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Thursday, April 14, 2016

EVELYN FROM THE INTERNETS SHOULD BE ON BROADWAY LIKE WHOOPI GOLDBERG







EVELYN FROM THE INTERNETS SHOULD BE ON BROADWAY LIKE WHOOPI GOLDBERG:

SHE IS AN UNDISCOVERED COMEDIC GENIUS.

Sources: Youtube

Evelyn Ngugi, age 25, resident of Austin, Texas is an articulate, college-educated, young Black YouTube Sensation who should be starring in a one Woman play either on or Off-Broadway just as WHOOPI GOLDBERG did decades ago.

Evelyn is of Kenyan descent and has traveled to Nigeria and South Korea.

By day she is a full-time Social Media manager, at night she creates some of the most Hilarious YouTube content on planet Earth.

If you haven't visited her channel I strongly encourage you to please do so immediately!

I repeat.

Evelyn should be starring in a one Woman play either on or Off-Broadway just as WHOOPI GOLDBERG did decades ago.


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Bachmann's Slavery Comments Ingored By GOP Leaders; Whoopi Responds!










Has Anyone Other Than Myself Noticed How All Of Michelle Bachmann's Slavery Comments Are Being Ignored By The GOP Leaders On Capitol Hill?



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Family Leader Under Fire Over Slavery Comment in Marriage Defense Pledge

After two presidential candidates signed onto a pledge supporting traditional marriage values, the pledge’s sponsor retracted a part of the vow that suggested African-American children were better off under slavery.

The Family Leader, an Iowa-based conservative activist group, removed a sentence Saturday from the introduction of their “Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family” that said: "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was the first to sign the pledge Friday followed closely by fellow candidate Rick Santorum.

Whoopi Goldberg was outraged by the pledge on Monday’s The View saying the slavery reference was “a stupid allegation.”

“You don’t know anything about how slaves raised their kids or why people work together,” Goldberg said. “Just don’t add stuff like that if you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

A Bachmann spokesperson told Politico Saturday that the congresswoman only signed onto the “candidate vow” portion of the pledge, which has no mention of slavery.

"In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible,” Bachmann’s campaign spokesperson Alice Stewart told Politico.

Bachmann “stands behind the candidate vow - which makes absolutely no reference to slavery." Stewart added.

The candidate vow portion asks signers to reject same-sex marriage, uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, outlaw pornography and reject anti-women Islamic Sharia law.

Santorum said politicians should vow to be faithful to their wives, as the first provision of the candidate vow states. Those who are not faithful cause people to “disrespect and disregard members of Congress,” Santorum said in a Sunday interview on CNN.

“When I first read it I was taken aback. I can’t argue that I wasn’t, but I understand why they’re saying it,” he said. “If we can’t count on you to be faithful to those closest to you how can we count on you to be faithful to those of us you represent?”

Bachmann’s campaign was immediately available for comment.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the Santorum campaign said the senator thinks the Family Leader did the right thing by removing the slavery passage and questions why more people are not signing on to the pledge.

"Senator Santorum was pleased to sign the Iowa Family Leader's pledge because he is committed to standing up for traditional marriage," said spokesperson Virginia Davis in a statement. "The bigger question here is why aren't more Republicans having the courage to stand up for the institution of marriage and signing this pledge."



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Sources: ABC, MSNBC, The View, Youtube, Google Maps

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Juan Williams Unjustly Fired From NPR For Muslim Remarks: "Nanny State"











NPR Fires News Analyst After Remarks About Muslims

NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams, also a commentator on the Fox News Channel, after he told Bill O'Reilly that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane.

In a statement late Wednesday, National Public Radio said it was terminating Williams' contract as a senior news analyst over his comments on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor."

NPR executives had previously complained about his remarks on Fox, including saying first lady Michelle Obama could be a liability for her husband shortly after his inauguration.

The latest comments came Monday, when O'Reilly brought on guests to discuss his own appearance last week on ABC's "The View," during which Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set to protest his views on Muslims.

"Where am I going wrong here, Juan?" O'Reilly asked.

Williams, 56, responded that too much political correctness can get in the way of reality.

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," Williams said. "But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

A phone message left for Williams at his home in Washington was not immediately returned Thursday morning.

Williams appeared briefly Thursday on Fox News and said he was abruptly fired Wednesday by Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news. He said he told Weiss he meant what he said on the O'Reilly show, but that she told him he had made a bigoted statement and crossed a line.

"I said, 'You mean I don't even get the chance to come in and we do this eyeball-to-eyeball, person-to-person, have a conversation? I've been there more than 10 years," Williams said. He said Weiss responded that "there's nothing you can say that would change my mind."

Before Williams was fired, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said such commentary from a journalist about other racial, ethnic or religious minority groups would not be tolerated.

"NPR should address the fact that one of its news analysts seems to believe that all airline passengers who are perceived to be Muslim can legitimately be viewed as security threats," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said.

Later Wednesday, NPR issued a statement saying Williams' remarks "were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

"Juan has been a valuable contributor to NPR and public radio for many years and we did not make this decision lightly or without regret," NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said in an e-mailed statement.

Conservative bloggers defended Williams on Thursday, blasting NPR's decision.

"All Juan Williams did is say both exactly how he feels and how many, many other Americans feel on this subject," wrote Erick Erickson on his "Red State" blog. "The man's body of work makes clear he is no bigot. But we sure can't offend Muslims, can we?"

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also weighed in, telling Fox News that Congress should investigate NPR for censorship and consider cutting off its public funding.

Only a small part of NPR's budget is provided by Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. O'Reilly also called Thursday for an immediate suspension of taxpayer funding for NPR and said that Williams reflected the views of many Americans.

Williams' appearances on Fox have been an issue for NPR in the past, including his remarks about Michelle Obama on a 2009 episode of "The O'Reilly Factor."

"Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going. ... her instinct is to start with this blame America, you know, I'm the victim," Williams said, according to an account by NPR's Ombudsman Alicia Shepard. Carmichael was a civil rights activist.

At the time, Shepard wrote that Williams was the network's biggest "lightning rod," drawing hundreds of complaints. NPR executives then asked Williams to stop using the NPR name when he appears on O'Reilly's show.

On Monday, he was identified as a Fox News contributor.

Williams was a longtime reporter, columnist and editorial writer at The Washington Post. He has written extensively on the civil rights movement, including a book on the African-American religious experience and a biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.


Sources: Fox News, NPR, Washington Post, Wikipedia

Friday, October 15, 2010

6 Best Television Walk-Offs In Media History (Videos)


















Bill O'Reilly & The Top Five Television Walk-Offs


1.) Recently on "The View", Bill O'Reilly did a wonderful thing. His opinions about the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" pissed off Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to the point where they felt the need to remove themselves from the set and his presence, in front of a live studio audience. Barbara Walters immediately called her co-hosts out for their thin skin, but the reality is, great drama makes for great TV. Behar and Goldberg did everyone a favor, including Bill O'Reilly, who gets to keep his reputation as a hot-headed button-pusher.

What made this so special, as you're about to see, is that it's usually the guests who storm out of interviews, not the hosts. At any rate, the whole thing reminded us of some other memorable moments in TV Walk-off history.

2.) Dr. Jan Adams walks off Larry King Live: We begin with the man who supposedly helped kill Kanye West’s mom. Remember that? She died as a result of complications resulting from surgery, and the man responsible, Dr. Jan Adams, went on Larry King to defend himself until he suspiciously loses the urge out of respect to the family.

3.) Carrie Prejean walks off Larry King Live: Another classic moment in King’s repertoire. No matter how batty the soon-to-be-retired host comes off, every so often he’ll encounter a guest that makes him seem machete-sharp. Disgraced beauty queen Carrie Prejean was one such guest. Here, she refuses to talk about the terms of a settlement, and after King pesters her, she calls him “inappropriate.” What happens next is talk show awkwardness at its peak.

4.) Andrew Dice Clay storms off CNN: It’s hard to watch this clip just once. The quickness with which things fall apart is startling. When a CNN host infers that washed-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay is a washed-up comedian, he snaps, giving his greatest performance in years.

5.) In the name of Xenu, Tommy Davis abandons his Nightline interview: If Scientology has an image problem, flacks like Tommy Davis are the reason why (and maybe this guy). During this interview with professional provoker Martin Bashir, Davis strips off his mic and walks out after Bashir won’t let talk of Xenu, volcanoes, and spaceships drop.

6.) The Bee Gees show off their sense of humor on a British chat show: If the title of this video wasn’t “Clive Anderson chat show bust up with Bee Gees 1996,” it would be impossible to predict what goes down in the final moments of what seems like a routine interview. Sure, the host Clive Anderson took a few jabs at the group’s expense, but isn’t that what happens on talk shows? After Barry Gibb storms off, his brother Maurice is left there alone to wonder with the rest of us: What just happened?



Sources: ABC, Black Book Mag.com, CNN, NY Daily News, The View, Youtube

Bill O'reilly Wins "The View" Joy/ Whoopi Walk-Off Brawl!










Bill O'Reilly vs. Joy and Whoopi: Who won?

The Fox News host had a fiery brawl on the "View" couch with hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. Did anyone come out looking good?

Fireworks erupted Thursday on "The View," when co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar briefly stormed off the set during an argument with Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly.

The source of the much-discussed blowup was the proposed Park51 Islamic center in lower Manhattan which O'Reilly said was "inappropriate" to build "because Muslims killed us on 9/11."

Who came out looking better in this high-profile brawl?

O'Reilly won the day!

"I am not Bill O’Reilly's biggest fan," but Joy and Whoopi "looked like immature brats," says Emma Brady in Babble. If they disagree with O'Reilly that it is "inappropriate" to build a mosque near Ground Zero, they should at least have shown their guest enough respect to listen to his views.

By walking off, "the truly inappropriate behavior came on the part of the ladies from 'The View.'"

Behar and Goldberg did what they had to: "Girlfriend, please," says Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times. "O’Reilly has built a very successful career on his patent refusal to have a conversation," and other than walking out, there is nothing "short of physical violence" that Goldberg and Behar could have done to pierce "his oratorical fusillade." But the goal was never dialogue, it was "puttin' on a show," and in that sense, everybody won.

We all lost a shot at airing an important discussion: Yes, "genius television, ladies," says Melissa Bell in The Washington Post. But if you look "past the yelling and stomping and showmanship," the conversation O'Reilly and the "View" ladies could have had is important, and one that has been percolating "for some time: What do you call terrorists?" Is it right, or smart, to link Islam and terrorism? I guess we'll have to discuss later.







Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg Walk Off 'The View' After Fiery Exchange With Bill O'Reilly

Things got so heated between Bill O'Reilly, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" that the co-hosts walked off the set of the show.

The incident occurred during a fiery exchange about the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. O'Reilly said President Obama's qualified support of the center was evidence of the "gulf" between him and the American people. Goldberg and Behar objected strongly to O'Reilly's claim.

"This is America!" Behar said.

"Listen to me because you'll learn!" O'Reilly interrupted her, to gasps from the audience.

Goldberg asked if O'Reilly was saying that Americans were not smart enough to agree with Obama's position.

"We're Americans! We agree with him!" Behar added.

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"70% of Americans don't want that mosque there. So don't give me the we business!" O'Reilly replied.

More heated crosstalk followed, until O'Reilly said, "Muslims killed us on 9/11!" That really set Behar and Goldberg off.

"Oh my God!" Behar said.

"That is such bullshit!" Goldberg said. "Extremists did that!"

Behar then stood up, saying, "I don't want to sit here now. I don't! I'm outraged by that statement."

She and Goldberg proceeded to walk off the set to loud applause. After it died down, Walters cut in, admonishing her co-hosts.

"You have just seen what should not happen," Walters said. "We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands, and screaming, and walking offstage."

Walters also criticized O'Reilly for his statements about Muslims.

"You cannot take a whole religion and demean them because of what some [did]," she told him.

Behar and Goldberg returned to the set following a commercial break. O'Reilly also apologized for his comments, saying, "If anyone felt that I was demeaning all Muslims, I apologize."


Last December, Goldberg almost walked off the set after proclaiming she was "bored out of my gourd" with a segment on Tiger Woods.


Sources: ABC, Babble, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Huffington Post, NY Daily News, O'Reilly Factor, The View, Yahoo News, Youtube

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Whoopi Goldberg Defends Tiger Woods' "Right To Privacy"...He's A Public Figure!

































































Whoopi Goldberg of "The View" defends Tiger Woods' "Right to Privacy".

Come on! Tiger's a Public Figure! ALL Public Figures are open game to Media Gossip unless they become victims of Malicious, Intentional Libel or Slander.

What's the defense to Libel or Slander? Truth! Didn't he admit his "Transgressions" on his website? Please Whoopi get over your self!

Tiger is being paid mega bucks to keep his image clean and properly represent his Sponsors.

If he wants "Privacy" than he needs to stop accepting his Endorsement money and prize earnings from Sponsored Golf Tournaments.


And oh by the way...I'm still praying for Tiger's marriage to be reconciled.

However that's totally up to Tiger and whether or not he can keep his glands in his pants when in the presence of other women.







Two months ago Whoopi also defended Roman Polanski's actions of Statutory Rape. She said it wasn't a real rape. Whoopi honey are you smoking something that causes one to have hallucinations??







Whoopi Goldberg storms off set of TV show after heated debate over Tiger Woods scandal


U.S. TV chat show host Whoopi Goldberg walked off The View over the Tiger Woods scandal story.

The female panel who host "The View" every day - Whoopi, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elizabeth Hassleback and Barbara Walters - got into a heated discussion about Tiger Woods and his alleged affairs.

After Whoopi claimed she didn't care about the stories, Walters told her she should: 'Go home then,' so an angry Whoopi jumped up from the table and stormed off before Walters told her to come back.

'But here is my absolute honest opinion. Whether they get back together or not, is not going to put any food on my table.

'Whether they come.... Whether he, things, his endorsements get gone, is not going to make sure that my child is doing all the stuff that she is supposed to be doing.'

But Walters then told her: 'But we should discuss it and if you don't want to you might as well go home.'

Whoopi hit back with: 'Alright then,' and got out of her chair and walked off before Walters went: 'Don't you dare.'

Whoopi reluctantly returned to her seat and went: 'My point is that for me, one of those subjects where people demand that you live up to their expectations is outrageous.

'And when you are talking about someone who is a role model, you want to emulate him, you want to be as good a golfer as him, you want to be as good as him on the green, on the course, ok, I understand that you want to follow that, but you cannot, there are too many human beings out here, that are looking at us, saying : 'I want you to be like this because I want to be like you'.

But if Tiger had this happen and everything turns out to be ok, and then somebody else tries it and it isn't ok, is it Tiger's fault because that person held him up as a role model?

Hassleback then cut in: 'Cheating isn't illegal is it the last time I looked?' And Whoopi added: 'That's what's making me mad.'







Alleged mistress keeps quiet; so does Tiger



A potentially explosive news conference with an alleged mistress was canceled and more details trickled out about the car accident that started all the trouble for Tiger Woods.

The news conference in Los Angeles for Rachel Uchitel, the woman who denied a tabloid report about an affair with Woods, was canceled about an hour before it was to begin Thursday.

High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who was to make a statement about Uchitel’s relationship with golf’s No. 1 player, said it was called off because of “unforeseen circumstances.” Allred said she would have no further comment.

However, Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom, said the only conclusion is that her mother struck a deal with the Woods camp. Bloom, an attorney who worked with her mother for nine years and now is as a legal analyst for CBS, said Friday on “The Early Show” that she has never known Allred to cancel a news conference.

Bloom said that can only mean a confidential settlement was struck, which she estimated at being worth “at least a million dollars.”

“I know exactly how she operates,” Bloom said.

For the first time since last Friday, when Woods ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home, there were no news conferences involving police nor any statements from Woods on his Web site.

His last one was Wednesday, when he issued a statement conceding that he had “let my family down.” That followed a report in Us Weekly magazine of a cocktail waitress claiming to have had a 31-month affair with Woods.

The Associated Press obtained an audio recording of an interview the Florida Highway Patrol conducted with Woods’ neighbors after the accident. Troopers interviewed Jarius Adams, who called 911, and his sister, Kimberly Harris.

Harris told troopers that Woods’ mother, Kultida, and mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, were at the scene, but the AP could not confirm that. A voice that strongly resembles Woods’ mother is heard in the background during the 911 call saying loudly, “What happened?”

A spokeswoman for Holmberg, mother of Elin Nordegren, didn’t know if she was in Florida when the accident happened.

“I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think so,” spokeswoman Ewa Malmborg said. “I have not been informed about that. She was here again working on Monday again anyway.”

In the FHP interview, a trooper asked Harris about the women and if they talked to anyone at the scene.

“The cops came, the Windermere cops came first, then the security guards came,” Harris said. “And then it appears Mr. Woods’ mom, and Tiger’s wife’s mom came out after the fact. I don’t know if they heard the commotion, I don’t if she, his wife, left and came back. But they walked across the grass and were outside as well.”

Woods’ peers, meanwhile, went from talking about him to playing in his $5.75 million golf tournament.

He previously pulled out of the Chevron World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club, an 18-player event that pays $1.35 million to the winner. Participants spent most of the week taking questions on their sport’s biggest star, most offering support and curious about details and some of the allegations.

More criticism came from Jesper Parnevik of Sweden, who once employed Woods’ wife as a nanny and told reporters Wednesday that he owed her an apology for introducing them.

“I have lost all respect for him, primarily as a man and a father,” Parnevik said in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on Thursday from the PGA Tour qualifying tournament in West Palm Beach, Fla. “It doesn’t even feel like it matters what he has done on the golf course. My respect for him as a person is gone. We have been nice to Tiger before, but now he only has himself to blame.

“We thought better of him, but he is not the one we thought he was.”

Among star athletes Woods considers a close friend is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. They had dinner in Orlando, Fla., during the NBA finals this year.

When he heard the word “Tiger” in a question Wednesday, Bryant said, “Man, get off that. I knew there was going to be one.” Then he ended the interview.





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Sources: The View, NBC, MSNBC, NBC Sports, Daily Mail, Splash, US Weekly Mag.,Tiger Woods.com, Lifestyle Mag., Google Maps