NY Times, Reuters quoted McCain criticizing Obama for Hollywood fundraiser, didn't mention reports of McCain's own recent lucrative fundraisers
SUMMARY: Blog posts by The New York Times and Reuters quoted Sen. John McCain criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for attending a Hollywood fundraiser without noting reports that McCain himself has recently held lucrative fundraisers in Beverly Hills and Miami.
A September 17 blog post by The New York Times and a September 16 blog post by Reuters quoted Sen. John McCain criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for flying "off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends" but did not mention that McCain also attended a fundraiser in Miami earlier in the week at which he reportedly raised $5.1 million. Nor did they point out that McCain reportedly held a fundraiser with celebrities last month in Beverly Hills.
Describing Obama's September 16 fundraiser, Times reporter Jeff Zeleny wrote on the Times blog, The Caucus, that "Senator Barack Obama stood beneath the stars -- surrounded by the ones from Hollywood -- and tried to soothe the concerns of worrying Democrats here on Tuesday as he held the biggest fund-raising night of his campaign." After describing the event, Zeleny continued:
The fund-raising rush for Mr. Obama comes at the very time he was working to turn the campaign's focus to the economy. Even before he arrived at his first reception here on Tuesday night, Mr. McCain criticized his rival's fund-raising trip to California.
In a rally in Ohio, Mr. McCain mocked Mr. Obama's schedule, accusing him of flying "off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends."
"Let me tell you my friends," Mr. McCain said, "there's no place I'd rather be than here with the working men and women of Ohio."
Similarly, in a post on Reuters' blog Tales from the Trail, reporter David Alexander wrote: "So what does Barack Obama do after a hard day of defending the common man during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Throw a $28,500-a-head fundraising dinner, of course." Alexander stated that Obama "spent the day Tuesday campaigning in Colorado, where he talked to supporters about the mortgage crisis that has reshaped Wall Street and caused many people to lose their homes. ... Then he jetted off to Los Angeles Tuesday evening for a pair of glitzy fundraisers that could be the biggest for Democrats during this election cycle." Alexander then reported that McCain criticized Obama for "courting the stars instead of ordinary folk," and quoted McCain's statement attacking Obama.
By contrast, in a September 17 Wall Street Journal article, Brody Mullins and Glenn R. Simpson reported: "Many of the fund-raising events that Republican rival Sen. McCain attends, including one in Miami on Monday, begin with a private cocktail hour with the Arizona senator for contributors donating about $25,000 each. Some events that Sen. McCain held this summer for his campaign and the Republican National Committee offered special treatment for couples who wrote checks of up to $100,000."
Well, McCain's Hollywood celebrity fundraiser is an unfair comparison in that McCain only got B-list celebrities...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/mccain-knocks-obama-over_n_127003.html
I thought Pat Boone was dead... ;>)
I thought Pat Boone was dead... ;>)
His career is dead - he's been reduced to doing reverse mortgage commercials on cable channels.
I turned down tickets to a Pat Boone concert a few years back. The show was in a high school auditorium and it would have cost $35. For $60 I could have seen the concert and had dinner after with Pat.
You wish, Worrierking. You would have needed a backstage mint julep with Pat Boone that was interrupted by Alan Cranston and Yasser Arafat. That's when the sh*t hit the fan!
For $60 I could have seen the concert and had dinner after with Pat.
I went...and later I got drunk on the $60 they paid me. ;>)
I saw Henrix, Credance, Stepenwolf, and I cant even remember who else for $15.00. I was so stoned, Pat hemself could have been there jammin with Hendrix. flashbackflashbackflashbackflashbackflashback..................................
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And while Barack Obama has the majority of Hollywood backing his candidacy, McCain had his own small cadre of celebs in attendance tonight. Among those that were spotted:
Stephen Baldwin
Pat Boone
Wilford Brimley
Dean Cain
Jon Cryer
Robert Duvall
Angie Harmon
Patricia Heaton
Lorenzo Lamas
Craig T. Nelson
Gail O'Grady
Jason Sehorn
Gary Sinise
Jon Voight
Wow!! What a list!! The only one i'm surprised at is Patricia Heaton. As far as i'm concerned the rest, expecially Duvall and Voight, can go spit.
Zsa Zsa Gabor has given McCain over $70,000...
She and McCain recently had a few laughs in Las Vegas and recalled the raucus times they had there in the 1950s.
Wolf, I saw the Baroness being interviewed by Greta Van Whatserface tonight. She's a 54 year old lifelong Dem (she says) who reached the age when fear and greed override common sense in weaker humans, and is encouraging white working class women to vote in her best interests.
Of course, she didn't say that. She said that the Dems have moved too far to the left, and Grampy is the best pick to reach across the aisle, and take on the GOP. Huh?
"Let me tell you my friends," Mr. McCain said, "there's no place I'd rather be than here with the working men and women of Ohio."
Let me tell you, Mr. Chairman of the Commerce Committee, as one of the out of work men and women of Ohio--BITE ME! I hold you, Bush, Graham, Boehner, and all the rest of the deregulate for the rich crowd responsible. Four years ago when things first started getting bad here you folks came into this state time and time again promising to rebuild our economy. We gave you our votes and you gave us a whole lot of nothing. Now things are worse and you’re back making the same promises. Why, oh why, should we buy this crap from you again?
The way I see it, by supporting Obama, Barbara Streisand’s doing more for my family and friends than the Republicans have.
Hell, Midnight...
The Cons have been doing it to us for the last 30 years--not just the last four.
They've achieved their objective. The middle class has been decimated.
I should probably clarify that John McCain sang the preceeding was at the end of his appearance in Ohio, to counter Babs' fundraiser performance in CA.
this is the typical brain dead stupidity that passes for "commentary". hello? i don't give one flying **** who he chats with at a fund raiser, where it's held, or if he drank a glass of wine or a beer. i want someone capable of running the government, not some bumbling idiot who can cut the fool down at the local gin joint. [as in george bush] this is why sarah palin was such a terrible choice. i don't care if she's a hockey mom, or where she bought her glasses, she's unfit to hold the office of president. that's why they're keeping her away from the press. they don't want her revealing how shallow her knowledge is. even a conservative like columnist david brooks says she's not fit.
palin and bush, in particular, are the perfect example of governing by the theory of let business run the country because they know best. except you tend to end up with things like the stock market crash of 1929, the result of letting people buy on margin, the savings and loan debacle of the reagan years and this week's takeovers of institutions once thought too big to fail. meanwhile the directors walk away with multimillions and the bill for damages is added to our ever spiraling national debt.
I'm tired of all this criticism of Sarah Palin...
I don't care if she is a hockey puck! She's just a mom, trying to do right. Is that so wrong? Her kid got knocked up. What's she supposed to do?
She can see all the way to Alaska, and she's trying to keep an eye on Putie. Give 'er a break!
That's why Bristol is pregnant. She's been keeping an eye on the wrong putie.