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Whoopie defends Vick
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janders894
Posted: 5:28:28 PM 9/4/2007
http://tv.yahoo.com/show/253/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070904:tv_goldberg_vick__ER:66890

I can't even believe what she says. A southern thing? Not around here it isn't.
It works if you copy and paste. I guess it was too long?
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savannah
Posted: 5:30:21 PM 9/4/2007
howdy :-) link did not work for me
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dusty082155
Posted: 5:31:41 PM 9/4/2007
You have to copy and paste the entire link for it to work

http://tv.yahoo.com/show/253/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070904:tv_goldberg_vick__ER:66890
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Posted: 5:32:00 PM 9/4/2007
If she is defending him, she is just as guilty.
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janders894
Posted: 5:33:52 PM 9/4/2007
LOL dusty, it did the same to you. I guess it is the characters that are in the link. But cutting and pasting does work.
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Paws4ever
Posted: 5:34:42 PM 9/4/2007
I never cared for her, anyways.
alicat1
Posted: 5:40:39 PM 9/4/2007
I think it is kind of sensationalism.

Whoopi saying "from where he comes from" in the South, dogfighting isn't that unusual."

That statement isn't really support, like it or not, it is pretty much fact.

Her other statement was that for many people dogs are sport (again, true) and that it appeared it took awhile for Vick to realize that he was up against serious charges.

Again, that is how it appears to some.

I did not see the segment, of the view, but if it is as the article is written I see no sympathy or support from Whoopi, maybe more like reasoning.
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kdubbs27
Posted: 5:45:41 PM 9/4/2007
EVEN if he was "raised" to not think it is bad.... they do it undercover for ONE REASON, because they know it is illegal.

That is where the thrill comes from. At least part of it. So, no, they were not UNAWARE of the seriousness of the charges. Unless one can be "unaware" of the seriousness of any charges, like, murder, for example.
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dusty082155
Posted: 5:52:00 PM 9/4/2007
I agree kdubbs27. They know the difference between right and wrong. Because something may be more prevalent in certain states, it does not give anyone the right to commit crimes there. Dog fighting is wrong, no matter which state it is happening in. And ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.
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rowdyrotts
Posted: 5:53:34 PM 9/4/2007
Not so many years ago, slavery was also a "southern thing". Wonder if she thinks that was O.K ????
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alicat1
Posted: 6:06:53 PM 9/4/2007
Last winter Michael Vick tried to sneak marijuana on a plane on his water bottle. The dude isn't too bright and he doesn't appear to respect most laws.

I don't know though I think for what ever reasons people are harder on Vick than they were for Michael Jackson molesting kids. Vick is going to prison, Jackson is in another country still molesting kids.
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khyorkies
Posted: 6:16:07 PM 9/4/2007
Rowdyrotts: Thats telling them and I agree 101%
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Windy Valley
Posted: 7:13:56 PM 9/4/2007
I saw the show today, and was appalled at her comments. I have send an email to Bill Getty regarding her statements. I also told them that wearing white sheets and burning crosses on lawns to was a southern cultural thing, but is really not acceptable behavoir. And that Vick and his associates were fully aware that what they were doing was illegal.
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Rebel
Posted: 7:55:56 PM 9/4/2007
I found Whoopi's comments nothing short of sickening. Being from the south I am disgusted by her blankets statements concerning the south. Not everyone from the south is like Vick.

Here is the segment of what she said on the view. Its a video:
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5231
alicat1
Posted: 8:07:13 PM 9/4/2007
Why doesn't everyone string her up and make an example of her too? Not once and I mean not once was she condoning or agreeing with what was done to the dogs.

In the WHOLE conversation dog fighting was compared to other ILLEGAL social problems that are prevalent in certain sub-cultures. It was an intelligent conversation, NOT an endorsement of the activity.

SHE CLEARLY SAYS that 'they'(meaning dog fighters) don't think of dogs in the same way 'WE' (meaning her--normal society) do. If anything, that is implying that she does NOT support dog fighting.

Because I am talking about the issue, does that mean I support it? Not in this reality. I think talking about it, is GOOD, it makes people aware of the problem.

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doglover42
Posted: 8:42:48 PM 9/4/2007
kdubbs, that is a very good point. :) The computer isn't letting me use the link but I do find that interesting. =/
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Paws4ever
Posted: 11:27:39 PM 9/4/2007
Isn't it amazing the other people on "The Views" panel didn't defend the poor animals? They "copped out." Barbara Walters is weak and afraid of Whoopi.
pope1982
Posted: 11:54:23 PM 9/4/2007
It must not be that common of a practice down there, on the News they showed an interview with an older gentleman from his family and he just kept saying it didn't sound like the little boy he has known all his life.

He just kept repeating "dog fighting" with disbelief.

How's this for rationalizing? I don't care where you are brought up, if you can sit there and not only watch, but arrange for animals rip each other to pieces, no doubt you are scum of the earth and it's a matter of time before you push the limits and end up in jail anyhow because you are missing an important emotion and judgement that makes you decent human.

I was really taken a back with the old interview they played from when he first became a big deal. The interviewer asked Vick the question; "What are three things nobody knows about Michael Vick..." and his first response, "I am an animal lover."

A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip.
pope1982
Posted: 12:05:09 AM 9/5/2007
By the way, sweet tea is a "Southern thing".
A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip.
janders894
Posted: 9:23:16 AM 9/5/2007
Well, I am from the south. In a small little town full of red necks. And I couldn't even tell you where to find a dog fighting place.
It is such a cop out to say that just because he is from the south, he doesn't know any better.

Just because we talk slow, doesn't mean we are slow.
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