Whoopi Goldberg Liked Hosting ‘The View’ More When People Didn’t Think Everything You Say Comes From a ‘Nasty or Horrible’ Place: You Have to ‘Hedge What You Say’ Now

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Whoopi Goldberg was the latest guest on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on Max and was asked about what it’s been like co-hosting ABC’s “The View” for the last 17 years.

The EGOT winner joined the daytime franchise in 2007. Asked by Wallace if she still likes hosting the program, Goldberg acknowledged that it was a better gig back in the day when people did not automatically weaponize every thing you said. “I liked it better before because there was not…people didn’t didn’t assume that you were starting out to be nasty or horrible or saying stuff,” Goldberg said. “You used to say something and somebody would say, ‘Well, actually, that’s not so.’ And you could make that adjustment.

Or you could say, ‘Well, here’s what…this is why I thought about it this way.’ You can’t do that anymore. Nobody wants to hear what you were thinking.

They’re only saying that’s what you said. And that must mean that your whole life is that. It’s like wow.” “I feel like now you’re always having to hedge what you say because you don’t want to piss people off,” Goldberg added.