MoveOn Whips Up Anti-Bush Sentiment

fox ^ | 8-25-04

[PinnedAndRecessed]

NEW YORK — An exuberant crowd of nearly 2,000 packed New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday night ostensibly to voice their support for Sen. John Kerry (search), but President Bush (search) had the dubious distinction of being the man of the hour.

From hipsters to professionals to aging hippies, the audience was as diverse as the talent on stage. Attendees paid $25 to $500 to watch performances by rocker Perry Farrell, techno-musician Moby, singer Natalie Merchant and hip-hop collective The Roots.

Host Janeane Garofalo provided salty commentary throughout, most notably referring to senior presidential political adviser Karl Rove (search) as a feminine hygiene product, evoking a Democratic fund-raiser two months ago in which comedienne Whoopi Goldberg raised Republican hackles by using Bush's name to refer to part of a woman's anatomy.

The event, sponsored by MoveOn.org, also unveiled a new TV ad campaign featuring such Hollywood stars as Scarlett Johannson, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Matt Damon. Several of the stars appearing in the ads were on hand as were other celebrity speakers, including actress Edie Falco, comedian Al Franken and actor and musician Kevin Bacon. But the longest and most enthusiastic standing ovation of the evening was saved for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

[PinnedAndRecessed]

If these bozos had an original thought ever cross their mind it'd be the shortest trip in America.

[NYCVirago]

An exuberant crowd of nearly 2,000 packed New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday night ostensibly to voice their support for Sen. John Kerry, but President Bush had the dubious distinction of being the man of the hour.

The Hammerstein Ballroom's capacity is 3,000. So the couldn't even sell out an anti-Bush show in the heart of liberal land. How sad is that?

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Wow! 2,000 people for a star-studded event featuring 4 different musical acts? Has there ever been so many people at one event in the history of entertainment?

And $25 a ticket. Who on earth has that kind of money?

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Garofalo bragged once about having masturbated in public (on a crowded bus). Nice people, these.

[Texasforever]

African-Americans have been here almost 400 years ... we didn't have the right to vote until the 1960s.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[smoothsailing]

Believe you me. This silly stuff will not work with a majority of Americans.

Kerry has stupidity on his side. I say good for him.

It is exactly what he deserves.

[AF68]

"And $25 a ticket. Who on earth has that kind of money?"

Beats me. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the Lexus muffler the Rats said I could only afford to buy with the Bush tax cut.

[Porterville]

True the ignorant stupid dumb-ass vote is very large; but the problem the democrats have is ignorant stupid dumb-asses have a tough time getting to the polls....

[NYCVirago]

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I don't understand what's wrong with the quote you highlighted -- many blacks didn't get to vote until the 1960s.

[Texasforever]

Not true. Blacks have had the right to vote since the Civil War.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

LOL! Speaking of that, I think "Lexus" should be a new unit of government spending. As in "John Kerry proposed enough new spending today to buy 10 million brand new, fully loaded Lexus SUV's."

[NYCVirago]

Not true. Blacks have had the right to vote since the Civil War.

Not in the South, they didn't.

[lavrenti]

I've been to Hammerstein. 2/3rds full is a mighty small showing in NYC.

[CyberAnt]

I think the dems already know this stuff will not work on America. McAwful has been all over the TV in the last few days disavowing any connection, coordination, involvement, etc. etc. with any of these protest groups.

I think McAwful's doing this because Rush has been saying for the last few weeks that the RNC needs to point to these protesters and connect them to the DNC.

But .. of course .. we know McAwful's actions mean they are involved up to their eyeballs.

[Texasforever]

Baloney. You are thinking of Jim Crow. Those laws imposed a poll tax and in some cases a literacy test. Both of those affected poor uneducated whites as much as blacks. The right to vote for blacks was enshrined by both the 13th and 14th amendments of the constitution after the Civil War,

[lavrenti]

To bolster your point: Only 25% were able to be registered in LA during Jim Crow and that was because of the Long brothers--particularly Earl.

Everywhere else it was practically nil.

[NYCVirago]

Baloney. You are thinking of Jim Crow. Those laws imposed a poll tax and in some cases a literacy test. Both of those affected poor uneducated whites as much as blacks. The right to vote for blacks was enshrined by both the 13th and 14th amendments of the constitution after the Civil War.

Facts are, blacks were shut out at the ballot in the South prior to the 60s. But at any rate, let's not re-argue the Civil Rights movement here; let's stick to what MoveOn and the Rats are doing now.

[lavrenti]

Don't give me that. Those laws were often circumvented on behalf of poor white voters.

Who the heck do you think paid the poll tax in those days?

[lavrenti]

Speaking of MoveOn and the like, has anyone bothered to listen to the meltdown on Air America of late?

It's an interesting barometer, judging by how enraged and well, powerless, they seem.

Goes into the themes they're using for their latest commericals. Curious as to how Maggie Cho blathering about gay marriage, cutting to same-sex couples spooning is going to play in a state like Iowa.