Whoopi Bitter When Confronted with Hollywood’s Elitism, Moral Hypocrisy

For the second day in a row, Thursday, guest co-host and Lincoln Project conservative Tara Setmayer triggered a member of ABC’s The View. Whoopi Goldberg was the Hollywood elitist who complained that Setmayer had called the Hollywood people elitists and accused them of moral hypocrisy after the altercation between Will Smith, actor, and Chris Rock during Sunday’s Oscars.

“But then they gave him a standing ovation though, Whoopi, which I think again goes back to why some people feel Hollywood elites are a bunch of hypocrites,” Setmayer decried. “They make these moral statements about the world and political statements. and then they’re standing there getting a standing ovation after he assaulted Chris rock.”

Goldberg was immediately emboldened. “I’m sorry. As one of those people — As one of those people, I’ve got to stop you,” she protested but Setmayer wouldn’t relent and pressed her on what she would have had she been in the room. Goldberg stood by the elites.

“In the moment. So you’re sitting there, you’ve just gone — oh, no. Now you are up. Before you even know you’ve done something stupid,” she said. Setmayer reminded her that “[t]here was time in between” the slap and Smith winning his award, but it didn’t change her stance.

Whoopi then went on a full-throated defense of herself and her elite friends, huffing about their plights “work for a living” like everyone else and tried to say the criticism was so broad that it included people who weren’t famous:

Because there are so many of you, I want to end with the elite stuff. You work to earn a living. We work. We collect a check.Our families are ours. Our families are our family. We do what everyone else does. It really pisses me off. When people work in Hollywood it is not only the actors but also all other individuals.

“Well, not saying people don’t work for it but when you’re making millions of dollars,” Setmayer began to shoot back before Goldberg interrupted her again to say, “Some are making millions of dollars, but not everybody.”

It was a rich argument, originating from true elitists. But things got richer when Joy Behar, someone who condemns anyone who doesn’t agree with her politics chimed in to gripe: “You know what, Tara? You can’t paint the whole Hollywood people with one brush…”

Most of the coven on the show are the same way, particularly Sunny Hostin who on Wednesday flipped out and claimed everyone on the right was “crazy” and an “insurrectionist.”

“I think there’s an argument to be made about the industry. And when you’re clapping and a standing ovation after someone just assaulted someone on live television and now you’re applauding it,” Setmayer continued to press on to the chagrin of the rest of the cast.

Setmayer did have a point. These are the people who sat back and did nothing when Harvey Weinstein’s sick crimes were an “open secret.” And Goldberg herself was able to make a full return after making highly anti-Semitic statements about the Holocaust.

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Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:

ABC’s The View
31 March 2022
Eastern, 11:18.26

(…)

TARA SETMAYER. But they then gave him an standing ovation, Whoopi. Which I think goes back to the reason why many people believe Hollywood elites can be hypocrites. They make statements about moral superiority and politics, then stand there and get a standing ovation for Chris rock’s assault.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG (Shouting over Setmayer): I’m sorry. As one of those people — As one of those people, I’ve got to stop you because that’s –

SETMAYER

GOLDBERG Let me ask you a question.

SETMAYER – In the present though?

GOLDBERG, In the present. So you’re sitting there, you’ve just gone — oh, no. Now you are up. It’s not even your fault that you do something foolish.

SETMAYOR – There were times in between. There were times in between.

GOLDBERG – I am telling you about the people who were there.

JOY BEHAR: OK.

[Crosstalk]

GOLDBERG We work. We collect a check. We have families. Our families try to do the exact same thing as everyone else. It really bothers me when Hollywood workers, and not only actors but also all other people, do the same thing.

Please be precise when talking about actors. Don’t get mad at someone or their acting style. It’s the same as saying that black people are like chicken.

[Crosstalk]

SETMAYER: Well, not saying people don’t work for it but when you’re making millions of dollars, and —

GOLDBERG, Some make millions but not all.

SETMAYER – Average Americans view that as a way to see the world.

BEHAR: Tara, you know what? The whole Hollywood cast cannot be painted with one brush. You also can’t say that all of these Congressmen had an orgy. It’s the same idea.

SETMAYER: I think there’s an argument to be made about the industry. [Crosstalk] I think there’s an argument to be made about the industry. And when you’re clapping and a standing ovation after someone just assaulted someone on live television and now you’re applauding it, and then —

GOLDBERG — Do you really believe that they did? Just a second. Are you sure they did not applaud Chris’s hit on Chris rock, or was it just possible?

SETMAYER: So it’s group think. You don’t know. It’s just something I think is ugly.

[Crosstalk]

GOLDBERG Because they’re like, “Okay, everybody’s up.” I don’t know. Again, they weren’t there but I don’t doubt that I am. I know what it was like to be in such situations.

SETMAYER: It’s fair enough.

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