Posted on 06/28/2004 2:46:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
John Kerry raised about $5 million for his campaign at a couple of events in Los Angeles on Thursday night, the second of which featured performances by Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Billy Crystal and Willie Nelson. Amongst those who contributed in order to attend: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. Crystal "joked" about President Bush, according to multiple media accounts, "I realize that 9/11 is also his SAT scores." The New York Times touted how "the much-heralded highlight was the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond reunion duet, 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers,' which they had not performed together since Jimmy Carter was in the White House."
Streisand also performed her famous song 'People,' but with parody lyrics: "Rumsfeld, we must get rid of Rumsfeld/He's the spookiest person in the world....This war we're lost in/Don't ask what it's costing/What's a trillion or two to rule the World?...When the White House Stationery/Reads President John Kerry/We'll Be the Luckiest People in the World!"
On her Web site, Streisand posted the full text of her "special" lyrics she performed at the Kerry fundraiser: ( http://mrccyberalert.c.topica.com/maacoxyaa7YYZbWhUKOb/ )
PEOPLE I MEAN G - O - P - EOPLE - WHO'D BELIEVE THERE'S SUCH PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD? BUSH SEEZA LOTTA CONDOLEEZA, THEY'RE DIVIDING THE PLANET'S OIL ACCORDING TO RICHARD "POIL" AND THEY'RE ALL JUST TRAINEES OF CHENEY'S.
RUMSFELD, WE MUST GET RID OF RUMSFELD - HE'S THE SPOOKIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. AS FOR POWELL - HE'S NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL. HE'S IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, WHILE THEY'RE ALL FIDDLING WITH DOOM. NO ONE'S MINDING THE STORE. WHAT'S MORE, LET'S DISCUSS THIS WAR WE'RE LOST IN, DON'T ASK WHAT IT'S COSTIN' - WHAT'S A TRILLION OR TWO TO RULE THE WORLD?
(Second chorus) THE SENATE HOW I WANT THE SENATE! ALL WE NEED IS TWO PEOPLE IN THE WORLD! I SEEA ANTONIN SCALIA. HOW I DREAD EV'RY TIME HE SITS - SCARED OUT OF MY WOLFOWITZ. TIME THOSE NEO-CON GUYS WERE GONE GUYS.
THEY'RE LYING - WHILE THE GLOBE IS FRYING - AND THE FISHES ARE DYING IN THE WORLD. THEIR SOLUTION FOR ALL OF THE POLLUTION: IS JUST TO BEAR IT AND GRIN, AND PRACTICE NOT BREATHING IN. BUT THINGS ARE GONNA BE GREAT. JUST WAIT - WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE STATIONERY, READS PRESIDENT JOHN KERRY - WE'LL BE THE LUCKIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!
END reprint of parody lyrics
Since it appears that news cameras were not allowed to tape the event, we probably won't ever see Streisand's performance (if I see it anywhere I'll let you know), but in 2002 FNC showed video of her singing, at a September 29, 2002 fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a "special" version of 'Memories' from the movie The Way We Were:
"Scattered pictures/Of the House we left behind/Lovely Democratic mem'ries/Of the way we were.... "Unprecedented Growth in the Economy/The Dow was up, the deficit was down/As long as Democrats were the majority/I could sleep nights, not weep nights."
(Excerpt) Read more at mrccyberalert.c.topica.com ...
Just entered "bush sat score" into google, and there it is. This was at the top of the list:
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
Evidently Afflect couldn't find a good poker game. He needs to get to the nearest Gamblers Anonymous meeting, post haste.
Ben Stiller, well that one stings. I think he's funny, but alas, just another libiot to never get another nickel of my hard earned money to donate to the commie cause.
As for Babs, well, gotta be honest, I've always loved her pipes. That said, I detest her, and everything she stands for. Back when I was still listening to her music, I found one of her song lyrics especially curious. In the song "Everything", in the soundtrack from "A Star Is Born", she croons..."I like to move into the Whitehouse....paint it YELLOW...
How appropriate considering your warped views Babs.
Yeah, a joke about an attack on our nation with a tragic death toll. How funny. Remind me to laugh at Billy Crystal's demise.
Do actors get a residual from video rentals as well? If an actor who I don't chose to line the pockets of has a movie I want to see, I watch it on cable.
"I'm sure Billy Crystal doesn't really think Bush's SAT was 911. It was a joke."
I assumed so....it was a stupid joke at any rate.
and, given the reconfiguration of SAT's and SAT scoring that would be closer to 1400 today, thank you very much !
We should begin to demand the SAT scores of all these damned Democrats who talk about Bush's. I'm getting mighty sick of it .. one day he's a baffoon who trips over his own shoelaces and the next he is sooooooooo briliant and clever he convinces Americans of something he hasn't said.
Does anyone have Kerry's SAT's. Did Kerry even graduate from High School?
I don't have John Kerry's SATs. The GWB SATs came out in the last election cycle. John Kerry is a Yale graduate, class of 1966, I believe, and also a lawyer. John Kerry is usually described as an intellectual.
Their own Abu Ghraib/fraternity initiation?
What the fu...? Are the deaths of 3000 of our fellow Americans really just a joke about Bush to these people?
Billy Crystal is now, and has always been, a very unfunny man. And a moron.
Sample:
Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington University after scandal. Career: Acting
Sean Penn: Completed High School. Career: Acting
George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting
Michael Moore: Dropped out first year at University of Michigan. Career: Movie Director
heheheh
By the way, I wonder how their little "Project Green-light" is going.
You know, I really can't figure how they're going to top "The Battle For Shaker Heights" though. I mean, didn't that thing sell a whole five dozen or so tickets?
They'll never improve upon that.
Never.
Bwahahahah.
What irks me - why does Hollywood want to make Affleck(QUACK) an action star? He's no Jack Ryan. He's a wuss!
It has become so blatantly "in-your-face" that I absolutely refuse to contribute. When you think about the money you spend at a show--- and I AM gonna eat popcorn (I don't care how many big macs or clogged arteries it equals!)--- it matters. These people are just way over inflated with themselves. And sadly, they are getting way too much power... and I helped them get there. Because, as I understand it, they even get kick-backs and "credit" for rentals, we are scrutinizing those. These ego-maniac ka-billionaires think I can't be entertained without them??? (As I dust off my scrabble board.) Oh hell no. This IS war.
DeNiro was a big disappointment. I like most of his movies, especially Goodfellas and Heat.
LOL!! Well, it went so well I don't even know what it was!! Of course, the Benifer stuff was just so overshadowing. And poor little Matt just got lost in the dust storm.
A very respectable score, especially since it was before the recent changes designed to make current scores look better when compared to many years ago.
I could think of some roles in which James Woods would shine, but I doubt that the Tinsel Town twits would green-light them.
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