{"id":11235,"date":"2025-06-22T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:04:07","slug":"bill-maher-slams-whoopi-goldberg-over-iran-comments-on-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11235","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher slams Whoopi Goldberg over Iran comments on The View"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bill Maher criticized The View and its co-host Whoopi Goldberg on his show Real Time Friday night, calling on Democrats to \u201cdo something\u201d after Goldberg compared the Black American experience to life under Iran\u2019s theocratic regime.<\/p>\n<p>Maher began by praising The New York Times for taking what he called a \u201csensible liberal\u201d stance on transgender issues, suggesting it marked a return to sanity for Democrats. But he followed up with a jab at The View, saying the next step for the party should be addressing the controversial remarks coming from its popular daytime show.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy stems from a heated exchange between Goldberg and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who highlighted Iran\u2019s documented human rights violations\u2014such as the execution of LGBTQ individuals and arrests of women for not covering their hair. Goldberg responded by pointing to America\u2019s history of lynching and violence against Black and gay citizens, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s not do that\u2026 we used to just keep hanging Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas Representative Wesley Hunt, a guest on Maher\u2019s show, rejected Goldberg\u2019s comparison. \u201cI don\u2019t ever want to hear Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s conversation about how it\u2019s worse to be Black in America right now,\u201d said Hunt, noting his success as a Black Republican elected in a white-majority district.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt also emphasized generational progress in his family, stating his father grew up under Jim Crow and is now the father of a U.S. Congressman.<\/p>\n<p>The episode reignited debates around race, free speech, and media responsibility, with Maher\u2019s comments adding to growing scrutiny of The View\u2019s political influence.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher criticized The View and its co-host Whoopi Goldberg on his show Real Time Friday night, calling on Democrats to \u201cdo something\u201d after Goldberg compared the Black American experience to life under Iran\u2019s theocratic regime. Maher began by praising The New York Times for taking what he called a \u201csensible liberal\u201d stance on transgender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}