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Jessica Simpson Snubs Bush
Reuters ^

Posted on 03/15/2006 8:11:39 PM PST by doesnt suffer fools gladly

Jessica Simpson snubs Bush Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:50 PM ET

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Concerned about politicizing her favorite charity, singer-actress Jessica Simpson on Wednesday turned down a invitation to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush, a snub that left Republicans dismayed.

The apparent final word that Simpson would be a no-show at a major Republican fund-raiser with Bush and congressional leaders on Thursday night came after a day of conflicting reports from her camp and organizers of the event.

The blond star of the film "The Dukes of Hazzard" still plans to visit Washington on Thursday to lobby members of Congress on behalf of Operation Smile, a non-profit venture offering free plastic surgery for disadvantaged children overseas with facial deformities.

People close to Simpson said she declined a request to appear that same evening at the gala fund-raiser of the National Republican Congressional Committee -- even after she was offered some private face time with Bush -- because Operation Smile is a non-partisan group.

"It just feels wrong," one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. "She would love to meet the president and talk about Operation Smile ... but she can't do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party."

NRCC spokesman Carl Forti said he was surprised at Simpson's position.

"It's never been a problem for Bono," he said, referring to the U2 rock star who has met regularly with political leaders of all stripes to promote various causes, including Third World debt relief. "I find it hard to believe she would pass up an opportunity to lobby the president on behalf of Operation Smile."

Although Simpson's publicists insisted she never had planned to attend the fund-raiser, Forti said the actress initially accepted the NRCC invitation when it was extended on Tuesday night, only to change her mind the next evening.

Forti said the Republican group had even arranged for Simpson to dine at one of the head tables with U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. The NRCC hopes the $2,500-per-plate dinner event will raise $7.5 million for Republican candidates in the congressional midterm elections in November.

Simpson, 25, a Texas native who started out singing in her church choir, became a star on the Christian music circuit as a teenager and crossed over to the pop mainstream with her major-label debut album "Sweet Kisses" in 1999.

She became an overnight MTV sensation in 2003 as co-star of a reality show chronicling her first year of wedlock with fellow pop vocalist Nick Lachey, but she filed for divorce in December after three stormy years of marriage. Simpson is currently featured wearing cowboy boots and hot pants in a TV pizza ad.


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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Pretty soon Bush won't even be able to get face time with Justin Guarini.


61 posted on 03/15/2006 8:38:49 PM PST by bigeasy_70118
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To: Vision
I can't wait for you to explain this one...

If she had visited a Hillary '08 Fundraiser, you people would all be howling.

62 posted on 03/15/2006 8:38:55 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Any airhead who compliments the Secretary of the Interior during a tour of the White House for the fine job done decorating it doesn't needs to represent like airheads. The RATS!


63 posted on 03/15/2006 8:39:08 PM PST by diverteach
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To: bigeasy_70118
Pretty soon Bush won't even be able to get face time with Justin Guarini.

HA!

64 posted on 03/15/2006 8:40:07 PM PST by inkling
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To: garyhope
Jessica Simpson thinks "Chicken Of The Sea Tuna" is chicken (Even though it tastes kinda like tuna).

Jessica is actually intelligent. She just plays off the ditz routine for laughs.

65 posted on 03/15/2006 8:40:13 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: Wormwood
If she had visited a Hillary '08 Fundraiser, you people would all be howling

Huh?
66 posted on 03/15/2006 8:40:32 PM PST by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vision
Huh?

I am sorry. I cannot make it any simpler.

67 posted on 03/15/2006 8:41:07 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Wow. She did the right thing. Go figure.


68 posted on 03/15/2006 8:41:38 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Dixie Chick.

Dixie slut.


69 posted on 03/15/2006 8:41:42 PM PST by antiunion person (And again, I repeat, IT'S ALL BUSHS' FAULT!!!!!!!)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
Good, another lost opportunity for Dubya to spend money on..
Jessica(and minions) have no idea of who she/they is/are dealing with..
The last of the big time spenders.. Uncle Dubya would've dropped a few mil on the kids gig.. EXCELLENT..
70 posted on 03/15/2006 8:42:11 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: tflabo
Hi All-

Laura Ingraham

~ Blue Jays ~

71 posted on 03/15/2006 8:43:00 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

She needs to take off her clothes before she can snub me


72 posted on 03/15/2006 8:43:02 PM PST by woofie
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To: tflabo
Who cares.....movie stars are over rated BIGTIME....full of their own self-importance and adulation. She is a babe but so what.....Laura Ingraham is a babe too

I'm just irritated because it looks like she plays the Republican card when it's convenient
73 posted on 03/15/2006 8:43:27 PM PST by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
We had a girl in my high school class who acted ditzy. She was extremely pretty and also smart. I don't think she was acting either, it was just her personality.

She had one of the highest scores on the senior placement test.

74 posted on 03/15/2006 8:43:47 PM PST by yarddog
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
Just mu opinion she was a good down to earth girl but now she is big shes just like the other hollywood whores.
Flash Fun:
Hillary Does The Senate
Hillary At Here Best
75 posted on 03/15/2006 8:44:23 PM PST by Ambient
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To: Wormwood
I am sorry. I cannot make it any simpler

That's the problem, don't make it simple. Put some logic to it and then it will make sense.
76 posted on 03/15/2006 8:44:27 PM PST by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It was a stupid move by the GOP anyway. The GOP has no business courting celebrities.

True enough.

I can't believe that we're actually complaining that a celebrity isn't more like Bono....

77 posted on 03/15/2006 8:45:34 PM PST by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

I like a beautiful woman with brains!
I love you, Lauren Bacall!

Jessica is NO Mrs. Bogart!


78 posted on 03/15/2006 8:45:44 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Regicide

----Because you are not straight.----

I'm not? Well, then, now that Nick's back on the market, who needs Jessica anyway? :)

-Dan

79 posted on 03/15/2006 8:46:32 PM PST by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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To: Vision
That's the problem, don't make it simple. Put some logic to it and then it will make sense.

By participating in a Republican Fund-raiser featuring President Bush, Simpson would alienate fully half of her audience (perhaps more, the guy isn't exactly popular right now).

Why should she court negative public opinion when she is trying to promote a charity?

80 posted on 03/15/2006 8:47:24 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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