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Show DAILY Sunday, September 9, 2007 Cuirent job has created a crisis Lisa de Moraes THE WASHINGTON POST One day into her new gig on daytime talker "The View," Whoopi Goldberg already was on the defensive for saying Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback who has pleaded guilty to fed-- . eral dogfighting charges, was raised in a culture in which dogfighting is acceptable. "Day One, I step in it immediately," Whoopi said Wednesday. "I was not condoning nor was I saying I thought Michael Vick did anything right," she said in response to news reports that ran along the lines of one paper's headline: "First day on 'The View' and Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick." "I don't know how this if you read the happened papers today I'm eating dogs, I'm swinging them by their tail I mean, it's ridiculous!" Whoopi told her studio audience Wednesday. "I have 12 horses. ... I have I've adopted cats from cats various shelters. I love my animals. But I also believe that jf there's a problem out there that we can address by checking out where it stems from, that we need to take a look at this," she continued. "That was my point and I'm PETA and very, very sorry I are very close," she said. And yet, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was among those complaining loudest about what Whoopi had said: "Please take a moment to read the indictment posted on our Web site ... and read how these dogs were electrocuted, shot, slammed to the ground, and hanged from trees when they didn't perform well in test fights," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a letter to Whoopi, urging her "not to excuse dogfighters as having some cultural blind spot." "Just last week, Vick's testified that Vick was present when eight dogs were hanged he watched as they struggled to free themselves from the nooses, and when three didn't die from slow suffocation, they were drowned," Newkirk told Whoopi. "Animals are as vulnerable to abuse as children are and they need your voice more than Vick does right now." In her comments on "The View" Wednesday, Whoopi of context played the taken-ou- t game, saying, "No one has written actually what I said." She insisted she repeated several times she did not condone what Vick did. She also complained that people can't go online and read what she said and that news reports had "edited" her comments rather than printing them in their entirety. Co-stElisabeth Hasselbeck called it "very crafty" of the press. Carolyn: job. For this area it is a very g job. I have told my wife well-payin- that I'm not happy and that I would like to move onto Carolyn Hax Tell Me About It sense. At what point can I say the heck with it and jump ship to another job? Is it when the youngest is graduated from college? Is this a midlife crisis? Disgruntled in Wisconsin It'll be a marital crisis, if you "say the heck with it and jump ship." You owe it to your family to at the keep stability in mind front of your mind when you weigh any drastic change. Fortunately, your family owes it to you to consider your needs, too, and not just bang their forks on the table while you grind your soul into food, shelter and gas money. Apply both of those obligations to your situation, and what you get is a lot of thinking to do. First, think about what you Next, research these vague job ideas to see if any of them are realistic, appealing, lucrative (enough) and attainable for someone with your experience, training and skills. Think, too, what kind of support you'd like from your wife, and ask for it. You may not get any, no matter how fair and she thoughtful your plan may fear change, love money, distrust you for reasons good or ill, or present some other obstacle her husband would know to expect. But your chances for her support certainly look better if you have a purpose and include her in it, as opposed to burning the nest egg in the job equivalent of red convertible sports car. "Tell Me About It": tellmewashpost.com; or write: "Tell Me About It," co The Washington Post, Style Plus, 1150 15th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Chat online with want from work, from weekends, from life. Even from Carolyn each Friday at noon Eastern time, at your family. Next, try to imagine these ideals in job form. www.washingtonpost.com. The art of m aking Mends Dear Seventeen new at my school. How I make friends without on too strong or Tina, creeping people out? 15, Tooele, Utah I'm Teen Advice Everyone has a fear of meet- you. Keep introducing yourself like that to people in every ing new people. Some people class. Pretty soon you'll have (you know, the ones who look like they're so good at it) are made an impression on many kids in your school. Another just a little more confident. And that's the secret to comway to make friends is by joining off cool in a new environing clubs or playing sports. ment. Obviously you're going When it's time to sign up for to be nervous on the first day activities, try joining a few. of school. You might even be The more you interact with others, the more likely it is thinking, Everybody will probably have their cliques already, that you'll make friends. Keep in mind that making really so why would they want to close friends doesn't happen talk to me? Well, they will -- overnight and that you won't always click with everyone, but sooner or later you'll find a new group. want to talk to you because you're a fresh face and could be a great addition to their group. Walk with your head up and your shoulders back. Once you get into your first class, sit down and introduce yourself to someone next to you. Simply say: "Hi, I'm Tina. I'm new here." Then you can smile and say something cute and conversational like, "Got any advice?" or "Have you heard about this teacher? Is she tough?" When you speak, think to yourself, I'm cool this person should want to meet me! Most likely your classmate will respond to your confidence and start talking to CS Whoopi, Day 2: She doesn't condone dogfighting Dear am unhappy with current another job. At this point her opinion is that this is my midlife crisis and that every job will have its drawbacks. I understand that I am responsible for supporting my family i.e. house, car, utility bills, etc.) and that I can't just jump to another job; it will be very hard to find another job in this area that pays this well, and moving when my youngest has only a year of high school left doesn't make HERALD ril !l . w.v I If It It VF . dearseventeenhearst.com. s 1 . - s "I ABC Whoopi Goldberg left joins other Walters on "The View." When Whoopi introduced the topic at the top of her first day on "The View," she said, "One of the things I haven't heard anybody say is ... this is not an unusual thing from where (Vick) comes from. It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico. ... There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country. "He's from the South," she continued. "From the Deep " South. Dogfighting is a lot "How about dog torturing and dog murdering?" interrupted "View" colleague Joy cock-fightin- g Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar and Barbara ts scheduled to be sentenced in early December. "I'm just saying that instead of just saying he's a beast and he's a monster, this is a kid who comes from a culture where this is not questioned," Whoopi said on her first day moderating "The View." Wednesday, she complained about the coverage of her first-dacomments: "Maybe it's a little indicative of why people don't really say stuff anymore." 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