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| 3some sex anyone? - Whoopi Goldberg: Pelosi Admirer Extraordinaire |
| 2007-10-03 |
| Sure, politicians always appreciate a warm welcome when they appear on daytime TV talk shows. But the welcome House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got today on ABC's chick TV show "The View" was more than warm - it was downright steamy. Even before Pelosi walked on stage to take her seat at the round table, the show's moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, and its co-hosts - with former news anchor Barbara Walters leading the pack - started flirting with the speaker's husband, Paul, who was seated in the front row. "You wanna take a look at Nancy Pelosi's handsome husband?" Walters asked the audience. Yes, came the answer in the form of whooping and hollering. Poor guy was actually blushing. Then the show's hosts asked him how long he and Madame Speaker have been married. "Forty-four years," Mr. Pelosi managed between pained glances in the direction of a blanket, a paper bag, anything to hide under. Whoopi got the pleasure of introducing Speaker Pelosi, who she noted is the first woman speaker of the House who, somewhere along the way, managed to raise five children. But Walters was still stuck on Mr. Pelosi, unfortunately for Mr. Pelosi. And this is where a little blushing turned to a Code Red alert, four-alarm fire. Trying to shout over Whoopi and her other gabbing co-hosts and excited audience members, Barbara turned to Guest Pelosi and said she has heard Whoopi say before that she'd "do Paul Newman." "And I think she'd like to do your husband as well," Walters deadpanned in that quintessential accent that made her the subject of late-night lampooning over the decades. Of course, Whoopi being Whoopi, she couldn't let that one go, which is where the speaker begins blushing. Yes, Whoopi implicitly acknowledged, she'd like to do Mr. Pelosi - but she might take his wife while she's at it. "I would do her as well. But we should wait on that because you're still in office, I don't want to cause a problem." Oh dear, would this were not live TV. As you might expect, Speaker Pelosi remained silent underneath her signature permanent smile. And her press office later remained predictably mum on the specter of Whoopi-on-Speaker action. "She enjoyed being on the show," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly told us via email. "It was a fun chance to talk to (primarily) women around the country about what Democrats are doing in Congress." And he said Pelosi enjoyed her little thrust and parry with the show's token conservative host, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who challenged the speaker's opposition to the troop surge in Iraq. As for what Pelosi thinks of Whoopi's wild crush on her and her hubby, Daly said in an email, "Didn't get to ask her about Whoopi comments..." Yeah, we didn't expect so. |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #13 Don't forget Seven of Nine, Joe. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-10-03 21:08 |
| #12 FARK > first UHURA vv RODDENBERRY's, now Whoopi??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-03 21:07 |
| #11 I guess I will skip dinner tonight. The image of Whoopie Goldberg and the Pelosis having a ménage à trois is just too much--or as Goldberg said on national TV, she would "Do both of them." Sometimes one just can't get ugly out of their head. I never watch the View. I am reminded why by this article. Just when you think TV can't sink lower, it does. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-10-03 17:34 |
| #10 I had her. They ain't missing much. |
| Posted by: Ted Danson 2007-10-03 15:30 |
| #9 The bar has been lowered into the mud. Pelosi must cry herself to sleep. All that glory sought, and all that time spent seeking, wasted by the reality of a fallen culture. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-10-03 14:51 |
| #8 somehow there is a common thread that ties all this 'doing' together, Whoopi, Baa-Baa- Waa-Waa, sanfrannan, mr. sanfrannan, and the money quote:"..Democrats doing Congress..." |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-10-03 14:49 |
| #7 Whoopi Goldberg, the black |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-03 13:53 |
| #6 Eww... |
| Posted by: Mr. Nancy Pelosi 2007-10-03 12:33 |
| #5 Palamino. |
| Posted by: Nancy Pelosi 2007-10-03 12:32 |
| #4 Jeeesh! Talk about dead-air time. Cause you know that the infomercials from midnight till the farm report have to bring in far more revenue to the stations. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-03 10:08 |
| #3 "It was a fun chance to talk to (primarily) women around the country about what Democrats are doing in Congress." Jeeesh! Talk about dead-air time. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-10-03 10:03 |
| #2 Whoopi Goldberg: entertainer, activist, whacked-out bisexual stalker . . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-10-03 08:51 |
| #1 Thank you thank you THANK YOU for the day job... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-03 08:49 |