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VIDEO: Whoopi Goldberg Mocks Victim of Charlie Sheen Rampage on ‘View’

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | 7 Comments

In-freaking-credible!

It’s not really surprising that Whoopi defends Charlie Sheen for abusing women — she sided with Charlie against his ex-wife Denise Richards —  but is Whoopi not even the least bit curious about the accusation that Sheen “started yelling racial slurs” at Capri Anderson?

Whoopi seems to believe that, in any conflict between a woman and a wealthy, famous, powerful man, the woman has no rights whatsoever — and that the woman’s side of the story should never be taken seriously by her fellow women.

That kind of enabling attitude toward a man who clearly has chronic substance-abuse problems — to say nothing of his well-documented history of sexual misconduct — is extremely dangerous. Sheen acts the way he acts because his enablers prevent him from ever having to suffer the full consequences of his actions.

Is Charlie Sheen going to have to kill somebody before his celebrity enablers stop making excuses for him?

UPDATE: Let’s imagine that Charlie Sheen continues his downward trajectory of intoxication and violent misogyny. What will the headlines be? And what will Whoopi Goldberg’s reaction be on The View?

March 4, 2011

SHEEN ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
Prostitute Hospitalized After Beating

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, March 7, 2011:

“Hey, boys will be boys, y’know what I’m saying? You can’t believe a word these street-walkers say . . . Probably fell down the steps and now she’s just trying to hustle some money out the deal.”

July 19, 2011

CAR CRASH SIDELINES CBS STAR
Sheen Injuries ‘Minor’ After Wrong-Way Collision;
Passenger, 3 Others in Critical Condition at Hospital

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, July 21, 2011

“Look at the police report, Joy. It clearly says this stupid hooker spilled her drink on Charlie’s leather seats. Do you have any idea what it costs to clean leather seats on a Benz? So this slut spills her whiskey and Charlie took the wrong ramp — it could happen to anybody!”

January 2, 2012

POLICE END STRIP-CLUB STANDOFF
Sheen Releases Hostages, Arrested Following
SWAT Raid on Scene of Star’s New Year’s Party

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, January 3, 2012

“You’re not being fair, Barbara. When Charlie Sheen pays for a lap dance, he has every right to expect what they call a ‘happy ending,’ OK? So maybe Charlie overreacted a little bit, but all the hostages got out alive, didn’t they? No harm, no foul, I say.”

October 22, 2012

POLICE QUESTION SHEEN
IN MISSING STARLET CASE
Family Asks Public’s Assistance
in Finding 19-Year-Old Actress

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, October 25, 2012:

“He’s innocent until proven guilty, Elizabeth. They had a little date and Charlie said he dropped her off at her apartment, and we haven’t seen any evidence that contradicts Charlie’s story. Besides, how do we know anything actually happened to that dumb bimbo, huh? Maybe she just ran off to Cabo to party with one of her other boyfriends and didn’t think to tell anybody she was leaving.”

November 7, 2012

SHEEN INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
Detectives Say Evidence Connects Actor
To Disappearances of Three Other Women

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, November 9, 2012:

“Oh, give me a break! We’re talking about circumstantial evidence here. And what’s the big deal about duct tape and a ski mask, anyway? Puh-leeze!”

December 5, 2012

BODIES FOUND IN REMOTE CANYON
Hikers Stumble Onto Skeletal Remains
Near Vacation Cabin Owned by Charlie Sheen

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, December 6, 2012:

“Bones turn up in these hills all the time, is all I’m saying. They don’t even know that these remains are human, OK?”

August 24, 2013

JURY CONVICTS SHEEN
IN SERIAL MURDERS
After Weeks of Gruesome Testimony,
Actor Convicted of Killing Four Women

Whoopi Goldberg, The View, August 26, 2013:

“Those no-good bitches deserved to die.”

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Racism

Lame-Duck Democrats Trying to Pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Like the Killer of Democratic Intern Chandra Levy

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Lame-Duck Democrats Trying to Pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Like the Killer of Democratic Intern Chandra Levy

OK, I’m not sure Ingmar Guandique would qualify under the DREAM Act, but you get the point. And if you don’t get the point, Michelle Malkin will explain it to you — and she reminds you that the media are still “whitewashing the illegal immigration angle from the story.”

Liberals — including Republican open-borders advocates who try to claim they’re “conservative” — refuse to recognize the common-sense logic here: Illegal aliens have, by the act of illegally entering the country, demonstrated their contempt for U.S. law. It is therefore not surprising that illegal aliens, as a group, have higher rates of every serious crime — from DUI to assault to rape to murder — than do native-born citizens or legal immigrants. Yet by blurring the distinction between illegal aliens and legal immigrants, and by relentlessly playing the race card, liberals promote the falsehood that those who advocate stronger enforcement of immigration laws are xenophobic bigots. Read more

Category: Crime, Immigration, Michelle Malkin

Maxine and Barney, Sitting in a Tree . . .

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

. . . K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

A newly discovered exchange of e-mails led the House ethics committee on Friday to delay its trial of Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat accused of helping steer bailout money to a bank in which her husband owned shares.
The e-mails are between Mikael Moore, Ms. Waters’s chief of staff, and members of the House Financial Services Committee, on which Ms. Waters serves. The e-mails show that Mr. Moore was actively engaged in discussing with committee members details of a bank bailout bill apparently after Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. The bailout bill had provisions that ultimately benefited OneUnited, a minority-owned bank in which her husband, Sidney Williams, owned about $350,000 in shares. . . .
The subcommittee’s original report found that in early September 2008, Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and the committee’s chairman, told Ms. Waters not to get involved with any issues involving OneUnited and that Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. . . .
A person directly involved in the investigation said the new e-mails could show that members of her staff continued to work on the bank’s behalf.
“It may directly contradict a bit of Maxine’s story, if not the actual facts, the way she has told it,” said the person, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the trial.

So if Barney told Maxine to stay away from the OneUnited “issues,” yet Maxine’s chief-of-staff kept “discussing [the bank] with committee members” — of which Barney was the chairman — will Barney be called to testify against Maxine? And what else might be included in the e-mails that will be made public in the course of this investigation?

Ed Morrissey has much, much more at Hot Air. There’s also a Memeorandum thread with additional blog commentary from YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane and Alana Goodman.

Category: Corruption, Democrats

Porn Star Date Says Charlie Sheen ‘Started Yelling Racial Slurs’ in NYC Rampage

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | 14 Comments

A few weeks ago, police were called to a New York City hotel room where Charlie Sheen was found intoxicated and naked, having caused thousands of dollars of damage to the room. Sheen subsequently dismissed the incident as “one bad night” and said the media was blowing it out of proportion.

Turns out that Sheen’s “date” for the night was 22-year-old porn star Christina Walsh, who goes by the name Capri Anderson, whose online porn site is operated by a company called “Medium Pimpin.” She was paid as Sheen’s escort for the evening:

Capri Anderson was hired to escort Charlie Sheen to dinner, but the night ended with her locked in a hotel bathroom in fear for her life, she says.
“Towards the latter half of the night, it got really bad. He started yelling racial slurs,” Anderson, an adult film actress, tells ABC News. “But it wasn’t until he put his hands around my neck that I really thought to myself, you have gotten yourself in a bad, bad situation.”

What “racial slurs” was Charlie yelling? Hollywood is happy to tolerate a famous star with a penchant for booze, drugs, hookers and violence. But racism? That’s intolerable.

UPDATE: There’s video of the “Good Morning America” interview and excerpts like this:

“He was calling me a whore a lot. And he was yelling things like, you F-ing bitch. If you don’t come out  here, I’m going to kill you. If I get in there, you’re going to be sorry. If I get in there, you . . . whore, you whore, whore. Like he just keep screaming and slamming on the door,” she said.

As to the term “whore”: (a) Capri Anderson’s business is having sex in front of cameras for money; and (b) her fee for escorting Sheen to dinner was reportedly $3,500. There seems to be some dispute as to whether other services — beyond mere social companionship — were included for that fee.

We still haven’t learned what sort of “racial slurs” Sheen was (allegedly) shouting, or in what context he was shouting them.

UPDATE II: Sheen’s manager Mark Burg, who is also executive producer of Two and a Half Men, cleverly seeks to undermine Capri Anderson’s credibility: “This is a woman who, for the right amount of money, sleeps with strangers.”

Uh, Mr. Burg, isn’t it a well-documented fact that your client is a man who spends money to sleep with strangers?

Why should we believe him instead of her? Because he’s a rich Hollywood celebrity and she’s not?

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Racism, Scandal

TSA Boss Explains Groping Grandma Necessary Because U.S. Doesn’t ‘Profile’

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

Gateway Pundit has CNN video with TSA chief John Pistole telling Candy Crowley:

“I think the Israeli model, which a number of people have talked about, uses intelligence in a different way, profiling. . . . That is top-notch security. The question is, do we profile here in the U.S.? No, we don’t.”

So when a 7-year-old girl says, “Grandmama, they touched you on your special girl spots,” you know why.

Obama’s not listening to you. He’s listening to “experts.”

All this, the New York Times would have you believe, is about a “debate over the proper balance of security and privacy.” But the grannies and children being groped in airports are not a threat to anyone’s security, so there’s nothing to balance.

Category: Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.22.10

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE – 11.22.10

TOP NEWS

Scans And Groping Here To Stay, Says TSA Chief

Airline passenger gets "pat-down" at Sea-Tac

Rep. John Mica (R-Fla), future head of the House Transportation Committee: “I don’t think the rollout was good and the application is even worse. This does need to be refined.”


NZ Mine Drama Enters Fourth Day
Still no word on when rescue bid will be made

Euro, Asian Stocks Rise After Ireland Seeks Bailout
Irish seek help from EU, IMF to save banks



POLITICS

Congressional Dems Worry That Obama Will Cave To GOP

Obama Agonistes

Rep Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) said, “We’re beginning to revisit our relationship with the White House. I think we’ve got to push harder from our position to do what Democrats need.”



Hillary Clinton Says She’s Done With Politics
Asian Voters Offer Hope To Battered California GOP



THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Eye Drug Shows Promise In Studies

HK Stocks Fall As PRC Moves To Prevent Real Estate Bubble

Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch Prepare iPad-Only Newspaper

Samsung Galaxy Tab Now Available From AT&T, Sprint, Verizon



SPORTS

Manning Gets The Numbers, But Brady Leaves With The Win

Tom Brady celebrates another Patriots TD

31-28 Patriots. Just like old times.

McCoy’s 50-Yard TD Run Lifts Eagles Over Giants To NFC East Lead

Boise State Closes Gap With TCU In BCS Standings





Warriors Crushed By Lakers As Gasol Has Perfect Night

Jimmie Johnson: Second Only To Earnhardt And Petty Now?

Terry Collins To Be Mets’ Skipper in 2011



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Miley Cyrus Drops Bret Michaels Song From AMA Performance After Rumors

Miley Cyrus

Yeah, probably not the best time to be singing “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.

Lindsay Lohan Replaced By Malin Akerman In Lovelace Biopic


Desperate Times For “Housewives” As Teri Hatcher Quits

Deathly Hallows Part 1 Sets Record For Harry Potter Franchise



FOREIGNERS

Bosworth: New Nork Nuke Plant Nettlesome

PRC Claims All Miners From Sichuan Mine Rescued

NATO Leaders Agree To New Start With Russia

Haiti Death Toll Climbs Above 1200



BLOGS & STUFF

C4P: It’s Palin’s Party, And The Establishment Is A Jealous Ex-Lover

Gateway Pundit: Jimmy Carter – FOX Commentators Have Deliberately Distorted The News

Althouse: A Madison Liberal Tries To Understand The 2010 Elections

Dennis The Peasant: None Dare Call It Thinking, Part II

Verum Serum: Leftist Media’s Selective Outrage

Stop Shouting!: My Rebuttal To A Progressive Who Admonished Me To Play Nice


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Obama: Shiva the Destroyer?

Posted on | November 22, 2010 | 8 Comments

Barracuda Brigade linked this:

This sounds about right:

“Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of the Hindu pantheon and one of the godheads in the Hindu Trinity.”

However great Obama’s destructive power — three weeks ago, he was widely credited for the annihilation of Democrats in the mid-term elections — this attribution of divine power is offensive to Hindus:

Newsweek’s depiction of President Obama on its latest cover has irked some Indian Americans who, fresh off Obama’s visit to the world’s largest democracy, are not happy with the image of the U.S. president as the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva. . . .
Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in Nevada, told the English-language Sify News in India that Nataraja is highly revered and meant to be worshipped, not indecorously thrown around. Zed, who is known for his work on interfaith dialogue, said it is not OK to use Hindu concepts and symbols for profit or self-serving purposes.
Suhag Shukla, managing director and legal counsel of the Washington-based Hindu-American Foundation, told FoxNews.com that her group doesn’t think Newsweek was being malicious or trying to offend Hindus, but “the cover was in line with the media’s comfort of utilizing Hindu symbols or deities to symbolize an issue.”

Robert Oppenheimer once famously invoked Shiva: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Category: Barack Obama

Comcast ‘Presumptuous and Arrogant’

Posted on | November 21, 2010 | 2 Comments

No, it’s not somebody complaining about their cable bill. It’s federal regulators talking about the NBC takeover:

Comcast is still in negotiations with the government over its proposed takeover of NBC Universal, but that did not stop the cable company from announcing a new management slate for the entertainment giant last week.
That announcement displeased regulators, according to two government officials with knowledge of the negotiations. In September, the companies said in a statement that they would make no further personnel announcements “until the deal-closing process and timing is certain.”
“For a deal this large, and one that hasn’t been approved, Comcast’s behavior is presumptuous and arrogant,” one of the officials said.

Hmmm. “Presumptuous and arrogant.” Let’s see if Keith Olbermann names Comcast “Worst Person in the World.”

I’m holding my breath.

Category: NBC
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