Celebrities Line Up for White House Correspondents' Dinner

Hollywood wasn't fond of Bush, but celebs are flooding to Obama's dinner

By Kenneth T. Walsh

May 5, 2009 RSS Feed Print

The surge of celebrities attending the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night is sure to cause more criticism of the event as a star-studded extravaganza that overdoes the celebrity factor.

Hollywood types didn't like George W. Bush or his policies, so they didn't flood to the dinner during the past few years of Bush's tenure. Now that's changing. President Obama appears to have a very strong following in the entertainment world. Among those scheduled to attend this year's dinner are Jon Bon Jovi and Taye Diggs as guests of ABC; Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as guests of CBS; John Cusack, Whoopi Goldberg, Felicity Huffman, and Mariska Hargitay as guests of NBC; Tim Daly and Richard Belzer as guests of USA Today; and Sting, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, and Eva Longoria Parker as guests of Time/People Magazine.

The New York Times is boycotting the event for the second year in a row. Times execs say the dinner is too oriented to currying favor with big shots and gives a bad impression of the media cozying up to administration insiders. This line of criticism is sure to increase as the guest list gets more attention.

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Let's see if the Left-wing Hollywood millionaires make comments about Barack Obama's good friends and benefactors who include the corporate crooks at AIG (they give the Democrats $$, Obama rebates them bonuses from your tax dollars), Tony Rezko (Obama buddy now serving time in jail), Gov. Blagoyevich (soon to join Rezko in jail), Secretary Tim Geithner (corporate cheat who "forgot" to pay his back taxes- lets see if his IRS forgives your forgetfulness), Bernie Madoff (Democrat money man), R. Allen Stanford (another Democrat cash bagman/indicted crook), and of course, Obama's friend Franklin Raynes from Freddie Mac who made this recession possible. On second thought, keep your change, President Obama.

Joe S. of CA 7:22PM May 09, 2009

This is the most exciting President and First Family(BO)ever. President Obama has done so much in the first 100 days that I can ever remember in the last 8 years than the previous(if you can call him) president. I am so proud of this Administration how open and considerate they are to the press pool and Mrs. Obama is doing a wonderful job as First Lady. I have not bought a newspaper in almost over eight years and hardly ever watched the news. I literaly kept my TV on Public Station and this week I subscribed to cable. I am motivated to do volunteer work and get more invloved in my community. I want to travel and meet other people in the world because our President is about peace. I am grateful to be alive even though the world is not perfect, but for a long time I feel there is hope. Thanks for the change, President Obama and God Bless you and your family(Bo). I wake every morning with a determination to better, be better and think differently than the day before. I am so proud of what OUR PRESIDENT. I am looking forward for four more years.

LDS of NY 4:16PM May 07, 2009

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