Here's the fact of the matter: Whoopie, you area were an employee of Slim*Fast.
Fixed that for you. 
"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%.
Here's the fact of the matter: Whoopie, you area were an employee of Slim*Fast.
Fixed that for you.
Exactly. No business that disregards its customers' concerns will remain in business for long. That's the beauty of the market at work in our free enterprise system. It has to listen to the people who buy.
Exacta-f'ing-mundo!
If these mondo-Hollywood morons would take the time to actually read the Constitution, they'd realize this. I have MY freedom of expression, too, and my freedom of expression was to tell your employer that you suck as a spokesperson and I wouldn't be buying their product anymore. And since you were now a liability and not an asset, they canned your skanky ass. No one put a gun to their heads.
So cry me a river, bitch.