Sid Miller posts fake Whoopi Goldberg image, calls for canceling 'View'

[TexasTowelie]

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller posted a doctored photo of Whoopi Goldberg on Facebook Thursday morning showing her wearing a T-shirt of President Donald Trump shooting himself in the head. Miller wrote, “if proven true,” the photo is grounds for ABC’s daytime talk television show, “The View,” in which Goldberg is a host, to be canceled.

Goldberg first addressed the photo-shopped image on “The View” in April 2017, and spent part of Wednesday’s show to again dispel the fake image. She showed viewers a photo of her that is the basis of the altered photo at the New York women’s march last year, where she wore a T-shirt that bore the message: “And you thought I was a nasty woman before? Buckle up, buttercup.”

The doctored image, which has circulated the web since last year, was also shared by Roseanne Barr during a Tuesday Twitter tirade that resulted in ABC cancelling her revived sitcom.

“While I in no way condone the highly inappropriate tweet sent by comedian Roseanne Barr, I call on ABC Television to maintain the same standards that they used in cancelling the Roseanne show and also cancel The View,” Miller’s Facebook post said. “If proven true, Whoopi Goldberg’s wearing of shirt depicting our President being shot in the head us grounds for immediate termination. At present, all I see is hypocrisy and double standards from ABC.”

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[Mc Mike]

1. It's so important that the nation hear from the repug TX Ag commissioner, right Miller?

Of course he's a lying freak.

[rainin]

2. I hope Kirsten Gillibrand doesn't see this or Goldberg is finished.

Sorry, still salty.

[Tarc]

6. False analogy, as Franken actually did those things, and apologized

Your divisiveness helps no one but the opposition.

[rainin]

10. No, he apologized for their feelings of discomfort and asked for an investigation. And in at least

one case, he denied it outright. He asked for an investigation and was pushed out before he was given that opportunity to defend himself. So don't tell me this is a false analogy because it isn't!!

[Tarc]

12. Don't lie, please. Franken quite plainly said "I shouldn't have done it", "I have let them down"

Full text; https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/al-franken-apology/index.html

[rainin]

16. Thank you for the link. It would help if you would read it before you comment. But here, I'll help.

"I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann. As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it."

"While I don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as Leeann does, I understand why we need to listen to and believe women's experiences.
"I am asking that an ethics investigation be undertaken, and I will gladly cooperate."

Trump logic, and Roy Moore logic is to NOT APOLOGIZE. Franken apologized for how it made them feel.

Gillibrand saw red and went after him calling for his resignation.

If ABC responds by convicting Whoopi Goldberg before investigating the photo, and giving her due process, then history will be repeating itself.

Sometimes, when people make analogies, it is important to examine what is similar rather than what is different. After all, that is the point of making an analogy.

[Tarc]

17. I did read it. Rather sad that you did not

Franken owned what he did. Period. Full stop.

I fully supported his decision to resign.

[rainin]

18. Perhaps you might add this to your reading list.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/18/manchin-franken-senate-resign-300843

"Several Democrats are expressing regret at having pushed Franken to resign so quickly and some are even advocating for him to remain in the Senate, according to a report by Politico.

“I think we acted prematurely, before we had all the facts,” one senator anonymously told Politico. The senator asked not to be named due to the issue still being a politically sensitive topic among Democrats.

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, who initially issued a statement calling for Franken’s resignation, has, according to the report, had a change of heart on the issue. He reportedly told Franken in private that he regrets having pushed for him to leave his seat, but declined to comment for the Politico report.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is so far the lone Democratic member of the Senate openly second-guessing Franken’s decision to step down. Manchin, who urged Franken not to resign in the first place, told Politico that the pressure that was put on Franken was “the most hypocritical thing I’ve ever seen done to a human being. To “have enough guts to sit on the floor, watch him give his speech and go over and hug him?” Manchin continued. “That’s hypocrisy at the highest level I’ve ever seen in my life. Made me sick.”

[olegramps]

23. Perhaps you shouldn't confuse people with all the facts.

Franklin did apologize. What he did was stupid. But what he did was mild in comparison to what Trump has gotten away with along with a host of other Republcians who have totally ignored his outright sexual assault. The hypocritical Republicans seized it like rapid dogs in heat to exonerate their beloved Fuhrer.

[rainin]

32. True. OTOH, if I fail to help one commenter see this point, it still might be interesting

to someone else. The point isn't whether Franken did or didn't apologize, the point was that Gillibrand convicted without due process. I hope that ABC does a better job finding the facts before attacking Goldberg.

This really wasn't that hard to understand, in my view.

[Tarc]

27. Really has nothing to do with Franken owning his transgression

If a non sequitur is all you have, I think we're done here.

[rainin]

31. I think you just got distracted by your bias. The point was that Gillibrand didn't wait

until all the facts came out before making judgement and calling for his resignation. I hope ABC is better than that. There are actual facts to be known (the photos are photoshopped.) If ABC is more prudent than Gillibrand, then we won't find ourselves regretting another rash move. History can be an important teacher.

[Tarc]

39. Yes, I am terribly biased against the mistreatment of women

Even if his transgression was severely mild in comparison to, say, Cosby or Weinstein, it is still a transgression.

Good day, sir.

[brush]

37. Is there a reading comprehension problem? You are so wrong it's ridiculous.

[Tarc]

38. What part of "I shouldn't have done it" is tripping you up?

What can I do to help?

[brush]

41. Guess you weren't here during the whole Franken/Stone/Hannity/Tweeden dust up.

Right wing trickster Roger Stone and his buddy Sean Hannity of FOX got winger Leeann Tweeden to accuse then comedian Franken of groping her during a USO tour back in '06 or '07, way before he was in politics.

She used a gag photo taken during that time with plenty of witnesses around as evidence. Franken posed for the photo and gagged it up as if to grope her breasts while smiling into the camera. It's easy to see from the photo that his hands weren't touching her from the cast shadows, I mean who is going to grope someone on camera in front of several witnesses.

What Franken apologized for was posing for the photo not for actually touching her. And by the way, the accuser Tweeden actually did grope a guitar player on stage in front of hundreds of servicemen on that same tour. Google that photo if you want to see actual groping.

I'm surprise you don't know all this.

Again, you couldn't be more wrong. And btw, another of the accusers accused Franken of groping her love handle as she posed with him for a photo she asked for. Groping a love handle? I mean come on, that's as ridiculous as your post. She's another lying piece of shit who helped Gillibrand jump the gun and throw Franken under the bus without waiting for a senate investigation, aka "due process". Ever heard of it?

[Tarc]

42. I have no doubt that Hannity and pals paid Tweeden to tell her story

The key here though is that she had a story to tell, i.e. Franken did what she said he did. He owned it, manned up, and resigned. End of story.

Let me know what else I can help you with.

[brush]

44. Reading comprehension problem? He apologized for taking the gag photo.

Not for groping her.

Come on buddy, not that hard to understand. Sure you're on the right site?

[Tarc]

45. He took responsibility for the entirety of it

I can hold your hand as long as you like, buddy.

[brush]

46. Go back and research it. You're misinformed. Why do you think he asked for an investigation?

Again, sure you're on the right site?

[Tarc]

47. He took responsibility for the entirety of it

I can hold your hand as long as you like, buddy.

[brush]

48. You don't know what you're talking about. He took responsibility for taking the gag...

photo and for Tweeden's "alleged" discomfort but clearly said he remembered the rest of the controversy differently, thus his call for a Senate investigation which Gillibrand in her haste to glom on to an issue she could ride to a presidential run, torpedoed.

See, in hindsight it's pretty clear to see. Or did you fail to notice as soon as Franken announced he was stepping down not another so-called accuser came forward (was prompted/paid by Stone and/or associates).

I know it's hard to admit you're wrong but take the bias blinders off.

[Tarc]

49. I can cut and paste the same response as many times as you like

Shall we settle on a number now, so I can prepare?

[brush]

50. Can't admit you're wrong, huh?

[Tarc]

51. Because I'm...not?

Accepting responsibility for one's actions is a sign of maturity.

Welcome to ignore.

[brush]

52. Hahahahahahahahahah! Why the question mark in your title then?

My job is done here.

[brush]

36. Talking about false...stop spreading false information. Franken did not apologize...

for doing any of those things.

[Trueblue Texan]

3. Miller is apparently shooting himself in the foot...

“...if proven true,” he writes? So he’s admitting he posted this character assassination piece without knowing it was true. Maybe Texans should fire him for being so careless....oh wait. This is Texas. We don’t give a damn about truth down here. But times are changin’ Siddo!

[Kittycow]

4. Whoopie addressed it on The View this morning.

Whoopie addressed this on The View this morning. (Not this guy yet, though.)

She said to Roseanne about retweeting it: just because you got caught with your pants down, don't try to drag other people down with you.

This guy just wants to plant the image of the fake tweet into people's minds to ramp the hate up against a different black woman and ABC. He's an opportunistic asshole.

Even Meghan McCain knew it was fake, for God's sake. I hope Whoopie addresses what this guy says.

[rownesheck]

5. every time I'm pumping gas

I'm tempted to write some sort of "F you" message to dipshit Miller on that damn ag commissioner sticker that is on all the gas pumps out here. I sincerely loathe that dumbass, "Jesus shot" getting mother f'er!!! He is such a worthless scumbag that I know will end up just like that other Texas dipshit Steve Stockman. Just gotta be patient...

[lark]

7. Typical lying backstabbing repug.

He doctors a photo, then says "if real" knowing it's a total fake and just trying to sell the lie that both sides are the same. They are NOT!

[keithbvadu2]

8. If proven true, Miller is not a child molester. The most he can prove is that he has not been convic

If proven true, Miller is not a child molester.

The most he can prove is that he has not been convicted.

That 'if proven true' meme can work quite well against its practitioners.

[RVN VET71]

20. Anybody have those photos of him and Jared Subway?

On second thought, it would not be fair to Jared who is serving his time.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Or Josh Duggar

[MrScorpio]

9. All wing nuts lie.

[marble falls]

13. I missed your Wednesday posts,

[MrScorpio]

35. I didn't post the Digest yesterday

Skipping today too.

Next update will be Friday.

[marble falls]

43. Look forward to it.

[marble falls]

11. How to send Sid a message....

[e-mail]

[gordianot]

14. It is so easy to lie with a fake image, Russian Communist did this for decades.

Today the fascist infecting the United States carry on this perfected tradition. This particular image is disturbing in that it is in the realm of possibility given the possibility of a bankrupt, disgraced and convicted Donald Trump.

[Paladin]

15. Eat shit and die, Sid. (nt)

[DFW]

19. If proven true? Hey, Sid--and if it's proven a lie? Then what? What? Can't hear you!

But Republicans don't own up to their lies in public. Why? Because they KNOW they are lies. Random shots in the dark, hoping they kill someone with a lucky shot.

But even if they got away with it with Al Franken, the M.O. is out in the open now, and they can't
just destroy the reputation of everyone they find uncomfortable with fake evidence any more. We
SHOULD have been wise to this when they were trying to hound Al Franken out of office. Some of us
were, we just didn't think they'd get away with it. But now that they did, we are on neighborhood
crime watch every time from now on, because it's our neighborhood and their crime.

[RVN VET71]

24. Unfortunately, the picture is now out in Dimwitistan

and all the mumbly little racists will now show it to each other while garrumphing at the group masturbatorium next to Hannity, Jones, and most of the Trump Administration.

(And you're right, DFW, right behind the wankers is a line of horrified (horrified, I tell ya!) duncey Dems expressing their disappointment that Whoopie would do such a thing.)

In the words of our Orange Leader, "Sad."

[DFW]

29. You can hear them already

"I love Whoopi, but I'm horrified she would do such a thing. I cannot defend this, and must sadly call for her resignation."

As for the Foxsuckers, oh, yes, they'll believe it. First and foremost because the want to, but also, well if it's on Fox, then Jesus commands they treat it as true. Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, Jr. both said so, and they ought to know, because they both have God on speed dial. Well, that's what they said, anyway, and men of God like them ought to know who is on their speed dial and who isn't.

[PaulX2]

21. Attack Sid Relentlessly Texas

No holds barred.

I suggest someone making a video of him having sex with a sheep (and enjoying it), and spread it far and wide.

Anything goes.

[DFW]

30. I don't think you'll find one

I heard he prefers longhorns. No pun intended. Well, wait, yes, there was.............

[tazkcmo]

34. Nice.

Well played!

[Lithos]

22. Love to fire Sid...

He's such a bad joke.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. ...

Did anyone ask this idiot why he didn't verify that the pic was accurate and not a photoshop?

[Catherine Vincent]

26. p.s....

He must have deleted the tweet because I just checked his page on Twitter and I don't see it.

edited:

Nevermind...it's on FB.

[exboyfil]

33. He replaced the photo on Facebook

and his spokesman just hand waved and said that they should not be responsible for the content of all they post. A poor attitude for a regular citizen (I have fought with my FB friends about this to the point of blocking them) and indefensible for an elected official.

Miller’s Facebook post with the altered image has generated thousands of shares, likes and comments since it was posted Wednesday morning.

Todd Smith, Miller’s campaign spokesman, told the American-Statesman that neither he nor the commissioner knew if the doctored photo was real before posting it to the Facebook page.

“We post hundreds of things a week. We put stuff out there. We’re like Fox News. We report, we let people decide,” Smith said.

https://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/sid-miller-posts-fake-whoopi-goldberg-image-calls-for-canceling-view/DvbeBolVGnJ5Y7RH1Yf23M/

[Catherine Vincent]

40. Thanks

Yes, I saw the photo was replaced. Good thing someone got a screen cap of the original.