Whoopi Wallops a Whiner

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

In an effort to reach voters who aren't regular consumers of the mainstream news sources, the Harris campaign has been booking Kamala and Tim and their spouses into some non-traditional news and information sources.  On Sunday Kamala Harris was a guest on the podcast "Call Her Daddy," a show directed toward young, adult women with an estimated following of five to ten million members in host Alex Cooper's "Daddy Gang."  Almost the entirety of that show focused on women's reproductive health care and abortion access.

Tuesday Harris was on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" where she and the host each cracked open a beer which they enjoyed as they discussed the election, Donald Trump, and world affairs.   Harris wisely chose a "Miller High Life" which is brewed in the politically important swing state of Wisconsin. 

Also on Tuesday Kamala Harris appeared on ABC's "The View" and participated in a political discussion with the show's multiple female hosts.  For some reason that appearance seemed to really get under Donald Trump's skin, and the next day he lashed out at Harris as well as two of the show's hosts.  While campaigning in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Trump verbally assaulted Harris calling her "grossly incompetent" and "totally ill-equipped" to be President.  Then he went after two of the show's hosts, both women of color.

In attacking Sunny Hostin, who is Black and Latina, Trump said, "That is one dumb woman.  Sorry.  I am sorry, women, she's a dummy."  (Psychologists call what Trump did there "projection," as he projects his own shortcomings onto others.). 

Trump attacked Hostin in Scranton.  Later in the day in Reading, Pennsylvania, he turned his fire on another of "The View" hosts, actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg.  Trump called the Black Ms. Goldberg "demented" and "foul mouthed."  Trump said he had hired the Academy-award winning actress once for a comedy event at his casino in Atlantic City, but said "her mouth was so foul" and her comedy set was "filthy, dirty, and disgusting."

The next day - Thursday - the hosts of "The View" fired back at their attacker, and Whoopi Goldberg in particular, directed some very pointed remarks at the politician.  She said:

"I was filthy and stand by that fact.  I have always been filthy, and you knew that when you hired me.  I headlined, babe, at your casino, which I might have continued to play had you not run it into the ground.  How dumb are you?  You hired me four times."

It sounds like Trump was a fan of Whoopi Goldberg's plainspokenness until she turned it on him.  

The needle on Donald Trump's moral compass also seems to be bent.   A recording of him talking about grabbing women by the genitals has been circulating for several years, last year he was found liable for sexual assault of a female newspaper columnist by a jury in New York, and this year he was convicted of 34 felonies in charges related to paying hush money to a porn star to cover-up an affair in order to keep it from impacting his election prospects in 2016.

But he who bellows loudest . . .