Just because someone can say something doesn’t necessarily mean that it needs to be said.
On Thursday, Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, appeared on “The View.” The future first lady barely got herself settled in when Barbara Walters questioned about her husband having supposedly said he didn’t want to appear on “The View” because “it’s high-risk and” the ladies are “sharp-tongued.”
Without missing a beat, Romney corrected Walters: “No, he said sharp and young.”
Eventually, Whoopi Goldberg cross-examined Romney on her family’s lack of military service and asked how she and her husband could comfort military families during times of grief when neither her husband nor her sons had ever served.
Forget the fact that they weren’t talking to the candidate himself but the candidate’s wife.
Forget the fact that the current president has never served a day in the military, either.
And forget the fact that President Obama appeared on “The View” just a few weeks earlier and this question never occurred to Goldberg.
Romney answered Goldberg with her customary grace.
“I would say it’s the hardest thing that a president and a first lady could probably do is to comfort those who have lost loved ones and have gone in harm’s way,” she said.
Romney then said that when her husband was governor of Massachusetts, “he went to every funeral of a returning veteran” and consoled family members.
“Of course it’s hard,” she said, “and I don’t think any of us can understand the sacrifices that are being made by families.”
Goldberg got hammered on Twitter for the tenor of her questions. In response, she tweeted:
@WhoopiGoldberg
Back 2 work and u have to laugh when u get that freedom of speech, or asking a question is out of fashion, and god don’t dare disagree, Sad.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Whoopi Goldberg, but her stumble had nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with civility and, to use the president’s favorite word, “fairness.” If you’re not going to ask the president that question, why ask the wife of the man running against him?
Here’s the exchange.
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I find it so ironic that of all the things they could have talked about with Ann Romney they chose this. Ann Romney shows everyone the strenght and character that she has and will make a great FIRST LADY!!!!
You got it!
I know it is in the past, and their is forgiveness, but how did Pres. Clinton face parents of children killed in the Vietnam war or the wars after that when he defected to Canada to avoid the draft, himself. It amazes me how the same rules don’t apply to the democrats as they try to apply them to the republicans.
Clinton was not president during the Vietnam War. Kennedy, Johnston and Nixon were. Ask how Roosevelt and Truman face the parents. Ask how many of them served in the military. George H. W. and George W. Bush served, John McCain served, Kennedy served, Reagan served. Obama did not serve. Did any of thode ladies on the View ask him why he didn’t serve?
Did you women ask Michelle and Pres. Obama the same question?
You all know Whoopie is a dem so she is all Obama.
All of them on The View are leftists except Elizabeth. Whoopi and Joy are the rudest women ever, other than Rosie.
Mitt’s wife was the perfect example of a true lady. She showed grace, caring and all the characters of a first Lady. Whoopi is nasty and ignorant. She started blabbing before she had her facts right. Why did she not get into Obama’s wife’s face with the same questions? She looks out of place……dirty and nasty. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.
I totally agree, I used to like and respect whoopi goldberg but the dems NEVER play fair. Always asking the assinine questions of a candidates wife and not the current president. the liberal lady’s (and I use that term very loosely) on the view are nasty bitches and have no place in the public eye getting rich off our money! and shame on whoopi for spelling God without a capital G, and she is a so called believer??? wow
Whoopi Goldberg is nothing but an ignorant so called Hollywood slut!…. One time when she was in Atlanta filming she broke for lunch and went to one of the most prestigious dinning in Atlanta & naturally they have a dress code! Whoopi was in rough looking street clothes & she was refused admission as are all persons not properly dressed …. But unlike one of us She asked if they knew who they where refusing admission to & the Manager answered “yes” !t did not end there..She called the local TV Stations & the Atlanta Journal/Constitution & complained to the Press & they along with Whoppi made a big deal & related this incident as racial not about how badly she dressed!…. The Owners of this fine establishment fired the Manager, stating that they could not afford the publicity that Whoopi had caused. So a great Manager just doing his job looses his thanks to Whoopi Goldberg :O( She is a thoughtless sorry bitch!
I don’t recall Obama being in the military, did Whoopi ask him the same question?
mmmmm, this is why i don’t watch the view and any garbage liberal views they are so one sided and closed minded and whoopi is trash peroid.
ALL Americans MUST wake up to what Obama is doing to OUR country, he is distorying it. Whoopi Goldberg is helping him do it !
Yes..absolutely ! All the stupid liberals are crushing our freedom & our Constitution! If they do not like the way our forefathers set up a Government that was for & by the people, one Nation Under GOD…then we need to adopt Australia’s way of handling freedom haters….show them the way to Cuba, the middle-east (where Obama was truthfully born), Maybe North Korea which we are still at war with…. Even China which we borrow the money to pay for Obuma’s spending ! We need to take Our Nation back again and get rid of all the Muslim Terrorist that are in Washington D.C. :O(
All about color, baby, reverse racism.
the only reason I don’t watch the View, is because of Whoopie,, what a fool she is! She use to be a beautiful woman, can’t figure out who she is now!
Whoopie beautiful? Never! Pleasant and funny she was at one time. Now she is quite unpleasant in every aspect.
Amen !
everyone except whoopie bitch knows that she is a racist,communist bitch and because she’s black she is protected from being insulted but let me tell you I don’t mind insulting the mop headed BITCH