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From Fox News:

Stars Get Ready for Democratic Convention

Monday, August 18, 2008

By Roger Friedman

How many stars are going to Denver next week for the Democratic Convention? Let's put it this way: they're going to have major gridlock in the Mile High City thanks to limos everywhere. The pollution level should go way up from A-listers in their individual gas-guzzling block-long vehicles!

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The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan group, is bringing a boatload of stars with them including Annette Bening (which could mean that hubby Warren Beatty is nearby), Matthew Modine, Kerry Washington, Joey Pantoliano, Susan Sarandon, Tony Goldwyn, new co-president Tim Daly, Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence O'Donnell. So many celebs are coming that I've heard Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson is considering making a documentary about the whole experience!

The brass of the Democratic Party are, astonishingly, of the mind the average voter will be influenced by the political leanings of celebrities like Warren Beatty or Susan Sarandon and, in a way, they are right. If the cavalcade of Hollywood royalty does descend upon Denver for the convention, TV and YouTube images of movie stars gliding from fabulous do to fabulous do (while anarchists, as they have promised, toss Molotov cocktails through Starbucks windows) will drive home nicely to the average Joe just how utterly out of touch the Democratic Party is; that it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who are, however vulgar, the voice of the snotty elite.

So bring on those stars and let them loudly proclaim (before the cameras, if you please) the gospel of Obamessiah. The Republicans must be wringing their hands with glee at the prospect and likely have already shot a slew of TV spots for the fall campaign; the only job remaining for them the delightful task, at convention's end, of culling clips from the video treasure trove so generously provided by Hollywood and the Democrats, for insertion into those commercials.