The Hoo-Haw Over the Dem Fundraising Bash the Other Night

Republicans are up in arms. When Dems threw a benefit concert and performance for the new team of Kerry-Edwards, many Hollywood types were there. Whoopi Goldberg was Whoopi Goldberg: tough-talking, irreverant, and funny. Barbara Streisand was her strident self. Paul Newman and Ben Affleck said they really did not need the tax cuts the president has bestowed on the richest.

And for that, GOP operatives are shouting for the tape of the event to be released like it's a big public scandal. I happened to see Deborah Orin from the NY Post on Hardball last night, and she was acting like this party was the most obscene thing she'd ever seen (I guess she didn't spy any of those pictures of bomb-scattered children in Iraq or any of the prisoner videos). She insisted the right had never been anything but respectful of Clinton even when they didn't like him (I hurt myself laughing very hard at that). When asked if the release of Cheney's energy task force meetings didn't rate more legitimate public concern (and everyone up to the Supreme Court's trying to keep this under wraps, Ms. Orin implied the Dem party issue was much, much worse for American society as a whole.

Here's her nitwit writeup in The Post.