Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg’s Constitution Instruction

While appearing on the "raging Rosie" show, otherwise known as ABC’s “The View,” guest co-host Whoopi Goldberg played a game of Constitution rugby with Rosie O’Donnell.

As the two engaged in hand wringing over the plight of The Dixie Chicks, O’Donnell yammered that “there still is in some capacity sort of a McCarthy era-esque feeling about entertainers speaking out against the government in any capacity.”

The sole cogitator, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, asked, “All right, OK, so why don't I have a right to not buy their records and to say you shouldn’t buy their record either?”

Goldberg answered by reaching for the left’s other favorite comparison, Nazis. “You have a right not to buy their records, but burning them in public brings on 1933,” Whoopi said.

“Correct,” O’Donnell replied, like she was praising a kindergarten student.
Goldberg went on with her lecture, saying, “Let me tell you, let me tell you why. Because in Germany, when they started burning art and they started burning books and they started burning things, when you start burning stuff in public, that is a whole other statement.”