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I guarantee if you exchanged Michael Vick with Tom Brady Whoopi would talk about how horrible and inhumane dog fighting is!

Will Teullive
http://1527rowland.blogspot.com/

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I agree with Whoopi and besides how many football players have beat their wives or killed or maimed persons and are still playing football. I don't like what Vick has done but I think the punishment is way overblown for the what is done. I think probation and civil service would be enough and let him play football. He will get all the punishment he deserves from the fans.

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i don't think whoopi is justifying the michael vick case because he's black. white folks live in the south too and do many not so "politically correct" things. example: KKK

it's her opinion. isn't that what the show is about? if they wanted some disillusioned black woman, they should of got condolezza rice.

p.s: i am not for dog fighting and i am not trying to justify micahel vick.

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I'm so tired of people using the "cultural upbringing" defense for what Vick did. I'm a black man from the south (New Orleans) and while I know people who fought dogs I never felt the need to partake in it myself. My cultural upbringing had nothing to do with it, I simply chose not to do it. Period. Vick made a choice and it was a bad one. Period.

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I'm horrified that she knows so little about the South that she thinks dogfighting is part of its cultural heritage. Last I heard, the people of Atlanta were by and large not dirt-eatin' illiterate hicks, and even the vast majority of those who *are* love their dogs.

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@ Will:

Perhaps, but if it were Tom Brady, he probably wouldn't have been as vilified as Vick has. Vick may not play until 2010 so they say, but Brady would be there Week 1.

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She is a racist asshole and has been for at least 10 years. I use dto love her, but then she seemed to change and now she's a bitch. Rosie is even better than Whoopi.

Most people's dogs are part of the family, not a fucking sport jackass!

Boy I hate Whoopi, brings up too much anger. Fire her already.

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I can't believe Whoopi Goldberg, professional liberal, actually said "For some people, dogs are sport" as if that was a justification for Vick's actions. Yeah, well for centuries, for some people, black people were animals, and that was part of their culture: didn't make 'em right.

I realize it's her opinion, but it comes from a place of shocking ignorance and insensitivity.

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You know, maybe it *was* part of Vick's cultural upbringing. That doesn't mean that upbringing wasn't *wrong*. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that people would have claimed that cross burnings and Klan rallies were just Southern cultural upbringing. That wouldn't have made them *right*, much less made those actions any less reprehensible. Which is not to equate Vick's dogfighting (and, more importantly, dog torturing and killing) with the Ku Klux Klan and racism. But to say that Vick's upbringing explains, much less pardons, his crimes is just ridiculous.

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Whoopi is an idiot! All black people from the South are not evil, ignorant, and stupid individuals who get enjoyment from torturing defenseless animals or dogfighting! Michael Vick is an evil person - don't lump him in with every other Southern black. He stands only with his pals and the other clowns who enjoy this type FEDERAL CRIME!!!

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As an owner of a beautiful German Shephard and an equally spiritied Mini-Schnauzer, I was really upset initially with Mr. Vick's decisions. Then I thought that in some countries dogs are domesticated, farmed and eaten as food. Wow! Talk about terrible! Then I thought, what about the animals we in the U.S.A. domesticate, farm and eat. Who is standing up for the plight of the helpless chickens and cows...what about the pigs and turkeys? Yeah, yeah, I know what you are going to say...it was just a thought anyway.

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I think it needs to be clarified that she was not defending him, saying that what he did was right -- she clearly said that it was wrong -- if you watched the show -- she was simply saying that it is part of what he grew up with.

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Way to go Whoopi, making an ass of yourself from day one. Just dumb...

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So by her logic, nobody should have a problem with white kids from the south being racist and hating black people right? After all, "it's part of the culture and upbringing" right? Let's give a free pass to all the kids from gangland in Los Angeles to grow up, rob and steal. "don't hate, just part of the upbringing".

Are there ANY comedians left from the 80s that are still funny and/or culturally relavent?

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I can't wait to read rosie's blog

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I live in and grew up in the deep South, as did at least the last 8 generations of my family, and I can assure you that not one of us has ever condoned dog fighting. I am as southern as a person can get, and cruelty to animals is most certainly NOT a part of MY heritage, and I find the implication insulting.
That said, I actually kind of like Whoopi, and will try not to judge her by what she said today. I'll give her a little more time.

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Gimme a break.

Don't comdemn Whoopi because she can discuss the man's possible motives...doesn't mean she's bidding on dog fights!

The references to the KKK/slavery are absurd...but ironically even though she obviously wouldn't agree with either, she could have an intelligent discussion about them.

The only thing Whoopi really proved today is that people are watching...way to go, Whoopster!

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As our beloved family dog of 13 years lay dying of leukemia next to me, I tried to turn my thoughts away from when it would be necessary to put him to sleep. So I turned on the View only to hear an ignorant Whoopi Goldberg practically defend that dog-killing Vick. She kept calling him a "kid". He is NOT A KID BUT AN ADULT WHO SHOULD KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG and who is lucky enough to have enough money for the rest of his life without doing what he was doing. I can assure you it will be a long time before I watch her again!

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Doesn't matter where one comes from you
know right from wrong

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I think the only idiots are the people that thought that Whoopi is defending Vick.

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