{"id":1848463,"date":"2023-02-15T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848463"},"modified":"2023-02-15T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:53:46","slug":"you-should-get-to-know-me-tim-scott-mocks-whoopi-goldberg-for-confusing-him-with-rick-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-should-get-to-know-me-tim-scott-mocks-whoopi-goldberg-for-confusing-him-with-rick-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Should Get To Know Me\u2019: Tim Scott Mocks Whoopi Goldberg For Confusing Him With Rick Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-should-get-to-know-me-tim-scott-mocks-whoopi-goldberg-for-confusing-him-with-rick-scott%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) laid into Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday after she joked that she couldn\u2019t tell him apart from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL).<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg made the remarks during a segment on ABC&#8217;s midday show talk show \u201cThe View,\u201d suggesting that because they were both Republicans, she couldn\u2019t really differentiate between Tim Scott \u2014 who is black \u2014 and Rick Scott, who is not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Racist Whoopi claims that she can&#8217;t tell what the difference is between Senator Tim Scott who is black and Senator Rick Scott who is white. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lWXy4IJmy\">pic.twitter.com\/4lWXy4IJmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1625534982935527429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do deserve to have two strong parties,\u201d Goldberg said during a discussion on Tuesday\u2019s broadcast about former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) announcing a 2024 presidential bid. \u201cSo, you know, Tim Scott, black Tim Scott, right? Because there are two Scotts and I don\u2019t know how to differentiate them without a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRick Scott and Tim Scott. Tim Scott is black, right? Okay,\u201d Goldberg continued. \u201cHe\u2019s about to run \u2014 announce he\u2019s running. They\u2019re going to be coming out of the woodwork, so don\u2019t just settle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Scott got wind of Goldberg\u2019s confusion \u2014 and offered her a primer on the similarities and differences between himself and Rick Scott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo clear up any confusion, Whoopi, despite @ScottForFlorida\u00a0and I sporting similar hairstyles and representing the South, we are two different people,\u201d He stated. \u201cYou should get to know me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whoopi, despite the a href=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottforFlorida?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@ScottForFlorida<\/a> While we have similar hairstyles and represent the South, I sport them both. <\/p>\n<p>Get to know me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pu6KUj5pWT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pu6KUj5pWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Scott (@votetimscott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/votetimscott\/status\/1625549555981844480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Senator responded to Scott\u2019s assessment, sharing a photo of the two of them together and adding, \u201cCan confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can confirm a>=&#8221;https:\/\/t.co\/sDeYYXoV8W&#8221;>https:\/\/t.co\/sDeYYXoV8W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AIh5bJsxAy\">pic.twitter.com\/AIh5bJsxAy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottforFlorida\/status\/1625578926662639633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Scott has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/tim-scott-claps-back-whoopi-goldberg-saying-tell-him-apart-rick-scott-know?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The previous tangled<\/a> With the hosts of \u201cThe View,\u201d defending Haley after co-host Sunny Hostin <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sunny-hostin-says-nikki-haley-ditched-ethnic-name-to-pass-but-she-ditched-asuncion-because-americans-are-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Her innocence was alleged<\/a> To sound less, you could use her middle name. \u201cethnic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t imagine that in America today that Sunny\u2019s having a conversation about Nikki Haley\u2019s name. Let\u2019s have a conversation about how good of a governor she was. Let\u2019s have a conversation about how all of South Carolinians, especially minorities in our state, saw their opportunities go up, not down under her leadership. The fact of the matter is that when you see strong, powerful, positive minorities standing up on the conservative side, the Left always wants to hit and demoralize, diminish our impact,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>Haley \u2014 whose full name is Nimarata Nikki Haley \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sunny-isnt-your-birth-name-nikki-haley-fires-back-at-the-view-for-calling-her-an-ethnic-chameleon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also, they responded<\/a>Hostin&#8217;s name is a reference to \u201cSunny\u201d rather than her given name, Asunci\u00f3n. Hostin claimed that she chose the nickname as Americans were too familiar with it. \u201cstupid\u201d It is important to correctly pronounce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) laid into Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday after she joked that she couldn\u2019t tell him apart from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL). Goldberg made the comments during a segment of the ABC midday talk show \u201cThe View,\u201d suggesting that because they were both Republicans, she couldn\u2019t really differentiate between Tim Scott \u2014 who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1848466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18752,9012,8400,4276,4149,8063,8301,9011,6540],"class_list":["post-1848463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-confusing","tag-goldberg","tag-me","tag-mocks","tag-rick","tag-scott","tag-tim","tag-whoopi","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}