Ok, Whoopi Goldberg is just great at making me feel all emotional.  Seriously.  When Patrick Swayze's cancer news came up on The View Whoopie started talking about how he is the reason that she won an Oscar for Ghost.  She said that when she won her award, really the only person she wanted to thank was Patrick.

The 52-year-old actress-comedian said Swayze persuaded director Jerry Zucker to cast her in the film amid "some resistance." According to Goldberg, Swayze said, "I'm not making this movie unless you put Whoopi Goldberg in there."

Whoopi hasn't spoken to Patrick since his diagnosis but plans to get in touch,

"We want you to feel better - ” we'll talk soon, I hope."

Patrick is so lucky to have the support of so many people and to be able to have the best doctors treating him.  I really hope he is able to beat this.

The ladies of The View announced today that Whoopi Goldberg will be their new co-host.
Whoopi offered up this sound bite on her new job:

"I'm looking forward to the hot topics. The thing I'm looking forwards to the least is getting in between everyone talking at one time."

I hope it's interesting! No one can top the scandals of Rosie O'Donnell though.
Who would you have picked?