During a Monday segment on The View,
Whoopi Goldberg blasted Michele Bachmann for signing an anti-gay
marriage pledge.
While Goldberg, who
supports marriage equality, said she disagreed with the
Iowa-based Christian conservative group The Family Leader's decision
to include the issue of gay marriage in the document, she blasted the
group for the pledge's racial overtones.
The original two-page document included
the passage that an African-America baby born into slavery in 1860
was more likely to be raised in a two-parent household than after the
nation elected its first African-American president.
Bachmann
and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum signed the pledge
before the group removed the passage.
“I am starting to feel like there's
some kind of racial thing going around,” Goldberg told the
panelists. “Now I realize that I'm not supposed to jump to that
conclusion. I'm not supposed to automatically assume there's
something racial, but damn it I am sick of this crap!”
“Could you people get your act
together,” she said, pointing a finger at the camera. “You don't
know anything about how slaves raised their kids or why people were
together. Just don't add stuff like that if you don't know what
you're talking about!”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the most
conservative woman on the panel, suggested Bachmann had derailed her
own campaign: “It's pretty ridiculous the signing of this thing,
all in all. And I think it may put the nail in the coffin for any
sort of chance for Bachmann moving forward.” (The video is
embedded in the right panel of this page.)
(Related: Gary
Johnson offended by anti-gay marriage pledge.)