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Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
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| 7/14/04
Posted on 07/14/2004 3:01:51 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush's name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday.
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
"Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldberg's remarks offended some customers.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards, in which entertainers lined up to skewer the president.
The New York Post said of Goldberg's appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia."
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment.
Slim-Fast is a unit of Anglo-Dutch food-to-detergent group Unilever Plc .
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comeuppance; fundraiser; hatespeech; johnedwards; johnkerry; kerry; mediabias; obscenity; oopi; raunchfest; slimfast; unilever; whoopi; whoopigoldberg; yourefired
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Woot! Woot!
To: Rastus
You should photoshop the shirt of the idiot next to whoopsie. Make it say "ZOT"
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:28:56 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(yes. As a matter of fact, my legs are broke.)
To: SheLion
Boy, will she bitch now. LOL!Yep......and we should now mount a campaign demanding Kerry release the tape.
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:29:12 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: All
104
posted on
07/14/2004 3:29:24 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: Dog
I will point out at this moment that Ted Danson once said (in black face) that
Making love to Whoopi Goldberg is like throwing a hotdog down the hall.
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:29:37 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Twenty-nine Helens agree: Promptness is very important.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Madame Dufarge; Gabz; MeeknMing; steve50; ...
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:29:42 PM PDT
by
SheLion
(Please register to vote! We can't afford to remain silent!!)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Big woop - I thought the two scams were made for each other. woopie as an entertainer(scam) and slim fast (scam)
To: AmericanR76
Maybe we need to put out a reward for a copy of that tape??? After we get it maybe we could invest in some tv time to publically show it to everyone! Wouldn't that be tons of fun? Mrs PD
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:30:46 PM PDT
by
pepperdog
(God Bless and Protect our Troops)
To: dc-zoo
The only fair thing they can do now is to contribute a matching 1.2 million dollars to the Bush Campaign and conservative organnizations.There you go.
To: 11th Earl of Mar
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:31:00 PM PDT
by
theDentist
("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
To: GVgirl
Don't forget about the CEO giving $1.2 million to the 'rats. Someone posted that the stock of Unilever dumped $1.2 BILLION yesterday. Hopefully it will continue to dump and affect his year end bonus by several million...
111
posted on
07/14/2004 3:31:19 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
To: Lauren BaRecall
Now she could do ads for Cialis or Viagra, LOL:):) heh!
112
posted on
07/14/2004 3:31:28 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: 11th Earl of Mar
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:32:10 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(Ted Rall needs a change of attitude.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Finally, Whoopi puts her money where her vast mouth is -- in the toilet.
114
posted on
07/14/2004 3:32:47 PM PDT
by
Rocko
To: JoJo Gunn
BUT Slim Fast didn't say she was fired / off the payroll.
We should keep at it until we hear at least that much
115
posted on
07/14/2004 3:32:58 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: 11th Earl of Mar
They're some slow pokes over there at Netscape News/Reuters. I posted a similar story on the boycott and issued a press release at noon today. See the story
here. I din't pull any punches in my story either. There's a special dose of Kerry punching in my article, too. Special thanks go to FReepers dvan, sandlady, and FL_engineer for the help.
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:33:03 PM PDT
by
numberonepal
(<a href=http://goodnewsamerica.us>goodnewsamerica.us</a> Fast News For Common Sense People)
To: deadhead
Democrats speak from their a$$ when not talking out of both sides of their mouths. We speak with our wallets.
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posted on
07/14/2004 3:33:21 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family was a WMD)
To: Serb5150
hee hee ha ha ho ho ... that beeyatch just had to go
118
posted on
07/14/2004 3:33:38 PM PDT
by
jwfiv
To: Dog
I was thinking the same thing. Those people at SF are racist dontcha know.
119
posted on
07/14/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT
by
fooman
(Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
To: BobS
I think the raunch mouth's career as a spokesperson is over. She's not fit to pitch dog food.
120
posted on
07/14/2004 3:34:16 PM PDT
by
Jenya
(Gore, he's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody)
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