Jealous, Whoopi?

Whoopi Goldberg really doesn't like Sarah Palin. Though, I think Sarah Palin needn’t worry. Even after she lost the vice-presidency, Palin remains the most-googled public figure 9 months after the election.

Whoopi takes full advantage of her Constitutional right to free speech against the former VP pick. (Which, you know only raises the Google hits). Truth be told, I think she sees Palin as a threat to her very existence. Indeed she should. Sarah stands against everything Whoopi holds dear. This sheer disdain that Whoopi holds for Sarah only shows her deep-seated insecurities.

It is not surprising or interesting that Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t like Sarah Palin. Just like it is not surprising or interesting that say, Stephen Baldwin wouldn’t be on board with any of Obama’s picks. What makes it stand out is the amount of time Goldberg spends talking about why it is that Sarah Palin is so horrible. This goes beyond passion for politics. She takes any and every opportunity to completely bash the former VP pick, which you know, no one else is doing, Way to go, Whoopi for doing a new thing.

Goldberg posed a question to Republicans on the Campbell Brown show; after hinting that Palin was too extreme in her beliefs (kind of like Obama’s or Biden’s extreme views, which she prefers), and pointing out many of the widely held “misspeaks” attributed to Palin, she asks, “Is this really the woman you want representing your party?”

After my resounding “Hell, yeah!,” The only conclusion I can come to is that the bawdy, self-important actress is so threatened by Palin, that she takes any outlet to vent her angst.

What’s ironic is that last year Whoopi came to her defense on The View.

Apparently, she’s had a change of heart. Since then, Sarah Palin has morphed into pure evil. She writes extensively in her WowOWow column about Sarah,calling her a “very dangerous woman.” Whoopi has a whole laundry list of complaints about Sarah that she’ll list on cue to anyone who will listen on The View.

Though she steers clear of personal slander, she stays true to the rest of her party, by doing it the easy way by accusing before checking her facts. Her list includes the would-be important issue of Palin supporting Alaskan succession (she means secession). I say “would-be” if only it were true.

She also brings up another would-be important issue of banning books, which is another mistruth.

She scorns Palin’s lack of experience saying, “She feels that her governorship qualifies her to be the VP. She has no foreign policy experience, she doesn’t have very much experience with anything but Alaska, and being governor, as we know, is not necessarily a carte blanche to being president.” This has to be a joke, given Obama’s minute comparative experience, and more importantly Goldberg’s experience in anything besides acting or running her mouth. What expertise does she have on these things?

She points out the “inaccuracy” of Palin’s treatment of unwed white mothers and unwed black mothers. Whoopi thinks it’s a double standard to refer to black mothers as “welfare moms.” It would be, but she wasn’t just talking about black mothers. And I doubt Bristol Palin asked the government to pay for her out-of-wedlock child. Besides, if anything, she has stuck to her standards by not aborting, not covering it up, and standing by Bristol.

On Campbell Brown’s show, Whoopi expresses her concern that Sarah Palin was “pretending to be dumb…I thought that she was much smarter than she let on and it irritated the hell out of me.” She also mentioned “meanness and snideness,” which I don’t think were there, but find extremely interesting that Whoopi Goldberg would have a problem with it if it were since she herself utilizes those traits weekly.

So what is Whoopi’s, or anyone’s, beef with Sarah Palin? What is it about her that is so polarizing? Sarah truly does raise the bar for women. I don’t blame her for being scared of the beautiful governor who truly does have it all, and epitomizes the goal of feminism more than Whoopi ever will.

c. 2009