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	<title>The Powers That Be &#187; Celebrity Idiots</title>
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		<title>This Month&#8217;s &#8216;Jr. Goracle Award for Enviro-Hypocrisy&#8217; Goes To&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dougpowers.com/2012/05/23/this-months-jr-goracle-award-for-enviro-hypocrisy-goes-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas, for arriving at a climate change event in a private helicopter: Someday Will.I.Am will arrive at environmental summits in a private jet like the planet&#8217;s savior, Al Gore. But, nonetheless, this fine effort to save the planet from greenhouse gases &#8212; by first making sure there are plenty [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas, for arriving at a climate change event in a <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9284276/Will.I.Am-attends-climate-change-talk-in-helicoper.html">private helicopter</a></strong>:</p>
<p><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n271/douggells/Album%20II/jralgore-1.jpg" alt="null" /></p>
<p>Someday Will.I.Am will arrive at environmental summits in a private jet like the planet&#8217;s savior, Al Gore. But, nonetheless, this fine effort to save the planet from greenhouse gases &#8212; by first making sure there are plenty of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to save it from &#8212; earns Will (or is that &#8220;Mr. I.Am&#8221;?) this month&#8217;s &#8220;Jr. Goracle&#8221; honor.</p>
<p>This is the same guy who brags about <strong><a href="http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/01/21/william-debuts-new-climate-change-song-and-video-at-al-gores-green-ball">driving an electric car</a></strong>.</p>
<p><em>(h/t <strong><a href="http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/2012/05/23/william.php">Hope for America</a></strong>)</em></p>


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		<title>Tax in the City: Sarah Jessica Parker Next Celebrity Stooge in Line to Host Obama Fundraiser</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama milked L.A. and George Clooney for all it was worth, so it&#8217;s on to New York&#8230; again. But this time with a different celebrity idiot. This just landed in my email box: It&#8217;s my honor to invite you to take part in an event I&#8217;m hosting at my home with the President and First [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/o2012-night-in-new-york?source=em12_20120518_sjp_ndmod&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=obama&#038;utm_campaign=em12_20120518_sjp_ndmod&#038;keycode="><center><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n271/douggells/Album%20II/parker-1.jpg" alt="null" /></center></a></p>
<p>Obama milked L.A. and George Clooney <strong><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/05/george-clooney-president-obama-fundraiser-holllywood-so-so">for all it was worth</a></strong>, so it&#8217;s on to New York&#8230; again. But this time with a different celebrity idiot.</p>
<p>This just landed in my email box:</p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s my honor to invite you to take part in an event I&#8217;m hosting at my home with the President and First Lady on June 14th.</p>
<p>If you can make a donation of any amount today, you&#8217;ll be automatically entered to win two tickets to New York to join us.</p>
<p>Just before Election Day in 2008, I went to an Obama campaign office in New York and called some undecided voters.</p>
<p>I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our part, we would not only make history, but create meaningful change that so many Americans needed.</p>
<p>For me, this election is even more important than 2008.</p>
<p>As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.</p>
<p>This November&#8217;s election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we&#8217;re forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden &#8212; while people like me, who don&#8217;t need tax breaks, get extra help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year, and I want to keep doing what I can.</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;ll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York. </p>
<p>It should be fabulous. </p>
<p>Donate $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win:</p>
<p>https://donate.barackobama.com/Night-in-New-York</p>
<p>Hope to see you there,</p>
<p>Sarah Jessica</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden&#8221;? Heaven forbid their super-rich glitterati relative feel compelled to send them a few dollars. It&#8217;s so much easier just to force strangers to pay up.</p>
<p>Ever notice that these vacuous celebs who think everybody deserves a fair shot at success always say they have more than enough money but never retire to make room for other aspiring actors? If it is in fact a &#8220;zero sum game&#8221; as they usually indicate, the best thing they could do to help others would be to <em>go away!</em></p>
<p>Somewhat related: Here&#8217;s Sarah Jessica Parker <strong><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/10/iggy-and-the-city/">without makeup</a></strong>. <em>ARGH!</em></p>


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		<title>David Letterman&#8217;s Unofficial Campaign Ad for Obama</title>
		<link>http://dougpowers.com/2012/05/16/letterman-campaign-ad-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing missing here is a voice at the end saying &#8220;I&#8217;m Barack Obama and I approve this message.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how kooky Letterman&#8217;s getting: Even Brian Williams tried to walk him back a little at one point: &#8220;What more do we want this man to do for us?&#8221; Letterman&#8217;s question is worded horribly. If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only thing missing here is a voice at the end saying &#8220;I&#8217;m Barack Obama and I approve this message.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how kooky Letterman&#8217;s getting: Even <strong><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/03/nbcs_brian_williams_bows_to_obama.html">Brian Williams</a></strong> tried to walk him back a little at one point:</p>
<p><center><iframe width="416" height="254" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zF_k3vH701o?feature=player_embedded&#038;start=160" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center></p>
<p>&#8220;What more do we want this man to do for us?&#8221;</p>
<p>Letterman&#8217;s question is worded horribly. If Obama loses in November it&#8217;s going to be for what people want him to <em>stop</em> doing.</p>
<p>Osama bin Laden was killed on Barack Obama&#8217;s watch. <strong>Hooray!</strong> That said, I&#8217;m sorry Dave if I don&#8217;t feel that requires me to support his takeover of the US health care system or his record-setting debt spending.</p>


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		<title>Obama Scores Endorsement of Last Surviving Golden Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a lot easier to give Obama&#8217;s performance the thumbs-up when you&#8217;re not going to be around when the bill comes due: Betty White says she usually keeps her political views private but in this presidential election strongly favours one candidate. As the 90-year-old actress prepares to visit the Smithsonian Institution and National Zoo next [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s a lot easier to give Obama&#8217;s performance the thumbs-up when you&#8217;re not going to be around when the bill <strong><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/betty-white-says-she-favours-1-presidential-candidate-112154092.html;_ylt=A2KLOzLug65P_m0AODbQtDMD">comes due</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Betty White says she usually keeps her political views private but in this presidential election strongly favours one candidate.</p>
<p>As the 90-year-old actress prepares to visit the Smithsonian Institution and National Zoo next week, White told The Associated Press she &#8220;very, very much favours&#8221; President Barack Obama in the election.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Golden Girls&#8221; star said Friday she is very bi-partisan and has stayed away from politics her whole life. She usually never says who she is for or against because she doesn&#8217;t want to turn off any of her fans.</p>
<p>White says in this year&#8217;s election, she likes what Obama has done and &#8220;how he represents us.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Great &#8212; now the administration will probably be after White to join Andy Griffith in <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAAwXhBhU4Q">shilling for Obamacare</a></strong>.</p>


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		<title>Obama Gets $2 Million in Donations Within 24 Hours After Expressing Support for Same Sex Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the money&#8221; is the only reason for Obama&#8217;s recent flip on gay marriage. In a financial sense, apparently it&#8217;s paying off: A Democratic source told CNN Friday the Obama campaign raised $2 million dollars in donations in the 24 hours following the president&#8217;s announcement he personally supports same-sex marriage. And of course Obama&#8217;s haul [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;For the money&#8221; is the only reason for Obama&#8217;s recent flip on gay marriage. In a financial sense, apparently it&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/11/source-2-million-raised-post-obama-same-sex-marriage-announcement/">paying off</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A Democratic source told CNN Friday the Obama campaign raised $2 million dollars in donations in the 24 hours following the president&#8217;s announcement he personally supports same-sex marriage. </p></blockquote>
<p>And of course Obama&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/10/nation/la-na-0511-obama-clooney-20120511">haul from the usual band of Hollywood hypocrites</a></strong> went through the roof as a result too.</p>
<p>However, file this under &#8220;fools and their money are soon parted,&#8221; because the White House has <strong><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/wh-wont-call-repeal-doma/534831">no intention</a></strong> of including gay marriage in the party platform. </p>
<p>Notice how it&#8217;s usually reported that Obama &#8220;personally&#8221; supports same sex marriage &#8212; as if he&#8217;s separating himself privately from the office he holds publicly (i.e. &#8220;the President isn&#8217;t officially in favor of SSM, but <em>Barack Obama</em> is&#8221;). There&#8217;s his weak &#8220;out&#8221; (if you&#8217;ll pardon the expression) for not demanding SSM be included in the party&#8217;s official platform. </p>
<p>That financial windfall comes at a price for Team Obama though, because 23% of independents are now <strong><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/11/poll-51-approve-of-obamas-gay-marriage-evolution-but-23-now-less-likely-to-vote-for-him/">less likely</a></strong> to vote for him in November. Regardless of any of this news, I remain 100% less likely to vote for him in November.</p>


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