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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: Happy2BMe
The tears are coming out of my eyes, I'm laughing so hard!
I gotta get to bed. Last night, or I should say this AM, lights out was at 3:15AM! And I do have a full time day job.
So, goodnight for the time being. :o)
521
posted on
07/15/2004 8:55:04 PM PDT
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Whoopi Goldberg: to the FReepers belong the spoils!)
To: 11th Earl of Mar; facedown; TheBattman; Solson; martin_fierro; SanityFromTheLeftCoast; ...
522
posted on
07/15/2004 9:01:15 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
I saw this actual costume in a Harriet Carter catalog that came today:
Somebody have at it.
523
posted on
07/15/2004 9:05:03 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(P a t r v v s M a x i m v s)
To: PhilDragoo
524
posted on
07/15/2004 9:10:54 PM PDT
by
M007
To: PhilDragoo
To: PhilDragoo
526
posted on
07/15/2004 9:24:15 PM PDT
by
GVnana
(Tagline? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
To: PhilDragoo
Is it so bad on my part to want something bad to happen to her and her kind? Like karma and all that stuff?
527
posted on
07/15/2004 9:28:49 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: PhilDragoo
528
posted on
07/15/2004 9:42:02 PM PDT
by
Smartass
( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
I saw you slip that guy a ten! LOL!
yea Lauren, that's just what YOU thought... The ten spot was for renting that 'thing'.
I actually thought we had gotten away with it... ('till you flashed your... you know )
sweet dreams
To: PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; Smartass; potlatch; devolve; JohnHuang2; Geist Krieger; Lauren BaRecall; ...
DUBLE P . PP .. PING on #522 - CHEERS Phildragoo! (You right-wing conspiratist hate-monger YOU!!)
Take a break from your day job a sec - look what got FLUSHED down the JOHN F***ing Kerry won't come back up as a reborn POOPI - PING.
(Call in a master plumber someone, this will take days to clean up.)
532
posted on
07/15/2004 10:16:45 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
To: PhilDragoo
BYE BYE WHOOPI....
To: Quzar
"Whos the big loser now..."The one who won't state why he refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Say, I thought you just started Navy boot camp a week ago. What happened? Did you refuse to salute?
To: Lauren BaRecall; MeekOneGOP
ROTFL and choking on my coffee!
This happened once in Rio to about the same degree, but that's for another thread.
535
posted on
07/16/2004 2:06:33 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Happy2BMe; Lauren BaRecall
Right off-hand and at this early hour I can't think of anyone worthy. :^) Coffee, anyone ?? .....
Have a cup while you Freep ! |
For those who prefer hot chocolate..... |
536
posted on
07/16/2004 2:48:12 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: PhilDragoo; MEG33; Grampa Dave; Smartass; maxwell; dubyaismypresident; Argh
ROFL !! Good one, Phil! :^D
537
posted on
07/16/2004 3:24:12 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: PhilDragoo
Thanks for the ping, Phil. I love the sound of running water in the morning. It sounds like poopi flushed.
Now I hear Whoopi's whining about "freedom of speech". Someone must have forgotten to tell her she's free to say whatever she wants to. But in doing so, one must live with the consequences of one's "free speech".
538
posted on
07/16/2004 4:53:01 AM PDT
by
auboy
(When John Kerry says he wants America to know the truth, where does he hide his lightning rod?)
To: PhilDragoo
She definitely lived up to Slimfast's advertising line, "I'm a big loser"
539
posted on
07/16/2004 4:56:50 AM PDT
by
blanknoone
(The NAACP --->NAADP National Association for the Advancement of the Democrat Party.)
To: JoJo Gunn
Actually, Ms. Goldberg, putting down the wine bottle can lead to a serious reduction in daily caloric intake too. (Unless you were representing "fat, drunken, black women" in Kerry's "cross section of America" the other night.)
540
posted on
07/16/2004 7:27:53 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Proudly putting panties on liberals' heads since 1994.)
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