Staff Reports
Whoopi Goldberg erupted on-air this week as she scrambled to explain why her name appears in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files, insisting she has no connection to the disgraced financier and insisting she is being unfairly “dragged.” Her emotional defense played out on The View as producers put the actual email on screen and viewers watched a veteran television star try to blunt a scandalous association.
The document at issue is a May 2013 email that references someone arranging a private plane for Whoopi to travel to Monaco for a charity event tied to Julian Lennon, and the sender asked whether Epstein would make his jet available — to which Epstein reportedly replied no. That narrow logistical note is now being waved around as proof of impropriety, and Goldberg insists the mention was nothing more than a travel inquiry that never led to any interaction.
Goldberg told viewers bluntly, “I wasn’t his girlfriend, I wasn’t his friend,” and complained that modern media reflexes rush from a mention in a document to an accusation of moral collapse. She mocked the idea she’d ever have been involved with Epstein, even joking she was “too old,” while lamenting that people these days don’t bother with facts before hauling someone through the mud.
This episode also exposed the wider problem: several panelists and media figures have names sprinkled through the files, with at least one report noting multiple mentions for Goldberg and others — a reminder that being named in a document is not the same as being guilty, but it does invite tough questions. The left’s cultural mandarins demand the rest of us accept their moral judgments until inconvenient documents surface, and then they beg off, pointing to a lack of context.
Hardworking Americans watching this shouldn’t be fooled by performative indignation. When elite celebrities and media personalities insist on being above scrutiny while simultaneously demanding accountability for everyone else, it’s not credibility they’re defending — it’s privilege. If they resent that attention, perhaps they should stop moving in circles where such documents and people circulate in the first place.
The lesson for a sane public policy is simple: transparency for everyone, not selective amnesia for the powerful. The Department of Justice and the press ought to make the facts as clear as possible, and citizens should demand real accountability rather than theater. Until then, conservative patriots will keep calling out the double standard and insist that justice and common sense apply equally to celebrities and ordinary Americans alike.
