Whoopi's kinda-secret 2004 joke about Bush is ... exactly what you'd thought

In 2004, Whoopi Goldberg was one of a number of Hollywood figures who performed at a fundraiser for then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, where her comments about then-incumbent president George W. Bush were criticized by media outlets at the time as being too sexually charged.

Goldberg has claimed that her career went dark amid the backlash, but her exact joke hasn’t been widely covered until now.

As part of a profile on the comedian, The New York Times magazine dug up the text of her joke and printed it.