that one of the networks didn’t step UP and bring it ON and get th is facade OVERWITH, once and for all. Most likely if Cain is GUILTY he won’t do it.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, just reading through the many comments made in pure hatred, I now realize what a bunch of uncaring Americans the majority of you really are, or have become.

    I cannot imagine your families, if you do have families, looking up to you as a role model.

  • Pablo

    Are you every black person?

  • Pablo

    You’re an angry rudeboy who claims racism 45 times a day. You most definitely have a chip on your shoulder.

  • Pablo

    You’re not a woman. Therefore you can’t talk about women. You can’t know anything about them, according to your logic.

  • Concerned Citizen

    Michele Obama looks like she plays linebacker for the Bears. Barack Hussein looks like a skinny nerd. This is fun!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I know.

  • Anonymous

    She is a big women and is going to need the wallbanger version.

  • Anonymous

    …Good Work Moron!

  • AliveStillKickin

    I don’t see racism in comparing a butt-ugly wart hog of a woman to a wart hog…(or an orangutan)
    Perhaps you can enlighten me…..but being a liberal idiot….I doubt it seriously.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Whoopi should know better: with age in long marriages, people tend to look more and more alike; same diet, same area & air, similar inclinations towards self-admiration. These are all normal hominid tendencies. To a lot of men, Gloria looks nice for her age; to a lot of women, at least before we all came to know him better, Creepy Cain looked nice for his age. To others, not in either case. It’s all an individual thing, but the facts of aging are relentless.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    What an inane comparison.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hey, Mikey is making a comeback. That Funny or Die bit was great.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It’s a tendency, not at all an absolute. Lots of times one in a couple ages very differently from the other, and people start to think they are mismatched.

  • Anonymous

    As a hoodlum, I believe I know about the ‘hood.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Michelle Obama looks a lot like her brother, but nothing like Barack. This is one of these couples who are not tending to age the same way at all. Nixon and his wife, for example.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I think she looks nice, and I’ve seen pictures of the way they look at each other, and she softens up very prettily in those, and he just shines with doting on her. I think you must just be too young to understand what time and the aging process can do. People get old and stuff sags. It’ll happen to you too, if you live long enough, which is maybe the question.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I like her a lot; she’s a commenter on the human condition, and is often quite insightful. Not this time, but then The View format encourages that “oh no you DIDN’T” sort of fake outrage.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    She’s very clever and occasionally makes incisive comments. Not this one, though.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hey ATTPSOB, I bet you look like a TP wet dream: neggreen soup of a face, no chin, less hair than a shaved chihuahua with scabies, wattles on your wattles, stomach out of 3 feet in front of you entering rooms minutes before the rest of you, haven’t seen your privates without the aid of a mirror for years… come on, show us a picture of your Fabio self.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The fact that others like this just shows that idiots come in swarms.

  • http://www.facebook.com/StompinattheSavoy Marie YellowBoy

    Jason is also a misogynist!

  • http://www.facebook.com/StompinattheSavoy Marie YellowBoy

    They do resemble each other. Maybe that’s why he married her because he has a narcissist complex. As in “I’m so awesome that I want to marry me!”  

  • Anonymous

    Not really. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Why should we care, this is news… or even remotely relevant that it warrants being regurgitated as such?
     

  • Anonymous

    Liberal, Republican, Independent it makes no difference…

    You really should have a site all by yourself, where you can enjoy a screaming and abusive diatribe…
    …All by yourself!

    Otherwise you may consider The StormFront where you will no doubt find ignorant like minds.

    …Congratulations Moron!

  • Anonymous

    You…

    …and your StormFront Stormtroopers clearly.

  • Al Gore

     I think this whole thing is racist.  If Herman Cain was white, would these women have charged him with Sexual Harassment?  Bill Clinton has done much more than this, and the women who have complained were immediately dismissed as Hoe’s and Kooks. 

  • Anonymous

    ‘As a hoodlum, I believe I know about the ‘hood.’

    You’ve had to wait for it, but good catch Little Caesar.

    Try the same ‘Not Me In The Hood Catch’ when you spontaneously trip yourself down the metaphorical stairs in the future. 

  • Anonymous

    Quit being a racist. 

  • AliveStillKickin

      @JohnJGuy:twitter …..Take a Prozac John
    You are working up into an excitable lather, with a screaming and abusive diatribe…

  • Jason

    I’m shocked that you would disagree with my asessment. Now tell me how hot  you think Amy Carter is, because the truth doesn’t matter,  defending democrats matters.

  • Jason

    Or maybe you’re just a racist idiot.

  • unmutual

    She should talk about anyones looks.

    If Whoopi were my dog, I’d shave her ass and walk her backwards.

  • Brincar

    you’re making conservatives look real good

  • Brincar

    with a name like Frank Rizzo,,,im not surprised at your statement..he’s turning over in his grave

  • Brincar

    Palin is down with Jungle Fever!

  • TheShatwood

    Don’t F with us bros from STL.

  • Brincar

    Rush calls her MOOCHELLE and has talked about her figure…but a guy on his 4th marriage needs a break..so i’ll give him one.

  • AliveStillKickin

    By being truthful and exercising my first amendment rights?
    Why, thank you, Brincar

  • Anonymous

    Whoopi the racist speaks.

  • Anonymous

    Whoopi is a racist just like you. Thank God Cain’s wife don’t look like Whoopi!

  • Anonymous

    Thank God she don’t look like Whoopi! Whoopi is 10 miles of bad road that vibrators don’t even want to touch.

  • Anonymous
  • AliveStillKickin

     You first……(Please post a disclaimer for any eye damage you ridiculous f*ck)

  • WhoopieRocks

    Good one, Whoopie!   I like it.

  • Anonymous

    Gloria does in deed look like her husband.

  • FauxPalin

    The Palin and Bachmann, twins, are sickos!  Both ignorant.

  • Reader

    That humanoid prune with eyes should talk about peoples’ looks.

  • Rufus Danegro

    HIM STOOPID

  • Postal Liberal

    Me Too! And Hoopy looks like Al Sharpton!

  • Stromberg

    whoopi continues to show the  lack of intelligence she has and Yes ,very racists.  She is always making some remark that makes her look dumb and dumbmer everyday. And Joy isnt any better. Whoopi has gone down the toilet with her garbage remarks that Barbara Waaaaaaa lets her continue to display on the View, how proud that show should be…

  • Anonymous

    Whoopi is uninformed, bigoted, boring, and suddenly seems to think it is a serious issue, this abuse: Didn’t she campaign, vote for and donate to Clinton? 

    The selective morality of these double talking bone heads is laughable, but destructive.

  • Anonymous

    Dumb comment. Obviously a wht bagger.

  • John Kliber

    I can’t get over how much Goldberg looks like a log with eyes.

  • Anonymous

    You apparently don’t know a real racial slur when you hear one. 

  • Anonymous

    Blah, blah, blah…Michelle is smarter than you and said it like it is.

    By the way, who cares if anyone is called a racist anymore?  The word has lost all meaning because it’s used so frequently and without merit.  We’ve heard the cry of Wolf too long now, so most people don’t really care.  Sticks and stones will break my bones, etc., etc. etc.

  • Anonymous

    Your comment alone shows who is the REAL racist and and pseudo-intellectual.  Michelle has it all over you guys in both brains and eloquence.

  • Anonymous

    It is also said that often people look like their dogs.  And I’m sure that’s true of Whoopie.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You have offered nonsense words, an unsupported claim, and a short paragraph on the uselesness of definition. You think poorly.

  • Anonymous

    Racist?  Who cares?

  • Douglas

    Ooooh, fascinating in the light of all the Southern Democrats who opposed The Black Franchise and Civil Rights… Peddle your Putrid Predilections elsewhere; your revisionist history is out of place among discerners of the truth.

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