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Slim-Fast Drops Whoopi Goldberg After Anti-Bush Jokes

Slim-Fast announced yesterday that it was dropping feminist comedian Whoopi Goldberg from its advertisements after she made jokes about President Bush at a fundraiser for John Kerry last week. The jokes included double entendres using Bush’s name. “I have used portions of the material I did at the fund-raiser in shows, speeches, and even on national television and it seems now that people from the other side are using this to further their agenda,” said Goldberg in a press statement, according to CNN. “I only wish 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.” Though Unilever, the parent company of Slim-Fast, claimed they were pulling the ads because Goldberg’s remarks “offended some of [their] consumers, a company spokesperson refused to say whether there was a decrease in sales because of the remarks, Bloomberg News reports. Unilever executives have donated $3,000 to President Bush and $1,250 to Kerry for the 2004 election so far, USA Today reports. Goldberg was a featured speaker at the massively successful March for Women’s Lives on April 25, which brought more than one million women and men to Washington, DC in support of reproductive rights. TAKE ACTION Tell Slim-Fast what you think about their decision to cave to right-wing pressure

Sources:

CNN 7/14/04; Bloomberg News 7/15/04; USA Today 7/14/04

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