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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: Lauren BaRecall
You're kidding! Great photo (of you)!
To: GVgirl
Thank goodness I don't have to give up Best Foods mayonnaise. I'm glad I don't have to give up Dove soap, one of their brands.
342
posted on
07/14/2004 8:08:04 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
To: texasbluebell
No, I'm not kidding. But
that's not me -shhhhh. I'm just indulging my imagination. Kinda like a mental happy dance in celebration of the FReep victory! :oD
To the FReepers belong the spoils!
343
posted on
07/14/2004 8:09:27 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg, among the ranks of the unemployed! HaHa!)
To: MeekOneGOP
The DU Dummies are losing their water over this..
The general consensus on that thread is to boycott Slim-Fast and Unilever because they dropped her as a spokesperson! Man, if that gets traction, Unilever is in a world of hurt . . .
To: BraveMan
haha ! I'd hate to be the PR/Marketing person at SlimE-Fast/Unilever.
345
posted on
07/14/2004 8:14:32 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: MeekOneGOP
Whoopi with unidentified liberal.
347
posted on
07/14/2004 8:21:06 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg, among the ranks of the unemployed! HaHa!)
To: TheBattman
Glad I sent an email. Obviously it helped the cause!
348
posted on
07/14/2004 8:21:25 PM PDT
by
joonbug
To: 11th Earl of Mar
See...now the company has finally caught on...They discovered a way to lose 150 pounds of useless body fat!
349
posted on
07/14/2004 8:24:30 PM PDT
by
trussell
(If stupidity was actually painful, some people would be on a permanent lidocane drip.)
To: texasbluebell
OMGosh! I just saw that the "girl" is a guy!
Steven
You can tell in the other pics.
350
posted on
07/14/2004 8:25:36 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg, among the ranks of the unemployed! HaHa!)
To: cripplecreek
Dang...I knew I should read further before I posted my commment! LOL
351
posted on
07/14/2004 8:26:13 PM PDT
by
trussell
(If stupidity was actually painful, some people would be on a permanent lidocane drip.)
To: maggiefluffs
LMAO! Lesbians - hell no ... what diet?!? Yep, they'll eat anything!!!
352
posted on
07/14/2004 8:26:46 PM PDT
by
Don Carlos
(Me cache en los Moros. Ancient Spanish curse. (Hate-speech since Spain's concession to terrorism)).)
To: Lauren BaRecall
Ha! That's funny, you fooled me!
To: Lauren BaRecall
What a riot!
I couldn't tell at all!
To: GeorgeBerryman
From ad: "I'm a BIG LOSER"
You know, I don't think she'd get any argument from folks around here.
355
posted on
07/14/2004 8:32:32 PM PDT
by
jejones
To: Lauren BaRecall
What is that boobie-blob? It looks like it started out as a heart, but morphed into Gilligan's Island.
356
posted on
07/14/2004 8:36:14 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(Yes, there is method in the madness.)
To: All
Just saw this news, front and center, on Drudge.
This feels soooo good!
I'll give myself just an eeensy, beeensy bit of credit for this, along with the tons of help from the rest of you and probably many thousands more from around the country!
YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hear that, Whoopi?! That's the sound of this American rejecting you, and those like you, for your hated of this country and our most respected and decent President.
God Bless America...where the little folk still rule...
I will call Slim-Fast to thank them and reassure them that I will resume purchasing their products. In fact, I'll be even more loyal to their products because, in my eyes, they did the right thing.
To: Tamsey
Whoopie is being reported (by CNN) as saying: But it saddens me that people who were not present at the fund-raiser, including anyone from Slim-Fast and others who have not seen the material for themselves but are only reacting to soundbites produced by the media, have opted to judge my 'conduct,' " Goldberg's statement said.
The fact that she's 'saddened' that the public hasn't seen the complete video footage is stunning... We'd all LOVE to see the footage! All Whoopie needs to do to clear up this 'misunderstanding' is for her to get her fellow lib/dem/socialist friends over at the DNC to release the video. Of course, we all know they're not going to do that, and even if they did, the alphabet soup media is not going to air it.
Go ahead, Whoopie. We dare ya'!!
358
posted on
07/14/2004 8:38:13 PM PDT
by
Skywarner
(Enjoying freedom? Thank a Veteran!)
To: Mears
I sent an email...got a generated reply, but, the Whoopi is fired.
Yippee!!!!!!!!
To: texasbluebell
LOL! I really thought he was a girl, too!
360
posted on
07/14/2004 8:45:11 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg, among the ranks of the unemployed! HaHa!)
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