Vick INDICTED!

[elizabethann]

Okay...so Whoopie is getting into the action:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14040573/detail.html

[shais_mom]

what little respect I had for Goldburg just whoopied out the window.
I'm so sick of celebrities PUSHING their views down the throats of people. Alec Baldwin, Kim Bassinger, Daryl Hannah, Tom Cruise, Whoopi, Rosie. ack
disgusting.
I wonder if this will be the downfall of Whoopie's tour of duty on the view??

[Jessika]

Okay...so Whoopie is getting into the action:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14040573/detail.html

UGH, you have GOT to be joking!! How can they POSSIBLY think they can justify his actions by saying its "part of his cultural upbringing"?! So you're saying if part of my cultural upbringing was being racist and having blacks as slaves, and I was caught having a black slave, that would be ok?!?!?!

[lizbud]

UGH, you have GOT to be joking!! How can they POSSIBLY think they can justify his actions by saying its "part of his cultural upbringing"?! So you're saying if part of my cultural upbringing was being racist and having blacks as slaves, and I was caught having a black slave, that would be ok?!?!?!

The link given doesn't work for me.Did she try to excuse Vicks behavior?

[elizabethann]

The link given doesn't work for me.Did she try to excuse Vicks behavior?

She tries to justify his behaviour. It's how Vick was brought up...that part of the country.

I hope The View's ratings plummet and they fire her a$$.

[shais_mom]

She tries to justify his behaviour. It's how Vick was brought up...that part of the country.

I hope The View's ratings plummet and they fire her a$$.

I think the link doesn't work b/c for some strange reason there is an extra http:// in it at the end - if you edit it might work
I don't know why it worked for me first and now it doesn't.

this should work
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14040573/detail.html

b/c this is the way it shows up in my email notification

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14040573/detail.html (http://)
but now I'm confused b/c both links work...

[elizabethann]

Check this out: http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/04/humane...alking-points/

The Humane Society is auctioning off his talking points.

[K9soul]

Check this out: http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/04/humane...alking-points/

The Humane Society is auctioning off his talking points.

I went to the ebay auction for Vick's speech notes and see it has 25 bids already and up to $1000. I wonder what that will go for. Here is the item description on the auction:

This sheet of paper was discarded at the podium after Michael Vick's apology on August 28th, 2007 at the Omni Hotel in Richmond. Found by an HSUS employee, it appears to be Vick's own talking points from his first public statement after his guilty plea for crimes related to dogfighting.

Ironically, Vick never got to the last three words, "dogs have suffered", which had clearly been added as an afterthought.
This piece of memorabilia culminates the nation's most notorious celebrity cruelty case. It is a symbol of the downfall of a superstar's career but also of the historical event that brought light to the cruel and illegal business of dogfighting in America.

Auction is here: Ebay auction

[ratdogg]

this should work
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14040573/detail.html

After reading the article I think Whoopi wanted to do something sensational on her first day to create controversy and get attention. It's sad she picked the Vick case as a publicity stunt. I'm sure she can't believe what she was saying. She's worse than Rosie

[lady_zana]

It's okay because he's from the South? That's the "well, everyone else is doing it so it must be okay" excuse.

I'm from a rural Kentucky town. Therefore, I guess I must be pregnant and on welfare...I wish I had known this! Just because of where you live and the fact a certain action (like dogfighting) is seen or done there often, doesn't make it right.

I don't want to be stereotyped as a certain way just because I'm from a rural area and now Goldberg is saying that it's okay for him to dogfight because that's why people from around there do? A thumbs down for her in my book, on the dogfighting account and another one down because of the okaying of stereotyping.

I never watch The View anymore and haven't in a long time. I'm glad, though, they have reminded me why I stopped.

[lizbud]

I found the article & did read it. I am super disappointed in Whoopi for
even bringing his name up at all. What's she doing, playing for ratings?

It's understandable because he was raised that way? BS. It is against the
law in every state & has been for years.. The culture thing won't get it.

[shais_mom]

The link given doesn't work for me.Did she try to excuse Vicks behavior?

it didn't work for me either the first time but then I clicked on it a minute later and it worked.
Yup she started out her first day of the View defending him b/c where he comes from its a culture and socially acceptable.

[lady_zana]

UGH, you have GOT to be joking!! How can they POSSIBLY think they can justify his actions by saying its "part of his cultural upbringing"?! So you're saying if part of my cultural upbringing was being racist and having blacks as slaves, and I was caught having a black slave, that would be ok?!?!?!

That's a good example of how cultures can change. It hasn't been socially acceptable to own a slave in close to two hundred years....but at one time it was.

Just because it was socially acceptable at one time to do an action doesn't mean it will always be that way. If enough people realize the stupidity of their actions, things will change. The "it's my culture" excuse doesn't wash with me.