How about 'Dislike Bush'

The L.A. Times covers the dust-up over last night's Beverly Hilton gathering of Hollywood liberals. It seems Drudge was incorrect when he leapt to the conclusion that the event was called Hate Bush.

Update Thursday 8:45 a.m.: Salon and Variety weigh in, and Variety covers Hollywood's pro-Bushers (from I Want Media). Susan Estrich too, via Drudge.

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The fact that "hatred" of the President, whether false or true, may be a news story at all shows how our politics (and certainly the political thinking at the Times) have declined since the right opened the gash of Lewinsky. The subtext is: it was (and remains) OK to hate liberals in general (and any Clinton in particular), but it's not OK to hate THIS God-almighty President.

Posted by: joseph at December 3, 2003 11:03 AM

The real issue here is hypocrisy of liberal democrats on the issue of campaign finance reform. For years Democrats pushed McCain-Feingold with promises that it would clean up the sewer of money politics. Harold Ickes is more or less admitting now that it was all a shell game. Small wonder that voters are becoming increasingly cautious and cynical anytime a political figure says they are promoting "campaign finance reform.

Posted by: Louis at December 3, 2003 12:07 PM

"The real issue here is hypocrisy of liberal democrats on the issue of campaign finance reform."

Think of campaign finance reform like you do the ABM treaties of yesteryear: you don't unilaterally disarm, you figure out a way to mutually decrease stockpiles. You can be for campaign finance reform but still hold $1K-dollar-a-plate fund raisers because you just can't get elected otherwise. Even McCain and Feingold know this.

Posted by: David Garza at December 3, 2003 12:35 PM

I thought Clinton was the one who opened the gash of Lewinsky.


Cheap joke, I know.

Posted by: ted at December 3, 2003 03:28 PM

Check out Moby's cool populist competition site:

http://www.bushin30seconds.org

Posted by: Brian Talmadge at December 4, 2003 11:27 AM

There was a segment on Day to Day today that I'm positive was fallout from this post.

Posted by: joseph at December 4, 2003 01:25 PM
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