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In response to
"Wait a second....I need an explanation on this. -- nm"
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Reagen (aka Reagen)
Jul 27 '10, 06:23
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Shepherd was criticized heavily after the September 18, 2007 broadcast of The View,[1] in which she stated that she didn't "believe in evolution. Period." Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her, "Is the world flat?" She first responded, "I don't know" and expanded that she "never thought about it." Shepherd continued that it was more important to her that she thought about how she was "going to feed [her] child." Barbara Walters replied by pointing out, "You can do both." However, Shepherd then went on to quote scripture.[2] Shepherd later referred to her statement as a "brain fart" brought on by nerves, and said that she still isn't sure the earth is round.[3][4]
Similar criticism erupted after the December 4, 2007 broadcast of The View when, during a discussion initiated by Joy Behar about Epicurus, Shepherd attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions. When confronted on this point, she further claimed that "Jesus came first" (before Greeks and Romans) and stated, "I don't think anything predated Christians."[5][6]
Shepherd also garnered ridicule after admitting to never voting because she just "never knew the dates or anything"; she stated, "I've never voted for anything in my life."[7][8] Shepherd did, however, vote for Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election. She also said she "had no idea how the machine worked!".
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