Whoopi Goldberg Rips Dems for Calling Biden a “Racist”: “Did He Have a Noose” in the Obama White House?

The women of The View are all in for Joe Biden. On Thursday morning, The View‘s panel stepped in to defend Biden from Democratic challengers suggesting that he’s “racist” for collaborating with segregationist politicians like Strom Thurmond. All five women laid into the candidates speaking out against Biden, including Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, but no one spoke as strongly as moderator Whoopi Goldberg. “You can’t call the dude a racist. He sat for eight years with a black guy!” she said of the former Vice President. “What, did he have a noose in the background?”

After introducing Hot Topic with clips of Biden, Booker, and Harris, Goldberg launched into a passionate monologue defending Biden from his critics. “You have to work with people you don’t like,” she said of segregationists like Thurmond, Richard Russell Jr., and Sam Ervin. “Beat Biden in the debates. If you can beat him, beat him. Don’t try to make him out a racist.” Goldberg went on to say that Biden can’t possibly be “a racist” because “he sat for eight years with a black guy” in the White House. “What, did he have a noose in the background?” she asked, earning her a massive round of applause from the audience.

Guest co-host Ana Navarro agreed. “I think Cory Booker is taking advantage of the situation to try to get some attention,” said Navarro. “You’re absolutely right: Joe Biden is not a racist.” While Sunny Hostin admitted that Biden has “racial blind spots,” she, too, agreed that the recent attacks on him are unfair. “I would never call him a racist when I believe we have a true racist in the White House,” said Hostin.

After the break, Meghan McCain finally got a chance to say her piece. After saying that Biden “had no choice to work” with Strom Thurmond “because he was elected” to serve his constituents, McCain ripped Democrats for consistently attacking one another. “To hold everyone’s history of public service — of who they were force to work with — against them, not only do I think is disingenuous, but I think it’s Democrat on Democrat cannibalization,” she said. “I think it’s ridiculous. And I don’t like the idea that we are holding people who have led their lives of public service, like Vice President Biden has done, against him.”

Watch a portion of The View‘s heated discussion, including Goldberg’s monologue, in the clip above.

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