Posted on 07/09/2004 7:48:01 AM PDT by Pikamax
BUSH/CHENEY: 'We call on Kerry to release the video of this event' Fri Jul 09 2004 10:37:52 ET
WASHINGTON, DC -- Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman issued the following statement on John Kerry's fundraiser last night.
"We have seen John Kerry take two positions on the most important issues facing our country. Now we see him take two sets of positions on his own values.
"If John Kerry is going to praise last night's star-studded hate fest, and characterize it as the 'heart and soul' of America, he should share these values with voters everywhere.
"We call on Kerry to release the video of this event so that all Americans can see what John Kerry has called America's 'heart and soul.'"
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What B-C'04 needs to do is run excerpts of this "star-studded" event and bleep out the swear words and then show pics of Kerry laughing at all the garbage.
Run this ad in certain battleground states and you've got a powerful commercial showing what kind of people are backing Kerry.
Good idea!
Translation: Bring back the 40 years of Socialist Democrat Control...
Thanks for posting a link to the story of the story. Oops, I mean links. I only read the NYPost one though.
This is like opening your trash dumpster and seeing a bunch of maggots squirming around inside. And being overwhelmed by the smell. What a bunch of scum are all those people who did not walk out during that garbage. I guess the $$$$$$ from maggots is more important than integrity.
can't believe Moby wasn't invited. bet he is pissed
I agree, the Bush campaign should ask for this video's release until they do so.
What I find so amazing is the press love affair with John Edwards - they have made so much of his perfect little photogenic American family. I wonder if Mr. Edwards would like for his children to see a tape of what he has described as a "great honor" and "celebration of American values". My children are teenagers who were appalled when hearing about this lack of respect shown to the President of the United States.
Aides to presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) exulted that the gate from Thursday night's extravaganza at the historic Radio City Music Hall was the biggest single take ever for a Democratic event.
But while the party was raising cash, Goldberg was clearly raising some hackles by repeatedly referring to Kerry's boyish vice-presidential running-mate John Edwards (news - web sites) as "kid."
"He is really youthful. He looks like he is about 18," said the comedian, one of a dozen headliners who turned out to boost the Democrats' drive to unseat Republican President George W. Bush (news - web sites) in November.
Such words were undoubtedly music to the ears of the Republicans who have wasted no time in attacking the 51-year-old Edwards, picked by Kerry for the ticket on Tuesday, as unready for the White House.
The North Carolina senator's high-wattage smile seemed to fade a bit more each time Goldberg called out to him. When Kerry later spoke, he took pains to make it clear he had no kid on his team.
"I have a man, Whoopi," the Massachusetts lawmaker said.
Goldberg, a devout Democrat, did not spare Bush in her monologue: "Anybody who could wave to (blind singer) Stevie Wonder isn't fully there," she said to howls from the audience.
But she also produced a few embarrassed grimaces with an unsubtle anatomical double-entendre enjoining voters to "keep Bush where it belongs and not in the White House."
The performance, which overshadowed appearances by stars ranging from hip-hop idol Wyclef Jean to actor Paul Newman, highlighted the awkward mix of strait-laced politicians and the volatile artists they routinely court.
The 54-year-old Goldberg was unapologetic to the crowd of some 6,200 people who paid up to 25,000 dollars a ticket for the gala.
"This is what I try to explain to people," she said. "Why are you asking me to come if you don't want me to be me?"
The comic said concert organizers had asked to see her material beforehand but she sent them a photocopied image of her behind with a kissmark on it. "I wasn't sure I was going to get the phone call," she said.
Other stars were more orthodox in their Bush-bashing.
Newman took off on his fiscal policies, saying, "I think that tax cuts for worried, wealthy thugs like me are borderline criminal," and the notion they produce trickle-down benefits for the poor is "rubbish."
Actress Jessica Lange branded the Bush administration "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence," while comic Chevy Chase heaped scorn on Bush's intellect: "This guy is as bright as an egg-timer."
Also on the bill were rockers Jon Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band and John Fogerty, singer John Mellencamp, hip hop artist Mary J. Blige, comic John Leguizamo, and actresses Meryl Streep and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Kerry spokeswoman Allison Dobson said the concert brought in 7.5 million dollars, surpassing the 6.8 million dollars raked in with a similar event in Los Angeles two weeks ago.
Approximately two million dollars of the receipts from the New York production will go to the White House campaign and the rest to the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites), Dobson said.
The Democrats have been increasingly successful in raising money for their drive to unseat Bush in the November 2 election.
The campaign said last week it had pulled in 180 million dollars, compared to 210 million dollars for the Republican incumbent. Kerry took in 34 million dollars in June alone.
The candidates and their wives addressed the gathering Thursday with their standard stump speech before closing with a sing-a-long version of "This Land is My Land," Kerry strumming along somewhat awkwardly on a guitar.
Edwards, relentlessly upbeat, made no reference to Goldberg's maternalistic mutterings to him. But the senator, who openly lobbied for the number two spot on the ticket, appreciated her remark about waiting for a phone call.
"I can relate to that," he said.
Rather than use the lack of video as on issue, Mehlman needs to hire a videographer and somehow "stick him in" these fundraising events. If Michael Moore can do it in Iraq, I'm sure there's a way to get one of ours into these events.
Kerry=Big Time, Major League A$$-Hole. LOL
At the Kerry "celebrity" rally last night, Whoopie Goldberg and others had one after the other of vulgarity laced tirades about Bush and Republicans. Whoopie was apparently particularly vulger issuing a stream of 4-letter words while comparing Bush to a certain part of a woman's anatomy.
During this Kerry and Edwards were sitting in the front row just having a grand time laughing to all the sick jokes.
Bleeping would surely add to the effect :-D
What really ticks me off about the hollyweirdos, is that people spend their money to see that garbage. Sometimes I wish more people would do what I do, totally boycott the movies. I have not been to a theater in years, and don't intend to start any time soon.
The hollyweirdos have so much money and some complain they don't pay enough taxes. All I can tell them, is donate their "excess" dollars to the treasury. I'm sure Uncle Sam would appreciate the additional dollars, and my taxes may go down.
And he cant keep his gay hands off of him.
"Newman took off on his fiscal policies, saying, "I think that tax cuts for worried, wealthy thugs like me are borderline criminal," and the notion they produce trickle-down benefits for the poor is "rubbish." Actress Jessica Lange branded the Bush administration "a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence," while comic Chevy Chase heaped scorn on Bush's intellect: "This guy is as bright as an egg-timer."
Woo Hoo....way to go! sKerry doesn't have a clue as to who he is dealing with.
Maybe C-SPAN will air it?
Let's see if Brian Lamb has any cojones.
"A New Team for a New America"
Enquiring minds want to know what Kerry's new America consist of.
"But is the mainstream (liberal) media listening?"
Good question....how's about a petition declaring all Americans want to see the values that this little Bush bash has spewed.
This could be a HUGE problem for Al Querry in light of his Gaffe on Larry King last night. King asked him about Ridge's Statement and Kerry actually said "I haven't had an National Security Briefings, I HAVE NOT HAD THE TIME"!!!
Then he leaves Larry King Live to go attend this horrible event.
He had time to smooze with Larry and his Hollywierd celebrity friends, but DOES NOT HAVE THE TIME for NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.
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