Slim-Fast trims Whoopi from ads
From CNN
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Weight loss product manufacturer Slim-Fast announced Wednesday it had dropped Whoopi Goldberg as its spokeswoman, following a controversy over sexually explicit comments she made last week at a fund-raiser in New York for presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry.
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Other entertainers also made disparaging remarks about Bush at the event, but what has Republicans particularly critical of Kerry were his closing remarks in which he thanked them and said they "conveyed the heart and soul of our country."
That prompted the Bush-Cheney campaign to demand that the Kerry-Edwards campaign release video or film footage of the event, saying Americans deserved to decide for themselves about it.
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Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt responded, "It is a great example of John Kerry's priorities that on the day he said he did not have time to receive his intelligence briefing on threats to America, he found time to attend a Hollywood fund-raiser, filled with enough hate and vitriol to make Michael Moore blush."
In an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" aired Thursday night, Kerry said he had been offered a briefing from the Bush administration about new terror warnings but "I just haven't had time." Kerry, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told King he would be briefed later this week.
