Half-baked Barbara (Hillary Clinton & Mary Landrieu no-shows @ spina bifida fundraiser)

Washington Times ^ | 10/07/05 | John McCaslin

[Libloather]

Half-baked Barbara
By John McCaslin
October 7, 2005

It's not easy being the master of ceremonies for a roast when half of the roasters don't show up.

Ask political commentator Mark Shields, who found himself in that uncomfortable position Wednesday evening as the Spina Bifida Association attempted to put TV personality Barbara Walters in the "hot seat" at the Hyatt Regency Washington.

"This is more like a bake-off," a visibly embarrassed Mrs. Walters said after the roasting, expressing disappointment that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and fellow roaster Sen. Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana were no-shows.

As it was, the two remaining roasters — Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes and ABC newsman Sam Donaldson — went easy on Mrs. Walters, while last-second stand-in Mary Matalin, who was in the audience as Mrs. Hughes' guest, tried to read from Mrs. Landrieu's prepared remarks.

It got even worse at the close of the evening when organizers quickly dragged wires and cords on stage, hoping to patch through Mrs. Clinton by telephone, but to no avail. (Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Landrieu were said to be "detained" by official Senate duties.)

Nevertheless, the annual fundraising event — which had in the audience Washington power couples Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn and Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell — accomplished its goal of raising awareness of the most common permanently disabling birth defect in this country.

[stylin19a]

This is 2005....if they have it every year, Chillary has time to make amends....

[Howlin]

This is a HUGE slap in their faces. I mean EVERYBODY goes to this.

[Howlin]

$25.

[Rummyfan]

And it is sponsored by Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff; their child has spina bidifa. NOBODY says no to them. Nobody.

I know but Judy is off the air and Al? Does he still have a column in the WSJ? Or is CAPITAL GANG still on? Hillary must figure there aren't any votes from the audience of THE VIEW. That in and of itself is amazing though.....

[Howlin]

This is one of the premier social events in D.C.

[rockrr]

I think it can safely be said that they could have been there if they wanted to, so I wonder (beyond the deception of being "detained" by official Senate duties) why they chose to rebuff the hosts of this high profile event?

(Doncha just love it when the left eats its own?!!)

[Rummyfan]

As it was, the two remaining roasters — Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes and ABC newsman Sam Donaldson — went easy on Mrs. Walters, while last-second stand-in Mary Matalin, who was in the audience as Mrs. Hughes' guest, tried to read from Mrs. Landrieu's prepared remarks.

Mary Matalin reading Landrieu's remarks? More eveidence that the MSM andf pols in think of themselevs as the Ruling Class! Jeez, where was Snake Man?

[Txsleuth]

Especially when he is using gas prices as a "monitor" for whether to raise interest rates!!!

Dang, how would the man know how far a car goes on a tank of gas...unless he has actually had to pump that stuff into the tank....drive for a couple hundred miles, and then have to stop and fill up again!!!!



People are howling because Miers has never been a judge...how about this guy never even putting gas in a car???

Has he even gone to the grocery store and bought toilet paper??? Has he ever had to stand at the pharmacy and pay for his medicine???

[NewJerseyJoe]

Why would Shrillary or Landrieu show up for a spina bifida fundraiser? According to the "pro-choice" ideology that they murderously espouse, babies with spina bifida are "defectives" -- better all around for everyone if they are torn apart by suction machines in utero.

The best thing that could be said about these two witches is that they are consistent in their pro-murder mentality.

[potlatch]

I'm thinking there were a couple of late running bills they voted on today before they left for the weekend. One was the Oil Refineries, and another was concerning torture of prisoners??

[Txsleuth]

Sorry....whoa. only $25, huh?

I wonder how many gifts Bubba and Hitlery got that were over $25????

[Howlin]

Lots.

[Rummyfan]

Well her father was 'Moon' Landrieu wasn't he?????!!!!

[Txsleuth]

To Bill??? MILLIONS AND MILLIONS....

His book, his appearance fee...all went UP because of that.

To HIll???? The same thing...book, (not appearance fees so much YET)...a Senators job.

When I saw on Fox tonight, that Clinton is really trashing Louis Freeh about his book...and saying it is all "lies"...and KNOWS he can say that and get away with it...I am convinced that they must have sold their souls, because anyone else would not be able to be in public after doing what he/she has done.

[drt1]

Yeah. And to carry this ridiculousness further, he'll raise interest rates until we're all so impoverished we can't afford the gas and then magically, the price will go down and the Inflation Monster will be conquered because, of course, all price rises are of the Demand Pull variety and not the Cost Push type.

If you ask me, this is sort of like treating the common cold with cyanide - There are no complaints from the patients that are on record.

[McGavin999]

This is a HUGE slap in their faces. I mean EVERYBODY goes to this.

I'm sure this was well calculated. After all, they figure Babwa is a has been and Andrea will be gone before Hillary starts her campaign. They just figured it wasn't worth their time.