Every time Whoopi Goldberg opens her mouth about racism, hate, and “division,” I flash right back to that 1993 Friars Club roast.
There she was, glowing, laughing, loving every second, while the man she was dating, Ted Danson, strutted on stage in blackface, cracking jokes at her event.
She didn’t storm out.
She didn’t scream “racism!”
She was beaming. Happy as hell.
Yet today, we’re supposed to believe she’s outraged by the very things she once laughed through and defended.
Because that’s what I can’t reconcile.
She’s a paid performer. A Hollywood lifer who has spent decades in the spotlight, and to me, the contrast between then and now raises a lot of questions.
She’ll condemn behavior today that she appeared willing to overlook when it involved someone close to her.
Hands down.
That’s why I have a hard time taking the outrage seriously.
The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Wake up, folks… She’s a Hollywood grifter!
Today in Birmingham Sports History:
June 16, 1984 (42 years ago)
The Birmingham Stallions defeated the Memphis Showboats in front of a sellout crowd of 50,079 fans.
Footage of the stadium was later used in the “Band Geeks” episode of SpongeBob.
When he was a fat slob and couldn't hold a job he pimped her out and she paid for his music career.
Then he turned Ultra Maga, lost the weight with drugs, and wants to trade her in for a younger woman.
I say it all the time, the harder they thump the bible, the more depraved they are. He's probably going to drop a gospel album while sleeping with teenagers.
This is wild:
After getting fired in 2023 for betting against his own team, former Alabama baseball head coach Brad Bohannon is now a pharmaceutical sales rep in Lexington, KY.
Our favorite part is him using his old Alabama bio pic for his LinkedIn headshot. 😂
Anthony Bourdain had what looked like the best job on the planet. He got paid to roam the world eating whatever he wanted, and strangers everywhere told him things they would never tell a reporter. Eight years ago today, he died by suicide at 61.
For almost thirty years before any of that, he was a cook nobody had heard of, working long hot shifts for little money. He was in his forties when he wrote a book spilling the secrets of what really goes on behind restaurant doors, and almost overnight, the unknown cook became a star.
What made him different was that he never faked it. Other travel hosts smiled at pretty views and pretended to love everything. Bourdain sat on plastic stools in back alleys and ate exactly what the people there ate. Then he got them talking about their real lives, and they trusted him enough to tell him the truth.
He went to places most shows stayed away from, like the Congo, Gaza, Iran, and New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He once ate noodles at a tiny plastic-table joint in Vietnam with a sitting US president. His show Parts Unknown ran for twelve seasons and won a dozen Emmy Awards along with a Peabody, the top prize in broadcasting. It made a food show feel like real reporting on the world.
His death was so shocking because of the gap between the life everyone saw and the life he was actually living. Here was the guy who looked freer than anyone on TV, doing the job millions of people dreamed about, and the pain underneath was almost invisible to the people around him. He had actually talked about it in the open: on camera he once described how something as small as a bad meal could drop him into days of feeling low, and he had written about his heroin addiction from when he was young. None of it fit the cheerful, curious man people thought they knew.
He died just days after the designer Kate Spade died the same way, and that week, calls to the national crisis line jumped 65 percent. The conversation that followed kept circling one hard fact: the life you envy from the outside can be sitting right on top of pain you cannot see. What he left behind is bigger than any of the awards. He taught a whole generation that the fastest way to understand a stranger is to sit down and eat what they eat.
Heartwarming: Bucs star RB Bucky Irving met Baker Mayfield’s newborn son Maverick for the first time and his reaction was PRICELESS.
What a special moment captured 🥹❤️
There is something haunting about the numerous long ago abandoned baseball back stops that still exist in towns across the US. Rotting benches that haven't been used for a game in decades. Infields long ago vanished.
𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐲
Need a win tonight to force an if necessary game tomorrow. #GoDucks
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