http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168844/posts?q=1&&page=101
Good for you. However, be prepared for the next chapter:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: NOBLE MARTYR, JUST LIKE MICHAEL MOORE
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Dan
MCI fired Danny Glover after all the complaints.
Thanks for your efforts to 'Gloverize' Goldberg.
You've inspired me. I'm calling them too.
Getting WHOOPI for Slimfast was as smart of move as getting Monica Lewinski for Jenny Craig.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168844/posts?q=1&&page=101
I also e-mailed Slim-Fast and told them I would no longer purchase their products as long as Whoopi Goldberg was their spokewoman. No reply yet.
This is an auto-generated response to let you know that we've received your message.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. We want to provide the best support possible to help you achieve your goals with The Slim·Fast Plan. Please don't hesitate to call us toll free at 1-800-SLIM-FAST as e-mail responses may take 1-2 days.
On 07/10/2004 you wrote: I am so turned off by the Vulgarities of Whoopi Goldberg, about Our President George W. Bush, at a recent Fundraiser for John Kerry, I will no longer buy your product, until she apologizes to our President. I have eaten a breakfast Slim Fast Bar every morning for about the last three years, But I will not be buying anymore. Please tell your friends about Slim-Fast.com, and be sure to visit us again soon!
Sincerely,
The Slim·Fast Consumer Support Team
Cortislim is more effective.
Didn't slim fast also use Monica Lewdinsky?
Or was it weight watchers that used that pig?
Emailing them...bump!
1-800-SLIM-FAST
Email sent to Slimfast!!
Slimfast calls it "COMEDY"??? Therein lies the problem!
I actually eat their bars often. Here's what I told them:
My wife and I enjoy you slimfast bars for breakfast on the run regularly. But since hearing about your spokesperson's foul-mouthed diatribe in New York the other night we have decided to forego future Slimfast purchases. That is, until you find another spokesperson without a potty mouth.
Godd for you!!!I emailed them myself........here's the EMAIL address....ALL Freepers please vest about this vulgar, potty-mouthed slime they call Whoopi: support@slimfast.com.
I just e-mailed them re: my disgust as using Goldberg as their spokesperson...
Slimfast Company president F. Daniel Abraham is a major Democratic donor who, with his wife, has given $1.2 million to groups working to defeat Bush.
They knew who they hired and I would be totally surprised if they did anything about it seeing that Goldberg is one of their own.
Knowing that any argument smacks of the proverbial "singing lessons for pigs", I smiled, nodded and changed the subject without mentioning that this happened right around the time (slightly before actually) that Kmart went Chapter 7. (or was it 11?) Co-incidence?
TS
Hey sandlady--
I called this Slim Fast toll free # 1-800-SLIM-FAST just this morning. (Don't be deterred by the error-type message that comes on first--just stay on the line and a service rep will answer.)
I spoke with a VERY receptive woman named Beverly. She assured me the company is interested in the publics' thoughts about the vulgar Whoopi 'act'.
She did not have a toll-free # for Unilever but said that she was taking notes while we talked (I could hear her scribbling!) and that this information would be passed along to the right people.
I told her that it would be wise to be pro-active on this--before either a video tape or transcript of this "performance" comes out. She agreed (I was prepared for a bit of verbal battling--it didn't happen--she was very sympathetic! Maybe after the Danny Glover, Dixie Chicks, etc. big business is learning...)
I gave her my name and my husband's to add to the impression of real people with real views. She said that they had had a number of comments already (no specifics tho'.)
I encourage all who want an easy, personal way to protest Whoopi (and by extension, Kerry-Edwards!) to give them a call.
1-800-SLIM-FAST
Dear Slimfast:
I may be fat but that doesn't mean I'm stupid.
Yep. Hopefully, the next quarter will see Slimfast with profits that are SLIM to none.
Thanks for sharing this. I sent them a longish email and hope to hear from them.
My letter:
I am writing concerning the public comments your spokeswoman, Whoopi Goldberg, made during a John Kerry fundraiser in New York last Thursday. As I'm sure you are well aware, her comments about the president of the US were both profane and vulgar. They went beyond reasonable criticism to an unacceptable display of hatred and disrespect, during a time of war with our troops on the battlefront.
I have been dieting now for almost two years, trying various techniques. Please understand that I will not use any product that uses such a vulgarian as is Ms. Goldberg as it frontman.
Mr. Kerry's organization belatedly disavowed Ms. Goldberg's comments. But that was only after he smiled and laughed at the comments and later lauded all the performers as representing the "soul of America". It is clear to me that Mr. Kerry's turnabout is cynical politics at its worst.
I don't know if you are going to disavow your spokeswoman, but if you do I hope the disavowal will be genuine. Personally, I can't help but wonder how someone of the caliber of Ms. Goldberg ever was chosen to represent SlimFast to the American public. But that, of course, is and remains your choice.
My Sunday paper had some slimfast coupons in it; I'm cutting them out and mailing them back to slimfast with a note on why I won't be needing them.
Just sent my e-mail...
BTTT!
Maybe an email to Sam's Club and other large retailers who sell that stuff by the pallet load might also pressure Slim Fast
Here's an article linked in the other SlimFast post from the NYPost. Mentions FreeRepublic.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/27252.htm
In addition to their bad taste in using Whoopi as a spokesperson to begin with:
Do I also get to complain about how their sugar-laden "diet" drinks that I drank in my 20's would have resulted in diabetes in my 30's had I not realized it and quit drinking them in time?
Unilever is a Euro company ... Dutch.
Does anyone know what happened with McDonald's and Timblelake after he and Janno did their sexual assault demo at the S.B.??
McD didn't "renew" his contract, did they?
Guess he's not "Lovin' it"..
Thanks for starting this.
Below is the link to the latest FR thread on booting Bad Mouth Whoopi to the liberal bad mouth unemployed spokesperson line.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170425/posts
Marketing doing their job. That's what they do. Make you like them. Of course, they can make you like them by actually doing the right thing. So, when did they say they were going to dump Whoopi?
If I am not mistaken, the guy heading Slimfast (or possibly unilever) donated over a million to Democrats... I don't think Whoopi is in danger of losing her job...
Just sent to Slime-Fest via their website at http://www.slim-fast.com/contact/comments.asp:
To Whom it May Concern:
I am a Lifetime member of Weight Watchers and I have previously used (and enjoyed) your Slim-Fast products in the past. No more.
I was never keen on having Whoopi Goldberg as your spokesperson knowing her vulgar attempts at comedy.
The latest news making the circuit describing her obscene references to President Bush at a Democratic Fund Raiser has made me decide that your product is no longer one that I will support.
How any public entity would purposely put a low-life up front as their mouthpiece and expect sales to flourish is beyond me. Now, when I see her face and associate it with your product, I will have nothing but a negative reaction and the refusal to spend my hard earned money to support such a travesty.
Your sidebar states "Tell a friend." I will spread this message far and wide advising people to avoid purchasing anything associated with Slim-Fast and Ms. Goldberg.
Sincerely,
XXXXX
I wouldn't use Slimfast anyway. The owner is a huge liberal.
I just called.All comments are being forwarded to the marketing dept. and the person I spoke with totally agreed with me.
I hope they dump her and fast.A message needs to be sent across the liberal hollywierd crowd that we as consumers/ticket buyers will smack them down as well.
One of the cable channels was showing "Ghost" this AM. Whoopi came on as the medium -- I couldn't even watch her performance. What seemed funny ten years ago now seemed smartass and stupid in light of her abusing our Prez in that Radio City Music hall "comedy" routine.
Thanks for the info, I sent them an email.
They are perfectly free to keep using her as a spokeswoman but I won't give my money to a company who turns it over to her in a paycheck.
I just looked at their stock and it was down -54 cents as of 1:54 ET.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=UL&d=t
find later bump
good for you!
FReeped!
called and e-mailed complaint
Marines Express THEIR opinion of WHoopi!not very PC, not very nice …..
To Mom: "You're going off Slim Fast."
