Posted on 07/16/2004 2:45:01 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON - Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Republicans again yesterday, branding them hypocrites for trying to "punish" her for joking about the President.Fired from her gig as SlimFast spokeswoman, the salty entertainer hit back at Republicans who threatened a SlimFast boycott over sexual puns she made about President Bush's name at a Democratic fund-raiser.
"America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal," she said in a statement.
"I find all this feigned indignation about 'Bush bashing' quite disingenuous," she said, noting the Bush administration has savagely gone after critics like former Sen. Max Cleland, Iraq whistleblower Joseph Wilson and ex-terrorism chief Richard Clarke.
"For the Republican Party to pretend this is new to them seems a little fake," she said.
"The fact that I am no longer the spokesman for SlimFast makes me sad, but not as sad as someone trying to punish me for exercising my right as an American to speak my mind."
The Bush-Cheney campaign has been making a lot of hay out of Goldberg's set at last week's celebrity gala at Radio City Music Hall, professing shock at her blue jokes.
Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman called the event a "hatefest" that proves John Kerry doesn't "share the same values" as the rest of America.
Kerry, who is trying to woo swing voters, did not stand by his celeb supporters. On the defensive, he distanced himself from Goldberg and said through spokesmen that he thought her comments were inappropriate.
Running mate John Edwards was asked about the flap yesterday by Fox News. "They weren't speaking for me, and they weren't speaking for John Kerry," he said, adding the ticket is "focused on our positive, optimistic vision of hope."
Mehlman has repeatedly demanded that Kerry's camp release a video of the event, even going so far as to promise not to use the footage in ads.
Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said tartly that he could have the video after Bush releases his military records and details of Vice President Cheney's secret energy task force.
Diversity promoter Asa Khalif, who has made headlines for accusing celebrities of insensitivity, cried foul in the Goldberg firing. "I smell racism from beginning to end," said Khalif, head of Racial Unity USA in Pennsylvania. "SlimFast must realize that black women have every right to voice their views."
Originally published on July 16, 2004
If you can call pointing out lies "savagely going after' anyone.
... but not as sad as someone trying to punish me for exercising my right as an American to speak my mind."
While the rest of us are not to be allowed the same freedom? Goldberg and her ilk don't seem to realize that Americans don't have to put up with her kind of nastiness and also have the right to speak out.
Which we did.
High five to all the Freepers who helped derail this slut's left wing gravy train.
Amazing that these idiots think that they can say and do whatever they want and that no private citizen has the same ability to criticize them or withdraw their business from the sponsors of this trash. It is absolutely incredible that they think this has anything to do with the constitutional right to free speech.
Whopi seems to think freedom of speech means freedom from responsibility too. Without "reprisal" indeed.
I almost posted a thread a couple of days ago about how long
it would take for her to start whining about being a "victim".
Exactly. Free speech for me, but not for thee.
---Running mate John Edwards was asked about the flap yesterday by Fox News. "They weren't speaking for me, and they weren't speaking for John Kerry," he said, adding the ticket is "focused on our positive, optimistic vision of hope."---
Yeah, he hopes their campaign isn't dead in the water before the convention is even over.
In a free-market, capitalistic society, we also have the right to express our opinions and Slim-Fast didn't want you making an impact on their profits via your association.
They have that right.
You "entertainers" never learn, do you? WE, the public can make or break you. If we don't want to listen to your brand of B.S., we don't have to.
Buh-bye, now!
Show me the video!!
"America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal"
Tell that to Trent Lott...
Boy, she can dish it out, but can't take it. Or did she not know that with freedom of expression also comes responsibility. Or that freedom of speech is not a one-way street.
"YOU ARE WHO YOU ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH"
"NEVER BRING A KNIFE TO A GUNFIGHT"
congrats freepers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GODSPEED!!!!!!!
Sucks being a peasant,huh? Welcome to your preview of a Dem(on) controlled America.
"fear of reprisal" FROM THE GOVERNMENT, YOU MORON!
Take some responsibility, fer cryin' out loud.
Here's the fact of the matter: Whoopie, you area an employee of Slim*Fast. You represent them, like it or not 24/7. For that matter, you represent everyone else you endorse 24/7. We are working on them right now...
Here's how it works: Businesses make their money marketing and selling their product to consumers. The more, the merrier. This is not an election. You do not "win" if you get more than 50% of the vote.
In this case, nearly 50% of the public found your comments to be outrageous in connection with a Democratic fundraiser during an election year. You are an employee of Slim*Fast and they are paying you to represent them, so it is natural to connect your statements with their product.
If you are a business, and say some 40% of your consumer base tells you they are going to stop buying your product, it's not a time to gloat about the 60% that will still continue to buy it. It is an UNMITIGATED DISASTER!
YOU LOSE! End of story...
I was watching FOX last night and watching O'Reilly (who I really though was an idiot for calling the Harvard Law graduate a "spoiled pinhead".) talk to two people who both thought that Slim*Fast had overreacted.
Slim*Fast responded appropriately considering the consumer backlash they faced. No business wants to watch their sales plummet by some 50%.
Whoopie is perfectly justified in her criticism. After all, we ALL know that the left has NEVER, EVER tried to boycott advertisers on conservative radio talk shows.
"Kerry, who is trying to woo swing voters, did not stand by his celeb supporters"
Where's the footage?
Whoopi-G's vulgarity
Kerry smiling and laughing
Whoopi-G's vulgarity
Kerry smiling and laughing..
She talks about free speech, but they won't even release video of the actual events, which is censorship and free speech suppression at it's most blatant.
"I smell racism from beginning to end," said Khalif, head of Racial Unity USA
Who didn't see that coming?
Sounds like whoopie needs a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance.
Act like scum of the earth, then whine and snivel and play the victim.
We have freedom of reprisal from government. That does not there will not be consequences from your actions. We also have freedom to choose what products and people to support and are exercising it.
And no, Whoopi, it is not new. I seem to remember plenty of other boycotts. How about those pushing an orange juice boycott (unsuccessfully) because it was advertised on Rush Limbaugh?
Slimfast did what it had to do.
Who says boycotts don't work ?
BUMP
Looks to me like Slim Fast just gave her a big can of Whoop-$SS. Well deserved
I'm just surprised it took this long. I expected the R word to surface with the first reports of any criticism of Goldberg.
Wrong. Without the fear of GOVERNMENT reprisal.
Slim Fast "punished" her, not the Republicans.
Slim Fast lost 150 or so pounds of ugly, arrogant fat.
People frequent businesses because they like the products for sale and because they hold the retailers in high esteem. F-ck either one of these two things up and you lose your customers. It's called capitalism, Whoopi, and it's how you made your millions, dumbass.
What a crock of sorry h*rsesh*t this is. Take a lesson, dummiecrats. The time when you could walk all over Republicans is GONE, never to return. Flyover country, where REPUBLICANS rule, is going to stretch from the East
side of the SF Bay to the Hudson, with little islands of dumbiecrats in between.
I get a kick out of Dems trying to compare Whoopi's vulgar performance with Dick Cheney's teelling Leahy what to do with himself.
It's like comparing apples and oranges, and they just don't get the difference, or if they do, they chose to ignore it.
She is an admirer of Fidel Castro and stated that she sees nothing wrong with communism, which worldwide killed perhaps 150 million people and was the enemy of the United States.
Actually, your comments hit the nail on the head. So, ditto.
ROFL
Besides the Color Purple and getting fired from their gigs, she and Danny Glover have a lot in common.
What I would like to know is, why would Slim Fast hire that beast in the first place? It's not like she suddenly became foul during the Dem Filthfest. She's always been that way.
Those commies are still teaching in every one of our universities. Did you hear that brain-dead Noam Chomsky girl on Sean's show yesterday? A perfect product of our schools.
Whoo-pie's people are at work as we speak, and the product of their work is killing this country from within! The commies are winning as long as they control academia.
Let's see.
Whoopi Goldberg Freepers lashed out at Republicans Whoopi Goldberg again yesterday, branding them her a hypocrite s for trying to "punish" her for joking about the President. them for expressing their opinions publicly.
Apparently only vulgar hos are allowed to do that.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
Of course consequences is a dirty word in Hollywaste.
Does anyone have the URL for the CHILDREN'S SHOW she has?
Speaking of hos... I wonder if the lurch and the breck girl are aware that her production company is called One Ho Productions. For liberal kooks a name like that just smacks of American values.
I remember seeing a news clip showing a Georgia man with a shopping cart full of Florida orange juice. He bought out the store. He was going to do his bit to support Rush. I remember seeing empty refrigerator shelves in my local grocery store - they were totally out of stock and remained out of stock for weeks. I remember seeing an interview with a spokesman for Florida orange juice who said that NOW planned boycott of their product was fabulous for business.
Like the old adage: "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it." NOW wanted a boycott, they got it. They just didn't plan for a counter-boycott to be more successful. I suppose if the radical Left really, really, really wanted to support Whoopi, they could have bought out the store of Slim-Fast. Since that didn't happen, I suppose Whoopi doesn't have the commanding presence that she'd like to think she has and prefer to blame another group for her lack of appeal.
What can you expect? Ugly is as UGLY does. No wonder she's a miserable bull dyke, no man would have that nasty libretard.
"SlimFast must realize that black women have every right to voice their views."
Whoopie must realize that Republicans have every right to voice their views.
Tell that to Trent Lott...
Tell that to Rush Limbaugh at ESPN.
Tell that to Howard Cosell.
That is why I called her that. When you name yourself, expect people to call you that.
Everyone who has watched "Hollywood Squares" knows it. But I doubt the duo would be sharp enough to catch that.
Kerry would only be interested if she was single and richer then Teresa and breck girl would only be interested if she tripped and wanted to sue.
"no man would have that nasty libretard."
Ted Danson did.......Oh sorry you said man, nevermind.
Whoopi, you been Dixie Chicked. Live with it.
We are also also exercising our right, as Americans, to speak with our mind and/or our pocketbook. Slim fast was paying her to promote their product.
Why is it Hollywood types always think they should not be held accountable for their actions. If she knew how to keep her mouth shut, she would still be promoting a product for Slim-Fast.
Uh, Ms. Goldberg: Trust me, if I stood up at my company's corporate board meeting and proceeded to describe some other person the way you did, I would be looking for another job too.
Freedom of expression, indeed.
YEOW! I'd forgotten that! haha. I'll be he's STILL scrubbing his crank with Pine Sol and an SOS pad!
THE LIBERAL CREDO
(Whoopi and the religious-hating left's bogus belief system)
1. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.
2. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism, homosexuality, and transgender-sexuality are government-protected lifestyles.
3. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem with as many billion dollar programs as it takes.
4. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution;
5. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.
6. Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that Black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and warped Hollyweirdos to proselytize the message 24/7.
7. Normal sex is perverted. Threesomes, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality are just new ways to get a thrill.
8. Moral indignation is our standard strategy for endowing liberal ideals with superiority.
9. Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for our own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail us out. It feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over.
10. It's a liberal's duty to treat voters in the manner of raising mushrooms, that is to say, keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.
Didn't she host the Oscars one year, and it had dismal ratings? She made sexual jokes about the microphone, and everyone turned the Oscars off halfway through, if I recall correctly.
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