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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Far be it from me to take the word of Monica Crowley! Of course, we all must see it...and see it without *any* preconceived notions!
I've done jury duty, so I know how to do this! :oD
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First - GREAT, FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL - ELATION NEWS - Woop got her butt wooped!
Second, you guys are seriesly slippin' here - I got ZERO PINGS on this little gem!
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Excellent point!
Whoopi, if you want people to only judge you for your conduct, make Kerry release the tape!
"Hmm. Is that a cicada pupa?"
I think you're right. Of late, when I see her I feel ready to "pupe."
At least she gets the bad press, which hopefully will work against her when she tries to get her next spokesperson position!
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Is that really you hugging up next to Whoop in #339, Lauren?
Wonder, could Whooop and Mike Tyson ever get together and form a road show?
That caught me off guard! LOL!
Clever!
One guy actually mentioned that he was a business professor and was going to tell his students from now on that Unilever is a right wing corporation.
Another guy who used a boondocks character as a signature, thought it was of course racist.
They are loons over there, now excuse me while I go take a shower, even though I don't partake in the filth over there, the stench wafting sticks to you.
[Meek translation: Freepers put the heat on!]
Oh no. When I'm posting, and I get really silly, I enjoy putting up pictures, and building plausible, but very untrue, stories around them. It's very entertaining to me. I always come clean to the other posters, though. :o)
BTW, that one about the "Virgin Queen," is Whoopi at the Oscars.
If the Whoopster did a road show with Mike Tyson, hey, that's a funny thought! LOL! The expression is usually "Watch your back!," but in this case, she'd have to "watch her ears." Like do an ear count at the end of the night.
Annie Leibovitz -- that reminds me. I took a photography class about 3 years ago, and one of the other students, a woman in her fifties, (and I was pretty sure she was a liberal) asked the instructor about Ms. Lebovitz. She apparently admired her work. I hadn't seen this other student since then, until the day I was working the annual local Republican Women's garage sale. There she was in front of me, making a purchase, and she asked what organization we were, so I told her as I handed her back her change. She suddenly looked like she'd swallowed a persimmon.
yer evil!
But eye luv it!!!!
George Clooney?
NOW DEMOCRATS WILL SAY UNEMPLOUMENT JUMPED, BECAUSE WOOPI IS OUT OF JOB. WAY TO GO BUT REMEMBER THE CEO GIVE TO 527 TO BEST BUSH.
Michael Moore needs no help on his way to oblivion. He has already been widely discredited and will fall hard under his own weight.
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