Dinner with the Obamas at the Parker-Broderick Home
Our fund-raiser in chief, President Barack Obama, outdid himself on Thursday night. As we all learned from the much-derided Anna Wintour video, we were all invited to party with the president at her “good friend” Sarah Jessica Parker’s home in Manhattan, to the tune of $40,000 per person. This is the same Vogue editor who once chose to feature Assad of Syria’s wife as a feature story in her magazine — now removed from the website – and who recently announced her new designer canine products under the slogan “Bark For Obama.”
The dinner was followed by a concert from Mariah Carey at the Plaza Hotel for the honored guests. The first couple raked in a cool $4.5 million in one evening. But as reporter Peter Grier reported for DC Decoder, Mitt Romney without any celebrities or any glitz brought in $3.5 million that same night in Chicago, where he presented a speech on the state of the economy.
Back at the Parker-Matthew Broderick home, a guest might have spotted George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks, but evidently there were many rich folk whom the average celebrity hound in attendance would find unrecognizable. For Parker, the real star was Michelle Obama, who she introduced first by saying: “It is a great, a rare, a very special and I’m assuming a singular treat to welcome you into our home – our radiant, our extraordinary first lady.” After that, she turned to Michelle’s husband, and referred to him as the “beloved current and future president of the United States.”
The event was in honor of the same president who has the nerve to tell the nation that his campaign is all about the suffering of the middle class: “still a lot of people hurting out there,” he recently said. Obama was guest of honor, as Grier wrote, “in front of a group of folks who mingle with the middle class only when it’s serving them dinner,” or perhaps when they reluctantly are signing an autograph. Grier noted a poster displayed at an entertainment website stating “While rubbing elbows with New York’s rich and famous Obama paused to remember the Americans suffering under his economy, how sweet.”
Now, with his pandering for the Hispanic vote by bypassing Congress and introducing amnesty in effect, Obama has taken yet another step whose negative consequences will most harm the very middle class he claims to support. David Frum points out the economic implications of his amnesty program this way:
In a time of very high unemployment, it seems simply reckless to invite future waves of migration—and especially of the low-skill, low-wage migration that America has mostly attracted over the past four decades….The immigrants get higher wages than they would have earned in their former country. The affluent gain lower prices for in-person services. Lower-skilled native-born Americans face downward wage pressure. In any other policy area, people who consider themselves progressive might be expected to revile a policy whose benefits went to foreigners and the rich, and whose costs were born by the American poor. Immigration policy baffles that expectation.
Don’t expect the president to comprehend or try to explain that contradiction to his elite backers. They’re too busy being thrilled to sit at a dinner for two hours just to be in the presence of the Obamas and George Clooney and company. Undoubtedly, they are more than thankful that they may now save a few more pennies by gaining the chance to hire their maids and nannies for a lower fee. That’s a good enough reward to pay for a dinner that costs more than many people earn in the entire year.
Undoubtedly, these are the same folks who felt connected during the 2008 campaign when Obama remarked in a famous off-the-cuff quip, after going to a supermarket, “Did you see what they charge for arugula?” But just don’t make that Whole Foods, since its owner is a libertarian who publicly opposes ObamaCare. Just kidding — you really don’t expect them to give that privilege up and consider going to a Costco. Some things are just too important to abandon, even for principle.
The question is why the entertainment industry is so populist. I addressed that problem here: http://clarespark.com/2012/05/04/3957/. I answered a question that Charles Murray evaded (or didn’t have time to answer about the Hollywood Left.)
Ms. Sparks.
If you remember, the search for Saddam Husein was largely informed by a dedicated military intelligence team. The noteworthy point of their effort was the detailed relationship model they developed, listing and connecting friends, relatives, hangers-on etc. Much like the ‘murder boards’ shown on popular TV crime dramas. Only really, really detailed.
I wonder what would happen if Hollywood was so charted. Would we find a central figure or group? We we find the source, other than hubris, of the insane ideas held by these people, the smoking gun?
It would be interesting if a couple of the bright military guys who found Saddam (and who are now probably back in civilian life) were funded…do you know anyone with the $$?
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Old Sailor
Need a FULL list of the Hollywood maroons at this Commie Gala, as they aer ALL OFF my watch list- NEVER again will i support Limo Liberals
– Fitz wrote.
Everything is just fine when you are riding in the limo with NO concern of your job still existing 6 months from now.
Only by our collective apathy could this imposter rule in OUR house.
In fairness, I’ll bet that whenever Mr. and Mrs. Romney decided to eat out, they didn’t have dinner at the likes of Joe The Plumber’s house. Nor did they go for a Big Mac and fries.
The sad truth is that neither candidate–Romney nor Obama–has stayed in touch with the struggles of ordinary working families. In contrast, men like Reagan and Clinton came from humble and even poor beginnings–and those experiences shaped them.
Obama is contemptuous of working-class Americans. And Romney sees high unemployment not as a human tragedy, but as an interesting mathematical/economic problem worthy of his analytical skills.
“Obama is contemptuous of working-class Americans. And Romney sees high unemployment not as a human tragedy, but as an interesting mathematical/economic problem worthy of his analytical skills.”
Even with a dark comparison like that, the better choice still seems to be Romney.
I do not expect Romney to get emotional about the poor economy and unemployment. I expect him to correct both and I believe his has the experience and skills necessary to do just that. No need for navel gazing merely solutions to current problems.
if Romney was a bishop in his church, he has probably had a lot more contact with poverty, social problems and the crises in ordinary middle class families than you realize.
And that doesn’t include the social service outreaches that the bishops usually supervise. link
FYI: I am a Catholic, but the anti LDS stuff in the media reminds me of the anti Catholic ignorance of 1960…
Yup… I remember when JFK was going to take his marching orders from the Vatican, and we all had to stop that before that nasty ol’ Pope got a foot on the US mainland… (rolling eyes)
Agreed. I’m not LDS either, but know many and find them to be very nice, normal people.
I remember, it was just a few years after The Harvard Business School touted the Vatican and their fortune as the ultimate model of extremely well managed investment companies in one of their reknowned “Case Studies”. Of course, they didn’t mention the ability to operate with absolutely no regulation, taxation, or supervision of any stripe. It aparently did reflect in the collection baskets as the church backed away from the report as rapidly as possible.
As for the entertainment class flocking to the excess of flash and lack of substance of the governing class, I think many of the overpaid cretins entertain a self-love/hate ego guided and screwed up by their media people.
I don’t agree with your “fairness” illustration. Obmanation et al is completely removed from any and all work ethic in any form. The same cannot be said for Rommey et als.
Obamanation sees himself as king…. an unelected king.
Given the choice…guess I’ll take the problem solver over the arrogant a.h..
Think of the scene in the film Gladiator when Gracchus shows up at the Coliseum and the slimy sycophant Falco says “I don’t often see you enjoying the vulgar pleasures of the crowd.” And Gracchus retorts “I don’t pretend to be a man of the people, but I do try and be a man for the people.”
Mitt Romney doesn’t pretend to be a man of the people. He doesn’t go to $40,000 a plate dinners hosted by elite A-list celebrities and magazine editors all the while claiming himself just another comrade. I’ll take Romney’s unabashed wealth any day over Barack Obama’s blatant hypocrisy.
In all fairness I bet you don’t have any clue of what the Romneys do, and in all fairness yours is just a hit piece on them to try to prop up a failure of humugous magnitude.
A man, that promised he would work 24-7 to solve the economic problem, forgets at the time the magnitude of the problem and proposes budgets that get no votes at all.
I would like to see some acknowledgement that two of the “lesser class” actually won the drawing. We keep seeing the invitations for dinner with the “chance to win”. I want to know if the Obama campaign followed through with ordinary people, if the winners happened to be in the upper tax brackets, or if they never gave out tickets to a winner.
40 grand! For a plate of food? That’s the price of that selling like a hooker with leprosy Chevy Volt. Even after the 7 grand tax subsidy making the Volt 33 grand sales are still in the toilet. Shocking. I can’t believe people actually talk like her, must be a one percent upbringing thing, or is it a speech impediment? She looks sultry though, especially the bangs, makes me want to bark like a dog, fire in the loins.
I still want to know or receive acknowledgement that the Obama Campaign is actually letting winners of the drawings in. Are they really the people who can only afford the $3 donation, or are they in upper tax brackets? Or are they even picking a winner? We’ve seen no proof that anybody really won.
From my observation point these “proletariat guests” are more carefully screened and vetted than any of the cabinet or super court judges we’ve seen so far!
I just hope someone, somewhere, sometime writes about the lucky/unlucky proles who paid $3 for a dinner with celebrities. How did that experience work out for them? This is screaming for a journalistic scoop. Go for it, Mr Reporter.
Delete one of my previous comments. For some reason, comments are not showing up even with the “Your comment is awaiting moderation” message for quite some time, sometimes they disappear forever. Some of my comments have gone down the memory hole on other sites too. Friends are saying comments are having difficulty showing up on Facebook as well. Wonder if it is a local issue (my or others’ computers) or something else.
I wonder if these rich people will still love Obama if he gets a second term and tries to raise their personal income taxes by 35%? Heck, these same people are going to take a real, hot, bath if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire on January 1, 2013. Will they love him then? After Obama and the Democrats get through with the Anna Wintour crowd, all they’ll be able to afford will be KFC on double coupon night. And they love this guy why?
I you drive a 12-cylinder Bentley that you bought outright you really don’t care is the gasoline is $4 or $5 or $8 per gallon.
That’s just it, just like in Obamacare the “special” people will be exempt from having to pay the price for supporting this dictator. The unions, Hollywood crowd, sports people and such will not have their taxes raised like the rest of us peasants.
You watch and see, if Obama happens to win a second term and gets his big tax increase, they will re-write the tax code to reflect a big, fat deduction for: current and former politicians, celebrities, sports stars, union leaders, and donors to the Democratic party, all under the umbra of “service to the public” or “working for the greater good of the citizenry”. I hope some Obama administration troll whose job it is to monitor conservative blogs doesn’t read this and get any ideas.
For Parker, the real star was Michelle Obama, who she introduced first by saying: “It is a great, a rare, a very special and I’m assuming a singular treat to welcome you into our home – our radiant, our extraordinary first lady.” After that, she turned to Michelle’s husband, and referred to him as the “beloved current and future president of the United States.”
Good Lord, what a suck-up. LOL
Miss Parker reminds me of every grammar school classmate who spent more time brown nosing the teacher than doing any actual work.
I can’t say I’m terribly surprised. When your work, your stock-in-trade, is pretending for a living, and that grants you the mojo of an Astrophysicist, well…
My wife & I were watching the Tony Awards last weekend and Matthew Broderick was performing. We both thought the same thing: There’s nothing at all special about him. He’s an incredible mediocrity. His singing is so-so, he doesn’t dance, he’s getting fat… I said, “In under five minutes you and I could come up with a list of 100 stage actors here in Seattle who could blow him out of the water.”
I guess leftist ideology opens a lot of doors!
As Mick said to Rocky in Rocky III “Hell, you aint been hungry since you won that belt!”
Seattle stage actors are hungry, all the time. And if they don’t remain at the top of their game, they will be more than hungry, they will starve. Matthew Broderick is loaded now and doesn’t have to work hard at anything anymore.
Surely that canine product range should have been called ‘Barking for Obambi” as anyone must be if the cannot see right through this consummate LYING Fraud that is Barry Soetero Kardasian.
All these lefty Hoolywood actors have ruined the movie-going experience for me. I can no longer watch a Sean Penn film because I don’t see the character he is playing, I see HiM, the arrogant idiot who has a constant need to spout off and display his ignorance. Ditto Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, et.al. The fact that an actor is a liberal and supports Obama, I can respect that (barely) and still watch their films, but when they constantly
air their asinine opinions and promote their nutty causes and insult people I respect and take gratuitous swipes at Republicans, then I do the one thing I can do: refuse to patronize their movies and support them with my hard earned dollars.
Ditto. I have a long list of these people. There is much better entertainment choices than these actors who may have had a significant role at one point in the past. But now they are so full of themselves I can’t go the $30.00 it costs us to be entertained by them. To see these people fawning over Obama and his moose is more than I can handle.
Me too. I just don’t like giving money to people who insult me. Particularly considering their brain power is maybe 1/10th of mine.
I feel the same way but there is a solution…by buying bootleg-pirated versions on the black market. That way you can watch some things that may be worthwhile but do not feel that you have supported financially those that hate you, your values, your nation, your faith and advocate your destruction. Win-win.
Barry HUSSEIN Soetero Kardashian America’s first Gay, Unqualified USURPER President
Investigator: Foreigners Bought Hawaii Birth Certificates
The lead investigator for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse – which already has found probable cause that Barack Obama’s publicly released birth certificate is a forgery – says any Hawaii documentation for Obama’s birth that exists would probably be of little value.
Mike Zullo, a retired New Jersey detective now heading Arpaio’s volunteer investigative team, explained in an interview that at the time of Obama’s birth during the state’s early years, Hawaii birth documentation routinely was purchased by foreigners for children not born in the state.
Arpaio’s investigation was launched last September after constituents came to the sheriff with their concern that Obama was ineligible for the presidency and would perpetrate a fraud by placing his name on the state’s ballot. Arpaio’s investigation was launched last September after constituents came to the sheriff with their concern that Obama was ineligible for the presidency and would perpetrate a fraud by placing his name on the state’s ballot.
Zullo’s comments came in an interview with Tea Party Power Hour host Mark Gillar.
Gillar described the process in the 1960s: Foreign nationals, primarily from Japan, would fly to Hawaii and buy a birth registration for their son or daughter, not with the goal of one day having them become president, but to obtain the benefits of being a U.S. citizen.
Zullo said that when he was in Hawaii last month following up on leads, he talked to older locals who “informed us about a syndicate operation, a Mafia operation if you will, being run in the early infancy of the state of Hawaii where birth certificates were being sold to Japanese refugees on a black market basis.”
http://patdollard.com/2012/06/investigator-foreigners-bought-hawaii-birth-certificates/
For some people $40k is a bargain if they might be faced with an IRS audit and a seven figure tax bill.
Was that Anna Wintour or David Axelrod in drag in the video?
The names of these fat cat donors should be made public. Deep pocketed conservative campaign contributors are routinely vilified, and in some cases economically attacked by the left It’s time to level the playing field.
That’s only because in the eyes of the left, conservative campaign contributors are evil corporate fatcats who want to rule the world and step on the poor.
Liberal campaign contributors give money to Obama because he’s soooo cool to hang out with!
In the novel “All the King’s Men”, narrator Jack Burden asks why men do things. He answers, “Money, power, love or fame.” He didn’t say it but I conjecture that one who has at least one of these attempts to convert it into one or more of the others. E.g., when people with fame attempt to use it to gain money or people with money attempt to use it to gain power or people with money try to buy love with it. Celebs like Matthew Broderick and Anna Wintour already have fame, money and in most cases love. What they lack is power, which they are attempting to purchase. Rich non-celebs who shell out to attend celebrity fund raisers are attempting to purchase fame from the celebs. These events are really auctions of attention, with each bidder computing how much of whose attention he wants and what he can afford to pay.
…and Moochelle still looks like an dumb, angry gorilla in drag.
WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT SARAH JESSICA PARKER…..AND WHY I WOULD NOT WANT TO COME TO HER HOUSE, MUCH LESS…HAVE DINNER W/HER:
- Sarah Jessica Parker experienced pregnancy when she and Matthew Broderick welcomed son James Wilkie in 2002. The couple turned to surrogacy two-and-a-half years ago, and ended up celebrating the birth of twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha.
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Wonder how much she paid to “rent a womb”.
This whole thing about allowing a member of the hoi polloi to bask in the presence of the “stars” (for a few moments) smacks of condescension and elitism. I wonder if they offered that person lessons in etiquette, correct pronunciation, and coached him or her on when they will be allowed to speak.
Or, perhaps they decided to forego all that, and put on a good act, them being actors and all that. I saw on TV once that in Moscow they have a cafe where for a few kopecks an actor portraying Lenin will argue with you about communism, Marxism, capitalism, the proper way to deal with religion, or will just berate you for being a Kulak. This sounds like a more authentic experience than that affair.
Ron– I suspect you’re just oozing with resentment because you weren’t invited to Mitt’s
$50,000 per capita fat-cat fest in Utah. Lou