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| White House wants apology for filth-laden Dem-fest |
| 2004-07-10 |
| 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. At least they didn’t show up in blackface, ala Goldberg boyfriend Ted Danson a few years ago. She started off by saying of Bush: "Anybody who could wave to Stevie Wonder isn’t fully there." Her tone went steadily downhill thereafter. Nothing sparks an audience like a blind joke. Pig. "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. Makin’ Whoopi no doubt. Goldberg reportedly said the country should "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House." Goldberg’s own nominally private parts were publicly discussed in revolting detail by the aforementioned Danson, who managed to throw in some (more) vulgar racism in the process. All in good LLL fun, you see. Private to Ted: any garage is too big for a toy car. The Post wrote that Goldberg also "boasted that she’d refused to let Team Kerry clear her material." Would it have made a difference? "I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on..... The true face of the enemy. ....because we’re Democrats - we’re not afraid to laugh," she added. FDR and Sam Rayburn are spinning in their graves. 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?’" JFK the Great: Marilyn Monroe. JFK the Less: Whoopi Goldberg. Lo, how the mighty are fallen. 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. The earlier JFK would have had the slut arrested. 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." "which we will then sell to George Soros," he added. 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." Prisons, crack dens, and drunken frat parties also exist in America, but that doesn’t make them the repository of our 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." Lange stole my line about HOllywood! I still haven’t determined whether she was wearing panties under those cut-offs in King Kong, the most serious issue with which I connect this person. As for Newman, a randomly selected individual off the street might well know more about tax policy. 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." Chevy Chase damaged his own health doing suicidal pratfalls to mock President Ford. Ironically, Ford was probably the best athlete of any President. Chase also told the audience the most recent book Bush had read was "Leader of the Free World for Dummies." That would be Walter Cronkite. 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. Fat chance. FOAD, vulgar clowns and media whores who have hijacked the Democratic Party, I want my party back! |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #20 The Whoopi Goldberg incident at the Democratic Fundraiser is an excellent example of why more than half the population of the U.S. is outraged. Almost all comedians make fun of their present administrations and many of our beloved comedians such as Eddy Murphy & Lenny Bruce (just to name a couple of the many) have used vulgarity in their routines. According to the Constitution this county was founded upon, it would have been perfectly acceptable for Whoopi to have delivered her routine on any national television program, especially given the trash, violence and vulgarity that the major national networks already air, even at prime time! At it was, Whoopi delivered her routine on her own turf at a Democratic Fundraiser, which was covered by the national news media obviously for the sole purpose of gathering anything they could use as ammunition against the Democratic Party and certainly not for the purpose of relaying bi-partisan information to the American people. Incidentally, I'm sick of listening to the major national news networks portraying the Democrats negatively and campaigning for the current Administration every chance they get. How dare this Administration demand an apology from the Kerry-Edwards campaign because Whoopi Goldberg exercised her Constitutional right to FREEDOM OF SPEECH! The American people need to wake up, get off the Prozac and get with the program. Every individual in this country should be outraged that our Constitutional rights, which make this country great, are being compromised and covertly stripped away from us. Allowing the major corporations, national TV and radio networks to dictate to us what we should listen to and what we should say or not say can only lead to the disintegration and destruction of freedom and democracy for all Americans. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5908 2004-07-27 3:09:26 PM |
| #19 Methinks this Dem sleaze fest may be the 2004 version of the Wellstone Memorial; Talking about how this cash-for-cussing fundraiser "shows the heart and soul of America" while Whoopi swills wine and yammers about her bush (even Ted Danson with beer goggles regrets going there) is going to kill them in November! I love it! Keep it up, Dimocrats! |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-07-10 3:40:34 PM |
| #18 well then I agree with Evert who agrees with.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-10 3:40:23 PM |
| #17 I agree with Jarhead, Prince Abdullah and Mike on this one. |
| Posted by: Evert Visser in NL 2004-07-10 3:24:50 PM |
| #16 I agree w/JFM, there was a blog that listed how so many entertainers were pinging on the Bush admin but how none of the entertainers themselves have ever gotten through college. Their opinion is no better then the guy who works at the factory, the farm, or anywhere else. They're just so f*cking full of themselves they think people care what they think. There are some sheeple who do but those types are usually morons anyhow. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-07-10 2:26:41 PM |
| #15 Comic actor Chevy Chase heaped scorn on Bush’s intellect: "This guy is as bright as an egg-timer," Like the characters you've played in the majority of your movies, Chevy? Freakin' hypocrite. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-10 1:57:43 PM |
| #14 There is a thing I find incredible and it is that people could give any importance to the opinion of TV and movie celebs. Why on earth? Are thy more intelligent, better informed, more cult than your everage little guy? AFAIK none of them has a degree in rocket science, maths or econmy. Only actor "studies" who prepare little to understand the world. Or it is becauue they are more virtuous than us? People who routinely use drugs, cheat constantly, have a near 100% divorce rate (followed by remarrying with girls thirty years younger than them) and occasional raping of underage girls (that is Polanski, notice that it didn't prevent the showbusiness people to grant him an award) and we should kowtow in front of them? Nuts. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-07-10 1:24:15 PM |
| #13 I agree with Abdullah. Let's leave the trash talk for Whoopi and the other followers of the haughty, French-looking caged hamster. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-07-10 10:48:34 AM |
| #12 My grandfather used "a brain as smooth as a cueball" as his ultimate epithet. A true gentleman - who merely stated the facts and let them speak for themselves. Perhaps I, too, should follow your advice, Abbie, and rise to such a level. I need a new vocabulary; to compile a list of pithy retorts which maintain a higher plane of civility, yet still cut to the bone, when that is required. Something akin to ass-sucking fuckwits in imagery but, y'know, classier. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-10 10:24:02 AM |
| #11 If don't think the Prez should demand an apology. To me, that always looks petty & bitchy. Kind of like what the LLL does everytime a conservative makes an non-pc statement. I sorta agree. Probably would have been better had the Bush camp said, " We read about it; the content of the event speaks for itself."...and let it go at that. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-07-10 10:21:03 AM |
| #10 Hey Captn America, As someone who shares your dislike of the Left and, increasingly, the mainstream of the Democratic party, let me just say this: Do not call your fellow Americans "sub-humans". You can call them idiots, retards, moonbats and a long list of other colorful insults. But "sub-human" is too much. I'm not going to get into the reasons why now. Just don't do it. It's wrong on so many levels, very un-conservative. Leave the Nazi-talk to the Left. |
| Posted by: Prince Abdullah 2004-07-10 10:07:09 AM |
| #9 If don't think the Prez should demand an apology. To me, that always looks petty & bitchy. Kind of like what the LLL does everytime a conservative makes an non-pc statement. Bush should just say he and his staff didn't bother watching the Dem fundraiser because they didn't want to be bored w/poor entertainment and has-been performers. Or, he should of said, "yeah, we caught part of it, it definitely cured my insomnia that night." |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-07-10 8:14:01 AM |
| #8 This being a Dem-fest, was there actually anything positive said about Kerry & Edwards? Did they have anything positive to say about their own candidates? Didn't seem like it. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-07-10 7:39:57 AM |
| #7 "I Xeroxed my behind" Hey! A glam shot for Whoopie. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-10 6:12:22 AM |
| #6 Rep.123, why are you Arab Muslims such racist assholes? Is it all that inbreeding? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-10 5:38:19 AM |
| #5 So, we have an idiot in the White House, who accidentally liberated 24 million people in Iraq, and 28 million in Afghanistan. What is your excuse bright boy? Why did the Clintons, who are so much smarter than the moronic cowboy do nothing of the sort for 8 bloody years? They can make all these kinds of remarks they want. It may get Kerry some money for the campaign, but its gonna turn more folks away. Having tons of cash won't buy the election. |
| Posted by: Ben 2004-07-10 4:55:30 AM |
| #4 Why bother about a failed black actress who has lips larger than her belly! |
| Posted by: Rep.123 2004-07-10 3:45:42 AM |
| #3 These people are touting American values? Maybe in their small little world. but a world with Michael Moore, Al Gore, Whopi, and Dr. Dean is a sub-human one. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-07-10 2:19:47 AM |
| #2 I wouldn't ask for an apology. At most, a deserved but wry comment would be best. Let this sort of thing get maximum exposure -- that's to the WH's advantage. But it's really more of a sad national disgrace than anything else. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2004-07-10 1:46:03 AM |
| #1 Goldberg reportedly said the country should "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House." Guess she won't be voting for Hillary in '08. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-07-10 12:54:42 AM |