It wouldn’t be a day on The View if its panel of co-hosts weren’t offending one group or another with their opinions. Whoopi Goldberg, specifically, is often the recipient of blowback after offering her blunt takes on a number of "Hot Topics." She recently had a lot to say about how judgmental society has become, and the Sister Act star apparently blames that phenomenon on reality TV, specifically American Idol, calling its 2002 premiere the “downfall of society.” Those sentiments are allegedly not sitting well with the singing competition’s current panel of judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, sources report.
Whoopi Goldberg made her bold claim about the fellow ABC show during an episode of The View in May, during a conversation about the Netflix documentary Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me. The co-hosts spoke about how Smith was covered in the media, and Goldberg’s comments came as part of a larger observation about people being “judgy.” American Idol, the longtime moderator said, gave the home audience the ability to judge other people by voting on the singers — a power that has since grown out of control, she said. The current judges apparently didn’t take too kindly to Goldberg’s sentiments, with an insider telling RadarOnline:
