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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[Lauren BaRecall]

The tears are coming out of my eyes, I'm laughing so hard!

I gotta get to bed. Last night, or I should say this AM, lights out was at 3:15AM! And I do have a full time day job.

So, goodnight for the time being. :o)

[PhilDragoo]

[martin_fierro]

I saw this actual costume in a Harriet Carter catalog that came today:

Somebody have at it.

[M007]

LOL!

[nopardons]

She sure was! LOL

[GVnana]

Can't post my thoughts.

[stboz]

Is it so bad on my part to want something bad to happen to her and her kind? Like karma and all that stuff?

[Smartass]

[Future Useless Eater]

I saw you slip that guy a ten! LOL!

yea Lauren, that's just what YOU thought... The ten spot was for renting that 'thing'.

I actually thought we had gotten away with it... ('till you flashed your... you know )

sweet dreams

[Happy2BMe]

DUBLE P . PP .. PING on #522 - CHEERS Phildragoo! (You right-wing conspiratist hate-monger YOU!!)

Take a break from your day job a sec - look what got FLUSHED down the JOHN F***ing Kerry won't come back up as a reborn POOPI - PING.

(Call in a master plumber someone, this will take days to clean up.)

[AmericanMade1776]

BYE BYE WHOOPI....

[Bonaparte]

"Whos the big loser now..."

The one who won't state why he refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Say, I thought you just started Navy boot camp a week ago. What happened? Did you refuse to salute?

[Caipirabob]

ROTFL and choking on my coffee!

This happened once in Rio to about the same degree, but that's for another thread.

[MeekOneGOP]

Right off-hand and at this early hour I can't think of anyone worthy. :^)

Coffee, anyone ?? .....

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !! Good one, Phil! :^D

[auboy]

Thanks for the ping, Phil. I love the sound of running water in the morning. It sounds like poopi flushed.

Now I hear Whoopi's whining about "freedom of speech". Someone must have forgotten to tell her she's free to say whatever she wants to. But in doing so, one must live with the consequences of one's "free speech".

[blanknoone]

She definitely lived up to Slimfast's advertising line, "I'm a big loser"

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Actually, Ms. Goldberg, putting down the wine bottle can lead to a serious reduction in daily caloric intake too. (Unless you were representing "fat, drunken, black women" in Kerry's "cross section of America" the other night.)