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Goldberg Pulls Out of TV Show
IMDb.com ^ | 7-28-04

Posted on 07/28/2004 4:51:26 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

Whoopi Goldberg has pulled out of appearing on American TV show The View - in a bid to avoid further political controversy. The comedienne, who was scheduled to appear on network ABC's talk show yesterday, canceled her appearance as she is concerned her comments could detract from the Democratic convention. Goldberg was recently dropped as a spokesperson for diet aid company Slim-Fast after she mocked US President George W Bush at a Democratic fundraiser. A source says, "Those comments she made last time made headlines. It's inevitable that whole thing would have been a topic of conversation on The View and either that or something else Whoopi says - and of course, she's going to say what she thinks about Bush and it ain't pretty - would make headlines again. The Democrats just don't need that right now." Goldberg's spokesman comments, "Whoopi and only Whoopi decided that she would prefer not to appear on television during the convention."


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KEYWORDS: dncconvention; kerry; theview; whoopi
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Bull! She was nudged out and allowed to save face.
1 posted on 07/28/2004 4:51:27 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides

Save face?? Hide face, maybe..


2 posted on 07/28/2004 4:52:38 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Its noteworthy that the two biggest shills for the left are Michael Moore and Al Franken..)
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To: Paul Atreides

BINGO! Back to the gutter from whence she came. So deserving!


3 posted on 07/28/2004 4:54:12 PM PDT by EggsAckley (.....John Edwards: The political equivalent of breast implants.....)
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To: Paul Atreides

Stop the censorship! Let Whoopi be Whoopi!


4 posted on 07/28/2004 4:55:43 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Paul Atreides

Now we need to get rid of that other sow, Moore..


5 posted on 07/28/2004 4:55:53 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Its noteworthy that the two biggest shills for the left are Michael Moore and Al Franken..)
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To: Paul Atreides
"...she's going to say what she thinks about Bush and it ain't pretty..."

And she is?

6 posted on 07/28/2004 4:56:01 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Paul Atreides

Good for Whoopi. Grabbing your crotch and being drunk in public can be slightly degrading, but appearing on The View is just downright humiliating.


7 posted on 07/28/2004 4:57:13 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Paul Atreides

Whoopi Goldberg and Star Jones on the same show? Finally, a cure for sex addicts.


8 posted on 07/28/2004 4:58:11 PM PDT by johnfrink
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah.....freedom of speech and all that stuff!!! Come on Whoopi.....open your mouth!!! LOL!


9 posted on 07/28/2004 4:58:13 PM PDT by BossLady
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To: cardinal4
Now we need to get rid of that other sow, Moore..

I'm pretty sure he'd be fired as a Slim-Fast spokesperson as well.

10 posted on 07/28/2004 4:58:16 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: johnfrink

What do you want to bet that Terrazo Wheinz-sKerry made a few phone calls?


11 posted on 07/28/2004 4:59:26 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: BossLady

Exactly.

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12 posted on 07/28/2004 5:00:08 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: anniegetyourgun

Where is the tape? Why are they censoring that tape?


13 posted on 07/28/2004 5:00:28 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
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To: Paul Atreides
Wow, she is getting the "Newt Gingrich treatment get off the back of the plane treatment".

This a a loud and clear message for all liberal actors. Looks like the hate Bush fest is trying to be hidden. Lots of luck.

14 posted on 07/28/2004 5:04:05 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: cardinal4
Now we need to get rid of that other sow, Moore

No, we need them both to be up front an center stage.

15 posted on 07/28/2004 5:04:49 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: Paul Atreides
As they say, she needs to "get her black ass" out of the way. And no ill intent meant
16 posted on 07/28/2004 5:05:37 PM PDT by Helms (Kill the Geico Gecco Now ! Then the E-Loan Girl ! Then the Ditech Guy!)
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To: Paul Atreides

Goldberg's father (whoever he was) should have pulled out.


17 posted on 07/28/2004 5:05:42 PM PDT by beethovenfan
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To: Paul Atreides

Kentucky Fried ---
Louisiana Fried ---
Boneless ---
Stir-fried ---
BBQ ---
--- Little
--- Parmagiana (sp?)
--- Primavera
--- Noodle Soup
--- Broth
--- and dumplings
--- hawk (I say, I say, as in Foghorn Leghorn, that is)
--- bleep

Though it is now a rhetorical question, what word is missing from each of these phrases, which best describes the above stated antagonist's decision?


18 posted on 07/28/2004 5:05:54 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: character and integrity matter. Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: Paul Atreides

Voluntarily? I don't believe it ...


19 posted on 07/28/2004 5:07:21 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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To: VRWC_minion

And, this is from the woman who was bragging about faxing the Kerry camp a photo of her rear end, for trying to tone her down!


20 posted on 07/28/2004 5:08:02 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides

I doubt if the Cleveland Plain Dealer would have noted her on the The View.
Isn't that the show for the folks who can't get on Regis and Kelly?


21 posted on 07/28/2004 5:08:17 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: Paul Atreides

Nothing like having Whoopie on a women's show and her claim to fame is comparing the president to her genitals. I suppose she hates her genitals. Some men I know refer to theirs as the "family jewels" ... but Whoopi hates hers so much she compares someone she hates to them.  Not exactly the pure feminist message. She's sick!


22 posted on 07/28/2004 5:11:26 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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23 posted on 07/28/2004 5:25:12 PM PDT by mhking (John Kerry & Al Gore: Cut from the same tree.)
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To: mhking

Let Whoopi Whoop.


24 posted on 07/28/2004 5:30:12 PM PDT by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: johnfrink

"Whoopi Goldberg and Star Jones on the same show? Finally, a cure for sex addicts."


No kidding! Jones is very outspokenly liberal. Of course, all of the others are, too...with the exception of the newcomer, Elizabeth (?). The one married to the pro football player. She is apparently pretty conservative, but the others usually talk her down.


25 posted on 07/28/2004 5:34:03 PM PDT by Maria S ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6/28/04)
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To: Paul Atreides

Too bad, so sad.


26 posted on 07/28/2004 5:35:07 PM PDT by ride the whirlwind ("I will never relent in bringing justice to our enemies..." - President Bush)
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To: cardinal4
Save face?? Hide face, maybe..

If her face was on fire at a PGA event and was stomped out by the golfers she would look better.

So you are probably right!!!

27 posted on 07/28/2004 5:36:28 PM PDT by Eaker (R.I.P Phudd 28-Jun-04)
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To: Paul Atreides

Please don't say anything that would affect Whoopi's self-esteem. That would be politically incorrect.

Anyway, she could always apply to one of the billion-dollar tax-sucking federal programs to enhance self-esteem.


28 posted on 07/28/2004 5:39:25 PM PDT by Liz
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To: BunnySlippers

I bet she looks as if she has a tarantula between her legs.


29 posted on 07/28/2004 5:44:52 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides

My thoughts exactly. She didn't "pull out". She was probably "pulled out".


30 posted on 07/28/2004 5:53:21 PM PDT by no dems (I obey whatever the voices in my wife's head tell me to do.)
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To: Paul Atreides

She is disgusting. She talks about being on Welfare at one time. Yet, when she opens that gutter mouth of hers, she shows she didn't get far away from the practices of those floks.


31 posted on 07/28/2004 5:55:36 PM PDT by Ramonan (You never get something for nothing..)
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To: Paul Atreides

She is disgusting. She talks about being on Welfare at one time. Yet, when she opens that gutter mouth of hers, she shows she didn't get far away from the practices of those floks.


32 posted on 07/28/2004 5:55:39 PM PDT by Ramonan (You never get something for nothing..)
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To: FreeManWhoCan
Where is the tape? Why are they censoring that tape? You know, our side has sorta just let this issue die. I guess there is no way that tape could be gotten. But then who would have thought that silly picture from Cape Canaveral could have gotten out. A picture can be leaked out of NASA but we can't get a video to a live performance attended by hundreds of people? I WANNA SEE THE TAPE!!
33 posted on 07/28/2004 5:57:54 PM PDT by no dems (I obey whatever the voices in my wife's head tell me to do.)
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To: Paul Atreides

She wasn't worried before this show; and I'll bet she was nudged out too.


34 posted on 07/28/2004 6:08:47 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Paul Atreides

Blockheads like her don't learn.


35 posted on 07/28/2004 6:09:13 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: freekitty
Whoopi Defends Bush Comments After Slim-Fast Firing

16 July 2004 (WENN)

Ghost star Whoopi Goldberg has defended her choice to attack American President George W. Bush, which led to her being dropped as a spokesperson for diet aid company Slim-fast. Bosses at Slim-Fast dropped the Oscar-winning star from their ad campaign, after admitting they were "disappointed" in her remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fundraiser for presidential hopeful John Kerry at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Goldberg caused offence at the event, when, according to the New York Post, "She fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia." But an unrepentant Goldberg hits back in a written statement, "Just because I'm no longer in those (commercial) spots, it doesn't mean I will stop talking. 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. I only wish that the Republican re-election committee would spend as much time working on the economy as they seem to be spending trying to harm my pocketbook."

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/news

36 posted on 07/28/2004 6:15:36 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: cardinal4
Zell Miller: This entire convention turned into a sham.
37 posted on 07/28/2004 6:16:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: Paul Atreides
Goldberg's spokesman comments, "Whoopi and only Whoopi decided that she would prefer not to appear on television during the convention."

Methinks thou doth protest too much.


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38 posted on 07/28/2004 6:35:50 PM PDT by rdb3 (REPUBLICAN as of July 23, 2004. I have my blueprint now!)
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To: Ramonan

>>>>She is disgusting. She talks about being on Welfare at one time. Yet, when she opens that gutter mouth of hers, she shows she didn't get far away from the practices of those floks.>>>>>>

I agree with YOU! Gutter practices of welfare folks, I hate them too.

Whoopie go back to the welfare gutter!


39 posted on 07/28/2004 7:01:44 PM PDT by Chris_mat
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To: Paul Atreides

Yep..."don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."


40 posted on 07/28/2004 7:11:31 PM PDT by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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To: FreeManWhoCan
Where is the tape? Why are they censoring that tape?

Yeah, if it is so representative of America, I would think the keepers of the tape would want it out - loud and proud! Too bad the "Where's the beef?" lady is gone. She would be great for "Where's the tape?"

So, are the D's censoring themselves? "That's not right!"
41 posted on 07/28/2004 7:18:25 PM PDT by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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To: Paul Atreides
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 must, she must." That part about being an artist and a comic is stretching things...and the writer and American part, too, for that matter. Pity...used to be funny. Not any more...guess that happened when she got all caught up in that Hollywood PC fad a few years back.

Let it go, Whoopi, let it go....
42 posted on 07/28/2004 7:32:54 PM PDT by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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To: Paul Atreides
Bull! She was nudged out and allowed to save face Kerry's ass.
43 posted on 07/28/2004 7:56:06 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Stop the censorship! Let Whoopi be Whoopi!"

I agree, Whoopi STOP denigrating females and their genitalia. You're no crotch grabbin Soprano character.



44 posted on 07/28/2004 8:00:35 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Paul Atreides

Whoopi, "I only wish that the Republican re-election committee would spend as much time working on the economy as they seem to be spending trying to harm my pocketbook."

Pot meet Kettle whoopi.

I wish the liberals gross double standards would spend as much time working on practicing what they preach as they seem to be spending trying to harm HARD WORKING middle America and their family/religious values!


45 posted on 07/28/2004 8:04:56 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Paul Atreides

Wrong there. Barbara Walters would love to have Whoopi go apesh*t on the Republicans. She'd do it herself but her rep as a "journalist" couldn't take it.


46 posted on 07/28/2004 10:10:14 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: beethovenfan

Welcome to FReeRepublic, beethovenfan -- "Since Jun 3, 2004."

Your # 17?

That's once!

Best ones -- Brian


47 posted on 07/28/2004 11:29:22 PM PDT by Brian Allen (I am, thank God, a hyphenated American -- An AMERICAN-American -- and A Dollar-a-Day FReeper!)
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To: Paul Atreides

Her daddy should'a pulled out ....


48 posted on 07/28/2004 11:31:06 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Paul Atreides
been waiting for a whoopi thread to post an indelicate whoopi joke:

what's the difference between whoopi's "bush" (the comment that got her in trouble) and a bowling ball?

You could eat a bowling ball, if you absolutely had to.

I'm probably in trouble now, but she started it.

49 posted on 07/28/2004 11:35:52 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Paul Atreides
...The Democrats just don't need that right now."

And ABC is doing everything they can to protect them.

50 posted on 07/28/2004 11:40:39 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (Freedom Stands Because Heroes Serve.)
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