Whoppi Has The View!

Talk about adding heat to the fire, thats just what ABC
has done. Whoppi Goldberg has been added to cast of
The View. Will this move improve or detract from the
show? Lets hear what you think.


Rosie O’Donnell’s name wasn’t mentioned on “The View” Wednesday morning. But a few moments after Barbara Walters introduced Whoopi Goldberg to a live television audience as the show’s new moderator, replacing Ms. O’Donnell, Ms. Goldberg left no doubt that a new era was dawning.

With Ms. Walters sitting close at her side during a post-show interview backstage, Ms. Goldberg pledged to avoid stoking the drawn-out feuds — whether with the likes of Donald Trump, or Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a fellow panelist — that fueled Ms. O’Donnell’s on-camera persona like cans of gasoline. And while she expects that she and her new colleagues will sometimes disagree — about whom to support for president next year or the wisdom of the Iraq war, which Ms. Goldberg has vehemently opposed — she offered assurance that those arguments would never become personal, and that there was no place for grudges.

“We can have those discussions, and do it in a way people can talk,” Ms. Goldberg said, still clad in the untucked peach dress shirt and customized Converse-style sneakers she’d worn on that day’s show. “Sometimes you get excited, but you move on. You move it forward. You go on to the next thing. You don’t harbor any ill will. If you do, you deal with it — afterward.”

“This is how I roll,” she added. “I don’t think it’s necessary to fight with people over long periods of time. Life is way short. It’s scary how little time there is.”
For Ms. Walters, a co-owner (with ABC) and co-executive producer of “The View” as well as a panelist, the arrival of Ms. Goldberg, 52, is intended to restore some calm and civility to the show while still keeping it provocative. Ms. O’Donnell’s nine-month run was a period in which ratings spiked upward (and buzz crackled) but one in which her sledgehammer-in-hand approach ultimately and obviously began to beat down her fellow co-hosts.





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