Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” was the most recent guest to retract comments she made tying the right-wing group Turning Point USA to neo-Nazis on Thursday
“In Monday’s conversation about Turning Point USA, I put the young people at the conference in the same category as the protesters outside, and I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me,” Whoopi Goldberg said. “And it’s not any better when I make assumptions about other people, which I did. So, my bad, I’m sorry.”
The brief apology, the latest development after the ABC talk program was faced with legal action, failed to specifically mention that the ostensible “protesters” were White nationalists.
Following demonstrations by White supremacists outside of its TPUSA Student Action Summit last weekend in Tampa, Florida, Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar said something that Turning Point termed defamatory.
The argument began on Monday when Behar scolded the group for making fun of the extravagant event while the “View” co-hosts made fun of the presence of neo-Nazi demonstrators outside the venue.
The Florida governor was then accused of doing “nothing,” although she omitted to add that the Republican governor had visited the rally the day before neo-Nazis made an appearance.
Turning Point USA criticized the neo-Nazi demonstrators who had “nothing to do” with the organization, according to an on-air legal disclaimer read by “The View” later in the program.
Whoopi Goldberg and “The View” are no strangers to controversy, especially when it comes to discussing Nazis. When she claimed the Holocaust was “not about race” and implied Jews and Gypsies who were persecuted by the Third Reich were “two White groups of people,” Goldberg was fired from the program earlier this year.
