“A good business person doesn’t care about anyone’s politics.”

Staten Island, N.Y., Borough President Vito Fossella, calling upon Whoopi Goldberg to apologize to a local bakery for suggesting on air that the business had declined to make her a batch of desserts because of her political beliefs. The 145-year-old bakery said that their decades-old boiler had malfunctioned and had to be replaced, so the establishment could not commit to making a large order. (Associated Press — Nov. 16, 2024)