Whoopi Goldberg is coming to Beyoncé's defense after Fox News criticized the global icon for winning best country album at the 2025 Grammys. Conservative author Raymond Arroyo made an appearance on Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle,' hosted by Laura Ingraham, where he called Beyoncé's Grammy wins a "ridiculous outcome."
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00:00So the cat sitter cannot just vote. Let's start with that."
00:04Whoopi Goldberg is coming to Beyoncé's defense after Fox News criticized the global icon
00:09for winning Best Country Album at the 2025 Grammys.
00:13Conservative author Raymond Arroyo made an appearance on Fox News' The Ingram Angle hosted
00:17by Laura Ingram, where he called Beyoncé's Grammy wins a ridiculous outcome.
00:22The Texas Hold'em singer took home the awards for Best Country Album and Album of the Year
00:26for Cowboy Carter, in addition to Best Country Duo-slash-Group Performance for 2 Most Wanted
00:32featuring Miley Cyrus.
00:33Beyoncé made history as the first black woman to win the Grammy for Best Country Album.
00:39Arroyo claimed,
00:40"...the country artists are not really happy about this."
00:43Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys. Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys. Beyoncé has 35. How is that
00:50possibly commensurate with that talent?"
00:54He continued,
00:55"...so basically, Lady Gaga's cat sitter votes for Best Reggae and Best Country Album.
01:01So that's why you get this ridiculous outcome."
01:04Whoopi Goldberg took a moment to slam the pundit on The View.
01:07"...are you aware that you have to be in the music industry to be a Grammy voter?"
01:13The EGOT winner continued,
01:14"...are you aware that when the Grammys began in 1959, there were only 28 categories? Now
01:19there are 94."
01:21The year that Frank Sinatra got six nominations despite having two number one albums, he only
01:26won one Grammy that night for his album cover.
01:28"...you want to hold on to country music like white people didn't also buy her country album?
01:35Come on, man!"
01:36Cowboy Carter was a historic effort from Beyoncé, putting a spotlight on other black artists
01:41in the country music space and igniting cultural conversations about black artists reclaiming
01:46the genres they started, including country music.
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