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| Kerry campaign moves to distance itself from obscene rant at fundraiser |
| 2004-07-10 |
| By Mark Z. Barabak and Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times. EFL and to get to the good parts, requires registration.* A follow-up to a story posted yesterday afternoon. Ken Mehlman, [President] Bush’s campaign manager, called on [John] Kerry As the New York Post reported it: Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush last night at a Radio City gala that raised $7.5 million for the newly minted Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards. . . . Kerry could be seen laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg’s tirade - and neither he nor Edwards voiced a single objection to its tone when they spoke to the crowd. . . . Edwards said it was "a great honor" to be there and insisted, "This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."Mehlman’s counterpart in the Kerry camp, Mary Beth Cahill, sought to distance Kerry and running mate John Edwards from the incendiary language, telling reporters, "The views expressed by the performers are their own views." She did not directly respond when asked why Kerry had failed Thursday night to repudiate some of the comments directed at Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "The performers have a perfect right to say what they said, but it is not what Sen. Kerry and Sen. Edwards would say, and they do not approve of some of the remarks made," Cahill said, without offering specifics. "We do, however, approve of their $7.5 million." She added that the Kerry campaign would not release a videotape of the event, which featured appearances by actors Chevy Chase, Meryl Streep, Paul Newman and Whoopi Goldberg, unless the Bush camp established the same practice for its political fundraising events. If I were Bush, I’d call that bluff in a heartbeat. . . . The Democratic fundraiser, an East Coast counterpart to the celebrity event held earlier this month in Los Angeles, pulled in $7.5 million for the Kerry ticket and the national party, a record. It also produced some of the more acrid commentary of the campaign. . . . which is, unfortunately, all too typical of the moonbat left. Chase So far, nothing you don’t see every day at Democratic Underground. Even some in the friendly audience squirmed when Goldberg performed a comedy bit that employed Bush’s surname as a sexual euphemism. But not the haughty, French-looking etc. . . . as the Post reported above, he thought it was funny. At the end of the concert, the two Democratic candidates took the stage with their wives and Kerry thanked the performers, saying they had conveyed "the heart and soul of our . . . but then, the very next day . . . Kerry made no public reference to the concert Friday as he campaigned in New York and West Virginia. But his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, "I would have said it in French, so I could have said ’pardon my French’ afterward." Classy people, these Kerrys. Classy! *Rantburgers, feel free to use this registration at the LAT if you don’t have one of your own: login: latisfishwrap password: scheersucks |
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