So, let's see, there's outrage when a comedian makes jokes about Bush and his name, but none when Cheney tells a Senator to "Go **** himself" and, instead of doing the right thing and apologizing, he said he felt better. Good to see our priorities are in place.
But you can guarantee they'd be bellyaching and screaming for the firing for whatever conservative entertainer (as if there are any!) if they said the same about Kerry and his lover Edwards. It is only "hate speech" if it comes from the Right. If it comes from the Left, it must be correct.
Just like the right doesn't care what celebrities have to say, unless they're Republicans, then we vote them into office! How many jobs did Bruce Willis lose when he called our former Vice President the devil back in the 90s?
She was fired from a company that she represented. The company didn't feel that their customers would not like someone using profanity to represent their product. The comments were made to a crowd of people on purpose. I don't think there is all that much outrage. I'd have fired her too. If I was Slim-fast and she was making profane comments about Kerry, I'd have still fired her. I don't think companies trying to sell a product, especially a weight loss product aimed at middle aged, middle income women, want a profane spokesperson.
THe only people making a big deal here are people of your ilk. I don't give a damn what products whoopi freaking goldberg endorses or doesn't.
I agree that they had a right to fire her. I was talking more about the outrage over the event itself, especially by the administration. Buch of thin-skinned babies...
This is a tangential question, but when/how did Whoopi even become famous? Was it Ghost? Are you kidding me?!
Really. I don't think she's ever made me laugh. She's also not new to controversey. Remember that blackface crap that her and Ted Danson did?
LMAO!! Yea, I was searching for that earlier today (but not too hard) and the few articles I found made it out that Whoopi ended her relationship with Danson after that happened. However, I could have sworn that I read somewhere that she thought what he did was funny. I don't know what was worse - Danson doing this and thinking it was funny or him carrying on with Whoopi romantically WHILE he was still married.
For comedy, I'm unsure but I'm pretty sure she rose to fame playing Celie in "The Color Purple" for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and deserved it too. She can be a good actor her comdey is something that just has never made me laugh.
I don't see anything in the article saying the administration is outraged. I doubt they even care, if they know about it at all.
They definitely know about it...they're demanding that the Kerry camp release the tapes of the event. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/14/fundraiser.flap/index.html MARQUETTE, Michigan (CNN) -- President Bush criticized Democrats on Tuesday over a fund-raiser last week where celebrities used off-color language and called him a "thug" and a "liar." His campaign demanded that the Kerry-Edwards campaign release footage of the event. Speaking at a campaign stop in Michigan, Bush told supporters that "the other day, my opponent said, when he was with some entertainers from Hollywood, that they were the heart and soul of America. "I believe the heart and soul of America is found in places right here, in Marquette, Michigan," he said, to applause from the crowd. Republicans have been pounding the Kerry campaign for days over last Thursday's fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York, which both presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, attended. During the event, comedian Whoopi Goldberg made sexually explicit comments that were puns on Bush's name and singer John Mellencamp referred to the president as a "thug." Comedian Chevy Chase called Bush a "liar" and "bright as an egg timer," while actor Paul Newman called the Bush administration's tax cuts "borderline criminal." (Kerry bash raises $7.5 million) However, Republicans have been particularly critical of Kerry's remarks at the end of the evening, when he thanked the entertainers and said they "conveyed the heart and soul of our country." Ken Mehlman, Bush's campaign manager, sent a letter Tuesday to his counterpart in the Kerry campaign, Mary Beth Cahill, demanding that footage of the event be released. "Do most Americans in their hearts think that calling the president a 'thug' and a 'killer' represents the 'heart and soul' of our nation? We don't think so, but we think voters should decide for themselves," he wrote. Responding to concerns from a Kerry adviser that releasing the footage might violate copyright law and that it might be used in Bush ads, Mehlman pledged that the president's campaign would not use the footage. He also said that rules allowing "fair use" of newsworthy copyrighted material would allow its release for use by the media. "We look forward to seeing this spirited display," he wrote. In response, Cahill fired off her own letter to Mehlman, saying the Kerry campaign would not release the footage unless the Bush campaign released a raft of documents "relating to Bush's performance in office." The documents include Bush's military records from his service in the Texas Air National Guard; correspondence between the Defense Department and Halliburton about no-bid contracts for Iraqi reconstruction; records of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force; correspondence between the Bush administration and the pharmaceutical industry about the Medicare drug bill, and documents about prison abuse in Iraq. "Considering that the president has failed to even come close to keeping his promise to change the tone in Washington, we find your outrage over, and paparazzi-like obsession with, a fund-raising event to be misplaced," she wrote. Hell, if they hadn't been such babies about it, I doubt fat ass conservatives who have to use slimfast would have even known about it.
, you doubt they care? The Bush administration, the RNC and various Senators, with the help of the con artistes in the con press, have made it this week's campaign theme. I freaking wish I lived in an America where the biggest problems are some stupid unfunny comedian making lewd comments and two people of the same sex who want to get married, which seems to be the view of the President and the Republican Party this week. I guess health care, social security, the budget, and all that stuff is secondary. Too bad I live in reality, I guess.
Whoopi's response from the Guardian: Advertiser drops Whoopi after Bush sex joke Stephen Brook, advertising correspondent Thursday July 15, 2004 Slim-Fast has dropped Whoopi Goldberg from its advertising after the comedian made a sexual joke about George Bush. The Unilever-owned diet food brand acted after Goldberg made fun of the US president at a Democratic fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week. "We should keep Bush where he belongs," Goldberg said, gesturing at her genitals, "and not in the White House." Slim-Fast said advertisements featuring Goldberg, who is on the Slim-Fast diet, would be withdrawn. "We are disappointed by the manner in which Ms Goldberg chose to express herself and sincerely regret that her recent remarks offended some of our consumers," said the Slim-Fast general manager, Terry Olson. Goldberg accepted the company's decision but said she had criticised presidents of all persuasions. "While I can appreciate what the Slim-Fast people need to do in order to protect their business, I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American, not to mention as a comic," she told the Bloomberg news wire. "I've done material on every president in the past 20 years, from Reagan to Carter, from Clinton to Bush. It seems now that people from the other side are using this to further their own agenda." John Kerry and John Edwards, the Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates, attended the event, which raised $7.5m (£4.1m), but they both steadfastly avoided commenting about the joke. The comedian said earlier that she had refused to let the Democrats pre-vet her material. "I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on because we're Democrats - we're not afraid to laugh," she said. Goldberg has been attacked by rightwing American newspapers after her joke. "Jerky jokester Whoopi in dirty diss at Dubya" was the headline on the story in the New York Post. "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she'd refused to let Team Kerry clear her material," the paper reported.
Whoopi Goldberg might just be the ugliest human being on the planet. SlimFast did themselves a favor by firing that medusa.
There was another thread last year when someone questioned why Whoopi was so popular. I really don't understand that. She has a very impressive biography.
