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kpete

(72,018 posts) Sun Feb 28, 2016, 08:39 PM Feb 2016

It's Whoopie, Not Oprah, geeze

https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/704098442197356545/photo/1

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It's Whoopie, Not Oprah, geeze (Original Post) kpete Feb 2016 OP

Geeze indeed. SamKnause Feb 2016 #1

Cause all Blacks look alike? Geez indeed. JimDandy Feb 2016 #2

Exactly my thoughts. Meldread Feb 2016 #4

One of Whoopie's co-hosts called her Oprah a few weeks ago. Glimmer of Hope Feb 2016 #3

...and another intern loses his/her job... ScreamingMeemie Feb 2016 #5

WTF? etherealtruth Feb 2016 #6

No, that is Cicely Tyson. AngryAmish Feb 2016 #7

Sure it's not Meryl Streep? edbermac Feb 2016 #8

I thought we were in agreement black people do not all look alike! jmowreader Feb 2016 #9

Sigh... Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2016 #10

Loved Whoopi ever since "Ghost" (nt) Nye Bevan Feb 2016 #11

I have to admit that Catherine Vincent Feb 2016 #12

Wonder if the error was deliberate to get more traffic to their Twitter account oberliner Feb 2016 #13

SamKnause

(13,110 posts)

1. Geeze indeed.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 08:43 PM

Feb 2016

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

2. Cause all Blacks look alike? Geez indeed.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 08:43 PM

Feb 2016

#OscarsSoWhite and #OscarsSoWrong!

Meldread

(4,213 posts)

4. Exactly my thoughts.

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 08:58 PM

Feb 2016

There is only room for one black woman in Hollywood! #OscarsSoWhite

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)

3. One of Whoopie's co-hosts called her Oprah a few weeks ago.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 08:48 PM

Feb 2016

Whoopie found it funny.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/view-whoopi-goldberg-reveals-co-host-accidentally-called-173952730.html

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)

5. ...and another intern loses his/her job...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 09:00 PM

Feb 2016

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

6. WTF?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 09:01 PM

Feb 2016

SMH

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)

7. No, that is Cicely Tyson.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 09:01 PM

Feb 2016

edbermac

(15,947 posts)

8. Sure it's not Meryl Streep?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 09:29 PM

Feb 2016

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

9. I thought we were in agreement black people do not all look alike!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 10:31 PM

Feb 2016

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)

10. Sigh...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 10:36 PM

Feb 2016

Whoopi and Oprah look nothing alike.

People kill me with their racism.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

11. Loved Whoopi ever since "Ghost" (nt)

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 10:53 PM

Feb 2016

Catherine Vincent

(34,491 posts)

12. I have to admit that

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 11:18 PM

Feb 2016

I have to admit that a couple of times in the past, I got mixed calling Oprah as Whoopie and Whoopie as Oprah. But those folks should have caught that before it was tweeted. I really think it has to do with both of them getting a lot of exposure after The Color Purple and not that they look alike.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

13. Wonder if the error was deliberate to get more traffic to their Twitter account