Whoopi Goldberg has come to the defense of disgraced weatherwoman Barbie Bassett.
Goldberg slammed a Mississippi news station’s decision to oust Bassett, ostensibly because the anchor quoted a Snoop Dogg lyric on live television.
On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg insisted that “just because we’re on television, doesn’t mean we know everything.”
“We don’t know everything you’re not supposed to do,” she said earlier this week, taking a jab at NBC affiliate WLBT during her routine criticism bit.
Bassett, the Jackson network’s first chief meteorologist, was let go from her desk after uttering a racial epithet — “fo shizzle, my nizzle” — on air while reporting on rapper Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.
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