{"id":130183,"date":"2024-05-16T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/whoopi-goldberg-defends-harrison-butker-wtf\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:10:21","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-defends-harrison-butker-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/whoopi-goldberg-defends-harrison-butker-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg DEFENDS Harrison Butker! WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong> has one thing to say about <strong>Harrison Butker<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t been following, the <strong>Kansas City Chiefs<\/strong> kicker <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-harrison-butker-slammed-graduation-speech-taylor-swift-quote-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sparked fairly the outrage<\/a> after giving the graduation handle <strong>Benedictine College<\/strong> in Kansas over the weekend. He just about tried to stuff all girls into one field, saying their lives don\u2019t actually begin till they develop into homemakers. And the guarantees of profitable careers are simply \u201cdiabolical lies,\u201d regardless of his personal mom being <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-star-harrison-butker-mom-is-physicist-elizabeth-keller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an achieved physicist<\/a>. He additionally took intention on the \u201cdeadly sins\u201d of the LGBTQ+ group\u2026 Yeah. Not good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/nikki-glaser-calls-bs-tom-brady-roast-reaction-regret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Related: Nikki Glaser Calls BS On Tom Brady\u2019s Latest Roast Reaction!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch his full speech at your personal discretion (under):<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"-JS7RIKSaCc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harrison Butker | Commencement Address 2024 | Benedictine College\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JS7RIKSaCc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>People have rightly been OUTRAGED over the offensive speech, even calling on the <strong>NFL<\/strong>, who stated his views do <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/nfl-statement-harrison-butker-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not mirror the group<\/a>, to offer him the boot. But Whoopi is defending him! Kind of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <em>The View<\/em> on Thursday, the extremely achieved lady (don\u2019t neglect she\u2019s an\u00a0<strong>EGOT<\/strong>, y\u2019all!) wished to remind everybody he\u2019s entitled to the identical free speech everybody else is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cListen, I like when people say what they need to say. He\u2019s at a Catholic college, he\u2019s a staunch Catholic. These are his beliefs and he\u2019s welcome to them. I don\u2019t have to believe them. I don\u2019t have to accept them. The ladies that were sitting in that audience do not have to accept them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She then equated Harrison to former <strong>San Francisco 49ers<\/strong> quarterback <strong>Colin Kaepernick<\/strong>, who famously took a knee throughout the nationwide anthem to protest police brutality. She stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe same way we want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, we want to give respect to people whose ideas are different from ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 68-year-old even associated to the controversial 28-year-old with a few of the backlash she\u2019s confronted in her personal life:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re coming for me, I have the right to say what I say. He has the right to say what he says.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, <em>The Color Purple<\/em> star completed by discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/harrison-butker-petition-kick-off-kansas-city-chiefs-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition to have him eliminated<\/a> by the NFL:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you say to somebody, \u2018I don\u2019t like what you said and so I\u2019m going to get your job taken away because you disagree with me,\u2019 for me that is an issue. It happens to us all the time! That is why I am standing up for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We get that, after all we of all persons are for freedom of speech! But the place is the road? The man is actually saying it\u2019s an evil sin to be a member of the LGBT group. In a time when the hazard of each elimination of rights AND bodily assaults is growing every single day, this definitely not less than dances as much as the sting, proper? And don\u2019t the parents calling on the NFL to fireplace him\u00a0<em>additionally<\/em> have the precise to say that??<\/p>\n<p>Watch the total dialog (under):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AS31KJwZt98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AS31KJwZt98<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are your ideas right here, Perezcious readers? Can you see the place Whoopi\u2019s coming from? That she doesn\u2019t agree together with his phrases, however reasonably his proper to say what he feels he must say? Let us know down within the feedback.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Images via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AS31KJwZt98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JS7RIKSaCc&amp;t=271s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedictine College<\/a>\/YouTube]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Whoopi Goldberg has one thing to say about Harrison Butker! If you haven\u2019t been following, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker sparked fairly the outrage after giving the graduation handle Benedictine College in Kansas over the weekend. He just about tried to stuff all girls into one field, saying their lives don\u2019t actually begin till [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3759,517,3322,2082,3321,3471],"class_list":{"0":"post-130183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-butker","9":"tag-defends","10":"tag-goldberg","11":"tag-harrison","12":"tag-whoopi","13":"tag-wtf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}