Shut Up, Whoopi

If you’re reading this blog, you’re almost certainly familiar with the ongoing Mel Gibson chronicles. But in case you haven’t been following FilmDrunk’s excellent coverage, Gibson has expanded his previous “sugartits/Jew-blaming” policy to include liberal use of the N-word and C-word, referring to Mexicans as “wetbacks,” and very specific and vehement demands for fellatio.

Yet Whoopi Goldberg, whom Mel Gibson could very easily call the N-Word and the C-word (he also might accuse her of controlling the banks because of her last name), stuck up for Gibson on “The View.”

“I know Mel, and I know he’s not a racist,” Whoopi said on ‘The View’ on Monday, seeming both earnest and cautious to weigh in. “I have had a long friendship with Mel. You can say he’s being a bonehead, but I can’t sit and say that he’s a racist having spent time with him in my house with my kids. I don’t like what he’s done, make no mistake.”

When Joy Behar asked if Goldberg considered Gibson anti-Semitic after his 2006 tirade against a Jewish police officer in LA , Goldberg began calling him “an ass” before stifling herself. Whoopi then pinpointed alcohol as the culprit. “Drunks say stupid stuff to people all the time — because they’re drunk, they’re out of control, they are not thinking, they are idiotic. I can’t say anything about people like that because I know what they’re like when they’re drunk. This rant? I don’t think he’s drunk on this rant.”

Whoopi concluded: “I’m not defending Mel. I’m simply saying I don’t see him as [a racist] because that’s not been my experience with him.” [Popeater]

Well, I think that’s a real feather in Mel’s cap. He doesn’t call black people “n***er” to their face.