Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff

Netscape News ^ | 7/14/04

[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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[Reactionary]

Woot! Woot!

[cripplecreek]

You should photoshop the shirt of the idiot next to whoopsie. Make it say "ZOT"

[Dog]

Boy, will she bitch now. LOL!

Yep......and we should now mount a campaign demanding Kerry release the tape.

[lainie]

lol

[Petronski]

I will point out at this moment that Ted Danson once said (in black face) that

Making love to Whoopi Goldberg is like throwing a hotdog down the hall.

[SheLion]

[jungleboy]

Big woop - I thought the two scams were made for each other. woopie as an entertainer(scam) and slim fast (scam)

[pepperdog]

Maybe we need to put out a reward for a copy of that tape??? After we get it maybe we could invest in some tv time to publically show it to everyone! Wouldn't that be tons of fun? Mrs PD

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

The only fair thing they can do now is to contribute a matching 1.2 million dollars to the Bush Campaign and conservative organnizations.

There you go.

[theDentist]

Bu-bye!

[tubebender]

Don't forget about the CEO giving $1.2 million to the 'rats. Someone posted that the stock of Unilever dumped $1.2 BILLION yesterday. Hopefully it will continue to dump and affect his year end bonus by several million...

[BobS]

Now she could do ads for Cialis or Viagra, LOL:):) heh!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

btttt

[Rocko]

Finally, Whoopi puts her money where her vast mouth is -- in the toilet.

[DAC21]

BUT Slim Fast didn't say she was fired / off the payroll.
We should keep at it until we hear at least that much

[numberonepal]

They're some slow pokes over there at Netscape News/Reuters. I posted a similar story on the boycott and issued a press release at noon today. See the story here. I din't pull any punches in my story either. There's a special dose of Kerry punching in my article, too. Special thanks go to FReepers dvan, sandlady, and FL_engineer for the help.

[RasterMaster]

Democrats speak from their a$$ when not talking out of both sides of their mouths. We speak with our wallets.

[jwfiv]

hee hee ha ha ho ho ... that beeyatch just had to go

[fooman]

I was thinking the same thing. Those people at SF are racist dontcha know.

[Jenya]

I think the raunch mouth's career as a spokesperson is over. She's not fit to pitch dog food.