I enjoyed watching "The View" when Rosie was on, although not nearly as much as I enjoyed her original talk-show. I always felt like Rosie behaved the way I would if I were meeting a famous person. She was star-struck and charming, and often made a fool of herself over her guests. I lived vicariously through her.Then, of course, she became an opinionated, political, out lesbian. But I still enjoyed the banter on "The View." She kept it fun and interesting, and I was always sort of waiting for her to take on right-wing, Bible-thumping, brainless "Survivor" loser Elisabeth. When they finally duked it out, it was fun, albeit short-lived.
After Whoopi came on, I watched for about a month. Then she announced she was quitting smoking, and the show became "Whoopi's On-Air Therapy." The whole "hot topics" segment lost its edge. And the appearance of lame-brained Sherri Shepherd only added to the inanity.
But the crowning moment came yesterday, when I read this gem:
Whoopi Goldberg seemed sad and choked up on "The View" Monday when her fellow co-hosts discussed how she was not included in a montage featuring Oscar hosts during the Academy Awards telecast.
The 52-year-old Goldberg has received two Oscar nominations, winning for her role as Oda Mae Brown in 1990's "Ghost." She hosted the event in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002. She did, however, appear as an Oscar winner in a separate montage Sunday night.
Goldberg appeared stumped that the academy would leave her out of the one clip, as well as repeat host Steve Martin.
"Maybe they accidentally lost a clip of you hosting. ... But I think it's wrong," Elisabeth Hasselbeck said. Joy Behar said "being slighted is never fun." Sherri Shepherd wondered if Goldberg had made someone mad.
"Undoubtedly," Goldberg said, smiling. "Undoubtedly I (bleeped) somebody off yet again. You know what, I don't — I don't know."
"Hey, we think you're a great host," reassured Barbara Walters, the creator of the ABC chatfest.
"I think we should do our own montage of you to make up for it," Hasselbeck said.
"This makes up for it," Goldberg responded, before getting up and kissing each co-host on the cheek. She and Walters embraced.
WTF??!!? Get over yourself, Whoopi. You've come down quite a few pegs since "The Color Purple," child. I mean, "Hollywood Squares?"
And, really, your hosting of the Oscars was not good. Period.
Now, suck it up and move on, crybaby.
