What did Whoopi say?

[sweetnpetite]

Whoopie Golbburg got fired from being the Slimfast spokeswoman for some comments she made about the president- or rather some jokes she made about the names "Bush" and "Dick" (cheney)

Anybody know what it was she said, or saw it?

 

[cloudy]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush last night at a Radio City gala that raised $7.5 million for the newly minted Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards.

Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she'd refused to let Team Kerry clear her material.

"I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on because we're Democrats — we're not afraid to laugh," she said.

She addressed fresh-faced vice-presidential candidate Edwards as "Kid," and "young Mr. Edwards" and cracked, "He looks like he is about 18 "

"I'm going to card his ass tomorrow."

Other celebs also competed to bash Bush. Singer John Mellencamp sang a specially written song that called the president "just another cheap thug" and ridiculed him as the "Texas bambino."

Kerry could be seen laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade — and neither he nor Edwards voiced a single objection to its tone when they spoke to the crowd.

They hailed the fund-raiser as a great event.

Edwards said it was "a great honor" to be there and insisted, "This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."

Kerry thanked all the performers for "an extraordinary evening," hailed the "great producers" — Harvey Weinstein of Miramax and Jann Wenner - and said "every performer tonight ... conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country."

Last fall, Howard Dean ran into a similar problem when a New York fund-raiser turned into a stream of ugly racist jokes and X-rated Bush-bashing — but Dean instantly came out and said he didn't like the tone of some of the jokes.

Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt noted that Kerry is claiming to share "conservative values" and said, "Sitting there while the vitriol and venom spew forth demonstrates [Kerry's] lack of leadership and how far he is from mainstream America."

Schmidt added, "It's no surprise that a group of Hollywood celebrities would be so excited to support the most out-of-the-mainstream ticket in Democratic Party history."

Also on the Bush-bashing team was comedian Chevy Chase, who claimed the president is dumb as "an egg-timer" and said Edwards will make Vice President Dick Cheney look "as bright as a bundt cake" when they debate next fall.

Latin comedian John Leguizamo said he refuses to believe there are any Hispanic Republicans, claiming that's "an oxymoron," because "Latins for Republicans — it's like roaches for Raid."

Leguizamo added that he made sure to get there early to clear security because "I kind of look Arab — that's why I don't wear underwear anymore, just to make the searches go faster."

Screen legend Paul Newman blasted the Bush tax cuts, saying, "I am a traitor to my class. I think that tax cuts to wealthy thugs like me are borderline criminal — I live very high off the hog."

Actress Jessica Lange dismissed Bush as "our so-called president" to the fat-cat crowd and afterward said, "I'll do everything that I can possibly do, short of selling my children," to beat Bush.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Those democrats! Haven't they learned that ridiculing your opponents is the Republican's thing?

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Sometimes the politicing gets too far out of hand. That's what happened this time. Again. The Republicans will ridicule their competition but not like this. Each party should approve what the comedians/actors/speakers are saying. It's a reflection on their parties. Especially if it's attended by the nominees.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Yes, but what did she *say*?!

I want quotes!!! I want the dirty details!!!

She's Whoopie Goldberg for cryin' out loud! She's known for making tastless and offensive jokes. She's the original freaking Scary Spice for pete's sake! Would you expect Bette Middler not to be baudy? Would you expect Richard Pryor to be politically correct?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I love Whoopie

 

[cantdog]

It is sheer cant to complain about Whoopie. I was there for the Bill Clinton-bashing. Don't tell me a pun on Dick and Bush is "inappropriate" and "out of hand." They did the blowjob jokes every day for better than a year and a half, every one of them, daily.

Fuck you if you can't take the heat when you shove a moron in the oval office and people lose all respect.

You are not bound to have respect for morons in high places. This is America.

 

[dr.bong]

of course the difference between Kerry and Bush is the difference between a punch in the stomach and a kick in the nuts



VOTE LIBERTARIAN

 

[rgraham666]

Vote Nihilist is what you mean isn't it, Dr?

Good to see you back sweet! Where ya bin?

 

[cantdog]

of course the difference between Kerry and Bush is the difference between a punch in the stomach and a kick in the nuts



VOTE LIBERTARIAN

Pro-war, pro-war
pro-business,pro-business
stay in Iraq,stay in Iraq
keep the patriot act, keep the patriot act

well, Kerry ain't a fundie nut-job

fascist, crypto-fascist
American empire-builder, American empire-builder

Yeah, fuck 'em, they might as well be Tweedle fuckin dum and tweedle goddam dee

Let's just do something else on election day, like so many people have been doing for so long.

Nader, Green, Libertarian, or maybe this

 

[doormouse]

Oh man, you guys have all the fun

We're stuck with little Johnny Howard (what I wouldn't give to run the clippers over his eyebrows!!!)

Go Whoopie... Go Whoopie...

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Pro-war, pro-war
pro-business,pro-business
stay in Iraq,stay in Iraq
keep the patriot act, keep the patriot act

well, Kerry ain't a fundie nut-job

fascist, crypto-fascist
American empire-builder, American empire-builder

Yeah, fuck 'em, they might as well be Tweedle fuckin dum and tweedle goddam dee

Let's just do something else on election day, like so many people have been doing for so long.

Nader, Green, Libertarian, or maybe this

roflmao. I don't like the republican ticket, the democatic ticket and especially the libertarian/Green ticket.

Should Whoopi have lost the sponsorship of slimfast. No Way. We all have our opinion. She expressed hers. She did it in a wrong forum but she shouldn't lose the sponsorship for that. Yet it's also hard to understand the person you're paying money to sponsor weight lose out there waving around a bottle of wine and making obscene remarks. I don't think alcohol is part of slimfast's diet program. Not by the bottle anyway.

Were jokes told about Clinton and his blowjobs in the past. Yes, many times. But he was guilty of that. Care for a cigar? Are jokes about Bush and a Dick appropriate now? I don't think so. Those are unwarranted attacks. Crude and malicious.

While I am undecided at this time. The democrats have lost a major point for me. They speak family morales and let Dean redo a fundraiser after his last escapade. Once again he shows the side of Hollywood. Then Kerry gets up and thanks all of the participants. Not a party about values I would say. Just one about the funding. But we all knew that with Clinton and the Chinese didn't we?

 

[Pure]

A couple choice bits. (not an easy topic to research, since the newsoutlets echo each other)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...alt_afp/us_vote_kerry_fundraiser_040709132957

Goldberg, a devout Democrat, did not spare Bush in her monologue: "Anybody who could wave to (blind singer) Stevie Wonder isn't fully there," she said to howls from the audience.

But she also produced a few embarrassed grimaces with an unsubtle anatomical double-entendre enjoining voters to "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."

 

[cookiejar]

Politics is a dirty game and why I steer clear of it. It brings out the worst in people. Sometimes it makes me ashamed to be a human being. People from opposing views taking potshots, the issues are always lost in the shuffle.

 

[destinie21]

Sometimes the politicing gets too far out of hand. That's what happened this time. Again. The Republicans will ridicule their competition but not like this. Each party should approve what the comedians/actors/speakers are saying. It's a reflection on their parties. Especially if it's attended by the nominees.

Out of hand? during the cliton scandal I had more dick in my life than when I thought I was straight not a day went by that I didn't have to hear about head of state and cocksucking interns

 

[Colleen Thomas]

When your name in some way shape or form even resembles someone's naughty bits and you enter the public arena, it's coming. I personally take extreme offence to people making jokes about the president's last name. But I take such offense cause I happen to like bush a lot and don't appreciate it being linked to the Nimrod in office.

That said, whoopy was out of line and she paid for it. Freedom of speech, does not mean freedom from censure or consequence for what you say. It is simply a guarentee that the government will not abridge your right to say what you want. Actors, actresses and other celebrity's seem to think fredom of speech means they can show their asses and there is no consequence. That just isn't the case and it never has been.

If your company has hired a spokesperson and that spokes person spouts off in a way the is likely to insult or anger a good portion of your customers, it behooves you to drop the spokesperson. That is simply good buissness sense and it in now way abridges her right to free speech, she can still say whatever she wants to.

There is a level of personal responsibility and simple common sense involved when your right to free speech comes up. I can spout off all day about John Asscroft being a %&^%^%. No one cares, and since it isn't going to jeapardize any bussines arrangements I have, I can be as nasty and vindictive as I wish. When you are in the public eye and it's a dead lock your words will be heard, you have a responsibility to not go over the top.

If you ignore that responsibility, you cannot reasonably believe that there will be no repercussion. Free spech means you can say what you want, it does not mean that those who disagree with you can't hold your words against you or take action within the limits of the law that are punative.

The lead singer if the Dixie chicks is a perfect example. Her celebrity gave her a stage and she used it to voice her opinion. I tossed my chicks cd and won't buy any more. She reached a lot more people with her words than I could with mine, but I, and a lot of people, responded by showing we didn't agree with her. In a country that is so polarized and so split down the middle, a celebrity should think twice before spouting. The right to voice your opinion is not an impreative to do so, and the odds are good you will anger as many of you fans as you please, unles you are Michael Moore or rush Limbaugh and your appeal is strictly to one half of the country.

-Colly

 

[cantdog]

A couple choice bits. (not an easy topic to research, since the newsoutlets echo each other)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...alt_afp/us_vote_kerry_fundraiser_040709132957

Goldberg, a devout Democrat, did not spare Bush in her monologue: "Anybody who could wave to (blind singer) Stevie Wonder isn't fully there," she said to howls from the audience.

But she also produced a few embarrassed grimaces with an unsubtle anatomical double-entendre enjoining voters to "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."

It really is difficult to get any quotations about the thing. The columnists are too busy clucking their tongues prudishly to tell us much. I've skimmed a half dozen and didn't even do this well, Pure.

 

[cantdog]

....Were jokes told about Clinton and his blowjobs in the past. Yes, many times. But he was guilty of that. Care for a cigar? Are jokes about Bush and a Dick appropriate now? I don't think so. Those are unwarranted attacks. Crude and malicious...

unwarranted?




whatever. But I don't believe you about being undecided. Not if you can't see that heaping scorn on these people is letting them off light.

 

[Pure]

The Dems were prudent in preventing recordings for Limbaugh to excerpt.

I agree that most articles simply reproduced wireservice and even those may not have been written by anyone who attended, or who could extract much out of anyone.

Our only chance if from some celeb with a good memory to spill the beans and give a good account.

I LOVE how republicans can get so bent out of shape over the 'off color' and by 'personal attacks.' They like to suggest Dems are traitors, and agents of alqaeda, if not the devil, but somehow that's not personal or mudslinging. It's just the truth, I suppose.

 

[Clare Quilty]

...The Republicans will ridicule their competition but not like this.

What a joke. This speaks to the hypocrisy and insincerity of the Republican party and its dupes. The Republicans accused Bill Clinton of having personally cut a swath of multiple murders and rapes through the middle of the country. That wholly unfounded, criminally slanderous smear campaign was much more of an outrage, along with the 68 million or so they spent on the Ken Star debacle, than a few blue jokes at the expense of those reprehensible bastards.

This administration has a pattern of trying to damage the careers of artists who speak out against their villainy. Add Whoopie to the list of actors, singers, reporters and film makers who have been Dixie-Chicked by these enemies of liberty.

 

[cookiejar]

I'm totally honest when I say this. I have no idea what to do in November. Neither side impresses me, it's like trading one crook for another. I have to decide ... do I vote for a third party candidate and throw my vote away? Or do I abstain from voting and be called unAmerican?

 

[Clare Quilty]

Are jokes about Bush and a Dick appropriate now? I don't think so. Those are unwarranted attacks. Crude and malicious.

Then Kerry gets up and thanks all of the participants. Not a party about values I would say. Just one about the funding. But we all knew that with Clinton and the Chinese didn't we?

Exactly which values does the Republican party espouse, fascist opression civil liberties and voices of dissent at home, unconscionable narcissistic politicization of a national tragedy, beligerent imperialism abroad, crushing the middle and working classes, raiding the treasury in a nepotistic scheme to further line the pockets of friends and contributors, fabricating reasons to send working class American kids off to die in a war that has no purpose other than to secure financial gains for groups and companies closely associated with the administration? (and in which either administration members, congress nor any of their friends are willing to sacrifice their children)

Crude and malicious and unwarranted, my ass. Bush and Cheney are criminals, no less so than was John Gotti. I doubt if Gotti whacked out 11,000 people for absolutely nothing. It would not be legal for me to say what is warranted and hoped for in the case of Bush, Cheney et. al.

 

[doormouse]

What a joke. This speaks to the hypocrisy and insincerity of the Republican party and its dupes. The Republicans accused Bill Clinton of having personally cut a swath of multiple murders and rapes through the middle of the country. That wholly unfounded, criminally slanderous smear campaign was much more of an outrage, along with the 68 million or so they spent on the Ken Star debacle, than a few blue jokes at the expense of those reprehensible bastards.

This administration has a pattern of trying to damage the careers of artists who speak out against their villainy. Add Whoopie to the list of actors, singers, reporters and film makers who have been Dixie-Chicked by these enemies of liberty.

God, please don't quote LDW when I'm here (sorry, but you embarass me with some of your posts hon)

doormouse scampers out as fast as she came

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I'm totally honest when I say this. I have no idea what to do in November. Neither side impresses me, it's like trading one crook for another. I have to decide ... do I vote for a third party candidate and throw my vote away? Or do I abstain from voting and be called unAmerican?

Hey Cookie,

I cannot vote for either of them men running now based on themselves. But if you don't have a strong dislike of Kerry, perhaps I can point out a reason to vote that isn't based on the men running or even thier party.

The Supreme Court is currently about 1 conservative from having enough justices to completly control the way the constitution is interpreted for years to come. While it isn't a lock and there are still pet peeves and swing votes on some issues, you could very well see a disasterous turn of events should one of the two liberals or one of the 3 swing voters be replaced with a hard line Scalia or Thomas type justice.

Theoretically you could see an over turn of roe v wade, support of laws with anti gay biase up to and including a recriminalization of homosexual activity of any kind, full support of suspending your civil rights under USA patriot, full support of suspending your rights to counsel and habeus corpus, in basic terms the court could become a rubber stamp for the progrom of John Asscroft.

I can't vote for Kerry for personal reasons, so I will vote third party, but if you are looking at them both with distaste and find little appeal in either, perhaps looking at the kind of justice they would get on the high court should Renquist retire or one of the others. It's not just sobering, it's scary when you realize the guardians of the constitution and interpereters of the law could become a simple rubber stamp for the ultra right ring.

-Colly

 

[Clare Quilty]

God, please don't quote LDW when I'm here (sorry, but you embarass me with some of your posts hon)

doormouse scampers out as fast as she came

You needn't worry your pretty little head about that. That right-wing fucktard just earned a spot on my ignore list. I don't mind the ranting of these nutters on the general board. But, I'll not suffer the presence of these fools here in the AH. I'd rather devote my post to matters of writing, culture and the arts in general--rather than responding to the cypto fascist spew of a few brainless, albeit evil, neo-cons.