This is the third formal state dinner of the Obama administration and each time Hollywood has been invited.
Last night’s was for Chinese President Hu Jintao and featured a list of 225 guests: Disney CEO Robert Iger and wife Willow Bay, Wendi Deng without media mogul husband Rupert Murdoch who reportedly was traveling, Barbra Streisand with husband James Brolin, action star Jackie Chan, and Law & Order: SVU shrink B.D. Wong were among the guests, with after-dinner entertainment provided by Herbie Hancock. Also on the list: GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt who doesn’t qualify as a media mogul anymore now that the FCC has okayed the Comcast takeover of NBC Universal.
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It’s just GREAT to see Streisand buying into the corporate power structure of this country—i.e., Obama.
Bob Iger president and CEO of Disney? What is his connection to China? I presume it’s Disney’s exceptional treatment of how women can rise to exalted positions of respect in Chinese society, as depicted in the animated classic Mulan. The 2 Disc set is available in China for $1.05 due to China’s generous view toward distribution of intellectual property.
Gotta love the huge party they are throwing for the dictator from China
Odd, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “winner”, as well as past winner Jimmy Carter, along with Hollywood, honor the head of a country that has imprisoned the 2010 Nobel winner. These are the same people who bash Bush for his human rights “violations”… Libs are a fricken’ joke!
Aid: Mr. President, we’ve invited the most influential people on the planet. But Mr. Hu still won’t come.
Obama: Who’s on the invite? Did you remember to tell him about Streisand?
Aid: Yes. And Jackie Chan. And Iger.
Obama: What about Rupert?
Aid: We asked, but only his wife can go.
Obama: My God, and Hu STILL won’t come?
Aid: Maybe it’s the food?
Obama: Okay, fine. I didn’t want to have to do this.
Aid: Sir, you really don’t have to resort to such drastic–
Obama: No! There’s too much at stake. Send in BD Wong.
How nice. Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his favorite Hollywood lefties all came out to pay tribute to the communist dictator who has imprisoned Chinese human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
The Chinese threw the shackles on Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. Ironically, this state dinner for the dictator comes just a few days after Martin Luthor King Day.
The hypocrisy of this bunch is staggering. A pox on all their houses!
And what does Brolin see in Elsie? Keep that thing away from the buffet!
Are you saying that men are only attracted to skinny women? How shallow.
Now that Murdoch’s sold out to the Saudis and the Chinese, looking forward to his North Korean sellout. Pretty soon Fox News won’t be able to mention any dictators at all!
It’s not Fox who has thrown a lavish suaré at tax payers expense. Fox is actually critical of Hu and China’s human rights record (or lack there of). The MSM isn’t.
I guess some people just don’t understand diplomacy.