Whoopi turns 'election denier' in unhinged 'View' whoop-de-do
Amber Ruffin is the perfect political comic for our age. Thatâs not a compliment.
The former late-night host (does anyone remember her Peacock show?) is now the new voice of the resistance alongside Colbert and co.
Lucas wasnât shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost.
Ruffin gained attention after she was hired and later fired from being the comic host of last monthâs White House Correspondentsâ Association D.C. gala. The not-so-august body realized Ruffinâs hard-left shtick wouldnât mesh with its laughable attempt to play the âwe donât choose sides, yâallâ card.
Ruffin has never been THAT funny.
Now, sheâs riding that cancellation wave to accidentally remind us the WHCA got it right the second time. Sheâs too unhinged even for late-night TV (but not âThe Viewâ).
First, she promoted the âvery fine peopleâ hoax to smite President Donald Trump, as if everyone with a functioning brain didnât know itâs been repeatedly debunked, even by the liberal Snopes.
Now, sheâs warning us on, where else, âThe Viewâ that President Trump will keep âdisappearingâ people who cross him. She also suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will start abducting autistic children.
Even âThe Viewâ producers must have blinked hard on that twofer. Hereâs betting the showâs legal team brewed a few extra pots of joe that day ...
'Sith' happens
âStar Warsâ fans once hated franchise creator George Lucas so much they made a movie about it. The 2010 documentary âThe People vs. George Lucasâ let fans take Lucas to the nerd woodshed. They roasted the filmmaker for replacing the original film trilogy with an âupdatedâ version that messed with core parts of the saga.
Google âHan shot firstâ to get the gist of the debate. The trio of underwhelming prequels Lucas delivered added fuel to the fire.
Now? Well, after a decade of Disney-produced âStar Warsâ content, some, if not all, is forgiven. The 20th anniversary rerelease of âStar Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sithâ (written and directed by Lucas) made a shocking $25 million last weekend. Thatâs more than many new films earn in their opening frames.
Why? âSithâ was better than we remember, for starters. Plus, âwokeâ wasnât even a thing back in 2005. Lucas wasnât shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost. Thatâs all. Now, thatâs more than enough.
Maybe, the one sequel we need is âThe People vs. George Lucas 2: The Apologyâ ...
Off-key
Neil Young canât stop embarrassing himself.
Itâs bad enough that the former free speech warrior tried to get Joe Rogan canceled for sharing the âwrongâ pandemic views on his Spotify platform. It got worse when Young ripped his music off the platform in protest and, later, quietly put it back in.
Now, Young is barking at Elon Muskâs EV company Tesla via song, and both the lyrics and the message couldnât be more muddled.
âCome on Ford, come on GM / Come on Chrysler, letâs roll again ... Chinaâs way ahead, theyâre making clean cars,â Young sang at a recent concert. Guess he hasnât heard about Chinaâs affinity for not-so-clean coal plants.
Need more lyrics?
âIf youâre a Democrat, taste your freedom / Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.â
Oh, and the song calls Telsa owners âfascists.â
Weâve lost David Crosby, sadly, but canât the surviving members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young stage an intervention?
Whoopi's whoopsie
Another day, another unhinged conspiracy on âThe View.â
This time, Whoopi Goldberg got the ball rolling by suggesting President Donald Trump fixed the 2024 presidential election. Quick! Get Robert Mueller on line one! The walls are closing in!
I want to remind people that [Trump] took credit for Bidenâs economy â BOOMING economy, claiming investors knew he was going to win. I think he should stop saying that because youâre going to make somebody investigate how investigators would know you were going to win. I'm just putting that out there. You know.
Hey, sheâs just asking questions. And since itâs âThe View,â the questions remain nuclear-grade dumb.