Posted on 07/16/2004 9:04:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES - Some may think Whoopi Goldberg's crack about President Bush was no big whoop. But in the latest case of celebrity censure over political remarks, Slim-Fast cut Goldberg out like carbs.
The diet giant dropped the comedy queen from its advertising campaign because the company's executives were unhappy with anti-Bush remarks Goldberg made at a recent political rally.
"While I can appreciate what the Slim-Fast people need to do in order to protect their business, I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American - not to mention as a comic," Goldberg said in a statement Thursday. "It's unfortunate that, in this country, the two cannot mesh."
Goldberg declined to be interviewed for this story.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
BUT Has had lots to say about her "predicament and travails" since she stepped in it.
FReedom of speech DOES NOT mean you also have FReedom FRom repercussions of flapping one's gums just becuz one can.
Yep! We need a "Chill Wind Alert".
I knew it! I said it 3 days ago. Just a matter of time till the "evil right CENSURE" story line is use. Boy... they are sure predictable whiners.
Actually, the headline should read "Latest star that hurts career with stupid public pronouncements".
Funny. Wonder if Whoopi came to Dr. Laura's defense....you know...the freedom of speech thing?
I'm sure Michael Moore feels your pain Whoopi. Bill Clinton too.
You said it. This is nothing new. Companies have been dumping spokes-people because of their public speech and actions since the concept started.
But the left had no problem with boycotting Dr. Laura's advertisers...
And she is free to say what ever stupid crap she wants to say...As of matter of fact she has the right to say something stupid today...
Everybody's got a right to complain.
Whoopi, however, is not a poster child for Free Speech.
A very dim star like... maybe a brown dwarf. {snicker}
I believe one of the leading crusaders trying to get Dr. Laura's show off the air was none other than Susan Sarandon.
I am a little suprised that there was no attempt to claim the Bush administration or the GOP was involved in "silencing" whoopie. I did notice the blame being laid at doorstep of FOX. The first time I heard anything about it was here at Freerepublic.
If it's no big whoop, then release the tape.
Oh... I hear crickets chirping...
Boo Frickin' Hoo. How many times have conservatives been blacklisted in Hollywood for making their politics known?
It doesn't even take offensive comments to get on that list.
because the company's executives were unhappy with anti-Bush remarks Goldberg made at a recent political rally. ---and there is the lie that they will repeat until it becomes the truth. It was the people! That complained to the slimfast co. People here!
"I believe one of the leading crusaders trying to get Dr. Laura's show off the air was none other than Susan Sarandon."
When ABC canceled Bill Mahers show it was Rush Limbaugh who defended him.
No, they don't dipwad.(not you Norm)
Stars become hot when they entertain me. They become fired when they piss me off.
"The biggest shock is that Slim-Fast didn't recognize what a Bush-basher (Goldberg) has been for years," he added.
Too true.
That's how it goes in DUmmieville, everything is Bush's and FOX's fault.
Some call it "punishment," I call it "discernment."
She's still free to say whatever she wants. We all are (unless we're in college). And we're all free to bear the consequences of our beliefs.
Most Hollywood types would never make it as bloggers or online pundits. They don't have the moxie to put it out there and reap the fruit of their thoughts and get knocked around a bit and learn to THINK. Spineless whiners. They can't defend their stand, so they just whine that they're being censored. No, not censored, Whoopi, shunned. A good old-fashioned, time-honored way of expressing disapproval for one's words or deeds.
How odd that whoopie claims FOX played a part in silencing her yet never mentioned George Soros pet project of attempting to discredit FOX news.
Oh, I love how the article states that "a cable news channel" (FOX) is the 'noisiest' about liberals! LOL! One out of - how many news channels?!!!!! - dares to defend the President?!
WE STOPPED DR. LAURA[snip]
On March 1, 2000, five friends got together and launched StopDrLaura.com with the goal of forcing Paramount Television to cancel Dr. Laura Schlessinger's then-upcoming TV show. Schlessinger had repeatedly called gays and lesbians "biological errors" and deviant — (one of our favorite Dr. Laura quotes: "How many letters have I read on the air from gay men who acknowledge that a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys?'') — and we were outraged that Paramount would give a national platform to someone intent on spreading that kind of intolerance against a class of Americans. Of equal concern, two weeks before StopDrLaura.com was launched, the Los Angeles Times reported that a national gay rights group had reached a "tentative accord" with Paramount in which they agreed that Schlessinger's TV show could run. Like many in the community, we were outraged, and decided to do something about it. Thus StopDrLaura.com was born.
With all of your help, StopDrLaura.com made history one year later on March 30, 2001 with the cancellation of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's television show. The year-long campaign against Dr. Laura — coordinated via this Web site and all done on an $18,000 budget, most of it raised from the online sale of t-shirts — so exposed Dr. Laura's anti-gay rhetoric to the world, that she could not even sneeze without the major national media, and thousands of individual activists like yourselves, watching, recording her every word, and pouncing when action was needed. As a result of the 50+ million hits this pro bono site received in just 10 months, and the 300,000 visitors per month that we continued to get throughout the campaign, protests were organized in 34 cities across the country and Canada, over 170 advertisers dropped Dr. Laura's TV show (including some 70 or so advertisers that Canadian activists got to drop her in that country alone!), and over 30 advertisers dropped her radio show, reportedly costing her over $30 million in advertising.
[snip]
* THANKS: There are so many people to thank for standing by us and helping from day one. We'll try to list some, but I'm sure we'll miss many. The StopDrLaura.com co-founders: John Aravosis, Joel Lawson, William Waybourn, Alan Klein and Robin Tyler. Our local organizers in over 34 cities, including Andy Thayer, John Selig, and Corey Johnson who did a lot of national work in addition to working in their local cities of Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco. Organizations like the Horizon Foundation, Communication Works, TomPaine.com, Don't Panic, and the Human Rights Campaign (which gave us a generous donation). Celebrities like David Lee of "Frasier" fame, Susan Sarandon, Pat Schroeder, Christopher Landon, and Bruce Vilanch. Great reporting by Mike Signorile, GAYBC, the LA Times, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Variety, Access Hollywood, Broadcasting & Cable, Gay.com and Reuters (among many others). And the assistance of friends like David Goldman, Stuart Paul, and so many others who helped this campaign become a success.
Why is it censorship when it happens to someone on the left but not when it happens to Rush or Dr. Laura?
Hey, the media still tries to refer to MoveOn.org as a "grass roots" organization.
Same old BS, different leftist crybaby celebrity. It shows that a large number of celebrities are disjointed from reality. Along with freedom of speech comes the freedom of people to think you're a foul-mouthed moron and want nothing to do with any product or activity you are associated with.
WILL THE HYPOCRISY NEVER END???~~~
Instead of a "BARF ALERT", it should be a BARK ALERT.
It is a b!tch.
It happened to Kobe too. More is expected of corporate spokemen.
"discernment."
Theres an ocean of difference between discernment and censorship. When one woman (tipper Gore) leads a crusade to keep people from hearing John Denver saying Rocky mountain "high", its censorship. When the public stands up en masse and says "we dont want to hear your crap" its discernment.
Most of us prefer to not think at all about Ms. Goldberg's crack.
Getting the vibes that she beat all the "gross" comedians by a long shot and we all know that sooner or later MTV will let it spill.
Whoopee's whopper cost her a million bucks, hee hee, ho ho.
That is one word I rarely see or hear, yet it is one of the most important words there is, along with "prejudice". The latter is a word that's been hijacked and misused for years. Wise use of discernment and prejudice is probably the most important function a thinking person can do.
FMCDH(BITS)
In her case, when you typed "right", you misspelled compulsion.
Just ask the Florida orange growers...
Its always fun to watch how celebrities react when confronted by something other than their own entourage of "yes men" isn't it?
Say hello to the Dixie Chicks, Whoopie.....(grin)
Uh, wanna bet?
These people think a right is the ability to act without responsibility. Whoopi didn't like what Bush said and Slimfast didn't like what Whoopi said. Reap what you sow Whoopi.
Yes, a Jerod Nadler "whiff of fascism" alert all the while he and his party buddies try to steal an election.
Agree... as in repudiation for her conduct/language. It's not punishment... it's REJECTION!
The vulgar, ignorant and unattractive figure thinks she is an artist. That's the funniest part of all.
Memo to Whoopie: Yeah, a lot of us would like to be paid to be publicly drunk and stupid. Unfortunately, most employers like their employees to follow simple rules; like not embarrassing the company or offending its customers. Just because you want to publicly talk like a vulgar, immature, self-indulgent imbecile doesn't mean that anybody should pay you to do so in the name of the First Amendment.
"Agree... as in repudiation for her conduct/language. It's not punishment... it's REJECTION!"
It sure is rejection of foul conduct/language. These so-called artists fail to grasp the fact that many, many people were offended by their conduct, not just Republicans and Conservatives.
An apt commentary. Her career as an "artist" and "comic" has been reduced to taking obvious pot shots at the President.
Invoking her bush and President Bush is an act of comedic genius. Where do they come up with this cutting edge material? end sarcasm...
Face it gang, very few members of the artistic community have, had or ever will measure up to our behavioral and political standards [would you have let your daughter date Errol Flynn?]. This does not mean we should not gleefully stick it to them whenever we can [and do our best to stand by those few we admire]. I believe The Reagans represents a sea change in america's relations with it's entertainers. There may be no such thing as bad publicity for hollywood's denizens but their corporate sponsors and advertisers cannot afford to be so dismissive of their customers. TVland can rant and rave over this fact, heap Emmys on The Reagans and Angels in America, deride Seventh Heaven, and cancel Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman to their heart's content, but us Great Unwashed do not like being spat on and shat on and the sooner the dream factories acknowledge this and "give the customer what they want" [remember that phrase?] they will continue to hemorrhage viewers and dollars and they are slowly starting to realize this.
I have never likes this person. She is a disgusting women. She gets what she deserves.
"I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American - not to mention as a comic," Goldberg said in a statement Thursday. "It's unfortunate that, in this country, the two cannot mesh."
Yes, isn't America terrible, Whoopig? Where else can a maggot-infested whiner like you make millions off her act?
wow, great word. GREAT coin...kind of a cross between two words, without being coarse...GREAT word! great observations too.
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