Whoopi claims American Idol began "downfall of society" as producer awkwardly tries to stop her

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After Whoopi Goldberg said Fox's version of 'American Idol' - now on ABC - led to the 'downfall of society,' producer Brian Teta attempted to steer her away from trashing a fellow network show. https://t.co/Zpt5nmdjta
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 26, 2023
On a recent episode of ABC's the View, Whoopi said she believes American Idol began the

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[dropdeadpirate]

Capitalism is a thing

[fuckinmagnets]

Correlation ≠ Causation, Ms. Goldberg.

[violue]

saying that when Fear Factor is RIGHT there

[honeebs]

FF started 2001 yup.

[ilovespooons]

I actually read the whole thing to see if this was a weird taken out of context thing

Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amok with it. And it's gone out of, it's gone out of control... They invited the public to decide who that person was and I feel once we did that, it began us in a cycle which we have not..

She thinks... American Idol is when people started judging other people too much..........................................................

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[tucker]

she's never been very smart

[archersangel]

If I recall she's a Pol*nski support too.

[hennimore]

Excuse me, what he did wasn’t “‘rape’ rape”…

It was child- rape lite.