Posted on 07/16/2004 2:45:01 AM PDT by kattracks
Well she just painted herself into a corner now, didn't she.
DO NOT pick up live Hand Grenades!
Never could understand why she was a spokesperson for Slim Fast, which is a diet supplement. Who on this earth would want to look like Whoopi while drinking SlimFast?????
Apparently, as soon as your voter registration reads "democRAT."
Incorrect. Whoopi again demonstrates the Left's abject ignorance of the US Constitution and the spirit of America.
America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of GOVERNMENT reprisal. There never has been, and never will be a society where you can say what you want and have a A GUARANTEE THAT NO PRIVATE CITIZENS WILL BOYCOTT YOUR INTERESTS. To effect such a guarantee would require government coercion in the extreme.
Whoopi has not been censored. She spoke up as a free woman, and other free people responded, and a company voluntarily fired her to protect its revenues. And the government did nothing.
That, my friends, is America.
" If you can call pointing out lies "savagely going after' anyone."
This is Related to calling pointing out Kerry's congressional voting record, "attacking" him.
I had a dim tell me yesterday that it isn't flip-flopping to keep changing on issues. Anyone would change over the years because times change.
Anyone? Lame. I remained calm as I wanted to hear the spin and that's apparently how they are justifying Kerry's decision making ability and poor judgement to each other.
The explanation is simple.
Khalif is a racist and is smelling himself.
"Tell that to Trent Lott..."
Or Rush Limbaugh.
It's also the GOP who has given her a nice life by going to her hideous movies and buying her crap.
Whoopi, you finally did something that made me laugh. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
True, but Kerry changes from day to day/minute to minute, depending on what the polls say.
Hey Whoopi, you have the right to say what's on your mind. We just don't have to subsidize your insufferable expression.
So, John-John throws their dog into the fight then disowns her. How predictable.
"And didn't Breckgirl's wife open her piehole with some remarks?"
Yep.... from a July 9 Newsmax article:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/9/112800.shtml
"Rejecting calls for her husband's campaign to apologize for Goldberg's outburst, Mrs. Edwards said Friday that the anti-Bush tirade was justified.
"A lot of people are going to be angry - there's a lot to be angry about," she told reporters at a fund-raising breakfast on Manhattan's west side. "It's a free country and people are going to express that anger." "
So, who was doing the laughing for Edwards and Kerry? Who called this slime the heart and soul of America?
Exactly. Free speech my friends, is not an entitlement. Whoopi and her Leftist friends are hypocrites given they are the ones who insist political speech has no First Amendment protection. We're simply holding Whoopi then to that logic. Fascinating how they whine about being called on it. Then again, its one rule for them and another for the Great Unwashed. Thanks for pointing it out. Perhaps Whoopi can put that filthy motor mouth of hers to work to repeal the CFR law.
Because their entire identity is caught up in it, and with it comes a lot of money and power. Without it they lose their reason to exist.
What school did Whoopi go to? Without reprisal?
Oh, ok. Well, following your most excellent philosophy, I guess I will just run into a theater and yell "FIRE!". When I get (rightly) thrown in jail, I'll just say, "America's heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal". Yeah that will work.
Speech has limits. The limits differ depending on the situation. In my screaming "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, it is a specific judicial limit.
In your circumstance, it is a free-market, economic limit. This isn't anything imposed by the government or the GOP. This limit (or censure) comes from the American people through the company that hired you to promote their product.
There are only 3 people that you should be mad at, Whoopi...
SHUT UP AND SING!
Whoopi has a right to speak her mind. But these Hollywood people who think we Americans have to put up with every tasteless and vulgar they can think of to pollute the public forum are wrong. THEY need to clean up their act.
By the way, where is Kerry on this? Is the "thoughtful" Kerry still "deliberating" about this, or is Kerry waiting to see poll results before he speaks?
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