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The ‘George Bush’ Joke That Got Whoopi Goldberg in Trouble in 2004 Is Finally Revealed – Turns Out It’s Really Tame

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described in the lead of a New York Post article the next day:“Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush last night at a Radio City gala that raised $7.5 million for the newly minted Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards,” wrote Deborah Orin. “Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush’s name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she’d refused to let Team Kerry clear her material.”That was more than enough for the morality police of the Early Aughts.According to The New York Times Magazine, “Goldberg’s career went dark.

SlimFast, the diet-in-a-can brand for whom Goldberg had been the spokeswoman, dropped her. Friends stopped associating with her in public.

She was disinvited from the Democratic National Convention.”And for the next 18 years, the actual contents of the joke would remain in the dark – until now.

In its research for a recent interview with Goldberg, the magazine found a transcript. And here it is:“When Bush comes to shove, don’t whine.

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