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As reported by Decider, on Monday’s episode, the View panel—joined by former host Sherri Shepherd — spoke about Geddie’s involvement in the show and their memories of him. Goldberg brought up that Geddie expressed his support for her when she was suspended from the show.
“I was asked to stay off for a week or two. They told me to take a break,” Goldberg said. “Bill wrote me and said, ‘You know, this is the nature of the show. That’s why we brought you in—we’re paying you. We pay you to do this, we pay you to give your opinion. Not everybody’s gonna like it. But don’t ever think that you did something you shouldn’t have done because that’s what we do at The View .’”
Immediately, criticism of Goldberg’s words came pouring in, including Jewish organizations clarifying that the Holocaust was about race and that saying otherwise is untruthful and dangerous.
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Goldberg apologized on social media the same day that the episode aired. And on the episode that aired the following day, she apologized again.
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According to Decider, Goldberg also said during the panelists’ memorializing of Geddie that the producer offered his support when she made a controversial comment early on in her career on The View . The Oscar-winner joined the show in 2007.
“My first week started with me having a conversation with y’all about Michael Vick ,” Goldberg said. At the time, the football player had just pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a dog fighting ring. As reported by Reuters, Goldberg suggested that Vick participating in dog fighting was “part of his cultural upbringing” because he was from the south.
“[The public was] saying, ‘Burn that broad. Burn that broad, get her off television,’” Goldberg said on the new episode. “Every time I’ve stepped in it, [Geddie would] say, ‘That’s the beauty of the show. Everyone has an opinion and that’s why we do it.’”
As reported by Deadline, Shepherd said Monday that she told Geddie that she wanted to clarify on the show that she knows the Earth is not flat. “Bill said, ‘No! This is ratings, baby!,’” the host claimed. She also said that he told her, “Sherri, if we apologize for everything this would be called The Apology Show . It’s called The View. “
