*Whoopi Goldberg touched on a soft spot when Ann Romney came and sat with the ladies on “The View.”
Originally both the Romneys were to appear on the show together, after the Republican candidate made some unflattering comments about the show’s hosts.
But the meeting ended up being a spectacle of sorts.
At first it seemed a bit tense, but Whoopi morphed the conversation into totally awkward when she asked Ann Romney about her husband’s refusal to serve in the military for religious reasons.
“Now, I believe that your religion doesn’t allow you to go fight,” Goldberg said.
“No, that’s not correct,” Romney responded. “We have many, many members of our faith that are serving in armed services.”
“OK, um, well I say that because when I read about your husband, what I had read, and maybe you can correct this, is that the reason that he didn’t serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion,” Goldberg asked.
“That’s what I read, I’m sorry.”
“No, that’s not correct,” Romney said. “He was serving his mission. My five sons have also served their mission.” Romney later added, “I sent them away as boys and they came back men.”
Whoopi hammered in hard on this topic; asking Romney what does she say to those mothers who are sending their sons and daughters off to war?
“So when you’re facing these mothers whose children have not come back, how will you explain to them that your sons haven’t gone? Or will you talk about the missions they’ve gone on?” Goldberg asked.
“I would say that it’s probably the hardest thing that a president and a first lady probably do,” she said. She added that while governor of Massachusetts, her husband “went to every funeral of a returning veteran…and it was the hardest thing [he] had to do.”
Oh and it didn’t end there.
Twitter-ers posted a slew of hate tweets after the interview with Ann. Conservative sites were totally ablaze with outrage over the intense moment on “The View.”
One writer called her a “friggin Marxist c-t,” and another a “racist.”
Yikes.
But her followers came to her side and defended their favorite controversial icon.
And of course Whoopi, in all of her coolness, took the comments in stride and kept positive spirits.
“I have been retweeting the ugly tweets I’ve been getting because I want All 2 see how far we have slipped down the chain, the racist name calling by folks claiming to represent a different party than mine, Claiming the Republican Party as kin, I want us all to see this and figure out if in fact this is ok. I don’t think so, and wondered if anyone else cared on this Tge anti-bullying day. Good night sleep in the light.”
Watch as Whoopi starts going in on Ann Romney at at approximately 4:45.
good job whoopi, u asked the questions i wanted to know about. dayum them busters out there. if one wants to occupy that oval office, then some hard questions need to be asked and answered. and that include answers from the this horse galloping stepford wife…
She is amazing she never really answered the question! Thats wonderful that her boys went on their “mission”, what does tha have to do with a son coming home in a body bag?!
PLEASE people like she raised 5 boys by herself. try nannies,cooks,maids, boarding school, sent them on Mormon missions etc. she has no clue what regular people go thru. stepford wife is the best description of her. Whoopi was right to ask her how her Husband will react seeing all those coffins come home, remember President Obama overturned what the GOP didnt want you to see. Caskets comming home, the real price of freedom from the real hero’s of this country. President Obama is ending wars while Mittens wants to send other people’s sons and daughters to new wars. spending lifetimes in the countries he wants to start wars in more American lives gone and for what???? getting involved in wars that has been going on for years. we need to stop the wars and focus on rebuilding this country which clearly the President has put in motion to do just that. A vote for Mittens means war with Iran, Syria, Lybia, and the mother of them all Restart the ultimate unfinished war North Korea which means war with China. need to stop all this crap now.
What EFFIN’ mission is she talking about?? Did it require her HOITY TOITY sons to dodgebbullets like our men and women in the armed services??
Their mission work requires that they knock on doors trying to recruit for their cult. Think they spend 2 years doing this in various locations.
If that B.S. wasn’t in IRAQ or AFGANISTAN or even Desert Storm…there’s no comparison! The nerve of her to make it seem like it’s comprable to serving in the military!
you jus gotta love Whoopi.. she will ask whatever she wants of who she wants… an whats up with that pic??? she looks like a crazed psycho nut ????? red dress an plastic smile an Stepford wife hair do ???!!! she looks nuttier than 6 squirrels ..
“she looks nuttier than 6 squirrels ..”…LOLOLOLOLOL
I wish there were “1st lady” debates!!!!, you diiiiiiiig!? OBAMA 2012 & beyond!!!!!
The Democrats are just not winners. Based on the level of hypocrisy from Romney and his boys towards military service, his campaign would have been Swiftboated a long time ago if he was running as a Democrat.
Democrats just don’t have what it takes to win elections on their own. The only time they are able to be successful in a general election, is when the Republicans are given enough time to screw up as bad as Bush did, and everyone is dying for a change.
I have never liked Whoopi. She hides behind sleeping with white men while attacking all crtics that make any comments that relate to the black community.
What does this have to do with what that MORMON MORON said about her son’s serving in the military?? This had NOTHING to do with race.
Gayle’s a typical non-Black azzhole. This is why we have no business supporting illegals.
As long as Whoopi doesn’t attack those who are determined to send you packing, Gayle, don’t worry when she comes to Black defense.
LMBO!!
The Cyborg’s wife is not concerned that anyone in her family will ever have to serve militarily. Heard her husband actually protested ‘for’ the Vietnam war them hightailed it to France on a bicycling tour.
LMAO…NOT THE BICYCLING TOUR MEL…OMG…It really cracks me up when they’re riding in the ghetto on 10 speeds really thinking black folks and Mexicans are going to fall for that BS…
wow–while men i knew where getting slaughtered, hers were out on Holy Missions…or whatever…what a dam crock! rich-White-folks seeinlgy can always make up some dam excuse NOT TO DO or TO do any friggin thing they want — ..a blind man can see thru this shiggedy bullsht! Oh you don’t have to go to war and fight for our country boys, jut take your holybooks and go on out and find some souls to save–or someidiots to open their doors and listen….on ahd …by the way, Dad and I built u a little secret bunker you can stay in until Souls Saving season is over…just in case you get tired.
Being a USAF Veteran (20yr retired), “Annie” made me want to up-chuck . . . this bitch has not one clue as to what we have gone through trying to defend this country. Out of my three brothers were in the Army, two of my brothers served in Viet Nam, one came back with a monkey on his back, that’s STILL peeling bananas in the trees. The other, had a hankering for whores, and married one that stabbed him . . . “I”, was sexually harrassed by our very upstanding “MEN” in uniform . . . sorry T-M-I . . .I still have problems with O-B, and any siting President, not serving in the military . . . .annie is a frigid bitch . . . . .Whoopie couild have torn her up, “trannie-annie” got a pass.
mitt wife need to shut the hell up, she and her husband aint did a dam thang to raise those boys yes boys because they sure not men, one those thang disrepect the president, who does that nobody but mitt and ann romney boys, the devil all seven of them.
The liberal medsia strikes again.
Whoopi sounds a complete idiot.
Just like you and that illegal b*tch, Gayle.
You’re such a silly troglodyte.
Ann is just as confused as that dam fool husband of hers. They are both the devil in disguise. Did you see the debate last night? The man [boy] Romney was a complete twit! All he did was repeat himself over and over again with no substance at all! The man is a complete mess and like the Devil – will come like a thief in the night!!!