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Whoopi Goldberg confirms her Trump Derangement Syndrome diagnosis by throwing guest Jeanine Pirro off The View
July 20, 2018 Whoopi Goldberg confirms her Trump Derangement Syndrome diagnosis by throwing guest Jeanine Pirro off The View By Thomas Lifson
Trump-hatred has become a cult, one whose members cannot tolerate anyone contradicting their beliefs. Trump Derangement Syndrome is the effect of the cult acting on a mind already loosely tethered to reality. The result was on display yesterday on the daytime talk show The View. Minyvonne Burk described the scene for the U.K. Daily Mail:
Zitat Whoopi Goldberg exploded on Judge Jeanine Pirro in a fiery on-air debate about president Donald Trump on Thursday's episode of The View.
Towards the end of the show, Pirro praised Trump with lowering the unemployment rate for the first time in 50 years for 'minorities, Hispanics and African Americans' but Goldberg and fellow The View co-host Sunny Hostin said the credit should be given to former president Barack Obama.
Pirro fired back saying: 'You're suffering from Trump derangement in this room.'
The mantra that Barack Obama deserves credit for the economic growth that resulted from tax and regulatory cuts made by President Trump does not withstand scrutiny, which is why calling it out as a derangement triggered such a strong reaction:
Zitat Her remark set off a chain reaction that blew up the segment, caused a massive argument backstage and saw the judge kicked out of the building, she later told The Sean Hannity Show.
In terms appropriate to the situation, Pirro committed heresy against the gospel of the Trump-hating cult. And heresies must be punished, especially when the cult feels itself under pressure. A screaming match and ejection of her guest from the building are not by any measure "normal" behavior for a television host. Violation of basic norms of professionalism is a sign of actual derangement. The TDS diagnosis is confirmed.
Here is video of the segment, via Grabien: .........................................................
Appearing on Hannity last night, Judge Pirro described the backstage scene she confronted:
Ms. Goldberg had better watch her back – not from angry Trump-supporters or Judge Pirro. Cults inevitably turn inward and seek to purge themselves of members who don't measure up to the most extreme version of the cult's doctrines. And Ms. Goldberg is flagrantly in violation of one of the key doctrines of the progressive mindset: cultural appropriation. Her real name is Cary Elaine Johnson, and she took on a characteristically Jewish name as a means of publicizing herself and administering a minor shock through the means of being a black with a Jewish name. This inherently holds a Jewish identity up for mockery.
ZitatWhoopi Goldberg is responding to Judge Jeanine Pirro's accusations that "The View" host told her to "get the f— out" when she was a guest on the show.
Goldberg said that Pirro "left a lot of pertinent stuff out" in her version of the story she told on Fox News. Goldberg also said she had "choice words" for the judge after Pirro called "The View" hosts "a name I cannot repeat on TV."
[snip]
Goldberg said that there were a lot of people backstage who could have witnessed the exchange and that she wanted to "be very clear about what happened."
"So, there's a lot of spinning she's doing and I can't do anything about that, but I can tell you what went on," she continued.
Goldberg said Pirro was "upset" when she arrived because Republican strategist and political commentator Anna Navarro was on the set instead of Joy Behar. When the segment ended — on time, Goldberg said — "she then called everybody at the table a name I cannot repeat on TV and said it in front of the audience."
"When I came off stage, I went off there cause I was a little hot, okay? So I went to calm down," Goldberg went on, saying that when Pirro came off stage she stopped in front of her "and put a finger in my face and yelled 'I've done more for victims than you ever will.'"
Goldberg said that she responded with "some few choice words I cannot repeat. Yes, I did say it, I did say it, but I did not spit on her, I did not intimidate her, no one chased her out of here saying 'get out,' but she did leave here cursing at the people who book the show, she cursed at the guys who do the security for the show."
Goldberg ended by stating:
ZitatWe treat everybody with respect," Goldberg said. "But you cannot come and call people names."
, which is really quite rich given some of the things Behar, Hostin, and even Goldberg have said about the President.