+Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush'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.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards, in which entertainers lined up to skewer the president.
The New York Post said of Goldberg's appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia."
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment.
Slim-Fast is a unit of Anglo-Dutch food-to-detergent group Unilever
+Clinton Advice?
Former President Bill Clinton advises John Kerry to avoid "social issues." Since the presumptive democrat candidate is avoiding most issues and has no plan of his own, this is probably good advise.
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Yahoo! News - Clinton urges Kerry to avoid 'cultural' issues
+Not Da Candidate
Former Chicago Bears coach, Mike Ditka, announced that he would not seek the Republican nomination for Senate in Illinois. While his viability as a candidate was questionable, Da Coach would have made it interesting.
In a side note, former candidate, Jack Ryan, spoke with NBC 5 News in Chicago about his dropping out of the race. During that interview Ryan thought that the Republican Party in Illinois is in disarray and cannot find a replacement. He noted that in NJ in only took 24 hours to find a replacement and after the tragic death of Paul Wellstone in only took 72 hours. So far it has been 3 weeks. This is not a good sign.
+KERRY'S ADS AIMED AT BLACKS GET PANNED
This cannot be how Kerry wanted his new $2 million ad campaign aimed at African-Americans to be received. The Los Angeles Times reports that black lawmakers took a look at the commercials yesterday and gave them two thumbs down:
"The ads … were lackluster to say the least," [Rep. Elijah E.] Cummings said after the black caucus reviewed them in a meeting at the Capitol.
Saying his opinion represented the consensus among the 25 or so caucus members who saw and heard the commercials, he added: "We felt the ads just did not, would not grip African American people in a way that would cause them to be very excited about going to the polls for John Kerry."
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) called the ads "very disappointing." Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) termed them "horrible."
"There was no oomph to them," Lee said. "It seemed like the ads didn't understand the constituency it was targeted for. African Americans want to believe and feel they're voting for a person they connect to."
The ads can be seen on Kerry's web site. The Kerry Spot watched them yesterday and thought they were bland, par-for-the-course campaign ads, but perhaps that assessment is too generous.
+SCHEDULES FOR JULY 15
President Bush signs a bill punishing identity theft (does that cover Kerry trying to steal the identity of a conservative who believes life begins at conception?), meets with the President of Mongolia at the White House.
First Lady Laura Bush gives a speech and raises campaign funds in Jacksonville, Florida, then speaks in Nashville, Tennessee.
Kerry addresses the 95th Annual NAACP Convention in Philadelphia, then holds a fundraiser and rally in West Virginia. Edwards attends a town hall meeting in New Orleans and raises funds in Houston, Texas.
Anyone seen Cheney lately? Maybe he's out organizing the July Surprise
More later
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