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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (591775)	7/16/2004 11:07:16 PM
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Whoopi Loses Slim-Fast Job Over Bush Bash Vulgarity-prone comedienne Whoopi Goldberg has lost her job as a spokeswoman for Slim-Fast diet products after customers expressed their outrage over her Bush-bashing routine during a Kerry-Edwards fund-raiser last Thursday where she compared President Bush to her genitals. "Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, according to Reuters. Story Continues Below In marked contrast to Sen. Kerry, who boasted that night that Goldberg and other performers represented the "heart and soul of America," Olson apologized to customers for Goldberg's remarks. While Kerry and Sen. Edwards haven't personally addressed the controversy, Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, defended Goldberg the next day, telling a reporter: "A lot of people are going to be angry [at Bush] - there's a lot to be angry about. It's a free country and people are going to express that anger." A spokesman for Goldberg declined to comment on Slim-Fast's decision to terminate her.