Staff Reports
Whoopi Goldberg took to the air this week to push back hard after her name surfaced in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files, telling viewers the mention was tied to a request about a private plane for a charity event and not a personal relationship with Epstein. She was clear and indignant on The View, insisting she “wasn’t his girlfriend, I wasn’t his friend,” and that the offer of a plane was declined—hardly the humiliating conspiracy the clickbait headlines promised.
But make no mistake: the headline-hungry crowd pouncing on this story smelled blood and ran with it, turning an innocuous email about travel logistics into a tawdry scandal overnight. Sensational clips and channels trading in outrage ballooned the story into a narrative of guilt by association, even after Goldberg explained the straightforward context on live television.
This is the kind of media malpractice conservatives have been warning about for years—massive releases of documents are trotted out, names get dragged through the mud, and nuance is thrown out the window. Reporters and influencers should be honest that being named in a trove of documents does not automatically equal complicity, yet the mob’s instinct is always to assume the worst and pile on.
Goldberg’s frustration—calling the online smear “insane” and pointing out she never boarded any plane tied to Epstein—should remind Americans that rumor and doctored lists wreck reputations without proof. Social media amplifies these half-truths and the left-leaning celebrity press too often deflects when inconvenient truths about their own are exposed while weaponizing every scrap against political opponents.
Conservatives aren’t defending anyone who aided Epstein’s crimes; we demand real accountability for real enablers and justice for victims. What we reject is the modern cancel culture that substitutes innuendo for evidence and treats every name in a document dump as a verdict rather than a lead to be responsibly followed.
Americans who value due process and honest journalism should be furious at the opportunists who profit from dragging someone’s name through the mud without context. If the press wants to be credible, it should report facts and resist the easy applause of the outrage machine—only then can we protect the innocent, expose the guilty, and honor the victims who deserve real justice.
