[Future Useless Eater]

Slim-Fast is starting to buckle under $1.2 BILLION dollars of pressure!

The weight loss giant is apparently reacting to a huge backlash from consumers, and worried investors, after their spokesperson, Whoopi Goldberg, lobbed vulgar obscenities at President Bush this weekend. John Kerry failed to condemn those attacks supposedly because the event brought in $7.5 Million for the Democrats. Instead, Kerry praised the celebrities for conveying "the heart and soul of our country."

The parent company, Unilever [trading symbol UN] was referring all correspondence and complaints about Goldberg's hate-speech, to Slim-Fast's marketing dept. A great many angry conservatives also reported, their successes in reaching sympathetic ears at Slim-Fast: (I just received a call from Slimfast), and (Goodbye Slimfast!).

Wall Street has noticed, as Neil Cavuto reported yesterday; the 2% drop in Unilever's stock price Tuesday was attributed a new Conservative boycott of its subsidiary Slim-Fast.

That amounts to a one-day LOSS of $1.2 BILLION dollars for shareholders!

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Unilever has a great deal to lose, as it's stock has a market value of 61B, and sells a great many well-known consumer products; some of which are...

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Anyone may comment online to Slim-Fast for their continuing use of Whoopi Goldberg as their advertising spokesperson.

[DCPatriot]

Damnit all to hell!

I love Dove soap.

I love Knorr Hollandaise Sauce.

I love Hellman's on BLTs

I even like Bertolla olive oil.

SIGH! Excuse me while I find a ledge to jump from.....

[Becki]

You can add Suave to that list, too.

Becki

[Petronski]

HERE'S MY EMAILED COMPLAINT:

Subject line: 'Whoopi Goldberg'

As a result of that woman's obscene and childish rant at the Kerry funder last weekend, I will no longer be consuming any Unilever products. I don't normally use Slimfast, but I do--should I say 'did?'--use Birdseye, Bertolli, Hellman's, Lipton and Knorr.


No more.


Unilever ought to be profoundly ashamed of associating itself with such a hateful personality, a personality whose 'performance' was so staggeringly offensive, responsible parties refuse to release a videotape of it. Too bad for them--and Unilever--that word has already leaked out.

Spit.

Yours formerly,


[real name etc.]

[NavySEAL F-16]

The 1.9% drop was done on almost double the normal 6 month average daily trading volume! That's what they would call "irregular volume alert". It'll be interesting to watch chart tday. No wonder the company is worried.

Great job, Freepers!

[mdmathis6]

Unilever owns Lipton tea which was sponsoring the Dixie Chicks, just before they went anti patriotic on the U.S..
Unilever is a FRENCH company...figures!

[Republican Red]

Here is there info quote from Nasdaq.com site

http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?mode=stock&kind=&timeframe=&intraday=&charttype=&splits=&earnings=&movingaverage=&lowerstudy=&comparison=&index=&symbol=un&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&FormType=&mkttype=&pathname=&page=multi&selected=UN

They were down 1.91% yesterday.

Market opens at 9:30. This site will provide 15 minute delay on current stock price. The link is real slow this morning though.

[VeniVidiVici]

Sorry to go off topic but we could probably do some wonderful things with that "Country Crock" pic and John Edwards ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

It is time to remind everyone that the #1 funding company of abortion, gay marriage and anti GW stuff is:

BEN & JERRY'S which just happens to be owned by Uni Lever.

[evets]

Just emailed Hollywood Squares too!

yuk yuk yuk

[Vinomori]

BUMP! Don't stop now....keep emailing them!

[Badeye]

I mentioned on the initial thread Cortislim as an alternative to slimfast and its associated products. Gotten a ton of Freepmail about it.

This is an unbelievable result, a 1.2 BILLION drop?
Wow.

Unilever, meet Pepsi. They lost big due to Madonna, Michael "I like little boys" Jackson, Mike "I rape women" Tyson, and others.

This is very very satisfying to me.

[LisaMalia]

This was forwarded to me via email this morning. Didn't know if you all had seen it:

July 12, 2004

Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager
John Kerry for President
P.O. Box 34640
Washington, DC 20043

Dear Ms. Cahill:

On Thursday your campaign hosted a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall at which Sen. Kerry said, "Every performer tonight in their own way either verbally through their music through their lyrics have conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country."

I called on your campaign to release the performance that Sen. Kerry said represented the "heart and soul" of America so that all Americans could see for themselves what John Kerry thinks represents the "heart and soul" of our country.

Do most Americans in their hearts, think that calling the President a "thug" and a "killer" represents the "heart and soul" of our nation? We don't think so, but we think voters should decide for themselves by watching the celebrities John Kerry said captured the "heart and soul" of America.

Your Senior Advisor Tad Devine said that you believed that releasing musical performances "might violate copyrights and licensing agreements for the entertainers who performed and allow the Bush campaign to use the tape in commercials against Kerry and Edwards"

I have been assured that "fair use" rules of copyright would allow you to release the tapes of these musical performances to the news media under 2 U.S.C. 107. To allay the other concern you relayed to the news media, Bush-Cheney '04 pledges to refrain from using audio, video or transcripts of the event for any television, cable, satellite or radio advertising. We look forward to seeing this spirited display.

Sincerely,

Ken Mehlman
Campaign Manager

[WaterDragon]

Thanks for the list of Unilever products. I'm boycotting them all until Whoopi is dropped by Slimfast.

It always amazes me how easy it is to find very good comparable products whenever I decide to boycott a company that is contemptuous of America.

[MarMema]

Thank you for this post. I emailed both Slimfast and Unilever as we did use Slimfast products in our home.

May Whoopi the slut be appropriately sent off to nowhere land.

[azhenfud]

Whoopie! Whoopi's getting a whoopin'!

[anonymous_user]

[RoseofTexas]

I switched from Country Crock a year ago to SMART BALANCE! A switch I have never regretted! Smart Balance taste EXACTLY like butter and has O grams of Trans Fatty Acids for my Cholestrerol!!

[NYer]

FYI Ping!

Whoopi Goldberg also endorses Marriage Equality in California

Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list

[McGavin999]

You have to ask yourself just how stupid are some of these corporate executives? The should make it a rule that any celebrity who makes public political statements should be eliminated from consideration as a spokesperson. PERIOD!

They just keep putting their foot in it and then have to make a mad scramble. Years ago, sponsors demanded wholesome programming and if you wanted to represent their products you had to be clean. They gave up that right when they decided to hire ad companies to look after their interests. Well, it looks like that was a bad decision and they need to change it.

[Claire Voyant]

She was a dirt-bag even before this fiasco...SlimFast used VERY POOR JUDGEMENT....I will use NO Unilever products.