Friday, July 9, 2004 10:46 a.m. EDT: White House: Kerry Should Apologize for Filthy Fund-Raiser
The White House is reportedly demanding an apology from the Kerry-Edwards campaign after Thursday night's Manhattan fund-raiser - where comic Whoopi Goldberg targeted President Bush with a filth-laden monologue as the two top Democrats looked on and laughed.
She started off by saying of Bush: "Anybody who could wave to Stevie Wonder isn't fully there." Her tone went steadily downhill thereafter.
"Waving a bottle of wine, [Goldberg] fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia," reports the New York Post.
Goldberg reportedly said the country should "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."
The Post wrote that Goldberg also "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 added.
The L.A. Times reported: "As the audience roared with embarrassed and horrified laughter, she retorted: 'C'mon, you knew this was coming. It's what I'm trying to explain to people: Why you asking me to come if you don't want me to be me?'"
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With or without his prior approval, the obscene rant seemed to please top Democrat Kerry, who could be seen laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade.
Neither member of the Democratic duo voiced a single objection after the aging comic's ugly act.
Far from being offended, Kerry thanked all the performers at the Radio City Music Hall event for "an extraordinary evening," adding that "every performer tonight ... conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country."
For his part Edwards actually boasted that it was "a great honor" to sit through the X-rated show, adding, without a hint of irony, "This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."
Other stars displayed their raw contempt for Bush, but managed to avoid drifting into Goldberg's blue zone.
Actress Jessica Lange branded the Bush administration "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence," while Paul Newman said Bush's tax cuts are "borderline criminal."
Comic actor Chevy Chase heaped scorn on Bush's intellect: "This guy is as bright as an egg-timer," he said, adding that he supposed the president invaded Iraq "just so he could be called a wartime president."
Chase also told the audience the most recent book Bush had read was "Leader of the Free World for Dummies."
The Bush administration was reportedly so outraged by Goldberg's raunchy routine that it now wants team Kerry to apologize, WABC Radio reported Friday morning.
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