  urlLink Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | Advertiser drops Whoopi after Bush sex joke : "Goldberg accepted the company's decision but said she had criticised presidents of all persuasions.
'While I can appreciate what the Slim-Fast people need to do in order to protect their business, I must also do what I need to do as an artist, as a writer and as an American, not to mention as a comic,' she told the Bloomberg news wire. 'I've done material on every president in the past 20 years, from Reagan to Carter, from Clinton to Bush.
It seems now that people from the other side are using this to further their own agenda. ' John Kerry and John Edwards, the Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates, attended the event, which raised $7.5m (£4.1m), but they both steadfastly avoided commenting about the joke. The comedian said earlier that she had refused to let the Democrats pre-vet her material. 'I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on because we're Democrats - we're not afraid to laugh,' she said..." 
