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This Week’s Funniest Blunder: ABC Host Whoopi Goldberg Hating on ABC’s ‘American Idol’<!-- wp:html --><p>Lou Rocco</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whoopi-goldberg-chastises-the-view-crowd-for-booing-gop-guv-no-no-no">Whoopi Goldberg</a> has a bit of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whoopi-goldberg-doubling-down-on-holocaust-comments">a reputation for forgetting to think before she speaks</a> on <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/the-view"><em>The View</em></a>, and a comment she made earlier this week only added to it. During Wednesday’s live taping of the ABC talk show, the co-host slipped up, by talking smack about a show that <em>also </em>airs on ABC. Whoopi, you’ve got to keep it all in the family!</p> <p>“We, as a society, love to watch stuff to judge folks,” Goldberg said. “I’ve always thought that the beginning of the downfall of society was with—what’s the name of that show? I always tell you that,” she continued, pointing to an off-screen producer for help with the show’s title.</p> <p>The at-first unseen producer, who seemed to want to suggest that Goldberg stop denouncing a fellow ABC series, responded, “ABC’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-14-biggest-freaks-of-the-idol-auditions"><em>American Idol</em></a>?”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-put-on-blast-for-american-idol-hate">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Lou Rocco

Whoopi Goldberg has a bit of a reputation for forgetting to think before she speaks on The View, and a comment she made earlier this week only added to it. During Wednesday’s live taping of the ABC talk show, the co-host slipped up, by talking smack about a show that also airs on ABC. Whoopi, you’ve got to keep it all in the family!

“We, as a society, love to watch stuff to judge folks,” Goldberg said. “I’ve always thought that the beginning of the downfall of society was with—what’s the name of that show? I always tell you that,” she continued, pointing to an off-screen producer for help with the show’s title.

The at-first unseen producer, who seemed to want to suggest that Goldberg stop denouncing a fellow ABC series, responded, “ABC’s American Idol?”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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