The Saga of Sharon Osborne has come
to an end or
at least this chapter has she is
going to be leaving CBS his daytime
talk show the talk after all of
the stuff that happened in the wake
of Piers Morgan and
the [INAUDIBLE] Megan Markel
interview and all of that.
To catch you up earlier this
month she expressed her support on
air for Piers Morgan after
critical commentary he made about
Megan's interview with Winfrey,
she made it on air she also tweeted
saying Piers Morgan I'm with you I
stand by you people forget that
you're paid for your opinion and
that you're just speaking your
truth, which [LAUGH] >> The concept
of speaking your truth
is annoying enough by itself.
Don't deploy it in defense of
Piers Morgan, he's not living
laughing and loving, he's not on a,
like a culinary retreat to India,
he just doesn't believe the black
woman ever tells the truth that's
all it is that speaking your truth
speaking your racism,
that's all, it is.
Anyway, we have a bit of video from
the talk, so let's run to that and
then we'll give you our thoughts.
>> I feel even like,
I'm about to be put in the electric
chair because I have a friend who
many people think is a racist,
so that makes me a racist, and
for me at 68 years of age to have
to turn around and say,i am racist.
What's he going to do with me?
Okay, how could I be racist about
anybody?
How can I be racist about anybody
or any thing in my life how can I?
>> Well. >> Well what?
>> We'll be right back.
[CROSSTALK] >> We have more topics,
so don't go away.
>> I think we should stop this.
[APPLAUSE] >> Okay.
I apologize, i don't know what any
of their names, but
that woman at the end was totally
whether intentional or not trying
to save Sharon Osborne for herself
by cutting you that commercial
because that was not good.
That is a breakdown, basically,
that Sharon Osborne just had
anyway, so look,
the fact that they're moving on
from Sharon Osborne, look, people
are going to have an issue with it,
they had an issue with
Piers Morgan, is it just because
she defended Piers Morgan.
That's how they might try to pitch
it Honestly, it feels like at this
point based on the, again, not that
I super dwelled in the weeds
on this, I feel like she really
went more into it on a personal
level than Piers Morgan did.
Piers Morgan tried to start some
sort of feud with Meghan Markel,
I guess.
Sharon Osbourne was really talking
about herself there.
And if you've had questions about
Sharon Osbourne's views or thoughts
on race or how it might have
intersected with some of our the
other people that had worked there.
I think this really re-raise those
things so We have
a tweet from Holly Robinson Peete,
who says I'm old enough to
remember when Sharon complained
that I was too ghetto for the talk.
Then I was gone, i bring this
up now because I was mortified,
watching the disrespectful
condescending tone she took with
your co hosts who remain calm and
respectful because she had to Yeah,
and so this it doesn't seem like
this is the first time and
it seems like,
It is not just a personal thing, i
think people can have an issue with
it if it was just a personal thing,
but if it is led to conflicts that
have ended jobs for people, and
that was being influenced by our
own personal racist views, that's a
big issue then that may not be what
most take away from this, certainly
her defenders Are probably not
going to stress that sort of thing.
We have a message from her
spokesperson says Sharon
is disappointed but unfazed and
hardly surprised by the lies
the recasting of history and
the bitterness coming out of this
moment she will survive this as she
always has in her heart will remain
open and good because she refuses
to let others take her down, so If
you feel that this was not a thing
where she was going to really be
open to learning and evolving,
they're doubling down on that,
Francesco.
>> I don't know if my connection is
good once again, mercury must be in
a million retrogrades, I apologize,
if i am a pixelated monster.
But at least I'm not like a angry
Boomer, like white lady who's had
many things given to her throughout
her entire media career by being
the wife of a famous rock star, and
then, freaking out on national
television in the year 2021 about
potentially being I'm a racist,
they might tell me to my face, Tell
me,there's so much fragility and
like if you need a lesson in white
fragility, watch that clip again,
because it's so painful that people
aren't able to even interrogate
their own belief system.
They're not able to sits,
sit down and like be humble.
You know what I mean?
As Kendrick Lamar said and
Sharon Osborne of course, when you
inflate these characters, when you
inflate people like Piers Morgan,
you can't be humble because your
entire career has been devoted,
to you not being and
having great Internet.
[LAUGH] >> That I don't have.
>> You don't.
Not nearly,
she's probably got fiber.
[LAUGH] >> But anwyway, yeah, no,
it's a great point.
[LAUGH] How could I, a 60-year-old
white woman, be racist?
I just don't get it.
Yeah, you can, you can Yeah.
How could I A let's put,
let's say 32 year old white man,
how could I be racist?
Yes, I totally could.
That's how that works.
You try to both believe and say and
do the right thing, but like if you
don't have that history,
which she really doesn't, and
the things you're saying
are exactly what races people say,
then yeah, that's probably going
tohurt you that's going to
hurt you in this particular time.
And, you know, I don't know exactly
what where they're going to go
from here with this CBS says going
forward, we are identifying plans
to enhance the producing staff and
producing procedures to better
serve the hosts the production and
ultimately our viewers.
I don't know what any of that means
or what any of that has to do with
what we just s It's not like what
what Sharon Osborne was lacking was
the correct procedure.
But anyway, yes, Francesca your
quality is totally worth it and
we can still hear your audio is
very good, so I think that's
the end of this, we'll see.
Maybe she'll be a correspondent on
fox news soon.
I don't know.
>> Yeah, no, she will be and I just
want to say like last thing like it
is hard to hear that you might be,
you might be racist or
have said something insensitive It
is really difficult and but
once again an exhibit a of how not
to respond, and the more that we
have systems in place,
the more that we stop propping up
people who are problematic the more
that we can name something,
without and no one's talking about
canceling but again, calling in
versus calling out, folks, right?
This is not about sending folks to
the dustbin of history,
this is about calling on them to
be better, this is you and so
if she has a history and
a pattern of saying racially
insensitive things, and by the way,
you heard her say, I ain't racist
like please don't Just don't say I
ain't really don't, just don't say
you're a white lady, stop it.
Stop, don't use an inflection or
vernacular, you know, just deny
your racism, it's so painful, so
just to say but it is on all of us,
even if obviously even if you're
not white you know
I'm Asian I think all if you're,
I think we all have our blind spots
we all have room to grow,
and in like seeing Sharon Osborne's
knee jerk jerk reaction is like,
God, like, we all have that little
part of us that like you know,
Calvin, we calm that down and and
do better.
>> Yeah, you're 100% right we
all have blind spots but
the worst one to have is a blind
spot about your blind spots to
believe that you can't have and
she clearly thinks that
she is somehow she has a little bit
of that the bill maher thing i've
already proved myself get off my
back what are you talking about me
racist no i'm too cool for that
it's impossible how could i an 80
year old white man be racist i well
apparently found a way you found
you dammit they foundoh >> Andrew
didn't to john 102 don't be
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