'The View' Panel on Harry Reid's Controversial Remarks (VIDEO)

The ladies of 'The View' got themselves in a tizzy over remarks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was quoted in a book on the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama could be a successful black candidate because he is "light-skinned" and has "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Whoopi Goldberg came to Reid's defense and argued his description of Obama is somewhat accurate, and that there are "a lot of worse things" Reid could have said. Best of luck making anything else out of this clip, however; network censors bleeped out much of the conversation, presumably due to the use of racially-offensive terms.

Watch the video after the jump.The ladies of 'The View' got themselves in a tizzy over remarks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was quoted in a book on the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama could be a successful black candidate because he is "light-skinned" and has "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Whoopi Goldberg came to Reid's defense and argued his description of Obama is somewhat accurate, and that there are "a lot of worse things" Reid could have said. Best of luck making anything else out of this clip, however; network censors bleeped out much of the conversation, presumably due to the use of racially-offensive terms.

Watch the video from TV's Top 5! below.