Whoopi Goldberg's recent attack on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appears to have backfired.

There is no doubt that she was hoping, with her attack, to persuade people that Kennedy is a bad guy, but this, according to Fox News, is not has the situation has played out.

Instead, it is Goldberg who has been left looking like the bad guy.

This situation started with remarks that Goldberg made during a recent broadcast of ABC's The View. 

Here is what she said:

To help put this situation into context, Kennedy has been nominated by President-Elect Donald Trump to be the next secretary of the Health and Human Services (HSS) department. And, in this role, Kennedy is hoping to make changes that would make U.S. citizens healthier.

This, though, is not how Goldberg sees the situation. Instead, she has tried to claim that Kennedy is setting people up to be "shamed."

She said:

You’re setting folks up for shame. That’s what you’re trying — maybe you don’t know you’re doing. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say you don’t know, you don’t realize what you do to people when you say stuff like that, because it doesn’t work for everybody. And I’m going to show you, sir, because I weighed close to 300 less than two years ago, and without the Manjaro, this would not have happened.

Apparently, in Goldberg's view, trying to help people to get healthier is a bad thing.

She, of course, was supported by some of her fellow co-hosts.

Goldberg is wrong, doctor says

Goldberg, since making these remarks, has been shot down by Dr. Nicole Saphier, among others.

Saphier said:

Now, Whoopi Goldberg is correct when she said there are some genetic and familial predispositions to people being overweight, specifically metabolic syndrome and some others, but RFK, Jr. is also correct, and I apologize, but the truth hurts. A lot of it has to do with lifestyle factors.

Others took things a bit further, calling Goldberg a hypocrite, noting that she did not, for example, speak out against former First Lady Michelle Obama's health initiatives.

Ian Prior, senior adviser at America First Legal, said:

I don’t remember Whoopi Goldberg upset with Michelle Obama’s school lunch plan back in 2010. There was no ‘fat shaming’ there.

As Prior put it, "It is always the person delivering the message [that the left focuses on rather than] the message" itself."