Since her successful senatorial campaign in 2000, Hillary Clinton has enjoyed huge financial support from wealthy liberal Hollywoodans. However, a report posted at ABCNews.com suggests that some movie industry heavyweights are jumping off her bandwagon and onto Barack Obama’s (h/t Drudge):
On Wednesday morning, hundreds of Hollywood's movers and shakers received an invitation that they may find hard to refuse.
They've been invited to come meet Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's new superstar. He already has the buzz, but can he bring home the prize?
Ouch. That's gotta hurt. The article continued:
Movie moguls Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg want their Hollywood peers to join them at a Feb. 20 fundraiser the three are throwing for Obama.
For $2,300 a person and $4600 a couple, they can meet the candidate at a reception at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Those who commit to raising $46,000 (10 couples/20 tickets) for the evening will be invited to a private dinner at Geffen's Malibu, Calif., home.
Is a private dinner at Geffen's house really worth all that trouble? Regardless, the piece continued:
The fundraiser represents a major slap for Obama's main competitor, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who has received financial support from all three moguls in the past. Their company, Dreamworks SKG, has contributed $47,000 to Clinton since her 2000 New York Senate campaign.
Spielberg alone has contributed $11,000 to Clinton since that campaign, and his political consultant, Andy Spahn, emphasized that Spielberg and Geffen have not yet officially endorsed Obama. "Mr. Katzenberg is endorsing Sen. Obama's candidacy," he said. "Mr. Spielberg is co-hosting the event but has not made any endorsements as of yet."
[…]
Since the invitation went out just this morning, it was not clear who had R.S.V.P.'d for the event. But it is likely that those celebrities who've expressed support for Obama's candidacy -- including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Oprah Winfrey, Oliver Stone and superagent Ari Emanuel -- will be at the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 20.
Strangely, I didn’t receive an invitation to this bonanza. I’m sure it was an oversight.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.



















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Strangely, I didn’t receive
January 24, 2007 - 21:07 ET by bigtimerStrangely, I didn’t receive an invitation to this bonanza. I’m sure it was an oversight.
I didn't either Noel...
How dare they!
Talk about ungrateful!
bt,The fact that people would
January 25, 2007 - 12:42 ET by Dave Rbt,
The fact that people would drop that kind of a wad in order to rub elbows with a bunch of Hezbollywood wackos proves that there really are people with more money than brains.
Dave R,Oh believe me, first t
January 25, 2007 - 12:49 ET by bigtimerDave R,
Oh believe me, first thing I always think of is all the big money the left throws around for other leftists is outrageous, after-all they are always the one's screaming at the republicans that they do nothing for the poor and starving everywhere, well, why don't they do something useful...like put their money where their mouth is!
Darfur is one place to begin since they are always screaming about the President doing not enough about it, start with the UN doing zilch, Zimbabwe is another....on and on the self-important selfish hypocrites go.
This is getting stranger by the minute...
January 24, 2007 - 21:13 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasThis is getting stranger by the minute. Obama is as lightweight as it gets in the political arena. He would be eaten alive in a serious debate. The fact that these Hollywood Clowns are putting their support behind and a candidate that isn't going to get past "funny" demonstrates even more that the Democratic election surge will be shortlived and the pendulum is going to be forced back the other way by the very clowns who just got it going in their direction. But it will be enjoyable watching them self-destruct and then sitting around dumbfounded and clueless as to how it all disappeared. No doubt racist white American males will be responsible for it all, if not some Hillbilly women. Idiots.
If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.
You hit the nail on the head GAT
January 24, 2007 - 22:06 ET by SportPoliticsYou hit the nail on the head GAT. After they saw Kayne on the Rolling Stones cover, and watched blacks bail on Bush over one loudmouthed idiot, they have decided they can take the entire black vote and all the hispanics with this ploy.
It's going to be Chrissy and Macaca for '08.
1. macaca
2. New Orelans
3. Powell
4. you get stuck in Iraq
5. general welfare
6. poor mothers and abortion
7. affirmative action
8. killing the brown people
9. border bigots and vigilantism
10. tumbler dives off the cliff
I'm sure the list is much more extensive, and the evil boggitted racist war monger hitler party of white male elites must go. It's a perfect years long crybaby fest for the libs. Where, oh where has our first black president gone...
All You Can Eat
January 24, 2007 - 21:16 ET by acumen"Is a private dinner at Geffen's house really worth all that trouble?"
Only if they have to feed Rosie.......
Perhaps Hollywood is starting
January 24, 2007 - 21:20 ET by balboaPerhaps Hollywood is starting to realize that Hillary is not a very likeable candidate for the general population. Barack doesn't have a lot of experience, but he's got charisma, which Hillary has none of.
Maybe they could find a way to combine the two candidates into one person?
Obama will end up being Hilla
January 24, 2007 - 21:28 ET by Stephen SclafaniObama will end up being Hillary's VP.
But if you combined the two
January 24, 2007 - 21:30 ET by JerryBut if you combined the two, wouldn't you get an inexperienced non-likeable candidate?
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
I'm combining the _positives_
January 24, 2007 - 21:43 ET by balboaI'm combining the _positives_, Jer! The negatives are siphoned off and wind up in a landfill somewhere.
Oohhh.. I get it Bal...
January 24, 2007 - 21:51 ET by JerryOohhh.. I get it Bal... but to paraphrase from that classic movie, "Jaws"... "You're gonna need a bigger landfill" :-)
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Perhaps the "personality meld
January 24, 2007 - 21:58 ET by balboaPerhaps the "personality meld" would result in something akin to (SPOILER AHEAD) "The Prestige."
Which one do you think would
January 24, 2007 - 21:33 ET by bigtimerWhich one do you think would settle for VP boa...Shrillary or Obama?
Hint...one has already been Prez..... but, shhhh it was a big secret.
A two fer one kind of thing.
LOL!
Hillary would NEVER take a ba
January 24, 2007 - 21:41 ET by balboaHillary would NEVER take a back seat to Obama, IMO.
The thought of Driving Miss H
January 24, 2007 - 23:16 ET by HypocriteHaterThe thought of Driving Miss Hillary popped into my head for some reason.
I wonder when the MSM will s
January 24, 2007 - 21:41 ET by rdave63I wonder when the MSM will start up with the "gravitas" thing again. "Obama has gravitas." "This election will come down to gravitas, Obama has it, Hillary doesn't." I got so sick of gravitas when Al "the package" Gore ran. I hope they don't start that up again!
Worry not rdave, that kinda t
January 24, 2007 - 22:10 ET by bigtimerWorry not rdave, that kinda thing only happens if you are a red-stater republican....or for that matter, any kind of a real conservative from anywhere.
Don't ya just love the elitism of the so-called leftist journalists/talkin' heads.
BT, While I was sick of the w
January 24, 2007 - 22:17 ET by rdave63BT, While I was sick of the whole gravitas thing, I still loved the fact that the MSM used it because they were desperate and had nothing else to say to promote Gore.
LMAO...You are so correct!Bt
January 24, 2007 - 22:27 ET by bigtimerLMAO...
You are so correct!
Btw...I have came to hate that word....gravitas...
I remember mostly the media using that mostly with Cheney to to help that simple, dumb, born with a silver spoon in the mouth guy named Bush from Texas!
Over and over and over....
But now that you bring that up with reference to Gore...how soon one forgets at times.
Field is probably still wide
January 24, 2007 - 21:20 ET by ucField is probably still wide open and waiting for some other possible candidate >> Can't imagine these Hollywood folk supporting any of the yet announced and much in need of acting classes candidates, even Obama. Aren't there any John Wayne characters left?
I just don't see how she is
January 24, 2007 - 21:45 ET by JerryI just don't see how she is electable, even if she had a personality.
Hillary's husband was a notorious womanizer, who had a staff that was dedicated to controlling so-called "bimbo eruptions". She then proceeded to blame a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for her husband's woes. Either she was a calculating liar, or dumb as a box of rocks. If she can't figure out that her husband is a philanderer, how in the heck is she going to figure out this whole foreign policy thing?
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
She blamed it on a vast right
January 24, 2007 - 21:54 ET by rdave63She blamed it on a vast right wing conspiracy, but the real problem was lying with the presidential staff (ok, bad pun)
But your right Jer, I don't think a lot of the public is going to forget all the times that Hillary and freakshow James Carville sat there on TV and constantly blamed everything on a vast right wing conspiracy. It makes you wonder, when has she ever been right about anything??? Does credibility mean anything anymore?
I think Hillary knew all abou
January 24, 2007 - 21:56 ET by balboaI think Hillary knew all about Bill, but she had to spin the whole situation, which means attack the right for keeping the problems in the press, deflect, defray, distract, etc.
Clinton's history of sexual assault
January 24, 2007 - 22:15 ET by rdave63I agree with you Bal. Hillary knew. How many times has Bill been accused of sexual assault?
According to this source (and there are other news sources as well): http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Feb1999/020399/clintonrape020399.htm
Now Bal, I don't know anything about freerepublic or capitalhillblue's credibility, but if this is true, then Hillary and Bill's marriage was a marriage of convenience. He needed the "family" image as president and she needed his coattails to ride on in order to quench her thirst for power.
rdave63
January 24, 2007 - 22:24 ET by SportPoliticsrdave63 - Don't you know those are all VRWC stories?
roflmao - oh man! It's so bad it is unbelievable ! roflmao
ps you missed a few, but heck the law of averages settles it, whatever that means !
Allow me to share the Patriarch's years and years ago opinion " SKUMBAG ."
It's hard to know the exact v
January 24, 2007 - 22:41 ET by balboaIt's hard to know the exact veracity of all those situations. Not a very good track record.
But, it's still possible that Bill and Hillary actually fell in love, a glass-half-full kind of thing.
But, it's still possible that
January 25, 2007 - 02:02 ET by rdave63But, it's still possible that Bill and Hillary actually fell in love, a glass-half-full kind of thing.
Ya, a glass of whiskey perhaps??? She knew he was scum. Riding the coat tails to power.
Ya, a glass of whiskey perhap
January 25, 2007 - 13:05 ET by bigtimerYa, a glass of whiskey perhaps??? She knew he was scum. Riding the coat tails to power.
Exactly rdave...or she wouldn't of had her whole dang family move to Ark. to keep an eye on her oh so faithful one.... Bill.
That's a fact mentioned in plenty of books about their history.
She is and has always been a political whore.
They fell in love with the qu
January 25, 2007 - 12:55 ET by kathleenirishThey fell in love with the quest for power. They are too in love with themselves to really be in love with each other! Socio-psycho-paths.
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph
It would seem something else
January 25, 2007 - 01:58 ET by Andrew H.It would seem something else has been going on inside that great mind (sic) of his.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
If Bill EVER offers you a cig
January 25, 2007 - 02:04 ET by rdave63If Bill EVER offers you a cigar, DO NOT accept it. You do not know where it has been!!!
Right boa...and btw she led t
January 24, 2007 - 22:40 ET by bigtimerRight boa...and btw she led the ways for the cheating, scheming ways illegally to get her hands on money, whether it was in this country or out of our borders, let alone blackmail with the missing FBI files...oh I could go on and on...she had Ron Brown lead the way for the cash for the junkets overseas, opened the borders as wide as possible and put millions of illegals on the voting rolls with motor voter and all, her old man was leaving that up to her, after all, he had the charisma and charm, looks and phoniness that passed as intelligence for the elite msm leftists, let alone Hollywood, she had the brains and know how to intimidate, threaten, cheat, scheme and outwit blackmail anyone that got in her way....some never made it to testify against either one of them, as they were scheduled to do, just two examples, Vince Foster, McDougal. Lets don't forget including Algore here with Babbit and her to get the Indian Tribes too...China-gate....it goes on and on...
She will never win unless there is some third party to hurt the republicans, or a very strong democrat lives to beat with bowing to her wishes.
Well, I don't know about all
January 24, 2007 - 22:44 ET by balboaWell, I don't know about all that. Sounds very Keyser Soze-ish. And I think Clinton is a smart guy with dumb flaws.
Gee BT, don't forget...
January 24, 2007 - 22:50 ET by SportPoliticsGee BT, don't forget... the 125 scheduled for witness hearings and/or charges that FLED THE NATION.
Yes, 125 people.
SP...Exactly!Like I said I co
January 24, 2007 - 22:59 ET by bigtimerSP...
Exactly!
Like I said I could go on and on...
Throw in the pardons too for FALN!
Marc Rich.
I want this witch to fall off her broomstick in mid air so bad that she will take the rest of her evil life to try and figure out where she went wrong and what the hell happened that hit her.
Of course never ever looking in the mirror at her own reflection for her answer.
Can you imagine what the MS
January 24, 2007 - 23:05 ET by JerryCan you imagine what the MSM would have done if GWB had even a fraction of this "culture of corruption"???
It just amazes me daily, that the press could so willingly turn a blind eye to the countless misdeeds of Mr. Clinton, any one of which they would have tarred and feathered President Bush for.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Problem is, there are so many
January 24, 2007 - 21:58 ET by HumanEventsProblem is, there are so many people who will vote for the Democrat no matter what. Slick Willie won re-election despite so many scandals. Algore and John sKerry, who also have all the personality of a dead horse, came extremely close to winning. I never even heard anyone give a reason FOR voting for Kerry or that they like him. They were just voting against Bush and the Republicans. (I'm sure Hillary's main message is going to be "After 8 years of Bush..." as Bill's in '92 was constantly, "After 12 years of Reagan and Bush..."). I've already heard people in my area say they will vote for her in a heart beat. It's absolutely incredible that this shameless, fake phony fraud would be supported by anyone. But it does seem that about 40% of the voters will vote Democrat without any scruples or exceptions whatsoever. Then you add to the equation Hillary's vast money chest and the willingness to cheat, if necessary, her way into the White House. And the MSM will probably promote her to an intense degree like they never have with anyone before. An ultra liberal AND what would be the first female prez? Oh boy will they be salivating.
This Obamamania is something
January 24, 2007 - 21:32 ET by HumanEventsThis Obamamania is something else. Still, I just can't fathom him successfully standing in the Dragon Lady's way to the White House. She'll do anything to win. She and Bill wield enormous power in their jackass party. It just seems so highly improbable that she will fail due to another DemocRAT. Kerry, Gore, Biden, Edwards, Richardson, Vilsack? No way. But just maybe this Obama is the one who could trip her up.
I wouldn't be surprised if Obama ends up agreeing to be her veep, though. Or even her "husband".
And overall I think the MSM will still be a little more fascinated and enamored with the former first "lady" than Obama.
Ha ha, I'm editing my post because I see my middle paragraph could be interpreted to mean that I was saying I wouldn't be surprised if OBAMA became Hillary's hubby! NO, I meant I wouldn't be surprised if SLICK WILLIE becomes her veep.
What about Oprah? If she back
January 24, 2007 - 21:32 ET by msh1973What about Oprah? If she backs him, he is in.
...msh, ...and she will!
January 24, 2007 - 21:35 ET by bigtimer...msh,
...and she will!
$ 2,300.00 per person. $ 4,60
January 24, 2007 - 22:06 ET by Philo$ 2,300.00 per person. $ 4,600.00 per couple. Oh that's a deal
Maybe Oprah will give her nex
January 24, 2007 - 23:03 ET by Indiana JoeMaybe Oprah will give her next studio audience tickets.... ;^)
if you made a list of the 100
January 25, 2007 - 11:49 ET by buddycif you made a list of the 100 people that were destroying this country, two of those 3 people would be in the top 25. we only have ourselves to blame for their power. i look forward to the day when the geffens of this world are exposed for what they are.
Don't take it personally, Hil
January 25, 2007 - 12:55 ET by RackieDon't take it personally, Hil, Hollywood has no use for women of a certain age.