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Hall of Shame Tonight, Lieberman will join Gore in an unprecedented star-studded fund raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York scheduled to include as hosts liberal actors Ben Affleck, Julia Roberts, John Cusack and Matt Damon – all of whom have starred in violent R-rated movies – as well as liberal performers Bette Midler, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Jimmy Buffett, Don Henley, Macy Gray, Lenny Kravitz and Crosby, Stills & Nash. The hosts are Miramax Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Rolling Stone Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner and VH1 President John Sykes, according to Center for Responsive Politics. On Monday, Gore raised more than $1 million at a star-studded fund raiser in Camden, N.J., hosted by comedian David Brenner that included performances by Luther Vandross, Michael Bolton and Cher. Focus on Hollywood Sleaze Ill-Timed for Gore UPI
Bush 2. How depressing, corrupt, unlawful and tragically absurd the administration's world view actually is...how low the moral bar has been lowered...and (though I know I'm capable of intellectually lazy notions of collective guilt) how complicit our silence as citizens is...Nixon, a true fiend, looks like a paragon of virtue next to the criminally incompetent robber barons now raiding the present and future. American foreign policy is in chaos. We are now left in the surreal position of having to condemn American-sponsored torture as official policy while a deranged President Bush orders his staff to attend ethics briefings -- a "refresher course" -- from the White House counsel. The very idea of America is in chaos and this chaos has created a vacuum. One question for any Democrat: Who will have the balls to get us out of Iraq? ??If the Democrats don't step up and fill this vacuum, the Republicans will. They will take us out of Iraq. And then the Democrats will be left holding the bag -- first as the enablers who let the Republicans take us into an unnecessary and immoral war, and then as the whipping boys who stood by while the Republicans kept justifying what was clearly an unnecessary and immoral war. They were so worried about positioning themselves as hawks, not being seen as soft on terror and war, that they lost the capacity for outrage when the person responsible for a legal memo that denied the validity of the Geneva Conventions was appointed Attorney General. And it was downhill from there. I guess the exception is when and if Dick Cheney thinks we have a good reason to torture and deny due process. If these men are not impeached and thrown in jail, we truly are approaching the end of days. ??Thank God Bill Moyers is still around. ??Here he offers a very good and very compelling cry from the heart of a citizen who finds himself deeply disturbed, but unbowed by this wave of collective insanity. He is one of the best we have left. On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill
Moyers, and King (not Don)
Actor John Cusack, a Chicago native, is a Kerry supporter and said he
would go to battleground states to campaign for the candidate. POSTED: 8:27 am CDT July 27, 2004 UPDATED: 11:36 am
CDT July 27, 2004 Actor John Cusack is disappointed in Michael Moore for supporting Ralph Nader when Al Gore needed just a few more votes to win since “I knew there was a huge difference between” Democrats “and the Bush crowd.” Cusack told the Sunday Times of London: “Don’t tell me Al Gore would have handed out the contract to rebuild Iraq before he’d given the order to bomb it.” http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030616.asp#8
JOHN CUSACK, SEAN "P. DIDDY" COMBS, and more stars stopped to talk with Kris about the importance of this event. "It's a crucial election, get out and vote," Cusack said. "It's vote or die time, stand up and be heard," Combs told Kris. Stars Rally At The DNC! July 30, 2004
John Cusack could have said anything, but the topic was politics when he talked to the Wisconsin delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The actor made a surprise visit to their breakfast Monday to motivate his neighbors to the north to help elect John Kerry. "I thought the last election was the most important of my life, but now it's clearly this one," the 38-year-old said. "And I don't remember a time when I thought I'd be coming to a political rally and be saying, you know, Richard Nixon was a moderate." Cusack bonded with the Wisconsin delegates by reminding them his sister, Oscar-nominated actress Joan Cusack ("Working Girl," "In & Out"), attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "I spent a lot of time at The Plaza," he said, drawing cheers with the mention of the popular campus bar. Cusack, whose films include "Say Anything" and "High Fidelity," suggested a return trip might be in store during the campaign: "I'm just here to honor you guys and try to fire you up and hopefully we're going to come out to Wisconsin and help you guys do your jobs." Celebrities Turn Out for Dem Events Tuesday, July 27,
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