Posted on 07/16/2004 2:45:01 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON - Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Republicans again yesterday, branding them hypocrites for trying to "punish" her for joking about the President.Fired from her gig as SlimFast spokeswoman, the salty entertainer hit back at Republicans who threatened a SlimFast boycott over sexual puns she made about President Bush's name at a Democratic fund-raiser.
"America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal," she said in a statement.
"I find all this feigned indignation about 'Bush bashing' quite disingenuous," she said, noting the Bush administration has savagely gone after critics like former Sen. Max Cleland, Iraq whistleblower Joseph Wilson and ex-terrorism chief Richard Clarke.
"For the Republican Party to pretend this is new to them seems a little fake," she said.
"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."
The Bush-Cheney campaign has been making a lot of hay out of Goldberg's set at last week's celebrity gala at Radio City Music Hall, professing shock at her blue jokes.
Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman called the event a "hatefest" that proves John Kerry doesn't "share the same values" as the rest of America.
Kerry, who is trying to woo swing voters, did not stand by his celeb supporters. On the defensive, he distanced himself from Goldberg and said through spokesmen that he thought her comments were inappropriate.
Running mate John Edwards was asked about the flap yesterday by Fox News. "They weren't speaking for me, and they weren't speaking for John Kerry," he said, adding the ticket is "focused on our positive, optimistic vision of hope."
Mehlman has repeatedly demanded that Kerry's camp release a video of the event, even going so far as to promise not to use the footage in ads.
Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said tartly that he could have the video after Bush releases his military records and details of Vice President Cheney's secret energy task force.
Diversity promoter Asa Khalif, who has made headlines for accusing celebrities of insensitivity, cried foul in the Goldberg firing. "I smell racism from beginning to end," said Khalif, head of Racial Unity USA in Pennsylvania. "SlimFast must realize that black women have every right to voice their views."
Originally published on July 16, 2004
I'm just surprised it took this long. I expected the R word to surface with the first reports of any criticism of Goldberg.
Wrong. Without the fear of GOVERNMENT reprisal.
Slim Fast "punished" her, not the Republicans.
Slim Fast lost 150 or so pounds of ugly, arrogant fat.
People frequent businesses because they like the products for sale and because they hold the retailers in high esteem. F-ck either one of these two things up and you lose your customers. It's called capitalism, Whoopi, and it's how you made your millions, dumbass.
What a crock of sorry h*rsesh*t this is. Take a lesson, dummiecrats. The time when you could walk all over Republicans is GONE, never to return. Flyover country, where REPUBLICANS rule, is going to stretch from the East
side of the SF Bay to the Hudson, with little islands of dumbiecrats in between.
I get a kick out of Dems trying to compare Whoopi's vulgar performance with Dick Cheney's teelling Leahy what to do with himself.
It's like comparing apples and oranges, and they just don't get the difference, or if they do, they chose to ignore it.
She is an admirer of Fidel Castro and stated that she sees nothing wrong with communism, which worldwide killed perhaps 150 million people and was the enemy of the United States.
Actually, your comments hit the nail on the head. So, ditto.
ROFL
Besides the Color Purple and getting fired from their gigs, she and Danny Glover have a lot in common.
What I would like to know is, why would Slim Fast hire that beast in the first place? It's not like she suddenly became foul during the Dem Filthfest. She's always been that way.
Those commies are still teaching in every one of our universities. Did you hear that brain-dead Noam Chomsky girl on Sean's show yesterday? A perfect product of our schools.
Whoo-pie's people are at work as we speak, and the product of their work is killing this country from within! The commies are winning as long as they control academia.
Let's see.
Whoopi Goldberg Freepers lashed out at Republicans Whoopi Goldberg again yesterday, branding them her a hypocrite s for trying to "punish" her for joking about the President. them for expressing their opinions publicly.
Apparently only vulgar hos are allowed to do that.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
Of course consequences is a dirty word in Hollywaste.
Does anyone have the URL for the CHILDREN'S SHOW she has?
Speaking of hos... I wonder if the lurch and the breck girl are aware that her production company is called One Ho Productions. For liberal kooks a name like that just smacks of American values.
I remember seeing a news clip showing a Georgia man with a shopping cart full of Florida orange juice. He bought out the store. He was going to do his bit to support Rush. I remember seeing empty refrigerator shelves in my local grocery store - they were totally out of stock and remained out of stock for weeks. I remember seeing an interview with a spokesman for Florida orange juice who said that NOW planned boycott of their product was fabulous for business.
Like the old adage: "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it." NOW wanted a boycott, they got it. They just didn't plan for a counter-boycott to be more successful. I suppose if the radical Left really, really, really wanted to support Whoopi, they could have bought out the store of Slim-Fast. Since that didn't happen, I suppose Whoopi doesn't have the commanding presence that she'd like to think she has and prefer to blame another group for her lack of appeal.
What can you expect? Ugly is as UGLY does. No wonder she's a miserable bull dyke, no man would have that nasty libretard.
"SlimFast must realize that black women have every right to voice their views."
Whoopie must realize that Republicans have every right to voice their views.
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