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Goldberg declined to be interviewed for this story...

BUT Has had lots to say about her "predicament and travails" since she stepped in it.

FReedom of speech DOES NOT mean you also have FReedom FRom repercussions of flapping one's gums just becuz one can.

1 posted on 07/16/2004 9:04:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Instead of a "BARF ALERT", it should be a BARK ALERT.
It is a b!tch.


28 posted on 07/16/2004 9:22:36 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
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It happened to Kobe too. More is expected of corporate spokemen.


29 posted on 07/16/2004 9:23:10 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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Its always fun to watch how celebrities react when confronted by something other than their own entourage of "yes men" isn't it?

Say hello to the Dixie Chicks, Whoopie.....(grin)


37 posted on 07/16/2004 9:31:29 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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I read the article to the end where some jerk says, "You can never silence liberal Hollywood."

Uh, wanna bet?

38 posted on 07/16/2004 9:32:00 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
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"America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal," she added. "In a time when candidate bashing has become the norm, be it on television, in speeches or Sunday morning programs, I find all this feigned indignation about 'Bush bashing' quite disingenuous.

These people think a right is the ability to act without responsibility. Whoopi didn't like what Bush said and Slimfast didn't like what Whoopi said. Reap what you sow Whoopi.

39 posted on 07/16/2004 9:36:40 AM PDT by rudypoot (Rat line = Routes that foreign fighters use to enter Iraq.)
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The vulgar, ignorant and unattractive figure thinks she is an artist. That's the funniest part of all.


42 posted on 07/16/2004 9:44:14 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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While I can appreciate what the Slim-Fast people need to do in order to protect their business, I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American - not to mention as a comic," Goldberg said in a statement Thursday. "It's unfortunate that, in this country, the two cannot mesh.

Memo to Whoopie: Yeah, a lot of us would like to be paid to be publicly drunk and stupid. Unfortunately, most employers like their employees to follow simple rules; like not embarrassing the company or offending its customers. Just because you want to publicly talk like a vulgar, immature, self-indulgent imbecile doesn't mean that anybody should pay you to do so in the name of the First Amendment.

43 posted on 07/16/2004 9:47:06 AM PDT by Che Chihuahua (Kerry and Edwards should get a room.)
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Hey Tony(AP), when a corporate spokesperson pisses off half of their customer base who threaten not purchase their products any longer, what do you think should happen. SlimFast is not a government agency!
44 posted on 07/16/2004 9:52:11 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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"...I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American - not to mention as a comic," Goldberg said in a statement Thursday.

An apt commentary. Her career as an "artist" and "comic" has been reduced to taking obvious pot shots at the President.

Invoking her bush and President Bush is an act of comedic genius. Where do they come up with this cutting edge material? end sarcasm...

46 posted on 07/16/2004 9:56:34 AM PDT by GSWarrior (This tagline conveys the heart and soul of America)
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"I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American - not to mention as a comic," Goldberg said in a statement Thursday. "It's unfortunate that, in this country, the two cannot mesh."

Yes, isn't America terrible, Whoopig? Where else can a maggot-infested whiner like you make millions off her act?


49 posted on 07/16/2004 10:04:26 AM PDT by SerpentDove (November 2004: Win One for the Gipper.)
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Some may think Whoopi Goldberg's crack about President Bush was no big whoop

And just "Who" would this 'some' be?.....looks like even more decided it was a nasty crack and said so...MAJORITY RULES....(what a concept eh?)

52 posted on 07/16/2004 10:06:57 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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" . . . not to mention as a comic..".

If that was comedy, then Howard Stern is the Three Stooges. A Carol Burnette she's not!

54 posted on 07/16/2004 10:16:06 AM PDT by Eastbound
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Personally I think Slimfast was relieved she opened her stupid mouth and put her foot in it. They knew she was a mistake as a spokesperson and this gave them an opportunity to get rid of her without to many repercussions to them. Just place the blame on the Bushbots, so to speak. I mean really who would use her as a spokesperson for a product that bases itself on how one looks? I'd be afraid one drink of slimfast and I would look like Whoopi!


55 posted on 07/16/2004 10:25:02 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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What those classless, crude hogs in Hollywood and in the liberal media don't get (because they have no class) is that it wasn't the FACT that Whoopi was bashing Bush, she is entitled to not like Bush all she wants. It's WHAT SHE SAID AND THE XRATED WAY SHE SAID IT. If she wasn't pure trash, she would get it.


58 posted on 07/16/2004 10:28:03 AM PDT by sandbar
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The headline is correct. The explanation is what needs correction. Goldberg was fired by her employer who reacted to public displeasure with her statements. The decision was based on economics not politics. Although Goldberg's politics were the reason why the decision had to be made. Why is this situation any different than Anita Bryant being fired as spokesperson for Florida orange juice after her negative comments about homosexuals? I can see no difference.


65 posted on 07/16/2004 11:17:49 AM PDT by Poodlebrain
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FReedom of speech DOES NOT mean you also have FReedom FRom repercussions of flapping one's gums just becuz one can.

Absolutely. Slim Fast is simply exercising their FReedom, to have whoever they want, advertise their products. These left wing liberal socialist pinko commie demon rats may not like it, but they can go pee up a rope. It is called FReedom. I can't believe I used to be a demon rat.

69 posted on 07/16/2004 12:08:29 PM PDT by Mark17
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Funny how I didn't hear Whoopi complaining about her free speech rights being violated in that nobody in the media has actually written direct quotes of her jokes. You'd think she'd be up in arms that her art wasn't described in all its glory!


73 posted on 07/16/2004 2:46:20 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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She understood why Slim-Fast canned her. As for declining to be interviewed, its a good thing cause I am sure as heck tired of people who whine when life deals them a bad hand.


74 posted on 07/16/2004 2:48:52 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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