Whoopi Goldberg's theory on Trump is the most bizarre one can imagine

The View's Whoopi Goldberg just added another gem to her long list of head-scratching hot takes, this time floating the idea that President Donald Trump kicked off military action against Iran purely as a shiny object to distract everyone from the heartbreaking disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mom, and those lingering Epstein files.

How the heck does that make any sense? I mean, what does the President have to do with a kidnapping and why would he want to distract from it?

During a recent episode, Goldberg [whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson] went bizarre conspiracy mode, insisting the public was being deliberately steered away from these other stories. "Well, I mean, it's just nutty as hell. It's nutty as hell," Caryn said.

She continued: “…Every day is something new. I was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, Well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there? Why haven't we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”

Co-host [Not-so] Sunny Hostin piled on with the classic line, saying, "It's a very 'wag the dog' feeling." 

Look, feelings about the ongoing conflict with Iran can run hot, fair enough, but the suggestion that Trump launched airstrikes and a broader military campaign just to bury coverage of an 84-year-old woman's abduction from her  Tucson home (now in its sixth week with massive media attention, a $1 million reward, and Savannah herself stepping away from the Today show to focus on the search) or the Epstein documents is the kind of logic that only makes sense if you're viewing the world through a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This isn't Goldberg's first swing-and-miss on Iran, either. Last year she famously equated the lived experience of Black Americans in the U.S. to the brutal oppression faced by women under the Iranian regime, another take that aged like Blockbuster stock.

Sure, when the U.S. military unleashes over 5,000 strikes on enemy targets, it dominates headlines. That's just how it works. But the Guthrie case hasn't vanished; it's still getting wall-to-wall coverage, with daily updates, family pleas, investigations into damaged utility boxes and doorbell footage, and even international attention. 

The Epstein files are still bubbling in the background, as they have for years.

Goldberg knows, or at least should know, that wars don't erase other news; they just compete for oxygen. Yet TDS has a funny way of short-circuiting rational thought. When Trump is involved, suddenly the most basic cause-and-effect reasoning goes out the window, replaced by elaborate distraction theories that collapse under the slightest scrutiny.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the conflict is ramping up even as Trump signals it could wrap soon.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Tuesday that Israel is "not seeking an endless war" and will coordinate with the United States on when to end the bombardment of the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear capabilities.

The airstrikes have hammered over 5,000 targets, gutting the regime's ability to sustain a fight. Whether you support the operation or not, spinning it as a ploy to hide a missing-person case or old scandal files is peak absurdity—and Goldberg served it up with a straight face. Classic View moment: lots of heat, zero light.

Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie is still missing.

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Putting Rachel Dolezal to bed

In a 2014 radio interview, Rachel Dolezal called for a boycott of "Exodus: Gods and Kings" because it used white actors in the role of African-Americans. She did not say that she would have liked to play a role in the film as a black female, but she swears she could nail it if her parents don't find out.

KYRS host Taylor Weech asked Ms. Dolezal (who "played" a black woman for years as head of Spokane's branch of the NAACP) if the public should boycott the Christian-Bale flick, Dolezal pontificated: "Hopefully nobody goes to that film. We need to boycott that film, from my perspective. because it's a miseducation (sic), it's misrepresentation, it's highly offensive to the people that actually were living during that time and also to people today."

She was not asked by Weech as to whether or not the white actors felt like they were black.

Court documents indicate that Dolezal was asked over ten years ago if she ever tried to pose as an African-American when she applied to Howard University, an historically black school. 

The questions were the result of a discrimination lawsuit Dolezal filed against the university in Washington D.C. She claimed, among other things, that Howard denied her a teaching position because she was white.

The 2003 depositions show that the Howard attorneys inquired as to whether she was attempting to mislead the admissions department into believing she was black--she had written an essay and stated that studying black history helped her to understand the atrocities black ancestors faced.

Whose black ancestors? It implied hers.

Dolezal's hypocrisy is palpable. She reportedly once denied a college student participation in a class activity because she "didn't look Hispanic enough." She was teaching at Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington at the time.

At the time, the student didn't make much of the incident, but when she learned of Dolezal's story, she came forward, "Now I wish I had said something, especially now that her race is the one people are questioning," she said. She has asked to remain anonymous (probably because of race pimps like Sharpton who would attack her for attacking their new liberal cover girl).

Dolezal called for a student of Hispanic background to go to the front of the class and take part in an exercise called "Fishbowl." Our anonymous young lady, a light-skinned woman who grew up in a Spanish-speaking country raised her hand to volunteer to share her racial experiences.

She claimed that Dolezal said she didn't look Hispanic and doubted that she could share experiences of racial or ethnic discrimination because she didn't have the appearance of looking Hispanic.

So does that make Dolezal a weird racial masochist for pretending she is black in order to be the recipient of racial or ethnic discrimination heaped upon her?

Now Dolezal is saying that there is no proof those white people who claimed to be her parents actually are who they claim to be. She said she hasn't had a DNA test and there's no "biological proof" that Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal are her parents.

In the interview with Savannah Guthrie of NBC, it was pointed out that a birth certificate exists listing the Dolezals as her parents.

She said she identifies as black and that's good enough for Al Sharpton, a guy who's always up for a racially-induced buck.

But if she really does identify herself as black, why did she tell her brother not to blow her cover?

Ezra Dolezal, her adopted brother who actually is black, told Fox News that he noticed Rachel was changing her appearance in 2011. He said she changed her hair style and used makeup to change her skin tone.

Al Sharptongue initially asked "How could her parents turn her in like that?" After all, his parents never turned him in for actually breaking the law and that's worse than simply lying like an Afghan rug. One could even concur with Al--it seems like a terrible thing for parents to do.

But there's more to the story than MSNBC would have you know. Her parents didn't have much choice but to reveal her true identity.

For years, Dolezal has been reporting that she was the victim of hate crimes--one involved a hangman's noose. KXLY, a news station from Spokane began investigating these incidents and contacted the Dolezals. This is when they had to out her as a white woman.

But what about big Al? Is he right that the Dolezals apparently don't care about race?

A better question might be: when is Al Sharpton ever right about anything when it comes to his making a buck?

The Dolezals are not racists, even though Sharpton would like to prove that all white people are. They adopted 4 black kids and Rachel had the audacity of dope to pass one of these kids off as her own son. One of her brothers described what Rachel was doing as "blackface" and said that it encourages more racism.

Now Dolezal is getting offers to do a reality TV show. I think that's actually laughable.

Rachel Dolezal wouldn't know reality if it bit her on her dreadlocks.

I am not going to blog about Dolezal anymore if I can help it. She has had enough notoriety, her 15 minutes of fame, and needs to get lost in the jasmine of liberal minds.







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