July 2, 2025 • 15 mins
Once again Whoopi Goldberg shoots her mouth off suggesting that the United States is as bad as Iran. In what way is life in the US can even come close to the tyranny in Iran? She wants you to believe that minorities suffer in the US as badly as Iranians…maybe she should go visit and realize how delusional she is…Her comparison is NOT just ignorant but dangerous.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey gang, when is stupid really stupid?
I mean, when do you not knowwhen to stop?
Well, apparently, if you're onthe View and your name is Whoopi
Goldberg, you just don't knowwhen to stop.
You want to show how stupid youare or you really believe that
(00:21):
the United States of America hasto be the worst place in the
world to live?
I mean, I'm not understandinghow people come off a boat
coming to the United States,coming to the West, kissing the
ground, going oh my God, I'm inthe land of the free.
I could be me, I could do allthose kinds of things, but
according to Whoopi Goldberg,the United States and she's not
(00:42):
alone, by the way is one of theworst places in the world to
live in.
Hey everybody, welcome back tothe Rant Network.
My name is David Solomon.
I'm flying solo today.
Stuart's just a bit under theweather, but normally he's here
with me in Florida.
I'm in Montreal and this is theRant Network and in case you
(01:07):
have not really seen what we doaround here, we are unedited,
uncensored, unfiltered anddefinitely unapologetic.
We rant about all kinds ofstuff, from politics, modern
life, sports, culture, you nameit.
We get down into the dirty andthe nit grit All ideas behind it
is just scratch your head, kindof go think about it.
What's going on?
Reflect comment, we love it,regardless of how and where
you're sitting.
Reflect comment, we love it,regardless of how and where
you're sitting.
So sit back, ladies andgentlemen, today, as I alone,
(01:32):
unfortunately, so will be doingand running this on my own
Because, hey, let's be realistic, when man's sick, there's not
much we can do.
So sit back, and I look forwardto hearing from your comments
about this one, because, folks,whoopi Goldberg just doesn't
make any sense to me.
So let me set the stage for you.
I'm going to read this, becausethis is just crazy.
But Alyssa Farah Griffin who'sboth Arab and American, by the
(01:53):
way, I believe she's Syrian,politically conservative, yeah,
but you know she's not a bigTrump lover made what should
have been a statement of theobvious.
You know, she said the Iranianslive under extreme tyranny and
repression, lacking basicfreedoms, including over what
they can wear.
And then, when they'veprotested, the oppression they
must endure, they face violenceand, in the case of Masa Amini,
(02:16):
even death.
And she said, quote, theIranians literally throw gay
people off buildings.
What did Goldberg's reaction?
Let's whoa, don't go therebecause, quote we've been known
in this country to tie gay folksto the car.
Now I'm just trying tounderstand here she's like
(02:37):
Griffin said whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa.
Like I think it's very differentto live in the US in 2025 than
to live in Iran, and, accordingto Whoopi Goldberg, not if
you're Black, okay.
So now we've got America'sterrible for gays and America's
horrifying for Blacks.
I'm trying to understand this.
I am really trying tounderstand, in 2025, what more
(02:57):
can be done.
Now, I'm not going to say thatwe're not living in a world
where folks in the LGBTQcommunity are facing some
challenges.
There's no doubt.
I mean, we all do and people inthe Black community yep,
african Americans facing somechallenges, 100%.
But let's try and understand themoral equivalency here that
(03:21):
Whoopi Goldberg always looks todo.
Equivalency here that WhoopiGoldberg always looks to do,
that America is a horrifyinglyterrible place for African
Americans, for gays, for anybodywho's in the minority, anybody
who she thinks is oppressed andlike that's the word oppressed.
Now, to compare life in theUnited States to life in Iran
(03:42):
and say it's identical, I think,folks, is beyond moronic.
It's actually frightening.
It's scary United States,canada, england, france, all of
our countries that we'recurrently living in.
Today, we have laws.
We have laws that protectminorities Maybe not perfectly,
(04:05):
but we have laws that protectminorities.
Maybe not perfectly, but wehave laws that protect
minorities.
We've accepted people of allilks.
And let's take television forjust an example.
Right, if you watch TV today,there's hardly a television show
that you won't see today inwhich there isn't a gay person.
In fact, find me a show wheregay people aren't in.
(04:27):
It'd be hard-pressed to findgay lesbian, doesn't matter.
There are even shows withtransgender, doesn't matter.
You have the choice to watch it.
Watch it, don't watch it, butno one goes to jail if they make
a show about gay people, andthere's no one who goes to jail
when they show a gay couplekissing on television.
(04:50):
Nobody goes to jail or gets runover when these things happen.
Listen, there's the odd lunatic, sure, but as a society, as a
general society, we're notopposed to that.
We have accepted that.
Look on television how manyAfrican families are there,
(05:10):
african heroes, african-americanindividuals in charge and
leading.
Even though they're apercentage of the United States
and Canada, they're quiteprominent.
And yet, what Big Goldberg wantsyou to believe, life is
terrifying here in the UnitedStates and in Canada and the
rest of the West.
So let's compare, shall we?
(05:32):
Let's compare what theso-called oppressed in the
United States would deal with ifthey were in Iran.
Now, if you're gay, not onlyhave you thrown off buildings,
but the Ayatollahs have takencranes and have hanged gay
people from a crane and leftthem hanging as a symbol that
(05:56):
the regime does not accept gaypeople.
I'll say that again Publichangings to send a message that
the regime does not acceptanyone who is gay.
Have you seen a public lynchingin the United States by anyone
who's gay?
(06:16):
Have you seen the government,the government, municipal, state
, federal endorsing such a move?
Of course you're not.
But Whoopi Goldberg wants youto believe that that's the same,
that what you would endure inTehran you would endure in
Washington.
What you were to endure in Iranyou would face in the United
(06:36):
States Obscene, absurd.
She should be thrown off TV Tosay that she believes that
Blacks are treated horribly inthe United States and Iran is
the same.
Let's try that again, shall we?
In the middle east, blacks areconsidered slaves.
(06:58):
That's right.
Slaves.
In fact, the word for black isbeing, in the slang in arabic,
is, which is means slave.
We've ranted about this before.
Check back the records, folks.
I've gone down this road, butwhoopi goldberg wants you to
believe that Iran and the UnitedStates are identical.
(07:18):
What happens in Iran and Gaza?
It's George Floyd and DerekChauvin.
It's the same.
It's the same, whoopi.
You're sitting on a televisionshow, a woman unveiled being
able to talk about whatevertopic you want, almost unabated.
You get to walk out of the show.
(07:40):
No one accosts you.
No one tells you you have towear a hijab.
No one's going to come and beatyou up because you were
exposing your hair skin.
No one's going to come and beatyou up from a government
position.
Now you're going to tell me butblack lives matter, but look
(08:04):
what the police do and all thatstuff.
It is not a systemic thing.
It's not that the governmenthas endorsed these type of
things.
Yes, there are outliers.
It's sad, it's unfortunate.
They should be thrown off theforce.
But there are black cops, justlike there are white cops.
There are gay cops.
(08:26):
There are heterosexual cops.
Don't tell me the United Statesand Iran are identical.
I'll give you a situation.
Massa Amini was killed underpolice detention in 2022 for
supposedly failing to adhere toIran's strict dress code for
women.
Goldberg believes it's the samein the United States.
(08:49):
Women will be beaten.
Blacks are going to be beatenOut of her fucking mind.
Is what she is Whoopi Goldbergbeing on the View having a
pulpit to make such remarks?
Her, sunny Hostin and a wholebunch of the rest of them?
They should be thrown off theair, not because they're women,
(09:13):
not because they're black, butbecause such foolishness should
not be really put on television.
Goldberg has gone off ontalking about whether Jews are
race.
She's gone off on so manydifferent things and yet they
keep her on television.
I don't know why ABC thinksthat she is so worthy, but a
(09:36):
remark like that as we are, youknow, the Americans are about to
celebrate July the 4th onFriday celebrate July the 4th on
Friday.
To make a moral equivalency orany equivalency between Iran and
the United States in terms ofhow they treat their people is
beyond not only obnoxious, it'sgoddamn stupid.
So I would love to welcomeWhoopi Goldberg to get on a
(09:57):
plane and visit these placesthat she thinks would treat her
the same as they do in theUnited States.
This is the problem with whatwe're having today, folks.
When you look on social media,when you hear people, especially
in Gen Z.
The comment is the West is theworst in the world.
Let's get real.
(10:18):
We're not perfect.
I get it.
The US, canada, england, france, switzerland, you name it Italy
, spain.
We're not perfect.
I get it.
The US, canada, england, france, switzerland, you name it.
Italy, spain.
We're not perfect.
I get it, but there is noperfect society.
What there is are better andworse.
And if you're a woman today, aPersian woman, a Muslim woman
(10:42):
who left Iran, who was able toescape that kind of torture, I
ask you to go and send emails,letters to ABC, to Whoopi
Goldberg, to the producers ofthe View, and say what the fuck
are you doing, leaving thatlunatic on television?
How dare she compare the beautyand the opportunity and the
(11:06):
freedom in the United Statesversus Iran?
A gay person would have beenbeaten senseless, their family's
home would have been destroyed,they would have been in ruins,
they would have been in tatters,they would have been thrown on
the street.
You're telling me thegovernment will do that here,
and you know what she is sogoddamn stupid.
(11:28):
She would say absolutely,donald Trump would do that to
her, that Donald Trump would bea slave owner, that Donald Trump
would be beating gays, thatDonald Trump is taking away the
rights and we're going to be nodifferent than Iran.
Get out of your fucking mind,get on a plane, go to the Middle
East and go visit Iran.
(11:48):
Go visit Syria, go visit Qatar,go visit all these countries
that you think are just as badas the United States and then
report back in if you make itout alive.
There's no doubt that WhippyGoldberg has lost all sense of
(12:09):
reality, that her lefty brain isjust rotted to the core To
believe that the United Statesis that degraded, that to
believe that we in the West, whohave freedom of speech, freedom
of religion, so many otherfreedoms we have gay marriage,
(12:33):
we have blacks and whites andanybody we have laws, we have
all these things and anybody wehave laws, we have all these
things.
To say that this is whatAmericans endure, just like
Iranians, is not only senseless,it's negligent, it's dangerous
and she should be taken off theair.
But I know what's going to be.
It's freedom of speech.
(12:55):
She can say what she wants ontelevision.
There should be a fucking legalstatement that says that ABC
does not hold the views ofWhoopi Goldberg, that she's
talking out of her ass, not outof her brain that she has no
knowledge that she can sharewith you.
(13:15):
That makes any sense.
So please take it asentertainment.
Take it like you're watchingthe Simpsons, take it like
you're watching someentertainment show, because
nothing out of her makes anysense and it's unreal.
Alyssa Farr Griffin, being ofArab American descendancy, knows
(13:36):
what life was like in theMiddle East.
She's been there, she knowsFamily, she knows.
And for Whoopi Goldberg to tellAlyssa Farah like, oh no, the
US is the same is offensive toher and her family.
Don't take my word for it.
Please Go check out Alika Laban, go check out other Iranians
(14:01):
who are pleading with the regimeto leave women alone, leave
gays alone, leave people ofminorities alone.
This is not what the regimedoes.
This is not what Sharia lawdoes.
This is what you want toembrace.
This is what you believe is theequivalent in the United States
(14:22):
.
Good luck, good luck, whoopi.
Good luck to you in the View.
Good luck, abc, with this one,because I have no idea how
you're going to get out of this.
Thanks all very much, folks.
That's it for the Rant Network.
Hope you enjoyed today'sepisode.
Stuart should be back soonenough, healthy and happy, and
(14:47):
let's, for the july 4th edition.
Your support means everythingto us.
So, folks, please take the time.
Excuse me, take the time,listen, record, save, share you
name it.
We love to hear from you.
Put your comments in ouryoutube channel.
We're back here every monday,wednesday, friday, noon eastern
and if I don't see you, happyCanada Day for those whom we
missed it yesterday, and happy4th of July to our American
(15:08):
friends, and with that I bid youadieu.
Until next time, keep onranting.
Hey gang, when is stupid really stupid?
I mean, when do you not knowwhen to stop?
Well, apparently, if you're onthe View and your name is Whoopi
Goldberg, you just don't knowwhen to stop.
You want to show how stupid youare or you really believe that
(00:21):
the United States of America hasto be the worst place in the
world to live?
I mean, I'm not understandinghow people come off a boat
coming to the United States,coming to the West, kissing the
ground, going oh my God, I'm inthe land of the free.
I could be me, I could do allthose kinds of things, but
according to Whoopi Goldberg,the United States and she's not
(00:42):
alone, by the way is one of theworst places in the world to
live in.
Hey everybody, welcome back tothe Rant Network.
My name is David Solomon.
I'm flying solo today.
Stuart's just a bit under theweather, but normally he's here
with me in Florida.
I'm in Montreal and this is theRant Network and in case you
(01:07):
have not really seen what we doaround here, we are unedited,
uncensored, unfiltered anddefinitely unapologetic.
We rant about all kinds ofstuff, from politics, modern
life, sports, culture, you nameit.
We get down into the dirty andthe nit grit All ideas behind it
is just scratch your head, kindof go think about it.
What's going on?
Reflect comment, we love it,regardless of how and where
you're sitting.
Reflect comment, we love it,regardless of how and where
you're sitting.
So sit back, ladies andgentlemen, today, as I alone,
(01:32):
unfortunately, so will be doingand running this on my own
Because, hey, let's be realistic, when man's sick, there's not
much we can do.
So sit back, and I look forwardto hearing from your comments
about this one, because, folks,whoopi Goldberg just doesn't
make any sense to me.
So let me set the stage for you.
I'm going to read this, becausethis is just crazy.
But Alyssa Farah Griffin who'sboth Arab and American, by the
(01:53):
way, I believe she's Syrian,politically conservative, yeah,
but you know she's not a bigTrump lover made what should
have been a statement of theobvious.
You know, she said the Iranianslive under extreme tyranny and
repression, lacking basicfreedoms, including over what
they can wear.
And then, when they'veprotested, the oppression they
must endure, they face violenceand, in the case of Masa Amini,
(02:16):
even death.
And she said, quote, theIranians literally throw gay
people off buildings.
What did Goldberg's reaction?
Let's whoa, don't go therebecause, quote we've been known
in this country to tie gay folksto the car.
Now I'm just trying tounderstand here she's like
(02:37):
Griffin said whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa, whoa, whoa.
Like I think it's very differentto live in the US in 2025 than
to live in Iran, and, accordingto Whoopi Goldberg, not if
you're Black, okay.
So now we've got America'sterrible for gays and America's
horrifying for Blacks.
I'm trying to understand this.
I am really trying tounderstand, in 2025, what more
(02:57):
can be done.
Now, I'm not going to say thatwe're not living in a world
where folks in the LGBTQcommunity are facing some
challenges.
There's no doubt.
I mean, we all do and people inthe Black community yep,
african Americans facing somechallenges, 100%.
But let's try and understand themoral equivalency here that
(03:21):
Whoopi Goldberg always looks todo.
Equivalency here that WhoopiGoldberg always looks to do,
that America is a horrifyinglyterrible place for African
Americans, for gays, for anybodywho's in the minority, anybody
who she thinks is oppressed andlike that's the word oppressed.
Now, to compare life in theUnited States to life in Iran
(03:42):
and say it's identical, I think,folks, is beyond moronic.
It's actually frightening.
It's scary United States,canada, england, france, all of
our countries that we'recurrently living in.
Today, we have laws.
We have laws that protectminorities Maybe not perfectly,
(04:05):
but we have laws that protectminorities.
Maybe not perfectly, but wehave laws that protect
minorities.
We've accepted people of allilks.
And let's take television forjust an example.
Right, if you watch TV today,there's hardly a television show
that you won't see today inwhich there isn't a gay person.
In fact, find me a show wheregay people aren't in.
(04:27):
It'd be hard-pressed to findgay lesbian, doesn't matter.
There are even shows withtransgender, doesn't matter.
You have the choice to watch it.
Watch it, don't watch it, butno one goes to jail if they make
a show about gay people, andthere's no one who goes to jail
when they show a gay couplekissing on television.
(04:50):
Nobody goes to jail or gets runover when these things happen.
Listen, there's the odd lunatic, sure, but as a society, as a
general society, we're notopposed to that.
We have accepted that.
Look on television how manyAfrican families are there,
(05:10):
african heroes, african-americanindividuals in charge and
leading.
Even though they're apercentage of the United States
and Canada, they're quiteprominent.
And yet, what Big Goldberg wantsyou to believe, life is
terrifying here in the UnitedStates and in Canada and the
rest of the West.
So let's compare, shall we?
(05:32):
Let's compare what theso-called oppressed in the
United States would deal with ifthey were in Iran.
Now, if you're gay, not onlyhave you thrown off buildings,
but the Ayatollahs have takencranes and have hanged gay
people from a crane and leftthem hanging as a symbol that
(05:56):
the regime does not accept gaypeople.
I'll say that again Publichangings to send a message that
the regime does not acceptanyone who is gay.
Have you seen a public lynchingin the United States by anyone
who's gay?
(06:16):
Have you seen the government,the government, municipal, state
, federal endorsing such a move?
Of course you're not.
But Whoopi Goldberg wants youto believe that that's the same,
that what you would endure inTehran you would endure in
Washington.
What you were to endure in Iranyou would face in the United
(06:36):
States Obscene, absurd.
She should be thrown off TV Tosay that she believes that
Blacks are treated horribly inthe United States and Iran is
the same.
Let's try that again, shall we?
In the middle east, blacks areconsidered slaves.
(06:58):
That's right.
Slaves.
In fact, the word for black isbeing, in the slang in arabic,
is, which is means slave.
We've ranted about this before.
Check back the records, folks.
I've gone down this road, butwhoopi goldberg wants you to
believe that Iran and the UnitedStates are identical.
(07:18):
What happens in Iran and Gaza?
It's George Floyd and DerekChauvin.
It's the same.
It's the same, whoopi.
You're sitting on a televisionshow, a woman unveiled being
able to talk about whatevertopic you want, almost unabated.
You get to walk out of the show.
(07:40):
No one accosts you.
No one tells you you have towear a hijab.
No one's going to come and beatyou up because you were
exposing your hair skin.
No one's going to come and beatyou up from a government
position.
Now you're going to tell me butblack lives matter, but look
(08:04):
what the police do and all thatstuff.
It is not a systemic thing.
It's not that the governmenthas endorsed these type of
things.
Yes, there are outliers.
It's sad, it's unfortunate.
They should be thrown off theforce.
But there are black cops, justlike there are white cops.
There are gay cops.
(08:26):
There are heterosexual cops.
Don't tell me the United Statesand Iran are identical.
I'll give you a situation.
Massa Amini was killed underpolice detention in 2022 for
supposedly failing to adhere toIran's strict dress code for
women.
Goldberg believes it's the samein the United States.
(08:49):
Women will be beaten.
Blacks are going to be beatenOut of her fucking mind.
Is what she is Whoopi Goldbergbeing on the View having a
pulpit to make such remarks?
Her, sunny Hostin and a wholebunch of the rest of them?
They should be thrown off theair, not because they're women,
(09:13):
not because they're black, butbecause such foolishness should
not be really put on television.
Goldberg has gone off ontalking about whether Jews are
race.
She's gone off on so manydifferent things and yet they
keep her on television.
I don't know why ABC thinksthat she is so worthy, but a
(09:36):
remark like that as we are, youknow, the Americans are about to
celebrate July the 4th onFriday celebrate July the 4th on
Friday.
To make a moral equivalency orany equivalency between Iran and
the United States in terms ofhow they treat their people is
beyond not only obnoxious, it'sgoddamn stupid.
So I would love to welcomeWhoopi Goldberg to get on a
(09:57):
plane and visit these placesthat she thinks would treat her
the same as they do in theUnited States.
This is the problem with whatwe're having today, folks.
When you look on social media,when you hear people, especially
in Gen Z.
The comment is the West is theworst in the world.
Let's get real.
(10:18):
We're not perfect.
I get it.
The US, canada, england, france, switzerland, you name it Italy
, spain.
We're not perfect.
I get it.
The US, canada, england, france, switzerland, you name it.
Italy, spain.
We're not perfect.
I get it, but there is noperfect society.
What there is are better andworse.
And if you're a woman today, aPersian woman, a Muslim woman
(10:42):
who left Iran, who was able toescape that kind of torture, I
ask you to go and send emails,letters to ABC, to Whoopi
Goldberg, to the producers ofthe View, and say what the fuck
are you doing, leaving thatlunatic on television?
How dare she compare the beautyand the opportunity and the
(11:06):
freedom in the United Statesversus Iran?
A gay person would have beenbeaten senseless, their family's
home would have been destroyed,they would have been in ruins,
they would have been in tatters,they would have been thrown on
the street.
You're telling me thegovernment will do that here,
and you know what she is sogoddamn stupid.
(11:28):
She would say absolutely,donald Trump would do that to
her, that Donald Trump would bea slave owner, that Donald Trump
would be beating gays, thatDonald Trump is taking away the
rights and we're going to be nodifferent than Iran.
Get out of your fucking mind,get on a plane, go to the Middle
East and go visit Iran.
(11:48):
Go visit Syria, go visit Qatar,go visit all these countries
that you think are just as badas the United States and then
report back in if you make itout alive.
There's no doubt that WhippyGoldberg has lost all sense of
(12:09):
reality, that her lefty brain isjust rotted to the core To
believe that the United Statesis that degraded, that to
believe that we in the West, whohave freedom of speech, freedom
of religion, so many otherfreedoms we have gay marriage,
(12:33):
we have blacks and whites andanybody we have laws, we have
all these things and anybody wehave laws, we have all these
things.
To say that this is whatAmericans endure, just like
Iranians, is not only senseless,it's negligent, it's dangerous
and she should be taken off theair.
But I know what's going to be.
It's freedom of speech.
(12:55):
She can say what she wants ontelevision.
There should be a fucking legalstatement that says that ABC
does not hold the views ofWhoopi Goldberg, that she's
talking out of her ass, not outof her brain that she has no
knowledge that she can sharewith you.
(13:15):
That makes any sense.
So please take it asentertainment.
Take it like you're watchingthe Simpsons, take it like
you're watching someentertainment show, because
nothing out of her makes anysense and it's unreal.
Alyssa Farr Griffin, being ofArab American descendancy, knows
(13:36):
what life was like in theMiddle East.
She's been there, she knowsFamily, she knows.
And for Whoopi Goldberg to tellAlyssa Farah like, oh no, the
US is the same is offensive toher and her family.
Don't take my word for it.
Please Go check out Alika Laban, go check out other Iranians
(14:01):
who are pleading with the regimeto leave women alone, leave
gays alone, leave people ofminorities alone.
This is not what the regimedoes.
This is not what Sharia lawdoes.
This is what you want toembrace.
This is what you believe is theequivalent in the United States
(14:22):
.
Good luck, good luck, whoopi.
Good luck to you in the View.
Good luck, abc, with this one,because I have no idea how
you're going to get out of this.
Thanks all very much, folks.
That's it for the Rant Network.
Hope you enjoyed today'sepisode.
Stuart should be back soonenough, healthy and happy, and
(14:47):
let's, for the july 4th edition.
Your support means everythingto us.
So, folks, please take the time.
Excuse me, take the time,listen, record, save, share you
name it.
We love to hear from you.
Put your comments in ouryoutube channel.
We're back here every monday,wednesday, friday, noon eastern
and if I don't see you, happyCanada Day for those whom we
missed it yesterday, and happy4th of July to our American
(15:08):
friends, and with that I bid youadieu.
Until next time, keep onranting.
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