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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