Longtime actress and co-host of “The View” Whoopi Goldberg scolded the popular freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “pooping” on members of the Democratic establishment and advised her to “sit still” and “learn the job” first.
According to Mediaite, Goldberg made the remarks while referencing comments Ocasio-Cortez made during an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired over the weekend. Host Anderson Cooper asked the freshman congresswoman about her past support for Democratic challengers of Democratic incumbents. Ocasio-Cortez said the move was “risky,” but said “so much of what we’ve tried in the past hasn’t worked,” which many took as an attack on long-serving members.
On “The View” Monday, Goldberg acknowledged that Ocasio-Cortez is an “opinionated woman, which we like.”
“But it is very, very difficult when people make accusations where you say, you know, the Democrats have done nothing, the establishment of the Democrats have done nothing,” Goldberg said. “And I just want to throw this out to you. (Rep.) John Lewis (D-GA) wasn’t sitting still. [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wasn’t sitting still.”
“So,” she continued. “You just got in there and I know you got lots of good ideas, but I would encourage you to sit still for a minute and learn the job. … You don’t have to be born into it. You don’t have to know it when you step out, but before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you got to do something too.”
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“But it is very, very difficult when people make accusations where you say, you know, the Democrats have done nothing, the establishment of the Democrats have done nothing,” Goldberg said. “And I just want to throw this out to you. (Rep.) John Lewis (D-GA) wasn’t sitting still. [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wasn’t sitting still.”
“So,” she continued. “You just got in there and I know you got lots of good ideas, but I would encourage you to sit still for a minute and learn the job. … You don’t have to be born into it. You don’t have to know it when you step out, but before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you got to do something too.”
What AOC said was a lot of what has been tried hasn’t worked. That is very true. The Dem big tent has turned away most of American who actually beleive in progressive policies. Which is why a unabashedly progressive voice and platform is what is needed, not this slow down Nellie crap from Whoopie.
But learning to be an effective legislator and accomplishing legislative goals is soooo yesterday for the purists… It’s so much more important for the purists that AOC recite the agenda rather than actually accomplishing anything.
That being said, I have every faith that AOC knows the difference. I only hope the purists don’t turn on her the first time she makes a the slightest compromise to, you know, actually get something passed.
i agree with Whoopie but, i imagine she’s going to get shit on for saying anything against AOC
What has purity-progressive yelling from the backbenches accomplished?