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
Tell that to Trent Lott...
Tell that to Rush Limbaugh at ESPN.
Tell that to Howard Cosell.
That is why I called her that. When you name yourself, expect people to call you that.
Everyone who has watched "Hollywood Squares" knows it. But I doubt the duo would be sharp enough to catch that.
Kerry would only be interested if she was single and richer then Teresa and breck girl would only be interested if she tripped and wanted to sue.
"no man would have that nasty libretard."
Ted Danson did.......Oh sorry you said man, nevermind.
Whoopi, you been Dixie Chicked. Live with it.
We are also also exercising our right, as Americans, to speak with our mind and/or our pocketbook. Slim fast was paying her to promote their product.
Why is it Hollywood types always think they should not be held accountable for their actions. If she knew how to keep her mouth shut, she would still be promoting a product for Slim-Fast.
Uh, Ms. Goldberg: Trust me, if I stood up at my company's corporate board meeting and proceeded to describe some other person the way you did, I would be looking for another job too.
Freedom of expression, indeed.
YEOW! I'd forgotten that! haha. I'll be he's STILL scrubbing his crank with Pine Sol and an SOS pad!
THE LIBERAL CREDO
(Whoopi and the religious-hating left's bogus belief system)
1. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.
2. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism, homosexuality, and transgender-sexuality are government-protected lifestyles.
3. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem with as many billion dollar programs as it takes.
4. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution;
5. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.
6. Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that Black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and warped Hollyweirdos to proselytize the message 24/7.
7. Normal sex is perverted. Threesomes, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality are just new ways to get a thrill.
8. Moral indignation is our standard strategy for endowing liberal ideals with superiority.
9. Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for our own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail us out. It feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over.
10. It's a liberal's duty to treat voters in the manner of raising mushrooms, that is to say, keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.
Didn't she host the Oscars one year, and it had dismal ratings? She made sexual jokes about the microphone, and everyone turned the Oscars off halfway through, if I recall correctly.
Oh, it's nothing "new." It's the same old BS, only in meaner form. In celebretion of your dismissal from SlimFast I shall sit back all fat and bald and chug another brew.
"Act like scum of the earth, then whine and snivel and play the victim".
She was not acting! :-)
LLS
You forgot two PRINE tenets of the libretards...
1. Bend over for the UN at every opportunity.
2. Apologize for America being great and are prepared at all times to surrender to any aggressor, after all, peace is EVERYTHING!
You can also add tell that to Anita Bryant (I'm really dating myself here)... tell that to Dr. Laura Schlesinger... and I am sure there are lots of others on the list whose names escape me at this hour of the morning.
"trying to punish me"...
Looks like it went way beyond trying. In fact it was very successful, and you ought to learn to keep your fat trap shut sometime. It might make it a little more difficult for those wascally wepublicans to figure it out. You and I both know that what you were doing was not joking, until it suddenly hit you in the money bag, that you went over the line, way over the line. Now, instead of admitting you went over the line you want to play the race card and blame it on Republicans, shame on you.
Yawn, the same old, same old leftist faux martyr drama queen reaction.
By making crude sexual puns out of their names? Where was that press conference? I would have liked to see that one....
I recently read an article about Anita Bryant. She came out against some pro gay legislation in Floridsa, and was crucified by the gays.
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