"WHOOPIGATE" - Who'll be the first rightwing shill to coin the phrase?

[aden_nak]

[shoelace414]

1. I'll vote aden_nak

[aden_nak]

2. Okay, who'll be the SECOND to say it?

[thebigidea]

4. I'll be the 234857023475027th to say: "Who cares?"

Its hard for me to get worked up either for or against Whoopi Goldberg, what with her "comedy" being so pisspoor and all.

In conclusion, your honor:

[aden_nak]

6. I could give a crap about Whoopi.

What bothers me is the obnoxious level of news coverage this is receiving. Whoopi is about the nine billionth person to notice that Bush's last name has a slang definition.

[WI_DEM]

3. what is this all about?

I've seen threads all about this but really don't know what is behind it. Apparently Whoopi said used some offensive language against W and Kerry has not backed her up? is that it?

[aden_nak]

5. The short of it.

Whoopi was on stage at a Kerry fundraiser, and she made some jokes about Bush. Specificly, that his last name meant pubes. The Bush team called for Kerry to release the videotape of the fundraiser (so O'Reilly could play it nightly, I guess). Kerry's people refused.

Whoopi is the spokeswoman for Slim-Fast. Slim-Fast decided they didn't want their spokeswoman making political comments that involved genitalia (as if they had the presumption, previously, that Whoopi Goldberg never made outlandish comments in front of cameras) and fired her as their spokeswoman.

Apparently, this is more important, from a news perspective, than wounded American soldiers.

[ClassWarrior]

7. She was involved in a Kerry fundraiser...

...at Radio City Music Hall last week during which she compared George Bush* to her bush. Also Chevy Chase called Dubya a liar and made other truthful statements. Now the RepubliCONs are trying to spin it into - and I quote, as seen on TDS - a "Hatefest." Yawn.

Good thing she didn't tell a respected Senator to go f*ck himself.

[emulatorloo]

8. None of them - they are quite happy with "HATEFEST"

EOM

[tjwash]

9. A thing of beauty...

...that came out of the whole mess:

This letter from Cahill in response to the RW attack machine, wanting the videotape released

Dear Ken:


Over the past several months, allies of the President have questioned John Kerry’s patriotism while your staff has criticized his service in Vietnam. Republicans and their allies have gone so far as to launch attacks against his wife and your campaign has run $80 million in negative ads that have been called baseless, misleading and unfair by several independent observers.


Considering that the President has failed to even come close to keeping his promise to change the tone in Washington, we find your outrage over and paparazzi-like obsession with a fund-raising event to be misplaced. The fact is that the nation has a greater interest in seeing several documents made public relating to the President’s performance in office and personal veracity that the White House has steadfastly refused to release. As such, we will not consider your request until the Bush campaign and White House make public the documents/materials listed below:


● Military records: Any copies of the President’s military records that would actually prove he fulfilled the terms of his military service. For that matter, it would be comforting to the American people if the campaign or the White House could produce more than just a single person to verify that the President was in Alabama when said he was there. Many Americans find it odd that only one person out of an entire squadron can recall seeing Mr. Bush.


● Halliburton: All correspondence between the Defense Department and the White House regarding the no-bid contracts that have gone to the Vice-President’s former company. Some material has already been made public. Why not take a campaign issue off the table by making all of these materials public so the voters can see how Halliburton has benefited from Mr. Cheney serving as Vice-President?


● The Cheney Energy Task Force: For an Administration that claims to hate lawsuits, it’s ironic that the Bush White House is taking up the Courts’ time to keep the fact that Ken Lay and Enron wrote its energy policy in secret behind closed doors. Please release the documents so that the country can learn what lobbyists and special interests wrote the White House energy policy.


● Medicare Bill: Please release all White House correspondence between the pharmaceutical industry and the Administration regarding the Medicare Bill, which gave billions to some of the President’s biggest donors. In addition, please provide all written materials that directed the Medicare actuary to withhold information from Congress about the actual cost of the bill.


● Prison Abuse Documents: A few weeks ago, the White House released a selected number of documents regarding the White House’s involvement in laying the legal foundation for the interrogation methods that were used in Iraq. Please release the remaining documents.


We also wanted to wish you a happy anniversary. As we are sure you and the attorneys representing the President, Vice-President and other White House officials are aware, today marks one year since Administration sources leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent to Bob Novak in an effort to retaliate against a critic of the Administration.


In light of the fact that the Administration began gutting the laws protecting the nation’s forests yesterday, we hope you will accept the paper on which this letter is written as an anniversary gift. (The one year anniversary is known as the “paper anniversary.”)


Sincerely,


Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager