Posted on 07/16/2004 2:45:01 AM PDT by kattracks
>"The fact that I am no longer the spokesman for SlimFast makes me sad, but not as sad as someone trying to punish me for exercising my right as an American to speak my mind."<
Boy, isn't it great how a few years back, Whoopi went right to Anita Bryant's defense, when the libs started that campaign to kick Anita off as the orange juice spokesman? After all, Anita Bryant was just speaking her mind about homosexuality.
What? Whoopi was nowhere to be seen?
Exactly. *Your* salary is paid with the money we spend to watch your movies. Treat us with some respect. As the old saying has it, what goes around, comes around. Its still not too late to resuscitate your career that's now in the dumps. Whether you learn what the public wants is your choice.
Oh, their claim will be they were laughing WITH the crowd, not at Whoppi.
Goldberg forgot to be funny. I have no problem with pointed political humor, for or against the President. Thats "part of it".
What Goldberg forgot, ala Ellen Degeneres a few years back, is to be FUNNY.
And like the discredited Dixie Chicks, she displays a complete and total misunderstanding of the First Amendment.
This isn't censorship. This is America taking advantage of its freedom to walk away from anyone they choose, any product they choose, any political viewpoint they choose.
Funny how liberals only seem to think choice is viable when its abortion, but never is choice viable on any other topic, isn't it?
I choose to send Slimfast my comments. I choose to not buy their products as long as Goldberg was the spokesperson.
And apparently, millions of other Americans did the same thing.
Ain't Democracy grand?
Exactly. No business that disregards its customers' concerns will remain in business for long. That's the beauty of the market at work in our free enterprise system. It has to listen to the people who buy.
Free speech is alive and well. She spoke her mind, we spoke our minds, Slim Fast spoke their corporate mind and nobody went to jail for doing so. So what's the problem Whoopi?
I'm thinking of Dr. Laura Schlessinger. I didn't see much concern for her free speech from the Hollywood Left then. Methinks Whoopi is all sour grapes on this one.
Mr. 180 has already flipped and flopped on this issue. What a surprise!
Oh yes, play the victim card. That will win her a lot of sympathy. For what its worth, she made the *choice* to use foul language at Radio City. No one forced her to talk in that manner about our President.
very good point.
Uh huh. I do have a problem with someone who adores communism and hates the values our country was founded upon.
On the other hand, I see her point: President Bush should have freedom of expression without fear of reprisal from potty-mouthed moral-liberal entertainers!
Don't you mean decision making inability?
Well said. I wonder about Radio City Music Hall in NY, though. When a drunken black whore waves a wine bottle around that big stage and insults the president, shouldn't there be more scrutiny about their venue?
Looks like Caryn Elaine Johnson will have even more time on her hands now.
I read in one review that even the crowd was, at best, lukewarm to Whoopi's tirade. Any decent person should have been offended by her vulgarity. It was not speaking out but her vulgarity and sluttiness that led her to lose her spokesperson status.
Absolutely. It is the power of the consumer not being happy with her and her views. I didn't like her before, and the fact she is a spokesperson for this product, causes me to become nauseated to use this product. Poor taste in a spokesperson.
Didn't like her before, really don't like her now.
Yes, and they didn't have her back. She has no class.
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