Good news pingers! Check the 'toon at #151. LOL!
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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Yeah, darn it. I realized that immediately after clicking on the "Post" button. (I've never been a fan of theirs anyway. Could be why I don't know the individual names.) :o)
I heard Mark Steyn on the Hugh Hewitt show describe whoopi as "miss Always Available". heh! As all the rest of those actors that popped up at Radio City MH that have no real job anymore.
It also cost Slim-Fast stockholders $1.2 Billion dollars. That's what I call hitting the pocketbook.
I got my "W" Ketchup yesterday, and it was worth the wait.
It tastes very good.
How much you wanna bet they DID see the video. Now the rest of America needs to see it show what John Kerry REALLY thinks is the 'heart and soul' of America. Mainstream, corn on the cob eating Americans need to see WHO supports this man and ask themselves if they agree with his supporters.
I would love to see a journalist be a REAL journalist and go after this story, but we all know they will leave it alone.
I believe she is on The Practice along with that fat actress who was screaming her lungs out at the pro choice rally.
"Who is that black woman in the background? She looks like another actress whose names escapes me at the moment.
I don't know, but a little poking around revealed that the site hosting that picture is probably a little disturbing. It's a photographer's site, and she also has images from a Miss Gay parade or something. I bailed quickly before I could see what that was about."
Where is the next filthy mouth has-been hollyweirdo? C'mon, lefties!! Put yer money where yer mouth is (yukky thought) and we will squeeze where the money comes from.
Econ 101 - DONT PISS OFF THE BUYING PUBLIC!
I just went over there to take a look, but I couldn't take it for more than a minute or two.
Good news pingers! Check the 'toon at #151. LOL!
Poor thangs!
I say to give them all some free government cheese!
Those realizations usually occur within 1.2 nanoseconds of clicking "post." I don't know what it's called, but I'm certain that syndrome is defined somewhere in the FReeper lexicon. I'm equally guilty, and mentioned such on a thread, somewhere, sometime last night :o)
I second that!
I haven't seen the practice in several years, but yep, she is on that program.
And GOD Bless our military!
Great! This makes me feel like writing lots more of these companies.
Hey! Where do I get my W ketchup? I live in the NW corner of L.A. county near Simi Valley. I have a high-carb, low nutritional diet planned for this weekend and NEED a bottle!!!
I remember that photo of Whoopi Goldberg in a tub of milk from ,what, nearly 20 years ago, in Esquire....it was the first puff piece on her, clearly designed to push her into stardom. Complete with a Mike Nichols quote comparing her to Ruth Draper. Wow, haven't seen the pic since then.
buh-bye, bee-atch!
Looks like we can buy Suave again!
Becki
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