horseface raises money for jackass... feh
Posted on 06/17/2012 3:38:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Unless celebrities were invisible or shipped in from the roof through a chimney, the Obama fundraiser at Sarah Jessica Parker’s house last night was not so star-studded. From every report filed, the main star who attended was Meryl Streep. Unless, she’s suddenly changed her entire past practice of political donorship, it’s unlikely that Streep donated $40,000 to anything. Aretha Franklin stopped in for a few minutes, and then headed off to the Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner uptown. That left a few fashion people, and a sighting of Olivia Wilde, an up and coming actress who’s given some money to Democratic causes but nothing in that ballpark.
The real star money giver of the night was probably Vogue editor Anna Wintour. She reportedly orchestrated the whole dinner at the Parker-Broderick home. She’s also given heavily to the Democrats and Obama. She’s written the check for $30,000 to the DNC in the recent past. She also is a regular donor to her congressman in the Hamptons, Rep. Tim Bishop.
But the 50 people who attended last night’s much hyped dinner? It will be interesting to see one day who they were. They were not celebrities or actors, and probably not people Sarah Jessica Parker had ever met before last night. The effort did not pull in magic hordes of Hollywood heavyweights. And I’ll bet Matthew Broderick was just as happy not to be there–and to be safely playing a billionaire playboy on Broadway....
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I guess FEC records will be turned in for this event...it'll be interesting to see.
Olivia Wilde stars on House TV drama. A co-star was Kal Penn who has since left show to work at the White House and is rumored to be Gayly attached to O. So that is a no brainer. She probably got a free ticket. Her parents also old lefties who have hung out with Obama for years.
Obama has the stink of desperation on him...even brainless celebrities don’t want to be associated with him. For them it must be like watching the cast in a loser Broadway show frantically playing to an empty house. They don’t want their reputations to catch cooties from it.
Olivia Cockburn's paternal uncle is the well-known writer at the Nation, Alexander Cockburn and editor of the leftist website, Counterpunch.
Jen _6/16/12 2:17am
What a stupid, shallow article. The point of the evening was to raise money for the a campaign, not for you to do your childish star-gazing nonsense. Those of us who aren’t morons couldn’t care less who the 50 attendees were — just so long as President Obama gets the money he needs.
Ahhh...the editor of the magazine I always see with a circular coffee stain featured on each cover.
horseface raises money for jackass... feh
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