After declaring she didn't "believe in evolution, period," new "View" co-host Sherri Shepherd was asked if she thought the world was flat. Her response to moderator Whoopi Goldberg is in the clip below.
Jeffrey is Shepherd's two-year-old son.
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Apparently, Sherri is one of the lucky ones to grow up with a flat world map and unfortunatley never has seen a globe and such. People, stop legitamizing this rediculous tripe. The world is not flat. End of story. This should not be discussed as though there are two sides. We as a people settled this hundreds of years ago, and to be debating this on national television is an abolute insult to the intelligence of everyone. If someone insists of broadcasting their ignorance in public, that is their business, but please don't pretend that because you have never "thought about it" is going to change scientific fact.
Clarence Thomas said he never thought about Roe vs Wade at Yale Law school. Maybe this defense is a "black thing"
You make statements only a horse's ass would make. I'd like to see your DNA results.
Clarence Thomas was too busy sexually harassing woman like Anita Hill. He's another story who sadly for all of us sits on the Supreme Court.
Yeah, sorry.. no one buys "I'm too busy thinking about feeding my kids" as an excuse for someone to not know the earth is not flat... given that it is something taught in elementary education and something rather obvious.
You've never thought about it? Its not like this is a deep philosophical question like the nature of good and evil. Its pretty damned simple and "never having thought about it"... supposedly because you were too concerned about feeding your kids (yeah... I guess you were too concerned about feeding your kids to have learned this simple lesson in grade school) is an idiotic excuse from someone who doesn't want to recognize her own possibly self-imposed ignorance.
Its always interesting to see these people who so boldly say evolution doesn't happen, etc... as if they have actually thought about it or even know enough about it to even begin to have an informed opinion (you know.. the folks who didn't learn in gradeschool that the earth is round... cause they were too busy thinking about feeding their kids) yet then try and use such excuses for why they haven't given any thought to some very obvious and simple things.
What was she thinking when the absentee father was laying pipe up in that vast wilderness ??
You hit it on the head - self-imposed ignorance. There is no way anyone over the age of 8 or 9 couldn't be aware of this elementary fact.
Same idiotic "thinking" we see in Taliban who put ethnic Chinese with no facial hair in prison for not having beards.
But she grew up in America, so what could be her excuse except she doesn't want to know and is maybe nostalgic for the days when heretics like Galileo could be threatened with incineration.
Not that she doesn't want to know. Just is perfectly content being ignorant or, at teh very least, utterly incurious. Like a President you may know of.
My daughter knows the world is round and she's 4.
Someone needs to tell her (and all her Creationist/intelligent design/because the Bible tells me so cohorts) that you don't get to "not believe" in evolution. Just like you don't get to "not believe" in gravity or that the world is round.
And before anyone throws the "evolution is just a theory" card, go look up what the scientific definition of theory is and get back to me.
It's just plain ignorance, and it's taking over.
Yeah. I'll bet she'd love that.
"Its always interesting to see these people who so boldly say evolution doesn't happen"
In her case, evolution didn't happen. Her brain is still at the one cell (or less) level.
Ignorance is on the March!
Sherri is a perfect example of America enabling its "idiot population". Oh your in denial of science and facts? Well that's okay as long as you're happy with your stupid ignorant self. Is there an IQ test you have to fail to get into that studio audience? Or onto the VIEW panel?
Amen! Everyone else on that show should have been all over her as soon as she failed to say "Round! The world is round!" Of course, she was baiting Whoopi for insulting her by asking, basically, "Okay, you're THAT dumb. Are you THIS dumb?" But there are more intelligent ways of responding. But, Lord, makes you wonder about this country, don't it?
Baba Wawa's version of no idiot left behind ... so she hires them !!!!
Who watches this junk?
She doesn't look like she has any trouble whatsoever finding food.
Yeah, you could say she evolved, into a Bouncing Baby Whale.
ROFLMAO!!!!
She wasn't hired for her brains. She also doesn't believe in evolution...but then...neither do the gop candidates. That scares the poo out of me.
The Bible says the world is flat, and evidently she takes that seriously. When she said she would look it up, she may have meant in the book of Genesis.
Exactly where in the Bible is this 'world is flat' statement? Enlighten me.
she's a dummy, nough said
You're being too kind.....
How stupid or misguided are you when you cannot even answer a simple question such as is the world flat? Not everything needs to be over analyzed or broken down into unrelated topics.
Hopefully her son will not be asked if the world is flat on his SAT's. He might not have time to finish his answer on poverty or hunger.
It is sad that anyone has not learned that the world is not flat, but when Sherri Shepherd said she had not thought about it because she has been more concerned with putting food on the table, she spoke for millions. Whether or not the world is flat is an abstraction. Quite often, when people ask me metaphysical questions about something like the meaning of life or life after death, I tell them that the biggest question for me is, "What's for lunch." Metaphysics, schmetaphysics, science, schmience, I'm hungry.
"Whether or not the world is flat is an abstraction."
No, there's nothing "abstract" about the fact that the world is actually round.
Speaking of round maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for Ms. Shepherd to start thinking about things other than food.
It's abstract to me Dr. Science. You got a problem with generous women?
Americanidle:"Speaking of round maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for Ms. Shepherd to start thinking about things other than food"
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....oh, you mean lose weight like Star Jones did, and then suffer the wrath and backlash of the American people for doing so?......
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It is an abstraction so far as day to day life for most ordinary people is concerned. Of course it COULD have been a wry commentary on how little some things matter when you're struggling to survive, or it could have been a sorely lacking education. One would have to be extremely ignorant not to know the earth is round.
WOW!! she's joking right? That was a jab at the igonrence of american society right?! RIGHT!?!?
If not I'm glad I have a job so I'm tempted to watch this crap during the day.
unfortunately my misspelling of ignorance was definitely not a social comment, but a display of my bad spelling skills.
But still wonderfully ironic.
And if we can't laugh at ourselves...
;D
just go with the flow of IRONY Idle
What a complete idiot. I suspected she wasn't too bright but until today it was just a feeling. I wonder how long Whoopie can stand to be on this show. I think she should leave now. Leave the nonsense to EH and SS.
And BaBa.
I watched today for the first time since she came on the show. At first I thought she was kidding, but she was not. Elisabeth has met her match. I won't be watching again!!
Baba wanted a lightweight, and she got one. Get this dumbbell off an already idiotic show.
SEE THE DAMAGE DONE WHEN YOU CO-HOST WITH
ELISABETH, THE "ANN COULTER WANNABE!"
of course it's flat. haven't you ever seen a map?
ha ha ha ha ha
Brilliant!
no, I'm Miss North Carolina and we don't have maps
Every photo I have seen that is taken from space, shows it to be shaped like a pancake, round and flat.
Another sign of the decline of America.
Well, it's confusing, the world used to be round but the Bush administration with it's burned earth policy, off shore oil drilling and "no child left behind" has flattened it out. It will take the election of Barack Obama as President in '08 to round it out again......:)
How did she get on network TV? Anyone who's even been on an airplane can just look out the window and see the earth isn't flat.
HA HA HA!!!
Friedman says the world is flat, so it must be. Sweet Jesus, I hate wilfully ignorant fundaMENTALists. Take her off the air. That is just the most offensively STUPID thing I've ever heard!
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First Posted: 09-18-07 12:52 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM