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
Of course. The Left censors language continuously, and they have enlisted the government in the suppression of politically incorrect thought. Say the wrong word and you will lose your job, your career, your reputation.
And yet these swine complain that the *people* have had enough of their pornographic and subversive swill?
Nothing "feigned" about it.
Psst! Don't look now, but these three shills are bums, in the same mold as their hero Bill Clinton.
May they, all of them, rest in pieces.
sheesh
http://www.tvguide.com/news/entertainment/040715.asp
...MAKIN' WHOOPI... SAD: You won't see Slim-Fast hawker Whoopi Goldberg in TV commercials for the diet drink anymore. The comic has been fired for dissing Dubya at last week's John Kerry fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Attendees reportedly witnessed Goldberg brandishing a wine bottle and making dirty wordplays on President Bush's surname. (Tee-hee!) Slim-Fast says it has pulled the Whoopster off the air because her comments offended some of its customers. First, NBC axes her Bush-bashin' Whoopi, now this. Clearly, that vast right-wing conspiracy is at work! ...
Hey Whoopie, Free Speech works both ways, you idiot!
It didn't take long for her to start whining, did it?
Freedom of speech only for Party members comrade. Applies to Doctor Cosby as well. He was told what he could say and how to act at the NAACP Convention dinner.
Good one!
Was he singing, "I'm a dumbass, I'm a dumbass....?"
Let me see if I understand her logic: Whoopie can say whatever she wants and consider it her freedom of expression, but when thousands of other people use their own freedom to express their feelings, it's unfair???
Whoopie is trying the same technique that Michael Berg used.
Berg blamed GWB because his civilian son was in Iraq.
Whoopie is blaming the Republicans because Slim-fast fired her. Ironically, the head of Slim-fast has reportedly given over $1 Million to the Democrat Party.
Whoopie, Michael, liberals, you need to learn that your actions and speech have consequences.
Libs have the victim game down to an art form. From Hillary's accusations against some nebulous vast right wing conspiracy to Whoopie's accusations that the Republicans got her fired, the LeftistLibs sure like to blame others for the situation they make for themselves.
Everything we do in this life comes with consequences. Even free speech. Whoopi is absolutely correct when she states that she has freedom of speech. What she doesn't understand is that sometimes you have to pay a price for it. It's just like ANY freedom that we have - it comes with a price. The Libs want unlimited freedoms and choices. They just don't want to live with the consequences. It's called ACCOUNTABILITY.
PLEASE!!! You're talking about a "celebrity" here. Don't you know that their words are to be taken as gospel? And never, ever, to be criticized?
Responsibility? That's only for Republicans.
Freedom of speech? Not if you're going to criticize one of the "chosen". Then it's censorship or racism. Take your pick.
Yes, exactly. I believe that was in the 1980s. If I recall, she lost her endorsement deal with Florida orange juice as a result.
Yep, and/or racism.
All the sudden I hear "Brave Sir Robin" playing in my head...
Monsieur Kerry ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, Monsieur Kerry turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Monsieur Kerry
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