It was another day of hard-hitting journalism over at The View yesterday as the panel dug into the classified documents recently found inside former Republican Vice President Mick Pence's house.
But who cares about that because someone also farted in the middle of the segment.
At least, so it seems.
Right in the midst of the discussion, a distinctively fart-like sound rang out, causing panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin to giggle and the audience to quickly follow suit.
Who exactly beefed in the middle of this discussion of weighty national security matters is still a mystery, but you can try to suss it out at about the 4:28 mark below.
\u201cCLASSIFIED DOCS FOUND AT MIKE PENCE\u2019S HOME: After former Vice Pres. Pence denied having classified documents in a November interview with @ABCWorldNews' @DavidMuir, the co-hosts react to documents being discovered at his home last week. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA\u201d— The View (@The View) 1674663768
It seems that either Goldberg or panelist Sarah Haines, seated beside her, spilled some of their water and were trying to clean it up with their note cards.
Is it possible that the cards made the noise and super-sensitive microphones picked it up and magnified it?
Sure.
But that sounds suspiciously like the "it was my shoe" of "that was the chair" excuse people are so fond of. It's also boring.
So we summarily reject the "it was the note cards" defense. Someone blew one on national TV and that's that!
As for who dealt the thing that Alyssa Farah Griffin definitely smelt? Wrack your brain if you must, but there's only one The View panelist who's literally named after flatulence, and that's Whoopi Goldberg.
Goldberg got her stage name because of her notorious flatulence during her stand-up days.
In 2017, she told the UK's Graham Norton:
“The theaters I worked in were so small, they didn’t have a lot of backstage room, so if you were gassy, you had to [fart] all the way through."
"People would say, ‘You are like a whoopee cushion.’ So that’s what I became."
The prosecution rests.
Whoopi Goldberg, j'accuse!
Naturally, Twitter had a field day with this whole thing.
\u201cWe all know that Whoopi Goldberg has had several gaffes on The View over the years, but it would appear that today's fart is owned by Sara Haines. #WhoopiGoldberg #SaraHaines #TheView #WhoFarted\u201d— What the Jig! \u2744\ufe0f\ud83e\udd76 (@What the Jig! \u2744\ufe0f\ud83e\udd76) 1674759994
\u201c@EW \ud83e\udd23 who was the farter?\ud83d\udd0e\ud83d\udd75\ufe0f\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u201d— Entertainment Weekly (@Entertainment Weekly) 1674672611
\u201cWhoopi's cushion I presume\u201d— Stephen Evans (@Stephen Evans) 1674743969
\u201cWhoopie has priors on the farts..\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\u201d— carlos victor valdez (@carlos victor valdez) 1674738319
\u201c@1chericane Omg who is guilty???\ud83d\ude02\u201d— Chericane, HRH \ud83d\udc51 (@Chericane, HRH \ud83d\udc51) 1674694998
\u201cthis headline alone has me in tears \nhttps://t.co/ExJLrEtbXU\u201d— Jennifer Bendery (@Jennifer Bendery) 1674767196
\u201chttps://t.co/de5CUmaKh7\u201d— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Dr. Richard Harambe) 1674752153
\u201cThe funniest part of the article is \u201c\u2018The View\u2019 reps didn\u2019t immediately reply to a HuffPost request for comment on the latest sound in question.\u201d\n\nImagine being the journalist having to write their PR asking \u201cHi, can you clarify that one of the hosts farted on air?\u201d \ud83d\udc80\u201d— Alex Gonzalez (@Alex Gonzalez) 1674748167
\u201cThat's the late night shows' jokes sorted for tonight.\u201d— Mikey McMikeFace (@Mikey McMikeFace) 1674747986
\u201cANYTHING TO INCREASE RATINGS, EH? \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\u2018The View\u2019 Interrupted by an on-Air Fart https://t.co/xwOkk0S2ha\u201d— Richard G. Lipstein (@Richard G. Lipstein) 1674747373
Fittingly, given her name, Goldberg has a history of letting 'em rip on The View.
She previously beefed on air in 2014 and 2011, so it's not likely she's beating these charges any time soon.
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