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George Bush-bashing celebs have joined forces with Moveon.org on a new series of campaign commercials. The celeb-studded spots feature the voices of Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and Ed Asner and star Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Woody Harrelson, Illeana Douglas and Margaret Cho. Janeane Garafalo hosted Tuesday night's kick-off at Hammerstein Ballroom, billed as "10 Weeks: Don't Get Mad, Get Even!" Howard Dean, Kevin Bacon, Edie Falco, "School of Rock" director Richard Linklater and Al Franken fired up the faithful. Musical guests included The Roots, Natalie Merchant, Moby and Perry Farrell, who joined forces for Jane's Addiction's "Idiots Rule,"...

Controverial comic Margaret Cho is about to become even more so.'Im hoping to get arrested during the Republican convention,' Cho tells us.Later this month, Cho will spend at least two nights at the Apollo Theatre courting fans during her 'State of Emergency Tour' and the rest of her time courting New York's finest.Although she works with such liberal groups as MoveOn.org and is an outspoken activist for gay marriage, Cho is still unsure what tatic she will undertake to attract attention from the NYPD. 'Ive never been arrested, so I'm not sure what to do, but I figure I will...

COMIC Margaret Cho, who was bounced from her headlining gig at a Human Rights Campaign event by DNC bigwigs who feared another Whoopi Goldberg incident, is just back from death row. Bush-bashing Cho spent a few days at an Arkansas maximum security prison interviewing "West Memphis Three" ringleader Damien Echols for a book. Echols and two teen pals were convicted of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark., in 1994.

BOSTON - Fearing her material might take the focus off gay issues, the Human Rights Campaign has rescinded its invitation to edgy comedian Margaret Cho to headline a gay and lesbian unity event scheduled to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. "We didn't feel that after speaking with Margaret's publicist that her material was in that spirit, so we decided to make another plan," said spokesman Mark Shields. The Human Rights Campaign is one of 10 gay and lesbian organizations hosting Monday's Unity 2004 event in Boston. Cho had been preparing to use material from her new State of Emergency...

SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- The Democratic National Committee is using Bush-bashing comedian Margaret Cho to help attract the gay and lesbian vote to the Democratic Party. In a letter posted on the DNC website called "Take Action to Oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment," Cho asks Democrats and homosexuals to "Stand with Cho! Tell Bush No!"

Activist rocker Moby is leading a jihad against cybergossip Matt Drudge, blaming him for inciting "far right-wingers" who sent abusive and racist E-mails to comedian Margaret Cho. On his Web site and in private messages to friends, Moby has been claiming that Drudge "took out of context" Cho's stream of anti-Republican invective - intended as comedy shtick - during last week's moveon.org awards show at the Hammerstein Ballroom. "I was outraged," Moby told me. "Everyone knows that Margaret's comedy is very irreverent and Lenny Bruce-style confrontational, and Matt Drudge took it out of context and exposed her to some really...

In a move of political tit for tat, a pro-Bush organization has begun running television ads that counter two recent commercials featured online that compare the president to Adolf Hitler. Grassfire.org, which describes itself as a "conservative online political activist group," has released a new 30-second commercial that slams liberal site MoveOn.org for giving a platform to the Bush-Hitler ads. According to a statement from Grassfire.org, the new ad has been launched in California, Florida, Washington, D.C., Georgia and Texas.

Moby is defending his buddy Margaret Cho. The comedian has come under attack for some anti-Bush comments — and now the techno-nerd, who has battled both Republicans and Eminem, is attacking Cho’s attackers. “My friend Margaret Cho was making fun of George Bush during a comedy routine at the Moveon[.org] awards last week,” Moby writes in his online journal. “Matt Drudge took 2 sentences from her routine and printed them out of context along with a very unflattering picture.” Moby reprints some startlingly ugly hate mail sent to Cho, much of which focuses on her weight and the slant of...

The stars were out in Gotham on Monday night for the latest Bush Bashing Ball... More to follow.

(CBS) In Charlie Fisher's ad, children wash dishes. They pick up trash. Tired-looking children stand watch over an assembly line. They fix tires and ring up groceries. And they do it, the ad suggests, to pay off the deficit that has swelled since President Bush took office. The ad that won MoveOn.org's "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest was not about the war in Iraq or the PATRIOT Act — two issues that have fueled MoveOn's rise and enraged its membership. Instead, the more than 100,000 who voted on line, as well as a panel of celebrity judges, picked "Child's Pay"...