Whoopi Goldberg Defends Hasselbeck: ‘She Has Not Asked Me to Pick Any Cotton’

Whoopi Goldberg Rushes to Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Defense Amid Charges of Racism (NewsBusters)

Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck got some passionate support from an old friend for a recent question she asked that turned into a Twitter frenzy. On Monday morning, Hasselbeck asked a former NYPD officer if it were possible that Sandra Bland could’ve used her lit cigarette as a weapon against her arresting officer. Bland apparently committed suicide in jail outside Houston, Texas after being taken into police custody for a small traffic offense.

Twitter went crazy, with many calling Hasselbeck a racist for asking such a question.  Her former colleague at The View, Whoopi Goldberg, wasn’t having any of that on Wednesday – she shut down the Twitter haters.

“Somehow, suddenly, it is no longer okay to pose a question that will give you an answer in order to best understand what’s going on… We’ve been friends for about seven, eight years, and she has not asked me to pick any cotton… People love to throw that phrase around, ‘You’re a racist. You’re this. You’re that.’ It is not racist to ask a question.”