Truth to Power

Hey Whoopi…We used to hang people like you. That ok too?

Whoopi Goldberg started her stint on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday by coming to the defense of convicted felon Michael Vick.

Just 15 minutes into the show she brought up Vick’s conviction on dogfighting charges.

“You know from his background this is not an unusual thing for where he comes from,” said Goldberg.

“There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country.”</em>

Yeah? Heres another of our southern favorites:

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Michael Vick is a sadist, a sociopath. A person who cannot empathize with the pain he causes another living thing is a person that scares me. Just as I am disgusted with the images of people hanging from trees, this sickens me as well:

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The southern culture does not condone the torture of animals any more than it condones the lynching of blacks. To be sure, there are a few sadistic idiots such as Vick- and his defenders- who feel otherwise. But they would be insanely, brutalizingly stupid anywhere they lived.

Much like you, Whoopi. Why don’t you think before you excuse the actions of a unredeemable asshole like Vick, and slander an entire section of the country with your hillbilly stereotypes? I’m glad Michael Vick is going to jail, and I fervently hope that his football career is over.

And yours too, Whoopi. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, and I hope your 15 minutes of fame ends with this inspid, prejudical outpouring of verbal stupidity. As a pet owner, as a southener, and as a human, I say to Whoopi, stop excusing depraved behavior based on your ignorant reverse racism. We’re better than that down here.

And we’re surely better than you and Michael Vick. You both should be put in a cage with a pitbull.


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