Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

The Freepers fool a company into thinking that they are representative of a majority opinion yet again...

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Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg (news) will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush (news - web sites)'s name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday.



Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York.


"Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldberg's remarks offended some customers.

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&u=/nm/20040714/en_nm/people_goldberg_dc_3&printer=1

[2Design]

1. oh good another product I don't have to buy....eom

[seabeyond]

2. she and others said that at womans march

guess it wasnt ignored like it was then. goldie took her chance, expressed and is dealing with a major company influenced strongly by the right, this is the repercussion.

this one isnt my battle

bummer and sorry for whoopi but she will be just fine. people are going to get bloody in htis battle this year, the dems anyway, it appears

[Mr.Green93]

3. is that legal?

[Baltimoreboy]

7. Why wouldn't it be?

They pay her to represent them and didn't like how she was doing it.

She has freedom of speech and so do they.

[tom_paine]

39. My God, we agree!

Report back to (REDACTED)

This is going to lower your standing with (REDACTED)

[Cicero]

40. Again, agreed.

Like I said in the LBN thread, if Bill Cosby had gotten bounced by Jell-O for some of the things he's said recently, I daresay Pudding Pops would become the offical DU snack.

On the other side, I do have to laugh at Slim-Fast. I mean, what the hell were they thinking hiring her in the first place? Wouldn't you expect something like this was bound to happen?

It's just like Rush when he was hawking orange juice. The owners were shocked, shocked that he was causing so much controversy. Please.

:eyes:

Later,

[kikiek]

13. I think there is usually a moral clause.

[hlthe2b]

4. well, I guess we could see that coming... Wasn't Kathy Lee Gifford their

last spokeswoman? I'd say that says it all.

[Deja Q]

5. Hmmm, if they got Dennis Miller and he said something and I complain,

would they take him off the air too?

Methinks 'nope'.

[tom_paine]

41. Nope. Two standards in Imperial Amerika, now growing grotesque

and Orwellian.

Anyone can say anything about Kerry and no repercussion would be felt.

I so miss living in a Free Country where the double-standard (don't think there has EVER been a human society without one) isn't quite so freakishly huge as Imperial Amerika.

[ashling]

6. We still have the No CARB diet

NO Cheney!
NO Ashcroft!
NO Rumsfeld!
NO Bush!
And Absolutely NO Rice!



:dem:

[Canuckistanian]

16. Good one

Very clever, indeed.

[Iris]

28. I love it!!!! You should make a bumper sticker . . . n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. Eh it's not like she's hurting for the cash or anything

I'm sure she's telling them to shove it right now.

[buff2]

9. That's just more proof we are living under a dictatorship

Desent and freedom of speech is a thing of the past...unless you are a bu$h loving brownshirt nazi. Gaawd,I hate those people.

[candy]

10. What on earth does this have to do with a dictatorship?

A business fired a spokesperson,that's it.

She is not being jailed,fined,or run out of the country---she was fired.

[StandUpGuy]

21. Definitely the definition of ..

Fascistic.


All the free market arguments are just more appeasement and rationalizations that deny the obvious. How many more times until its not just the right of the business owners.


:puke:

[buff2]

32. She was fired for speaking out against your pRESIDENT

Just like we are not allowed to be near the dictator to protest him......he can't hear or see protesters,he can't take anyone being against him.Geez....I can't believe you didn't understand that.What planet do you hail from,anyway? :shrug:

[Cicero]

42. Jeez, lighten up

It's not like she was tossed into the gulag or anything like that. She was canned because of some public comments she made. She's still free to make plenty more comments, esp. about her former employer.

Later,

[progressivebydesign]

11. More corporate fuckwads...

Not that I'd ever taste their crap, anyway. I tried it once.. it was laden with sugar and akin to Milk of Magnesia. I find it SOOO ironic that the beer-bellied freepers got a company they'd NEVER patronize to dump a spokesperson.

It is the corporation's right to choose whomever they want to represent them. Insulting Bush was probably not the biggest problem, perhaps it was the genetalia thing. And.. considering none of the losers that flooded Slimfast's corporate entity with complaints even WENT to the gala, nor heard it first hand... the corporation is doing this on hearsay.

Whatever.. crappy products. Stupid corporation.

[West Coast Democrat]

12. Contact Unilever here:

http://www.unilever.com/home/contactus/

[ibegurpard]

18. Here's what I sent.

"I suppose that you think President Bush is a more effective spokesperson for your product than Whoopi Goldberg. I am a person who has used SlimFast numerous times in the past who happens to agree with Ms. Goldberg's opinion of our President. You can be assured that in the future I will not be using your product."

I really HAVE used it a lot in the past. I just threw away six cans.

[Edmond Dantes]

44. Recovering SlimFast-oholic -- cold turkey as of 9:45 pm 7/14/04

Whereas Slim-Fast has dumped Ms. Goldberg for her political views, I am dumping Slim-Fast for being anti-free-speech.

Why does Slim-Fast hate the First Amendment?

[Zen]

19. Thanks for the contact link!! I sent them email...

"Hey, thanks for taking Whoopi off your adds. I won't be buying any of your products ever again. I am going to organize a national boycott of your products. "

[shance]

29. Thank you Xantha for the info

Just sent an email.

[theoceansnerves]

37. unilever?

they are one of the most horrible companies when it comes to unnecessary and cruel animal testing. you shouldn't be buying their products anyway!

[samsingh]

14. Slimfast has lost me as a customer

i'll eat more fruits and veges instead.

[ibegurpard]

15. They're within their rights

Just as we are within our rights to contact them and tell them we will no longer be using their products.

[Baltimoreboy]

17. Well said

[StandUpGuy]

23. Unilever ?!?!?!

Come on folks Please wake up.

They didn't bow to any RW pressure from the Doug from Upland losers.

They ARE the RW pressure.

You could type 1 million letters against them for every 1 letter Doug from Upland writes and they still won't listen !

sorry.

edit for clarity

[ibegurpard]

27. Maybe so

But doing absolutely NOTHING accomplishes what?

[StandUpGuy]

34. Writing letters identifies you to the fascists

I never suggested doing nothing.
But I do suggest smarter initiatives.
Remember that the intellectuals are the first to go.
Its happening in Iraq as we speak.

http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=209.81.10.18&port=80&mount=/data/20040713-Tue1700.mp3


Robert Fisk 6min in.

[ibegurpard]

46. Fear is the mind-killer.

If it comes to that then who wants to live in this country anyway?

[StandUpGuy]

47. If it comes to that ?

I'm suggesting that it is coming to that.

How we fight back is key.

I don't think anybody but the cooperate elite will want to live like that but in reality if you don't fight back now in constructive ways you won't have a choice.

[ibegurpard]

48. Do you think that you'll be safe

having been a member of this site?

[StandUpGuy]

49. I have taken precautions.

I live in Canada.

I will only be safe until the U.S.A officially declares war on "old Europe" or the euro.
At which point Canada is toast. I might be also, but as I see it coming I hope to be 2 steps ahead.

That is of course if my personal fight is unsuccesfull in stoping this madness.


:tinfoilhat:

[ibegurpard]

50. Good for you.

Now, if you don't mind, I'll keep writing letters until they haul me away.

[StandUpGuy]

51. I wasn't trying to say don't do anything....

I am advocating doing something less akin to hitting your head against a brick wall.

I admire you for your vigilance, I am only trying to stress that we need to be way more proactive
What does sending a letter to Unilever accomplish.. Somebody gets paid to hit the delete button on the emails and the trash for the letters.

Instead take your letter and make 50 copies and leave them on the subway/train/park bench/bookshelf or if you are ballsy, on the actual shelf the product is sold on.


And that is just one way to get people to hear you.

[ibegurpard]

52. Thanks.

Sincerely. Those are good ideas!
:hi:

[StandUpGuy]

54. I think we should be

hours from the revolution. Instead I see brave, smart, and motivated people using tools of democracy to fight these obvious Fascists.

Millions of people protested before the Iraq war in "healthy" democracies and Nothing happened. Nothing.

That made me realize that traditional democratic dissent was no longer viable.

Cheers to the resistance!

[SayitAintSo]

20. My Letter to Slimfast

Based on your recent decision to fire Whoopi Goldberg I will no longer buy your products. This company has obviously bowed to right wing pressure to punish and silence dissent in this very divisive election year. You knew who Whoopi was when you hired her. I will be throwing out all of you products - I not only vote on election day, I vote with my wallet EVERY DAY, as well. You will find out that there are many others like me that will do likewise.

[ibegurpard]

22. Good for you.

This is one product I really CAN honestly boycott. I've used it a lot in the past.

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. We should all write Slimfast

and inform them that WE will not buy their product because they let Whoopi go. Shame on them.

I'm off to write my email! :bounce:

[ClassWarrior]

25. No more Slime Feast in my house.

I've already written them. Told them I cannot support a company that engages in un-American Soviet-style tactics.

[amish_enforcer]

26. My Letter.....

I applaud your cancelling of Whoppi Goldberg's ads due to her "offensive" bashing of our President. I mean THAT was offensive? She could take some lessons from Vice President Cheney on whats offensive, what was it that he told Senator Leahy to do to himself on the senate floor? Again, great call canning a comedienne for performing comedy and having a political opinion! God bless America! - Jeb

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. I just sent my email.

Don't let these fuckers off The hook on this. Bombard them with emails. I'm sick of this crap. Whiney ass repukes drive me nuts! First the Dixie Chicks, then the CBS Reagan movie, now this? Send them an email!

[KamaAina]

31. If you want to live on liquid syrup, there's always Sweet Success

then again, many of us actually find you attractive at your present weight (whatever that may be), so why bother?

[qanda]

33. Face it, the Republicans are either richer or fatter...

So, I guess they win this one. Shows that the Republican noise machine is fully operational.

[WherestheOutrage]

35. Anderson Cooper 360 made this the BIG story... n/t

[PROGRESSIVE1]

43. What was his take on it?

[LittleApple81]

36. I cannot stand slimfast. I needed to lose 3 pounds and I said: this

should be fast and easy, and tasty! EEEEEWWWWWW EEEEEEWWWWWW... I drank half a can and gave the remaining ones in the pack to our secretary. I prefer not to eat that drinking that slime.

[Catt03]

38. I guess they can fire her if they want

Didn't know Unilever was a dutch detergent company.

Do they pay US taxes?

Also, I don't like the lewd remarks by anyone about either candidate. Guess I am one of those elitist Democrats who has some class. Whoopi might want to clean up her act.

[stavka]

45. Ok - Folks - why don't DU Slim Fast consumers - just stop buying product?

If everytime on obvious politically motivated thing like this is done, the other side hits back, guess what? - It stops.

Don't ride in the back of the bus, just don't ride.

- In this case, just don't eat. Drink more ice water, maybe with lemon. Take a small snack at breakfast. Have reasonable lunch, with lots of protein, but NO FRENCH FRYS. Spend time making dinner at home, with plenty of vegi's. Avoid having snacks around, and NEVER eat two hours before you plan to go to bed.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

53. Next time you go to the market, accidentally relocate a Slim Fast can

Just put it in your basket and then midway through your shopping decide you don't want it anymore and, accidentally relocate it behind a row of Dennison's Extra Thick Extra Hot Chili with fatback gravy. I don't think too many Slim Fast customers will be looking for it there behind the fattening foods.

[Sven77]

55. Slim-Fast is bad for you

Its not a healthy drink, Slim-Fast is sugar and oil. garbage !!!