Their scandalous cover-up was revealed. The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s (stage name) anti-Semitic comments about the holocaust Monday evening and Tuesday morning, ABC finally covered it Tuesday evening just in time to cover her on-air apology. And their report comes as sources inside ABC say Whoopi’s in “deep s–t” with some pushing for her to be fired and former co-host Meghan McCain has spoken out.
“Tonight, Whoopi Goldberg has apologized after saying the Holocaust was not about race, in comments she made on The View yesterday. What she said today and her apology amid the firestorm over her words,” anchor David Muir reported over 24-hours after Whoopi first made her comment.
After playing a soundbite of Whoopi’s original anti-Semitic remarks about the Holocaust not being about race, correspondent Erielle Reshef highlighted her apology (click “expand”):
RESHEF – The outrage caused by the comments Goldberg tweeted an apology, and today opened the show with this.
WHOOPI: I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man. The Holocaust was not about race. Hitler and Nazis believed Jews to be inferior races.
All worlds are important, mine included. My comments were wrong, and I apologize. Because I have always done this, I am also standing with Jewish people.
“6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, dehumanized and targeted by the Nazis for extermination based on an anti-Semitic ideology that they were an inferior race,” Reshef added.
Meanwhile, in the early hours of the morning, New York Post’s entertainment gossip project Page Six reported that sources inside ABC say she’s in “deep s—t.” “There is growing fury inside ABC over Whoopi Goldberg’s controversial Holocaust claims, with insiders insisting that her apology isn’t enough and demanding that she be fired,” reported Emily Smith.
According to Smith, Disney Network executives weren’t happy with the apology and think she needed to suffer the consequences:
“ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far. The board is not pleased with the apology she made and wants a more detailed retraction. The word is that Whoopi is in ‘deep s–t,’” one ABC insider told us.
“Why does Whoopi seemingly get a pass when others don’t? Perhaps this time she won’t. Many at the network — including her fellow hosts — believe Whoopi is too controversial now for the show.”
The insider also told Page Six that the situation “isn’t just going to blow over.”
A source claimed to have heard Joy Behar, co-host of the show, backstage. “This will cast a shadow over everything for a while. Even Joy Behar was heard saying backstage that Whoopi is ‘dead wrong’ and may not ever recover from this,” they told Page Six.
Even with insider speculation swirling that Whoopi could be fired, McCain wasn’t so sure.
Blasting Whoopi’s comments on the show Tuesday as a “half-assed apology” in her Daily Mail column, McCain wrote: “I am not calling for Whoopi Goldberg to be fired, if only because I don’t believe there is any universe where she could possibly do anything that could get her fired – she is the crown jewel of The View and a pop culture icon.”
“I was lectured to thousands of times on The View, there is a belief that ‘cancel culture’ is really ‘accountability culture’ among the woke left,” she said. “Which seems to be a belief that’s quickly forgotten whenever it’s Whoopi who has to be held to account.”
And after reporting on Whoopi’s comments Tuesday morning, CBS and NBC dropped the scandal from their newscasts later that evening.
ABC’s feet-dragging response to Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust scandal was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from WeatherTech and Liberty Mutual. You can find their contact information here.
Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:
ABC’s World News Tonight
February 1, 2022
Eastern, 6:44 p.m.DAVIDMUIR – Tonight, WhoopiGoldberg has apologized for saying that the Holocaust was not about race. The View yesterday. Here’s what she spoke today, and how she apologized for her actions in the face of criticism. Tonight, ABC’s Erielle Reshef is here.
[Cuts to video]
ERIELLE RESHEF: There is new drama tonight over the explosive statements of Whoopi Goldberg. ABC’s host The ViewOn Monday’s program, inaccurately claimed that the Holocaust wasn’t about race.
WHOOPI Goldberg: Also, let’s not forget that the Holocaust doesn’t have to do with race.
SARA HAINES – No.
GOLDBERG: No. It is not about race.
[Crosstalk]
JOY BEAR: The Jews were considered to be a distinct race.
GOLDBERG – It isn’t about race. It’s not all about race.
BEHAR: What’s the deal?
GOLDBERG – It is about the inhumanity of man to man. It’s all about that.
RESHEF – The outrage caused by the comments Goldberg tweeted an apology, and today opened the show with this.
WHOOPI: I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man. The Holocaust was not about race. Hitler and Nazis believed Jews to be inferior races.
All worlds are important, mine included. My comments were wrong, and I apologize. Because I have always done this, I am also standing with Jewish people.
RESHEF: Six million Jews died in Holocaust. They were dehumanized, and the Nazis targeted them for execution based upon an antisemitic belief that Jews were an inferior race.
JONATHAN GREENBLATT – This might feel or fit differently to the 21st Century American way of thinking about race, which focuses primarily on people of color. However, throughout Jewish history they have been marginalized and persecuted. They were also killed, largely because so many felt that they weren’t just different religious but a different race.
RESHEF: So far, no comment – [ABC cut this short]
[Cuts back to live]
David, Jews only make up two percent in the U.S., yet the FBI reports that roughly 60% of hate crimes based on religion targeted Jews. ADL’s warning about anti-Semitism being a danger is clear. David.
MUIR: It’s all right. Tonight, Erielle Reshef will be live from New York. Erielle, we thank you.
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