Yahoo Lifestyle Whoopi Goldberg Slams White House Press Secretary: 'Do a Little Homework'
Whoopi Goldberg spoke out against one of the first statements made by new White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on the latest episode of The View.
On Wednesday, Jan. 29, Goldberg and her co-hosts discussed Leavitt's comments about the White House's decision to welcome social media influencers, content creators, and podcasters into the press room, with Goldberg addressing one remark in particular, according to TV Insider.
“I would like her to do a little homework because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off," Goldberg began. "And that was she said, ‘There will be no wokeness here.’ Oh, yeah, let me explain something to you, because without that wokeness, you might not have that job. Yeah, because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation.”
As Goldberg explained, "the reason we fought and busted our behinds [was] to make sure that you didn’t have to worry about this."
"And now to hear you talk about it, and to hear anybody talk about ‘the wokeness,’ the wokeness was put in place for a reason: because Black people couldn’t get into colleges, because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to," she continued.
"This is all women, see. This is not Black, Asian women. This is all women. Women were not invited to this party. It was a man’s world, and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person’s world. So please, please stop using that phrase and talking about this because you don’t understand what you’re saying.”
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As for the new types of outlets being invited to the White House, Goldberg seemed to have an open mind.
“The mistake is there’s too much BS floating out there, and now it’s out of our hands," she said. "There’s no way to control it. So now they’re saying they’re going to control it. I want to see what they’re going to do. I want to see who they’re going to invite into this because, quite honestly, I like when we’re held to standards. I don’t always like the way they do it, but we have to have ourselves together."
"We can’t just say stuff in spite of what they tell you," Goldberg added. "We can’t just spout stuff. So I want that for everybody, and if they’re going to guarantee that they're at the briefing, then I’ll be happy.”
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