Posted on 07/14/2004 3:01:51 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush's name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday.
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
"Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldberg's remarks offended some customers.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards, in which entertainers lined up to skewer the president.
The New York Post said of Goldberg's appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia."
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment.
Slim-Fast is a unit of Anglo-Dutch food-to-detergent group Unilever Plc .
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WWHHHOOOOPPIIEE!!
Excellent!
So - do you think the massive reaction and email flooding had anything to do with the decision? I would like to think so.....
Wonderful! Now, continue to boycott Slim Fast because their CEO makes big contributions to the Dems 527's!!!!
I second that emotion!!!
Yowsa , Yowsa Yowsa !!!
FReeepers!!! We did it! Don't ever think that your voice dosn't count! Congratulations!
And with that, I bid all a good evening, and good cheer. Go back to bartending, Guinan!
Hopefully, more ammo to get the tape out. I am just dying to see what the heart and soul of our country looks like.
Thats one way to get rid of 150 lbs of ugly fat. What do ya know, slimfast really does work.
Notice the wording of this so-called apology... they don't regret hiring Whoopie, they don't regret the Whoopie made these disgusting comments, they regret that her remarks offended someone.
Very Clintonesque apology.
Good news!!!! I had sent them an E-mail but never expected anything this quickly.
I HOPE that picture of whoopie was made at someone's computer and not an actual likeness!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm, a right hook to the bank account.
That would be a heck of an ad!
Good News!!
I'm actually surprised the lefty's that run the company had enough sense to not stand by her and protect her from 'censorship' (which apparently, she really really needed)
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