Whoopi Goldberg: Sharpton should apologize to Duke lacrosse players

(VIDEO) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd0_1192025762&p=1

The Duke players can get in line behind Steven Pagones, who has been waiting 20 years for an apology.

Is, IMO, a celebrity meatball. :thumbsdown:

Why should anybody care what Whoopi thinks?!?

Sometimes Al Sharpton needs to keep his mouth shut until all the facts come out. Accusing people of rape without proof is beyond stupid, and sometimes he can remind me of Nancy Grace.

Bullshit! You know nothing! I guess you think the rapist were just a bunch of fine young white boys... victims of an evil black whore and the liberal media.

i dont have the facts and neither does al sharpton. The difference is, I dont go around accusing people of rape without facts. What was this post all about?

or are you reacting emotionally.

Or for that matter, ANY celebrity "meatball"?

It was on the Bill O'Reilly show.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192277,00.html

"I think that there are certainly a lot of racial factors. Whether it is directly in the case, we'll see, because some reports said that there was racial language used. But I think that when you look at the racial atmosphere, when you look at the fact that there again were the allegations of racial statements, when you look at a lot of people feeling that they have been treated differently, where this girl has basically had a character charged in the media, there is a lot of racism that's in the air. Having said that, I commend a lot of the blacks and whites who stood vigil and to come together in that community to stand up for this girl. So I think in the midst of this, there is some good."

"But I think that all of the facts that you have laid out the DA had — and I know this DA is probably not one that is crazy. He would not have proceeded if he did not feel that he could convict. So it tells me that all of what you said is either not true or he has convincing evidence that would certainly knock that out and no one is not letting him proceed."

Maybe Sharpton could acknowledge that he was wrong about Nifong....

He owes Nifong an apology.

:eyes:

because you've stopped making sense

I'm not the one going after Sharpton over those Duke boys.

That's as dumb as that thread blaming him for Bill O'Reilly's racist comments about black restaurants.

They hold him to a higher standard but give him the least amount of respect.

He said nothing worse than what the general public was saying at the time. People in the media have tried to criticize about what he said and when will he apologize. He's said publically that he was wrong about the case but this is never reported.

And yes Sharpton is held to high standard. He rightly is critical of the authorities in some cases, but suddenly becomes a defender of the authorities in others. A little consistency would go a long way.

I don't have a link. If you have access to Nexis-Lexis you could probably pull up some of his appearances.

about Nifong

Sometimes people feel if they can't find a link it didn't happen. I watched him say it on Fox and I heard it on his radio program. Lexis-Nexis is a great tool. This is a portion of the transcript from Fox:

<snip>
WALLACE: And, Reverend Sharpton, even after the case has been completely disproved, even after the attorney general in North Carolina has said that it was an overreaching, overzealous prosecutor, you're still not willing to say...

SHARPTON: Oh, absolutely, but...

WALLACE: ... "I, Reverend Sharpton, was wrong, I owe an apology to those students?" SHARPTON: ... you didn't ask that question. You did not ask that question.

WALLACE: Well, I'm asking it to you now, sir.

SHARPTON: I wish you would, rather than assume my answer. Not only would I said today I think clearly the prosecutor misled us, and that what happened to those young men were horrible, I said it on my show Friday. It said it immediately after it happened.

So to act as though I have not said that is not true. You should have asked that. I've said that as soon as it came down. I said it on my radio program Friday.

But again, you didn't ask that. You assumed an answer and put it in my mouth and then asked me to apologize for it.

<snip>

http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?risb=21_T2237762304&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T2237762309&cisb=22_T2237762308&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&selRCNodeID=15&nodeStateId=411en_US,1,4&docsInCategory=42&csi=174179&docNo=23

In the same way Jay Leno owes O.J. Simpson an apology.

Between someone who styles himself as a leader of a dignified movement and and late-night comedian.

Or are you just upset because you think OJ did it too?

And you're more than welcome to prove it wrong.

But I stopped caring about OJ ten years ago.

and you find out you are wrong - you apologize.

if he apologizes or not. Those who hate him will still hate him. What would be the point?

Good to hear say this

when she was involved with Cheers "bartender" . . .

What is unlikely is that two black women did themselves great harm -- one enacting a kidnapping and smearing feces all over her body; writing KKK, etal -- and the other facing racial taunts called at her from the "house" . . . and showing signs of having been sexually assaulted.

AND -- let's remind ourselves again --- DNA is not required to pursue a rape claim . . .
all that is required is penetration for it to be rape.

If you're referencing the Tawana Brawley thing, what are you trying to say. You seem confused

This nation is filled with people demanding apologies of other people.

And it's not only true of Republicans.

Dems are just as guilty of it.

Stop it.

If someone wants to apologize, we don't need to know about it, do we?

just makes them think people care what they think.

since then, and boy was Pagones ever owed an apology from Sharpton. He got money in a civil suit, but no apology. Doesn't say much for Sharpton imo.

he couldn't find it in himself to apologize to someone whose life he NEARLY RUINED. man, he's more like bush than he'd like to admit.
he reeks of hypocrisy.
i can't stand the man.

So I don't know much about it. Why hasn't Sharpton apologized to this guy? Or maybe he has, privately.

:shrug:

I'm in NY and I can tell you hell will freeze over before Sharpton ever admits he was wrong.