Whoopi yanked from Slim-Fast webpages (BOYCOTT starting to work!)

Slim-Fast marketing ^ | July 14, 2004

[Future Useless Eater]

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slim-fast.com as of Monday July 12, 2004

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slim-fast.com as of Wednesday morning July 14, 2004

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[Future Useless Eater]

Slim-Fast is starting to buckle under $1.2 BILLION dollars of pressure!

The weight loss giant is apparently reacting to a huge backlash from consumers, and worried investors, after their spokesperson, Whoopi Goldberg, lobbed vulgar obscenities at President Bush this weekend. John Kerry failed to condemn those attacks supposedly because the event brought in $7.5 Million for the Democrats. Instead, Kerry praised the celebrities for conveying "the heart and soul of our country."

The parent company, Unilever [trading symbol UN] was referring all correspondence and complaints about Goldberg's hate-speech, to Slim-Fast's marketing dept. A great many angry conservatives also reported, their successes in reaching sympathetic ears at Slim-Fast: (I just received a call from Slimfast), and (Goodbye Slimfast!).

Wall Street has noticed, as Neil Cavuto reported yesterday; the 2% drop in Unilever's stock price Tuesday was attributed a new Conservative boycott of its subsidiary Slim-Fast.

That amounts to a one-day LOSS of $1.2 BILLION dollars for shareholders!

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Unilever has a great deal to lose, as it's stock has a market value of 61B, and sells a great many well-known consumer products; some of which are...

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Anyone may comment online to Slim-Fast for their continuing use of Whoopi Goldberg as their advertising spokesperson.

[Future Useless Eater]

AM: could we please keep this in breaking news?

[MeekOneGOP]

Bump !! Hey, lookie ! :^D

[GeronL]

Thats a HUGE one-day drop.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Whoopee!

[GeronL]

They own Lipton and Country Crock too??? aarrrghhh... more things to boycott.

I use Miracle Whip over Hell-Mans anyway.

Woohoo!! Now if we could destroy the Democrats that way.

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoopi yanked from Slim-Fast webpages
(BOYCOTT starting to work!)

Excerpt:

The parent company, Unilever [trading symbol UN] was referring all correspondence and complaints about Goldberg's hate-speech, to Slim-Fast's marketing dept. A great many angry conservatives also reported, their successes in reaching sympathetic ears at Slim-Fast: (I just received a call from Slimfast), and (Goodbye Slimfast!).

Wall Street has noticed, as Neil Cavuto reported yesterday; the 2% drop in Unilever's stock price Tuesday was attributed a new Conservative boycott of its subsidiary Slim-Fast.

That amounts to a one-day LOSS of $1.2 BILLION dollars for shareholders!

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Tamzee]

Great to hear!


Also can send emails to support@slimfast.com or call 1-800-Slim-Fast

[GeronL]

trading symbol is UN???

This company is part of the Axis of Evil, without a doubt!

/sarcasm

[kb2614]

Oh great, this means another drivelling screed from Tim Robbins or some other moron blathering on about a "chill wind" blah blah blah.

When will Hollyweird learn that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences??

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

It's too bad that Whoopi wasn't taken to task for her multiple abortions. Ah well. A person who does something like that is morally stunted to begin with, so such a person is bound to do other evil things as well and be caught in the act of doing something.

[MeekOneGOP]

Marines Express THEIR opinion of Whoopi!

not very PC, not very nice …..

[Rastus]

Wow! Drop actually attributed to the boycott? Hollywood may never wake up, but the corporations will.

[Jet Jaguar]

A thread that started it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170357/posts

[Rastus]

Is it real? There are so many of those sites where you can add your own saying to the blank cardboard.

[Tamzee]

Meek, how could you be so utterly and completely wrong???

That's VERY nice, indeed LOL

[Tamzee]

Not real... the original one says "Michael Moore"... that's real :-)

[Jet Jaguar]

not very PC, not very nice …..

But, very appropriate.

Thanks.

[Rastus]

Instead, Kerry praised the celebrities for conveying "the heart and soul of our country."

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Thanks. Well, I'm a little reluctant to post that as a pic. :^D

[martin_fierro]

Just damn.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep ! I made that up from the Michael Moore original.

Marines Express THEIR opinion of Michael Moore!

not very PC, not very nice …..

[Jet Jaguar]

DUDE! I did not need to see THAT.

[SpyGuy]

For those who might have forgotten, Lipton Tea (another of Unilever's products) continued to sponsor the Dixie Chicks' concert tour after the Chicks made their infamously disparaging remarks about President Bush in the spring of 2003. In fact Lipton parodied the public backlash in a commercial featuring the Chicks:

In the fall of 2003 the Dixie Chicks starred in a broadcast TV commercial for Lipton Ice Tea which made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the corporate blacklisting and the grassroots backlash: in the tea spot, the Chicks are about to give a stadium concert when the electricity suddenly goes out - but they manage to electrify the stadium all by themselves, belting out a rousing "a capella" version of "Set Me Free" to the raving cheers of the fans.

Seems like Unilever likes to hire big-mouthed Leftists to represent their company. I say, let's keep up the boycott of Unilever and keep their stock falling!

[GeronL]

I am BLIND!!! I am BLIND!!! AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

[Quilla]

This is excellent news. I've always been under the impression that when an entertainer stooped to doing commercials, they needed the money. So without this added income, I wonder if Whoopie will finally appreciate the tax cuts initiated by President Bush. Maybe when she sobers up.

[Rastus]

I'm sure if Big Whoop has been pulled, we'll hear that it wasn't the boycott. "That campaign was at the end of its cycle." Just like with Commie Glover and MCI.

[GeronL]

Oh I agree. We need to boycott ALL of Unilever until they get the message or start selling parts of their evil empire.

[Elkiejg]

Thanks for the link to Slim-Fast - just sent in the following:

I've been a Slim-Fast as well as other Unilever products user for years. Since the vulgar hate attack of President Bush by Whoopi Goldberg, my family has made the decision to no longer purchase ANY Unilever products until the company publically fires Ms. Goldberg.

This is not a partisan decision by my family - it's a decision based on decency and fear for our country. The hate and bias of those guiding the media, politicians, some corporations and the entertainment field must be stopped if we are to survive. We will do our small part by not financing that hate with purchases.

Unilever could be a leader in corporate America by promoting all Americans stand united against the terrorists who want to kill us all.......rather than paying and giving voice to the hate-America voice. You decide - we have.

[Jet Jaguar]

ROTFLMFAO!

[feelgoodfox]

Damn, my daytrader friend doesn't read FR. He could've made a bundle on this one.

I'm impressed.

[GeronL]

Freepers are everywhere. Now if we can get some of that $1.2 billion to support FR, no more fundraisers!

[texasflower]

That amounts to a one-day LOSS of $1.2 BILLION dollars for shareholders!

Wow! That is incredible.

[kattracks]

BTTT

[backhoe]

My comment to them?

Keep Whoopi-
Lose my whole family as customers-
You decide-
Bye-

[Tamzee]

The original picture is very, Very, VERY nice!

awesome :-)

[MeekOneGOP]

:^D

[Paul_B]

Great detective work, FL.

[Caipirabob]

"That is so unfair!"

[kcvl]

bttt

[RandallFlagg]

AAAAAaaaaas I was saying in a Previous thread....
We need to give them an example of our power.

Well done, patriots!



And people wonder how I can be so optimistic....

[Dog]

That is a huge one day drop....

[Bonaparte]

A very fine post. Thanks!

[Miss Marple]

Yes, it is a huge drop. And since I was a regular user of two of the Unilever products, Hellman's mayonnaise and Dove soap, I now have something I can quit using (I never used Slim Fast). The longer Ms. Goldberg remains employed by their company, the more revenue they will lose.

[Bonaparte]

...Tim Robbins or some other moron blathering on about a "chill wind"..."

But Mr. Robbins, without the "chilling effect" we can't serve this dish cold.

[Bonaparte]

"When will Hollyweird learn that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences??"

The short answer is "never." You see, they don't have the learning gene.

[Bonaparte]

"...let's keep up the boycott..."

I'm down with that.

[Watery Tart]

My email:

As Dean Wormer said, "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

Get that never-was potty-mouth off of my TV, please. She is offensive. She has nothing worthwhile to add to any political discourse. I'd say she should be ashamed, but that would be impossible. So I'll say that YOU should be ashamed, and should rectify this situation as soon as possible.

As Michael Jordan said upon being asked why he didn't weigh in with his political opinions, "HALF MY CUSTOMERS ARE REPUBLICANS."

Signed, Terezza Kerry-Heinz

[CDHart]

I sent them a message on Monday -- guess I'll do another one today!

Carolyn