who is this Piddily person anyway??? the way everbody talks about him you'd think he was one of the morons that that Jello person raked over the coals or something!!!
Posted on 08/25/2004 5:44:28 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
First Lady Laura Bush stunned organizers at Monday night's grand opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati by refusing to appear alongside rapper Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs. Bush - wife of President George W. Bush - was scheduled to join actress Angela Bassett and U2 frontman Bono at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, but snubbed the event to prevent photographers snapping her with hip-hop mogul Combs. Insiders claim Bush was eager to avoid publicity with Combs - who subsequently axed his appearance at the event after news of the First Lady's decision broke - because of his notorious background. A source tells New York website Pagesix.Com, "Her reps made it very clear to Freedom Center that they would not have Laura Bush appearing in the same photo-op as P. Diddy. I'm not really sure why they didn't want her to pose with him, but maybe it has something to do with his scandalous past. For whatever the reason, Laura Bush's people did not want her photo taken with him." And staff at the center were further infuriated when Combs pulled out of the ceremony. A spokesman says, "I am not privy to why he's not coming. We are very disappointed." The hip-hop star blamed "an unexpected personal obligation" on his no-show.
Good for her!
oh baby...they're gonna spin this (visions of Murphy Brown dancing in my head)
The organizers have no one but themselves to blame.
Good for her
It's nearly unthinkable for anyone to have standards anymore. Laura broke the rules of "tolerance" and "understanding." Incidentally, good for her!
It was an undeserved honor for Ms. Bush even to attend.
I am a no-body & I wouldn't have my picture taken with P. Ditty. Good for Laura!
I would think it is because he is just not a very good example of a human being.
Hip-hopping away . . .
hip hopping away . . .
Shouldn't that be "who subsequently asked his appearance at the event"?
I wonder if Hip-Hop has met Flip-Flop.
excellent citation...thanks
good for her ... why does the hollywood elite feel as though they have the right to go and do what they want?
You're welcome :-). It just came to mind when I read about Laura Bush.
1992, CCNY, NINE dead.
LOL! You're bad...very funny...but bad!
I'm not sure but I read on another site that this is not entirely what happend.
Here is what wideawake says about Puff Daddy's rap riot:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198210/posts?page=45#45
She was probably scared to death that he might suddenly have a Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson moment.
who is this Piddily person anyway??? the way everbody talks about him you'd think he was one of the morons that that Jello person raked over the coals or something!!!
Way to go, Mrs. Bush!!
I just heard mentioned on Fox that one of the Bush daughters was dissed by P. Diddy - disinvited to a fashion show or something when he found out her father ordered the invasion of Iraq. She was upset by it.
Laura is a lady, but when I look in her eyes I see she is made out of steel. Maybe she was angry over her daughter?
Interesting if that's true. P. Diddy is very close friends with Ashton Kutcher who claimed the Bush twins partied with him, underage drinking and "smoked on a hoookah" with his friend. He's a major league sleazeball. I hear he's attempting to get into the GOP convention and parties too. He's nothing more than a sleazeball.
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